Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)

Cheech Marin: Belini

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• [after giving Belini $10,000 in cash in exchange for information] 

  Sands : Just for my own edification, I offered you fifty. Why'd you say no?

  Belini : I'm not a greedy man. Not looking to get rich quick. Besides, fifty thousand is a lot for what you wanted me to find out. Could just as well put a bullet in my head as cough it up, see? But ten? Ten thousand is civilized. Ten is something we both can live with.

  Sands : Ten might still be too much.

  Belini : You'd kill me over ten thousand dollars? You wouldn't dare. You wouldn't dare.

  [leaves] 

  Sands : [whispers]  Yes, I would.

• Belini : They used to say he was the biggest Mexican they'd ever seen.

  [laughs] 

  Belini : That was total bullshit. He was five-nine, five-ten tops, which is no record, but bigger than most of us.

• Belini : This story is well-traveled. It might have picked up some embellishments along the way. Just read between the lines.

• Sands : Belini... How long have you and I done business together? A long time. And in a way, I almost, could have the tiniest smidgen of respect for you. Almost. But you need to stop farting around. Now, do you have the information on Barillo or do you not?

  Belini : I have what you need. I'm just enjoying this temporary position of power. That make you nervous?

  Sands : You know that withholding vital information from a federal officer is a serious offence. Especially when that officer has paid handsomely for it and wouldn't think twice about ripping that patch off your eye hole and skull-fucking you to death.

• [first lines] 

  Agent Sands : I never heard of him.

  Belini : Who?

  Agent Sands : The man you recommended.

  Belini : The guitar fighter?