The Other Conquest (1998)
Ramón Barragán: Ramón Quevedo - notario
Quotes
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Notario Ramón Quevedo : [spying on Hernán Cortés and Tecuichpo] And this one? Who is she?
Capitán Cristóbal Quijano : [also spying on them] Tecuichpo, the oldest daughter of Moctezuma.
Notario Ramón Quevedo : What happened to his mistress Malinche?
[relishing the thought]
Notario Ramón Quevedo : Did Cortés hang her next to Prince Cuauhtemoc in Honduras?
Capitán Cristóbal Quijano : No, he got fed up and gave her to Captain Jaramillo.
Notario Ramón Quevedo : He gave away the mother of his first-born?
Capitán Cristóbal Quijano : First-born? A half-bred "mestizo"?
Hernando Cortés : [noticing them] Come in, you gossips!
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Hernando Cortés : [passing sentence on Topiltzin] Captain Cristóbal Quijano of Seville will carry out the whipping of the Indian named Tepilsin -
Tecuichpo : [interrupts] Topiltzin! Cuauhtlahtohuac Topiltzin!
Notario Ramón Quevedo : Should I listen to her?
Hernando Cortés : No.
[pause]
Hernando Cortés : Call him Tomás.
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Capitán Cristóbal Quijano : [to Tecuichpo] Your mixture with us... is disgusting to God!
Notario Ramón Quevedo : [to Captain Cristóbal] There's no reason to believe that. If God were disgusted by mixtures - Heaven forbid - He'd have to get rid of a good number of Spaniards all over the world.