El Norte (1983)

David Villalpando: Enrique

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Quotes 

• Enrique's friend : You have to learn to talk like a Mexican. Tell me it's a hot day.

  Enrique Xuncax : It's a hot day.

  Enrique's friend : No! You won't make it two miles past the border. "It's a fucking hot day." Mexicans are always saying fuck. Fuck this, fuck that. Now try it again.

• Border patrol officer 1 : [to Enrique and Rosa in Spanish]  Do you know how to read and write?

  Rosa Xuncax : [to Enrique in Mayan]  Why does he want to know that?

  Enrique Xuncax : [to Rosa in Mayan]  I don't know, but I think it's a trick. We'd better lie.

  Border patrol officer 2 : What are they saying?

  Border patrol officer 1 : I don't know. They're not speaking Spanish. They must be speaking some kind of Indian language.

  Border patrol officer 2 : Well, what the fuck good are you?

  Enrique Xuncax : [to the officer in Spanish]  No, we can't read or write.

  Border patrol officer 1 : They don't know how to read and write.

  Border patrol officer 2 : Well, that's some great system you got there.

  Border patrol officer 1 : Okay.

  [takes a map of Mexico out and asks Rosa and Enrique in Spanish] 

  Border patrol officer 1 : Show me exactly where you are from.

  Enrique Xuncax : [in Spanish]  What the fuck? What's this fucking thing you're showing me? What the fuck are you talking about?

  Border patrol officer 2 : Well he sounds like a Mexican to me.