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Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner in Romancing the Stone (1984)

Alfonso Arau: Juan

Romancing the Stone

Alfonso Arau credited as playing...

Juan

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  • Juan: This guy who is following you, he is very persistent!
  • Jack Colton: I understand you have a car. We would like to buy it or rent it, we need to get to a town.
  • Juan: What do you call this I'm living in, a pigsty?
  • Jack Colton: Oh, no this is great...
  • Juan: Hit the road.
  • Jack Colton: No, senor, see we...
  • Juan: Hit-the-road.
  • Jack Colton: But we...
  • Juan: [points a gun at him] Vaya con dios, gringo.
  • Jack Colton: [Jack and Joan back off and turn around, to find that all of Juan's men have pulled guns on them too] Okay, Joan Wilder, write us out of this one.
  • Juan: Joan Wilder... Joan Wilder? *The* Joan Wilder?
  • [lowering gun, opening door and walking out]
  • Juan: You are Joan Wilder, the novelist?
  • Joan Wilder: Well, yes, I am.
  • Juan: I read your books! I read all your books!
  • [turning to his men, in Spanish]
  • Juan: This is Joan Wilder, who writes the books I read to you on Saturdays!
  • Bad Hombre: [awestruck] Juanita... Juanita, it's Juanita!
  • [all the men put away their guns and wave enthusiastically]
  • Joan Wilder: Can we get there in your car?
  • Juan: Who told you I had a car?
  • Joan Wilder: The men in the village.
  • Juan: They told you I had a car? They are such comedians. They meant my little mule: Pepe.
  • Joan Wilder: What I would really like - would be a phone.
  • Juan: No. No. No. No. No phones. No phones. I hate phones. I don't have a phone. But, have a drink! Let's hang out!
  • Juan: See that river?
  • Jack Colton: What, the one without the bridge?
  • Juan: This river is the main water supply for many villages.
  • Joan Wilder: What do you mean the one without the bridge?
  • Juan: It feeds right into the Amazon.
  • Jack Colton: The one without the bridge! Where the hell are you going?
  • Juan: To Lupe's Escape. I used it many times in the past.
  • [taking out a remote control and pressing a button, a bridge raises and the jeep jumps over the river]
  • Juan: Joan Wilder, oh! I've been reading your books all these years. I'm so honored to have you here, I can't believe it. Welcome to my humble house!
  • [Opens the door to reveal the courtyard of a large hacienda]

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