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Zoot Suit (1981) More at IMDbPro »

Henry Reyna: I was supposed to report to the Navy tomorrow!
El Pachuco: They'd give you those tight pants to make your ass look like an apricot.
Henry Reyna: So what business is it of yours? It's my ass!
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El Pachuco: Go ahead, Ese, Pop her cherry. You know she wants it.
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El Pachuco: The Press distorted the very meaning of the word "Zoot Suit." All it is for you guys is another way to say Mexican
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El Pachuco: The idea of the original chuco is to look like a diamond, to look sharp, hip, bonaroo, finding a style of urban survival in the rural skirts and outskirts of the brown metropolis of Los, Cabron.
Press: It's an afront to good taste!
El Pachuco: Like the Mexicans, Filipinos and blacks who wear them?
Press: Yes!
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Press: You are trying to outdo the white man in exaggerated white man's clothes.
El Pachuco: Because everyone knows that Mexicans, Filipinos and Blacks belong to the huraache . . . the straw hat and the dirty overall.
Press: You savages weren't even wearing clothes when the white man pulled you out of the jungle.
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Henry Reyna: My worst enemy, my best friend... myself...
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