Viva Zapata!

Viva Zapata!1952

Stars: Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, Joseph Wiseman
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Rating: NOT RATED
Runtime: 113 minutes

Viva Zapata! is a 1952 biographical film starring Marlon Brando and directed by Elia Kazan. The screenplay was written by John Steinbeck, using Edgcomb Pinchon's book Zapata the Unconquerable as a guide. The cast includes Jean Peters and, in an Acad… more »



Hernandez - Peasant who challenges 'president' Zapata:
I don't speak for myself now, but if anything happens to you, what would become of the people? What would they have left?

Emiliano Zapata:
Themselves.

Hernandez - Peasant who challenges 'president' Zapata:
And all the fighting and the deaths... what has really changed?

Emiliano Zapata:
They have really changed. That's how things really change - slowly - through people. They don't really need me anymore.

Hernandez - Peasant who challenges 'president' Zapata:
They have to be led.

Emiliano Zapata:
Yes, but by each other. A strong man makes a weal people. Strong people don't need a strong man.

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