Zorro, The Gay Blade
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Zorro, the Gay Blade is a 1981 feature film. This comedy features George Hamilton in a Golden Globe-nominated dual role as both Don Diego de la Vega (Zorro) and his gay twin brother Bunny Wigglesworth, né Ramon De La Vega.
- Story and Screenplay by: Johnston McCulley, Hal Dresner, Greg Alt, Don Moriarty, and Bob Randall
- Directed by: Peter Medak
- Starring George Hamilton
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Dialogue
[edit]- [Don Diego is lounging in his bed with a beautiful woman.]
- Veronica: Tell me the truth. Do you think I'm a good wife?
- Don Diego: Veronica… you are more exciting than Venus herself.
- Veronica: Then why doesn't my husband ever say that?
- Don Diego: Because he's not intelligent. He is not intuitive. He is not insightful.
- [A man leaps through an open but curtained door.]
- Don Garcia: And he is not in Barcelona!
- . . .
- Don Diego: Don Garcia, I am astonished you would enter my house without my permission!
- Don Garcia: I might say the same thing about you with my wife!
- Don Diego: I do not wish to insult you, my dear Garcia, but I could fight four men such as you!
- Don Garcia: You are quite right, Don Diego.
- Don Diego: You see?
- Don Garcia: That is why I brought my FIVE BROTHERS!
- [Diego arrives in Los Angeles.]
- Don Diego: Los Angeles de California. The birthplace… of me.
- Don Diego: That is, uh, my servant, Paco. He is a mute. He cannot speak.
- Captain Esteban: Oh, excellent! Perhaps he can give lessons to my wife.
- Captain Esteban: Your father, I'm sorry to say, had a terrible accident.
- Don Diego: Accident?
- Captain Esteban: Sí. He was out riding when his horse was frightened by a turtle.
- . . .
- Captain Esteban: My friend — I want you to know that the turtle who caused this has been executed.
- [The landowners meet to elect a new Alcalde.]
- Captain Esteban: Caballeros! I believe you all know each other?
- Don Diego: Don Diego from San Fernando.
- Don Francisco: Don Francisco from San Jose.
- Don Fernando: Don Fernando from San Diego.
- Don Jose: Don Jose from San Bernardino.
- Luis Obispo: Luis Obispo from Bakersfield.
- [A peasant is being stretched on the rack.]
- Captain Esteban: That man was three pesos short in paying his taxes. I can assure you that he will never be short again.
- Captain Esteban: Arrest that woman! Now!
- Charlotte Taylor Wilson: No, wait! Isn't this the village square, where according to law, everyone is allowed to speak his or her mind?
- Captain Esteban: You're right, Señorita. [yelling to the crowd] The woman is allowed to speak! But arrest anyone who listens.
- . . .
- Charlotte Taylor Wilson: [to the crowd] Let your voices be heard! Oppose the… greedy bloodsuckers!
- [She drops her pamphlets. Diego picks them up and hands them to her.]
- Charlotte Taylor Wilson: Thank you. I'm Charlotte Taylor Wilson. I'm with the People's Independence Committee.
- Don Diego: Don Diego Vega. I'm with the… greedy bloodsuckers.
- Don Diego: The peoples are quite happy working the land for the caballeros!
- Charlotte Taylor Wilson: You don't really believe the people are happy!
- Don Diego: [quietly] All I know is the soldiers are very happy shooting the peoples who say the peoples are not happy.
- Charlotte Taylor Wilson: Could you tell me where I might find a decent inn?
- Don Diego: An inn?! With all your talk about the people, I see you like decent inns! And you wear expensive clothes, not the rags. And you smell of the sultry perfumes, not the… ship oil.
- Charlotte Taylor Wilson: Ship oil? [pauses in puzzlement] You mean the oil from boats?
- Don Diego: No, ship oil, from the ships in the field.
- Charlotte Taylor Wilson: [slowly] What ships… in the field?
- Don Diego: Jou have never heard of the ships in the field? The little, uh… baa-baa-baas?
- Charlotte Taylor Wilson: Oh, you mean "sheep"!
- Don Diego: Jes, that is what I said.
- Charlotte Taylor Wilson: No, you said "ship"! Forgive me, but you have a very pronounced accent.
- Don Diego: Jou're trying to change the subject from the fact that jou are actually… very wealthy.
- Charlotte Taylor Wilson: I am not… very wealthy!
- Don Diego: After all, what poor woman can afford three names? Answer me that if you can, Señorita [counting off on his fingers] Charlotte… Taylor… Wilson.
- [Don Diego reads a letter from his deceased father that he finds among the Zorro accoutrements.]
- Vega Sr.: The sword, with which to fight injustice. This mask, with which to deceive tyranny. And this hat, which needs… reblocking.
- [While Diego was reading his father's letter, Paco has donned his own costume, which makes him look like a life-sized teddy bear.]
- Don Diego: What're you supposed to be, eh, a… duck? A bear? Don't be silly — bears don't have ears like that. I will allow you that you are a… a pig, but that is as far as I will go. That's all.
- [On the road, Don Diego has defeated an apparent brigand in swordplay.]
- Tax Collector: I beg your mercy from- from your flashing blade, and—
- [Paco shows up in bear regalia.]
- Tax Collector: Ooooh! Oh my God! — also from your hideous dog!
- [Diego returns the money — and then some — to the old man and his family.]
- Diego Zorro: You recognize that famous sign, eh?
- Old Man: Oh, yes, Señor. It is a number "2".
- Diego Zorro: That is not a "2". That is a "Z"!
- Old Man: Oh, if you say so, Señor! But in the school, that is how they teach my granddaughter to draw a "2"!
- Diego Zorro: Well, I say it is a "Z" — for "El Zorro"!
- Diego Zorro: Spread the news… that he is back! To help the helpless! To befriend the friendless! And to defeat… the feetless!
- [Zorro escorts Charlotte into the costume party, but Paco the "Bear" is stopped at the door.]
- Guard: Where is your invitation, Señor Beaver?
- [The "brigand", who turns out to be the Alcalde's henchman Velasquez, reports to Esteban about his misadventure.]
- Velasquez: He said his name was, uh… "Zero". He was dressed all in black, and was accompanied by a… hideous dog.
- [Florinda chats with the mysterious black-clad stranger.]
- Florinda: You know, as the Alcalde's wife, I must play many, many, many roles, but the people only see the part I play in public. Only a few select friends know my private parts.
- [Velasquez points out Zorro, who is dancing with Florinda.]
- Captain Esteban: That man in the black sombrero — this is Zero?
- Old Man: I am certain of it!
- Captain Esteban: Then the hideous dog you refer to must be my wife, yeah?
- [Zorro crosses swords with the Alcalde.]
- Captain Esteban: Is your blade as sharp as your tongue?
- Zorro: Is yours as dull as your wit?
- . . .
- Captain Esteban: You're a little clumsy, are you not, my friend?
- Zorro: To be your friend, I would have to be more than clumsy — I would have to be estupid!
- [Florinda, crawling up a ladder into Diego's bedroom, tells him about Zorro's party intrusion.]
- Florinda: He made a complete fool out of Esteban. Ha ha!
- Don Diego: Well, with Esteban, there is so much material to work with!
- [Florinda moans about her miserable life with Esteban.]
- Florinda: Do you realize… that we only make love 12 times a year?
- Don Diego: Once a month is not too bad!
- Florinda: I mean, 12 times in one night! And then, for the rest of the year — nothing!
- Don Diego: Tell me… on that one night… does he eat anything especial? Oysters? Raw eggs?
- Florinda: Garlic. A lot of garlic.
- Don Diego: Ah!
- Florinda: Diego, darling! Why didn't I marry you instead of him?
- Don Diego: Perhaps because he asked you and I did not.
- [A suspicious, crazed Esteban forces an injured Diego to demonstrate his ability to move about.]
- Captain Esteban: Now walking and running and jumping in place, and…
- Esteban, Diego: [in unison] … now walking and running and jumping in place, and now walking and jumping and running in place—
- Captain Esteban: STOP!
- [Captain Esteban confronts Don Diego at his home to determine if he is Zorro]
- Captain Esteban:Now, lisp like a sissy
- Don Diego:[lisps]
- Captain Esteban:That's right! Now, swing your hips …
- Captain Esteban:Excellent! Now flap your wrists …
- Captain Esteban:And repeat after me [Esteban speaks in a greatly exaggerated sissy voice] "You naughty, naughty, evil Alcalde! I am going to do … many terrible things … TO YOU!" [laughs hysterically]
- [After Esteban skewers the casket in which Florinda is hiding, he leaves. Diego opens the casket to find Florinda, pressed up against one side.]
- Don Diego: Florinda, you're not hurt!
- [She shakes her bosom.]
- Florinda: Thank God for small favors!
- [Diego is limping around on his broken foot.]
- Don Diego: My father would be very ashamed of me now. To come all this distance, and miss my destiny by… a foot.
- [The mute Paco gestures wildly at Diego.]
- Don Diego: Are jou jelling at me?
- [A flamboyant stranger presents himself at Don Diego's home.]
- Don Diego: I know you?
- Bunny Wigglesworth: Know me? Sink me! We were once… womb-mates!
- Bunny Wigglesworth: They say the Navy makes men. Well, I'm living proof — they made me.
- [Diego's brother Ramon, now "Bunny Wigglesworth", heads inside to greet their father.]
- Bunny Wigglesworth: … I ought to freshen up and say "Hi-ho!" to the old gent. Tell me, is he still as loud as ever?
- [Diego looks crestfallen.]
- Don Diego: No. The last month, he's been very… quiet.
- [Diego senses a flaw in Bunny's impersonation of Zorro.]
- Don Diego: Dere is-a something wrong with his bowels.
- Bunny Wigglesworth: My what?
- Don Diego: Jour bowels! The way you say your "ah", your "ee", and your… "jooz".
- [During one of Bunny Zorro's appearances before the people…]
- Bunny Zorro: And remember, my people — there is no shame in being poor, only dressing poorly!
- [Outside Diego's home, Bunny is diguised as a priest wearing crisom velvet monk's robe.]
- Captain Esteban: Tell me, Father — what order commands its priests to wear such strange clothes?
- Bunny Wigglesworth: We are followers of Peter the Dressmaker. He who was Christ's tailor.
- [As Bunny Zorro gets a head start on his escape…]
- Captain Esteban: Ah, Padre, with your permission, I would like to make to you a small donation, if I may, to your order.
- Bunny Zorro: Your horse and your gold are gift enough! The people thank you, Your Repugnancy!
- Captain Esteban: Now you mock the Church! Now you have me and God against you!
- Don Diego: Me too!
- Captain Esteban: FRUITCAKE!
- [After hatching his masked-ball plan to trap Zorro, Esteban embraces his wife passionately.]
- Captain Esteban: Do you know… that little thing… we do… one night… every year?
- Florinda: Yes! Oh, yes!
- [Esteban drops her on the floor and walks off.]
- Captain Esteban: We still have three months to go!
- Florinda: You fink!
- [Esteban, dressed rather appropriately as Henry VIII, addresses his guards before the ball.]
- Captain Esteban: He is cunning! He is crafty. He's not just going to walk in here and say, "Here I am!"
- [Diego, dressed as Zorro, enters the palace.]
- Don Diego: Here I am!
- [Diego admires Florinda's necklace.]
- Don Diego: It looks like it'll buy the peoples a lot of houses, maybe even some schools and roads.
- Florinda: Roads? What do the people need roads for? They never go anywhere.
- [In the women's restroom, Bunny, dressed as a woman, continues to help/hassle Florinda.]
- Florinda: If you don't stop touching me, I shall have you… destroyed!
- [Florinda finally escapes Bunny and complains to her husband.]
- Captain Esteban: Your neck!
- Florinda: Did that woman bruise me? She's got hands like an gorilla!
- [She drops her hands to her upper chest, where her necklace isn't.]
- Esteban, Florinda: Neck! Neck! Neck! Neck!
- Diego Zorro: Now I know it is permitted for a man to be… bulnerable.
- Charlotte Taylor Wilson: It's "vulnerable".
- [As the Alcade's men approach, Zorro takes his leave of Miss Wilson.]
- Diego Zorro: And when I return, we will not have to worry how to pronounce, ah, ah… "bir—"
- Charlotte Taylor Wilson: "Virgin"!
- [Esteban calls Zorro's bluff, forcing Zorro to surrender to prevent Charlotte's execution.]
- Captain Esteban: I have always depended on people being nicer than me, and I have never in my life been disappointed.
- [The guards move Charlotte away from and Diego onto the execution platform.]
- Charlotte Taylor Wilson: You're the bravest man I have ever met.
- Don Diego: [nervously] I'm very impressed with myself, too.
- Florinda: Isn't he marvelous?
- Don Fernando: He wears clothes well. I could never get into his pants.
- Florinda: I bet I could.
- Guard: … you are sentenced to be executed… until you are dead!
- Charlotte Taylor Wilson: I have only one regret…
- Diego Zorro: [to himself] One? I have one for every day I'm not going to live!
- Bunny Zorro: Two bits, four bits / Six bits, a peso / All for Zorro / Stand up and say so!
- Don Diego: What jou like for a wedding present?
- Charlotte Taylor Wilson: For myself, nothing. But I thought for the people, you might donate your land.
- Don Diego: I give my land to the peoples? If we give away my land, where you think we gonna live?
- Charlotte Taylor Wilson: Boston!
- Don Diego: Boston?!
- Charlotte Taylor Wilson: It's really the only civilized city. The best food, the best art, the best music!
- Don Diego: The best music. You gotta be joking! I spent a week in Boston once, and I don't think I heard a decent Mariachi player in the city!
Tagline
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Cast
[edit]- George Hamilton - Don Diego Vega / Zorro / Bunny Wigglesworth / Ramon Vega
- Lauren Hutton - Charlotte Taylor-Wilson
- Brenda Vaccaro - Florinda
- Ron Leibman - Captain Esteban
- Donovan Scott - Paco
- James Booth - Velasquez
- Helen Burns - Consuelo
- Clive Revill - Garcia
- Carolyn Seymour - Dolores
- Eduardo Noriega - Don Francisco
- Pilar Pellicer - Don Francisco's wife
- Jorge Russek - Don Fernando
- Eduardo Alcaraz - Don Jose
- Carlos Bravo y Fernández - Don Luis Obispo
- Roberto Dumont as Ferraro
- Jorge Bolio - Pablito
- Frank Welker - Narrator (voice)