The Pride and the Passion Page #7

the statue of Santa Teresa in vila.

(slams)

(donkey brays)

(distant cannon fire)

Cease fire!

They are out of range,

but every road is blocked.

Ready!

They are not at either end,

and the pass is empty.

Hold your position until further orders.

Log! Log!

Pull! Pull!

You said you knew these hills.

We can't go down there.

- We came up, we can go down.

- It'll pick up too much momentum.

There's a ratio between

velocity and mass.

If it weighs five tons coming up slowly,

going down fast it can weigh 10-15.

We wouldn't be able to hold it.

Up or down, it weighs what it weighs.

Turn the mules.

Keep turning! Move, quick!

Bring up the log! The log!

Captain.

Log! Log!

Get out! Get out!

Cut the mules loose!

Jump!

(bleats)

The barrel's broken off the pivot.

We cannot go up, we must go down.

Brilliant.

Um...

It was heavier coming down.

There's a village near here

called Maneciras.

Man-e-ciras.

Man-e-ciras.

I suggest we go into Maneciras

and find a place to repair the gun.

We need tools, a forge,

a place where the French can't find us.

Miguel, if there are any French there,

he cannot wear that uniform.

No.

Who do you suggest this time?

Take your pick.

You, unfortunately.

Spanish fleas, Captain.

They wouldn't dare bite an Englishman.

(bugles)

- (man) You have our permission for that.

- (Miguel) There is something else.

- Yes?

- The gun.

My son, the power of

the Holy Office is great,

but we cannot turn a cannon

into a penitent for you.

If we could hide it, Your Grace, and bring

it into the cathedral and take it apart...

- Inside of the cathedral?

- Just for a night.

This is Holy Week.

You can't defile a sanctuary.

Soldiers and guns belong out there.

This is the house of God, not an arsenal.

You ask too much.

Your Grace!

You cannot refuse them.

"Cannot"?

It's useless wrapping yourself in authority

and quoting rules to these people.

It's not enough to say that a gun

doesn't belong inside their cathedral.

This isn't merely a gun. It's the only

symbol of resistance left in Spain.

Do you know how many of them have

given their lives just to drag it this far?

You should have looked back and seen a

mountain pass covered with dead as I did.

For what?

If you don't know the reason, you're

Spanish, you're a man of the church,

you can feel it.

You mustn't refuse them.

Very well.

The Holy Week procession starts tonight.

Bring your cannon in then.

Holy Mother, thank you

for answering my prayer.

He understands now.

And I love him even more.

I know I've sinned in your eyes.

Only, for the first time since

I was a little girl, I dared to dream.

But there is Miguel.

There is his dream - vila.

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