| 1 | '''Moments pages are Administrivia/SpoilersOff. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.''' |
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| 3 | * The ending: [[BigBad Captain Vidal]] is surrounded by rebels while carrying his baby son. Realising that he would soon be killed, he hands his son to another character, Mercedes, and calmly requests that the child is later told of his heroic exploits. Mercedes cuts him off, stating, "No. [[UnPerson He won't even know your name]]." right before her brother, a fellow rebel, draws a pistol and shoots the Captain in the face. Destroying the rebels and passing on his name were the only things Vidal seemed to care about; having the first denied him was bad, but when Mercedes denies him the second, it's the only time in the film you see him look genuinely upset about something. |
| 4 | * Mercedes breaks free from Vidal's torture and [[GlasgowGrin slices his cheek open]]. From the inside. |
| 5 | ** Complete with the utterly ''awesome'' line: "I'm not an old man! Nor a wounded man, you son of a bitch! [[PrecisionFStrike Son of a bitch]]... Don't you dare touch the girl. You won't be the first pig I've gutted!" Oh, yes. |
| 6 | ** Which sounds more brilliant in the original Spanish, in which she switches her way to address him from formal ''usted'', as due to someone of his rank, to informal ''tú'' (note that this was a BIG deal in the militaristic Spain of the 1940s), and she sounds like she's been ''waiting for so long'' to use it to his face and kick him off his pedestal. "¡Yo no soy un viejo, ni un hombre herido, hijo de puta! Hijo de puta... No se te ocurra tocar a la niña. ¡No serás el primer cerdo que deguelle!" |
| 7 | ** And his earlier line: [[SuicidalOverconfidence "For God's sake, she's just a woman."]] |
| 8 | * Garcés closing in on Mercedes, relishing the prospect of getting his hands on her, and everything looks hopeless. Then, a gunshot. And there's just enough time after the gunshot is heard but before there's any effect to wonder who fired and where it came from, when the whistling bullet hits Garcés in the shoulder. And then the other shoulder. And he just keeps rocking back and forth as he's hit by bullets before one blows his brains out, and '''[[TheCavalry the cavalry]] appears'''. |
| 9 | * Vidal stitches his own cheek back together without anything more than a grunt of pain. |
| 10 | * Doctor Ferreiro gets a quieter, more subtle one when he euthanises a captured rebel rather than heal him for more torture, as he was ordered. Vidal asks why the doctor disobeyed, to which the doctor responds: "Because to obey orders just like that, [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight for the sake of obeying]]... [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that is something that only people like you can do, Captain]]." [[FaceDeathWithDignity Ferreiro's death immediately afterwards is one of the most beautiful and dignified deaths in cinema.]] |
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