Blood and Sand

00:42:45,285 --> 00:42:47,344 [Chattering] 439 00:42:52,992 --> 00:42:55,051 [Chattering Stops] 440 00:42:57,397 --> 00:42:59,422 - [Chattering Resumes] - Why can't we go in there? 441 00:42:59,499 --> 00:43:01,626 Not today! 442 00:43:03,469 --> 00:43:05,767 <i>[Curro]</i> <i>I, Curro�</i> 443 00:43:05,838 --> 00:43:10,172 <i>I was present the afternoon</i> <i>of our Juan's formal presentation...</i> 444 00:43:10,243 --> 00:43:12,643 <i>as a matador in Madrid.</i> 445 00:43:12,712 --> 00:43:16,148 <i>He fought a Miura bull</i> <i>as big as a cathedral.</i> 446 00:43:16,215 --> 00:43:20,174 <i>Never in my life have I seen</i> <i>such sincerity...</i> 447 00:43:20,253 --> 00:43:23,814 <i>such purity, such lightheartedness...</i> 448 00:43:23,890 --> 00:43:28,122 <i>and, above all, such serene valor.</i> 449 00:43:28,194 --> 00:43:30,958 <i>Let me read you what I wrote</i> <i>that night in the</i> Heraldo. 450 00:43:31,030 --> 00:43:33,430 I have the clipping right here with me. 451 00:43:35,401 --> 00:43:39,098 "Rejoice, ye faithful. 452 00:43:39,172 --> 00:43:42,005 "There's an end to the decay of our great art. 453 00:43:42,075 --> 00:43:45,442 "We are on the eve of a great renaissance. 454 00:43:45,511 --> 00:43:48,173 "Cid Campeador has returned... 455 00:43:48,247 --> 00:43:50,681 "to bring back the glory of Spain. 456 00:43:50,750 --> 00:43:55,312 The arena has come back once more to passion and dignity." 457 00:43:55,388 --> 00:43:58,824 - Ol�. Ol�. - At last, Sevilla has a matador. 458 00:43:58,891 --> 00:44:01,689 The greatest matador of all history. 459 00:44:01,761 --> 00:44:05,561 A saint. The first man of the world. 460 00:44:05,631 --> 00:44:08,998 The day he was born, there was salt in the air... 461 00:44:09,068 --> 00:44:11,969 a great quantity of salt. 462 00:44:12,038 --> 00:44:14,131 Ol�. Ol�. 463 00:44:14,207 --> 00:44:17,108 You should have seen him at the corrida of the Feast of the <i>Anunciaci�n.</i> 464 00:44:17,176 --> 00:44:19,804 He was so near the bull, next day... 465 00:44:19,879 --> 00:44:24,179 Garabato spent hours picking the bull's hairs out of Juan's clothes. 466 00:44:24,250 --> 00:44:27,310 <i>Ol�. Ol�.</i> 467 00:44:27,387 --> 00:44:29,947 <i>[Gasping, Murmuring]</i> 468 00:44:31,924 --> 00:44:36,952 <i>[Man]</i> <i>Gorgeous! It must cost a fortune!</i> 469 00:44:37,029 --> 00:44:41,056 I don't know whether Juan mentioned it to you or not... 470 00:44:41,134 --> 00:44:43,659 but it was I who financed his early career. 471 00:44:43,736 --> 00:44:47,604 - For years, I had to support his whole family. - Really? 472 00:44:47,673 --> 00:44:49,766 <i>What a corrida.</i> 473 00:44:49,842 --> 00:44:53,676 Ah, his cape work was magnificent. 474 00:44:53,746 --> 00:44:57,045 You would have given a thousand pesetas to see Juanillo with that bull. 475 00:44:57,116 --> 00:44:59,141 I tell you, he had it on a string. 476 00:44:59,218 --> 00:45:03,917 Don Jose, you never saw such arrogance and grace. 477 00:45:03,990 --> 00:45:06,857 - Yes, I did, once. - What corrida was that? 478 00:45:06,926 --> 00:45:12,421 That was a dozen years ago when I saw a very little boy fight a very big bull. 479 00:45:12,498 --> 00:45:17,731 Curro, that was the night you and I met and split that bottle of wine together. 480 00:45:17,804 --> 00:45:22,036 <i>- Remember?</i> - Yes, I've carried the scar ever since. 481 00:45:22,108 --> 00:45:26,568 My most prized possession, gentlemen, since it was given me by Juan Gallardo. 482 00:45:26,646 --> 00:45:30,377 [Laughing, Chattering] 483 00:45:30,450 --> 00:45:33,613 I didn't see you again until you fought as a <i>novillero</i> in Madrid. 484 00:45:33,686 --> 00:45:36,712 Oh, yes. You wrote a piece in the paper about me. 485 00:45:36,789 --> 00:45:38,950 You said I was definitely fifth-rate. 486 00:45:39,025 --> 00:45:44,258 I know. But the next time I saw you in the ring, you were a different man. 487 00:45:44,330 --> 00:45:47,458 - Something must've happened to you. - I got married. 488 00:45:47,533 --> 00:45:50,900 [Chattering] 489 00:45:58,344 --> 00:46:00,608 Yes, those were the lean days... 490 00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:04,116 when I fought both bulls and hunger at the same time. 491 00:46:04,183 --> 00:46:06,515 Curro, have you ever been hungry? 492 00:46:06,586 --> 00:46:11,580 Never. I've frequently been thirsty. 493 00:46:11,657 --> 00:46:13,648 Well, I can tell you this. 494 00:46:13,726 --> 00:46:17,992 The gore of hunger is worse than the horns of a bull. 495 00:46:18,064 --> 00:46:22,160 My friends have said to me, "Juanillo, life's been very magnificent to you. 496 00:46:22,235 --> 00:46:25,796 How does it feel to be way up there on top of the ladder?" 497 00:46:25,872 --> 00:46:29,330 Then I think of all the good things that have happened