Siete minutos, Ismael Camacho Arango [read with me TXT] 📗

CARDINAL
I must give you the papal blessing with a plenary indulgence.
They all kneel on the floor, including the seagull. The cardinal prays in Latin while pouring holy water around him. The seagull doesn’t like it and goes back to the food. They all congratulate his highness.
HOMER
General, supreme boss, protector and father of our country: I had never seen such a
unanimous opinion about our government. I have the honour of showing the
receipts where your signatures prove the courage of your hearts.

The general goes to the table, reads a few lines of the document and signs it. The admiral also signs without reading the paper. The cardinal ads postdate: don’t forget the ten per cent. Then he signs it.
HOMER
I want to offer the pens we have used in the ceremony to our ladies.

He gives one to Fifi, another one to Aurita and the third one to the seagull.
The admiral drinks some wine, clears his throat and gets ready to talk.
ADMIRAL
General, supreme boss, admiral, protector and father of our country, the cardinal,
ladies and gentlemen: I want to say a few words in this day, when we decide the
future of a free country. Since the birth of our nation, a few ethnic races have
come to America. It opened its entrails to the Iberian race, pregnant with God, and
to the black torrent of Africa. All of this was mixed in the new land and new
hearts.

They applaud.
ADMIRAL
In between the paths of the virgin jungle..
CARDINAL
This is not a good moment to talk about virgins.
ADMIRAL
In their perpetual fight against a hostile medium, our ancestors grew in the highest
Andean mountain, the tree of a victorious Christ against the moors in Lepanto.
They applaud.
ADMIRAL
This blood made plants grow next to the cross. It turned into the chastity of our
women, charity in the toughness of our men, and sanctity with the beats of the sword.
The eternal reflex of the sea changed into a pyramid of light in between paths of hope
and amidst dawns full of awe. The weeping of children sent a choir to the wind,
forming the first notes of the symphony of America.

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EXT. LUXURIOUS YACHT- NIGHT

The seagull eats the fish swimming in the aquarium.

Homer shoos him away.

HOMER
Stop it.

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EXT. LUXURIOUS YACHT- NIGHT

ADMIRAL

Atahualpa and Gaspar joining their titanic forces over mountains full of
snow, wrote the last page of the Inca culture…

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CARDINAL
I think the admiral wants to tell us the history of America.
AURITA
I’m a fan of the America football team. He doesn’t have to discuss the games,
citing the classic ones would be enough.

CARDINAL
The last classic finished 2-2.
AURITA
We should dance.
The cardinal disappears through the door.
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EXT. LUXURIOUS YACHT –NIGHT
The music of rancheras drifts through the ship.
MUSIC
The day I die, it will be by four gunshots…
ADMIRAL
…When the warrior talent of Pizarro met the idolatrous Indians, celestial fire took
the last Inca in front of his first cause. He…

MUSIC
He didn’t have time to go on his horse…
The cardinal gestures to Aurita.
CARDINAL
My love, can we escape while the admiral remembers our country?
They leave the scene.