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Cobra Verde (1987) More at IMDbPro »

[has been captured; to The King]
Francisco Manoel da Silva: I can not hear what you are saying, for the thunder that you are.

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Taparica: Aren't you afraid? Aren't you afraid of dying?
Francisco Manoel da Silva: I haven't tried it yet.

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[wakes up a man in the middle of the night]
Francisco Manoel da Silva: I want you awake when you die.

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[da silva pours some champagne into their glasses]
Captain Pedro Vincente: To slavery! The greatest misunderstanding in the history of mankind.
Francisco Manoel da Silva: It was no misunderstanding. It was a crime...
Francisco Manoel da Silva: [drinks the champagne, refills the glass] Slavery is an element of the human heart.
Francisco Manoel da Silva: To our ruin!

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Francisco Manoel da Silva: The heat here is mean and inescapable. It courses through the bodies of people like a fever... and yet, my heart grows colder and colder.

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Francisco Manoel da Silva: I don't trust shoes.

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Francisco Manoel da Silva: [storming into the royal hut] The dead Kings have deposed you!

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Captain Pedro Vincente: The English have put a prize on your head.
Francisco Manoel da Silva: Finally something is happening!

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