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Re: "quotes"
Sometimes events get mixed up, Mel Brooks modified a bit the "stinking badges" quote in the movie "Blazing Saddles"....
[*] The original dialog between Gold Hat, and Frank C. Dobbs went like this:
Gold Hat: Oiga, señor. We are Federales. You know, the mounted police.
Dobbs: If you're the police, where are your badges?
Gold Hat: Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!
Dobbs: You'd better not come any closer.
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....Gold Hat suddenly thinks he recognizes Dobbs from their encounter in the mountains: "Hey, do I know you from some place? Maybe I know you?" Then he asks: "Are you alone?" Dobbs answers that a couple of his friends are coming along on horseback, but Gold Hat doesn't believe him. Then he remembers: "I know who you are! You're the guy in the hole - the one who wouldn't give us the rifle." They ask what is in the bags on the burros' backs - Dobbs replies that he has animal hides, and then tries to get his burro train to start for the trail. Dobbs threatens them and draws his gun when they taunt him: "Get away from my burros." But his gun clicks empty three or four times. One of the bandits hits Dobbs in the head with a stone, and then Gold Hat savagely finishes him off with a few strokes of a machete blade.
As a sort of poetic justice for his greed, the bandits murder Dobbs for his boots, animal skins, and burros. Paralleling the struggle over gold among the three prospectors, the three bandits competitively quarrel over the dead man's belongings. As they argue among themselves, the pack mules run off. At ruins outside of the village, the bandits are unaware that the bags they dump and slash open contain gold dust. In the village plaza, the bandits appear with the burro train, attempting to sell the animals back to the general store. A young Mexican boy, who months earlier had seen the prospectors purchase the specially-branded burros, informs the storekeeper who notices the attire of the bandits - they wear the boots and trousers of a prospector. The bandits are circled and surrounded by the villagers with machetes and guns drawn, and then led into a holding prison while the Federales are summoned. Gold Hat snarls out through the bars, fearful but maddened......
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Please note, that in the script, they mix the use of burros and mules... they are NOT the same... mules are better to carry weight. My cousin Juan Valdéz knows. <g>
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