Duck, You Sucker! (1971)

Jean Rougeul: Priest on Stagecoach

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Quotes 

• Priest : [about peasants]  I hate saying it, but you should hear them in the confessional. You would never imagine. Did you know that they...

  Adelita, woman in stagecoach : I can imagine, Father. I can imagine. Living in such promiscuity. All of them in one room, male and female together, lying in a heap, like rats in a sewer. At night, when the lights are out, all their inhibitions disappear. You never know who's next: mother, sister, daughter... goat...

• Priest : Even animals can be tame and harmless. Personally, I consider them unfortunate brutes.

• Landowner on stagecoach : Hey, you. You know who your father was? Hm?

  [Juan, playing dumb, shakes his head] 

  Landowner on stagecoach : Heh. Do you know at least how old you are? Hm?

  [Juan shrugs] 

  Landowner on stagecoach : He doesn't know. Do you know... how many kids you have, eh? Do you know... how many kids your mother had?

  [chuckles] 

  Landowner on stagecoach : He doesn't know anything, you see? And it was to benefit scum like this that the Agrarian Reform was imposed. And that ass Madero wanted to give the government, and *our land*... to idiots like this.

  Priest : We are all pawns in the hands of Almighty God. Fortunately, Divine Providence has disposed of that rash individual Madero.

  Landowner on stagecoach : My dear Monsignor, let us be realistic. What you choose to call Providence... I call General Huerta. He put the peasants in their place.

  Notary on Stagecoach : Which is the best place for animals, because that's what they are... animals.