The Other Conquest (1998)

Ramón Barragán: Ramón Quevedo - notario

Quotes 

• Notario Ramón Quevedo : [spying on Hernán Cortés and Tecuichpo]  And this one? Who is she?

  Capitán Cristóbal Quijano : [also spying on them]  Tecuichpo, the oldest daughter of Moctezuma.

  Notario Ramón Quevedo : What happened to his mistress Malinche?

  [relishing the thought] 

  Notario Ramón Quevedo : Did Cortés hang her next to Prince Cuauhtemoc in Honduras?

  Capitán Cristóbal Quijano : No, he got fed up and gave her to Captain Jaramillo.

  Notario Ramón Quevedo : He gave away the mother of his first-born?

  Capitán Cristóbal Quijano : First-born? A half-bred "mestizo"?

  Hernando Cortés : [noticing them]  Come in, you gossips!

• Hernando Cortés : [passing sentence on Topiltzin]  Captain Cristóbal Quijano of Seville will carry out the whipping of the Indian named Tepilsin -

  Tecuichpo : [interrupts]  Topiltzin! Cuauhtlahtohuac Topiltzin!

  Notario Ramón Quevedo : Should I listen to her?

  Hernando Cortés : No.

  [pause] 

  Hernando Cortés : Call him Tomás.

• Capitán Cristóbal Quijano : [to Tecuichpo]  Your mixture with us... is disgusting to God!

  Notario Ramón Quevedo : [to Captain Cristóbal]  There's no reason to believe that. If God were disgusted by mixtures - Heaven forbid - He'd have to get rid of a good number of Spaniards all over the world.