The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

Rodrigo de la Serna: Alberto Granado

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Quotes 

• Ernesto Guevara de la Serna : Mother.

  Mother Sister Alberto : Yes?

  Alberto Granado : We want to eat.

  Ernesto Guevara de la Serna : We deserve to eat like everyone else.

  Mother Sister Alberto : Yes, but you didn't go to mass.

  Ernesto Guevara de la Serna : No.

  Mother Sister Alberto : Then, how do you expect to feed the body if you didn't feed the soul first?

  Alberto Granado : Er, denying food is not very Christian-like.

  Ernesto Guevara de la Serna : Yes, I doubt Jesus would act like this.

  Mother Sister Alberto : In this house, we have a set of rules that have to be followed.

  Ernesto Guevara de la Serna : [to Alberto now, as she turns away]  I haven't read any rule book.

  Alberto Granado : Neither did I. I think that if I find it I would eat it.

• Ernesto Guevara de la Serna : "On the boat I heard the moist slap of bare feet and foresaw faces dark with hunger. My heart was a pendulum between her and the street. I don't know what strength broke me free from her eyes, loose from her arms. She remained clouded by tears, her anguish hidden by the rain."

  Alberto Granado : Is that Lorca?

  Ernesto Guevara de la Serna : No.

  Alberto Granado : Neruda?

  Ernesto Guevara de la Serna : No.

  Alberto Granado : Who?

  Ernesto Guevara de la Serna : I don't remember.

• Alberto Granado : It is rumored that Chilean girls are the most daring on the continent.

  Ernesto Guevara de la Serna : Rumors have no scientific value, Dr. Granado. Time to do some research.

• Alberto Granado : We land on the Guajira Peninsula. The tip of a great continent. Bellies full of wine and two tropical beauties, hopefully sisters.

  Ernesto Guevara de la Serna : That's good beer, huh?

• Ernesto Guevara de la Serna : All you want is to get laid in every country in South America.

  Alberto Granado : In every town too, if we're lucky. Adds a little spice.

• Alberto Granado : So, when's the revolution coming?

  Argentine : Here? In about a century.

  Alberto Granado : We gotta learn from the Russians.

• Alberto Granado : So with Chichina - nothing? Even after you gave her a pure-bred German Shepard, nothing? At least tell me you saw one tit. One little tit. Ah, you saw her titties then. Alright, my man!

• Jazmin, Chilean Sister : Are you two Argentinian?

  Alberto Granado : How'd you know?

  Jazmin, Chilean Sister : Well, because of your accent, because Argentinians always say "che".

  Alberto Granado : Had you noticed, Che?

  Ernesto Guevara de la Serna : Not at all, Che.

• Alberto Granado : Fuser, you still haven't asked about the research I did on our Chilean sisters.

  Ernesto Guevara de la Serna : You can't imagine how depressed I am that you're the sexual ambassador of Argentina!

  Alberto Granado : It's true.

• Truck Driver (Chile) : There she is, Valparaíso.

  Ernesto Guevara de la Serna : "I love Valparaíso, all you encompass, all you radiate, lover of the ocean, far from - "

  Alberto Granado : Federico García Lorca.

  Ernesto Guevara de la Serna : No.

  Truck Driver (Chile) : Neruda!

• Miner (Chile) : We didn't have much, just some tough, dry land.

  Miner's Wife : It belonged to his grandpa.

  Miner (Chile) : It was ours. Until a land speculator forced us off.

  Miner's Wife : That's what they call progress.

  Miner (Chile) : So we had to leave our son with family and hit the road, looking for work, trying to escape from the police who wanted to put us in jail.

  Alberto Granado : Why?

  Miner's Wife : Because we are communists.

• Alberto Granado : Fuser, here's my idea; I'll marry an Inca descendant. We'll start an indigenous party under these conditions: we'd encourage the people to vote, reactivate Tupac Amaru's revolution, the Indo-American revolution, Fuser. How's that sound?

  Ernesto Guevara de la Serna : A revolution without guns? It would never work.

• Luz (Peru) : You know a little while ago there was a bufeo out there.

  Alberto Granado : Bufeo?

  Luz (Peru) : They're river dolphins but we call them bufeos. Have you ever seen one?

  Alberto Granado : Never. I've heard of them, but I've never seen one.

  Luz (Peru) : I'm going to tell you a secret.

  Alberto Granado : Okay.

  Luz (Peru) : The bufeo's sex organs are like that of a woman's and the Indians use them to - comfort themselves. But there's a little problem. As soon as they're done, they have to kill the animal because they suffer contractions that won't let them loose.

  [laughs] 

• Alberto Granado : Ernesto, This is Luz...

  Luz (Peru) : Hola!

  Alberto Granado : Which means "light". "Electrifying light that dazzles my dreams. Get ready, you've no clue what's coming to you."

  Ernesto Guevara de la Serna : Neruda?

  Alberto Granado : Granado!

• Alberto Granado : I think there's a young lady interested in dancing with you.

  Ernesto Guevara de la Serna : I should ask her, right?

  Alberto Granado : The bird of youth flies away and doesn't come back, man. Fly, man, fly!

• Alberto Granado : Che.

  Ernesto Guevara de la Serna : What?

  Alberto Granado : It's not too late to come work with me in Cabo Blanco. You could come back after you graduate. I'll wait for you.

  Ernesto Guevara de la Serna : I don't know. I just don't know. You know, Mial, all this time we spent on the road, something happened. Something I'll have to think about for a long time. So much injustice.