The dragons named it 'Sohr Khai,' a grieving apology for their failure to. I leave your fate to my mother' she spat. YOU DID THIS TO ME' Flora screamed. Reel American History - Films. Films. 0: 0. 0: 0. Prologue. After the conquest and plundering of the Inca empire by Spain, the Indians invented the legend of El Dorado, a land of gold, located in the swamps of the Amazon headwaters. In the morning I read Mass, then we descended through the clouds. Going under. Aguirre: No one can get down that river alive! Pizarro: I tell you we can do it!
We're all going to go under. Jungle conditions (1)Caravajal (voice over): Our Indian slaves are useless. The changing climate kills them off like flies . Jungle conditions (2)Guzman: Come on, move it! Aguirre: Move you pigs! We could not hear what they were yelling, and could not help. Is that so. Aguirre: How many are on the raft? Reviews of Clara Kimball Young films from 19. The Fates and Flora Fourflush. Cast: Clara Kimball Young with Maurice Costello and James Young.Ursua: Seven and two Indians. We must try to help the poor devils, Aguirre. Aguirre: You are crazy! We will not help them! Ursua: I'm still giving the orders. Aguirre (aside to a companion): Is that so. The rusty cannon. Ursua: A prayer from here is not enough, Brother Caravajal. Caravajal: You are right, my son, their souls will rest much better in consecrated ground. It's the least we can do for these poor guys who died so bravely. Aguirre (after they have passed): Perucho! Perucho, don't you think the cannon is getting a bit rusty? Perucho: Perhaps. This isn't Castile. Inez: You know very well who is responsible. We really have other problems. There are Indians everywhere. Aguirre would never dare to rebel against the Spanish crown. Inez: We are not in Castile here. The sloth. Aguirre (to Flora): Look what I've found for you. It's never really awake. Soldier: We're making nails. Ursua: What for? Soldier: We need as many nails as possible. Ursua: What are you doing with this log? Okello: Well, I'm carrying it from where I found it back to the camp. Ursua: Who gave that order? Okello: Everyone here is collecting wood and iron. Who gave the orders (2)Ursua: What's going on here? Guzman: I have no idea. Ursua: Who gave the order to build rafts? Ursua's plan. Ursua: Gentleman, as your commander, I have decided, to return to our main troop. Random (sotto voce): It's not my habit to retreat. Ursua: We have to march back, of course, because the current is too strong. We need to get back within the time Pizarro ordered. Guzman: But that would be suicide because of the Indians. Ursua: Whatever the cost, we have to march back. We must get back to Pizarro! Aguirre: Shit on Pizarro! Ursua: I say we can't accomplish our task this way. Aguirre: And I say we can conquer without Pizarro. Do you remember Hernando Cortes? Bound for Mexico, he was ordered to return, but he just went on! He will finish what he has started. You are my last hope. Caravajal: Thou lettest man flow on like a river, and thy years know no end. For when the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more. You know, my child, for the good of our Lord the Church was always on the side of the strong. A leader. Aguirre: Well, gentleman, we've gotten rid of the troublemakers. For me, the choice is clear. We should elect the biggest and strongest nobleman we have. No escape. Balthasar: Plagues have come over my people, earthquakes and floods, but what the Spanish did to us is much, much worse. They gave me the name Balthasar, but my real name is Runo Rimac. Flora: What does that mean? Balthasar: Runo Rimac. No one was allowed to look directly into my eyes. But now I'm in chains, like my people, and I must bow my head. But I am also sorry for you because I know there is no escape from this jungle. We, the undersigned, have until yesterday, the seventh day of 1. Fate, God's help and the work of our hands have carried us down a river. Our hands shall perish and our tongues dry up if this is not so. By dint of this declaration, be you annihilated. And may God bless your soul. Aguirre: Fortune smiles on the brave and spits on the coward. No killings without a trial. Aguirre: Then try him . The strangers would come with thunder from tubes. Ask him where he got it from. It contains the Word of God that we preach to bring light into the darkness of their world. Does he understand at all, that this book contains the Word of God? Take it in your hand, my son. Balthasar: He says, it doesn't talk. Random: Kill him for this blasphemy! Caravajal (voice over): It is a tough business. We will shoot our enemies with golden bullets. The damned horse. Guzman: Damn! Next morning a few soldiers took him away and he never came back. Floating meat. Aguirre: What are they shouting? Balthasar: They're shouting, . There can be no greater! Whoever eats one grain too many or drinks one drop of water too much will be locked up for 1. If I, Aguirre, want the birds to drop dead from the trees, the birds will drop dead from the trees. I am the Wrath of God! The men's morale is at a low point. We see nothing but hunger and death. Even El Dorado hasn't been more than an illusion. Aguirre: Mexico was no illusion! If we turn back now others will come, and they will succeed! And we'll remain a failure! Even if this land only consists of trees and water, we will conquer it! And it'll be milked dry by those who follow us. I despise them for it. The path to destruction. Caravajal (voice over): I am sure, Aguirre is leading us into destruction. I almost feel, he does it deliberately. Drifitng in circles. Caravajal (voice over): February 2. The soldier Justo Gonzalez drank my ink, thinking it was medicine. We are drifting in circles. The imaginary ship. Okello: I see a ship with sails in a tall tree and from the stern hangs a canoe. Caravajal: The ship is in your imagination. We'll sail to the Atlantic with it. Caravajal: No, Lope de Aguirre, I won't go with you. This is not rain. Aguirre: Monk, do not forget to pray, lest God's end will be uncomely. Great treachery. Aguirre (to himself): When we reach the sea, we will build a bigger ship, sail north and take Trinidad from the Spanish crown. From there we'll sail on and take Mexico from Cortes. What great treachery this will be! Then, all of New Spain will be in our hands and we'll stage history like others stage plays. Who is with me. Aguirre (to himself): I, the Wrath of God, will marry my own daughter and with her I will found the purest dynasty the earth has ever seen. Scott started treating bears. The bears were raised by Ruth La. Barge, a former horse trainer, who learned her bear training skills from Doug Suez, most known for his work with a 1,5. Kodiac bear named “Bart.” Bears raised in captivity and trained in a certain way become very pliable, displaying more of their dog- like characteristics and less of the frightening, predatory characteristics they are known for in the wild. Ruth has one black bear, and several grizzly and Kodiac bears. She raised what Scott calls happy bears. They were playful, socialized, used to travel, calm in unfamiliar situations and not easily frightened. That is important as there is nothing more dangerous than a frightened bear. Ruth’s black bear, named “Bonkers“, was starring in the HBO remake of Gentle Ben, when he began to have intestinal problems. The local vets had no idea how to deal with bears. Scott spoke to Ruth on the phone, asking questions and trying to tease out the clues to what might be wrong, but he couldn’t do anything conclusive until he saw Bonkers “in person.” When the movie wrapped up they decided to bring Bonkers down to Los Angeles to let Scott examine him. They made arrangements to use a local equine (horse) hospital that was big enough to accommodate a black bear. It had an endoscope and x- ray machine that they could use to do the examination. Scott met Ruth in person for the first time outside the hospital. She wanted to lead Bonkers into the surgery by hand. Scott had serious concerns about this. Until he knew the owner of a potentially dangerous wild animal, he was never sure what their relationship with their animal was actually like . He looked from side to side as Ruth let the giant bear out of his trailer. To the left was a parking lot to a department store. There were parked cars and some shoppers pushing grocery carts. To the right was a busy road. He said a quick prayer that Ruth was really in control of the bear . Scott watched Ruth lead Bonkers calmly into the x- ray area of the hospital. He could see that she had a good relationship with the bear. Bonkers wasn’t feeling well, but even so he seemed very relaxed in Ruth’s care. Scott had his dart gun, in case the bear needed to be darted, but Ruth didn’t want that used on her bear and insisted it wouldn’t be necessary. Instead she lay down on the floor of the examining room and Bonkers lay down next to her and put his big head on her lap. Then she told Scott she was ready for him to inject Bonkers with the sedative. Scott again had doubts. If he jolted when Scott injected him he could crush Ruth. Later Ruth admitted that when Bonkers wasn’t feeling well, she often slept with him in his trailer to comfort him. The only danger she had experienced was that if Bonkers rolled over in the night he could crush her. This was a trainer who had bonded with her animals. Still, a veterinarian never knows how a wild animal will react when they stick a big needle in it. If you expect a reaction you can do a quick aggressive injection and be done with it, but this might startle a calm animal. With a calm animal you can do a slow injection. Ruth assured Scott that Bonkers would be fine and so he went ahead with a slow injection. Bonkers lifted his sleepy head and peered at Scott then, but then he laid it back down and calmly drifted off to sleep. Scott did biopsies and x- rays. Things pointed to a type of gastroenteritis . This can result from a variety of things including food allergies or bacterial infections. To pin down the exact nature of this reoccurring problem they would have to do more invasive exploration and possibly even surgery. Ruth was too anxious to let them do exploratory surgery, unless it was unavoidable. Scott gave Ruth some advice about what to feed Bonkers, but he suspected that the bear had chronic inflammatory bowel disease. When Bonkers had his next episode, Scott decided to go out and visit him at home. Sometimes he could get a clue about what an animal might be eating that was upsetting its stomach from looking over the enclosure. The bear preserve was in a large wooded area surrounded by a quiet suburban neighborhood. Scott drove through a locked gate in a chain- link fence and down a long dirt road. There were several large enclosures. Some were surrounded by tall chain- link fences and some were only bounded by a string of electric wire about three feet high. Then the tree stump moved and he realized it was the biggest grizzly bear he had ever seen. It had turned its massive head and watched him drive by. It was like looking for an alligator and seeing a t- rex. Finally he spotted a trailer surrounded by a scrub pine forest. He got out of the truck and knocked on the trailer door. He thought he heard movement inside the trailer, but not knowing what other animals Ruth might have inside, he decided not to investigate. Maybe she’d taught one of her bears to fold laundry. He wasn’t sure it was such a good idea to wander around the compound. There were, after all, several grizzlies . He spotted a picnic table sitting under a tree near one of the enclosures. It seemed to be covered by a picnic. He walked over but there was still no sign of Ruth. Then he looked more closely at the table. There was a plate of oreo cookies, a chocolate cake, a pie and a dozen frosted cupcakes. He was sure this was the time Ruth had agreed to see him. He didn’t think she had mentioned that she was having a birthday party. Finally Ruth came strolling out of the woods carrying a bucket and ball.“Hey! Sorry,” she called, walking over swiftly. She looked confused. Scott gestured again at the picnic table covered in cake and cookies.“Oh that!” Ruthe said a little sheepishly. It’s a great incentive.”“Ruth,” Scott said, trying to keep the scold out of his voice. She put a hand up. But they so love cake.”Scott looked at the devil’s food cake with fudge frosting and shook his head. He knew it was not the whole story behind Bonkers sensitive tummy, but it wasn’t helping either. He gave Ruth a serious talk about the bears’ diets before he left (with a cupcake). Driving home Scott thought about how many obese pets he had treated over the years. People just couldn’t resist over- feeding their beloved pets. Bonkers was not overweight, but it didn’t mean that chocolate cake was good for him either. Scott took a bite of the cupcake. He might growl on command for one of these. Bears, like humans, have a sweet tooth and love dessert. Winnie the Pooh’s love of honey was based on fact! Scott sighed. It looked like Bonkers was having his cake.
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