# Bandalero! film translation **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [August 17, 2021, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bandalero-film-translation/949043 "2021-08-17T23:38:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bandalero-film-translation/949043/1 "2021-08-17T23:38:49Z")
I watched a recording of the film, “Bandalero!” that I made several weeks ago. I realized I had seen it many years ago, for I recalled the scene where Jimmy Stewart asks, “What exactly are you trying to say, Dee?” and Dean Martin replies, “I’m trying to say there are a lot of God damned Indians in Montana!” But I digress. Racquel Welch shoots (several times) the guy who tried to rape her, while cursing him in Spanish. All I understood was “Madre”. What was she saying? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bandalero-film-translation/949043/2 "2021-08-18T00:49:27Z")
I got the “Fuck your Mother” from “Madre”. [Bandolero!, 1968, Raquel Welch’s character says, “Fornicate your mother!” - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEkR5bjggTM&ab_channel=MarieRuggirello) ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bandalero-film-translation/949043/3 "2021-08-18T01:04:52Z")
I can’t really understand the first word but it sounds more like mates a tu madré which would be death to your mother. Or maybe vetes a tu madré which is go to your mother ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bandalero-film-translation/949043/4 "2021-08-18T01:20:03Z")
It sounds like she’s trying (and failing 😛 ) to say “Maldita tu madre” (Cursed be your mother) or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bandalero-film-translation/949043/5 "2021-08-18T01:23:21Z")
I think you’re right… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bandalero-film-translation/949043/6 "2021-08-18T01:26:00Z")
Thanks. She cusses at him a bunch, I can’t find links to the one before. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bandalero-film-translation/949043/7 "2021-08-18T12:32:06Z")
Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2021, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bandalero-film-translation/949043/8 "2021-08-22T23:42:58Z")
Wait a minute. Does one speak to a potential rapist in the familiar? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2021, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bandalero-film-translation/949043/9 "2021-08-22T23:48:33Z")
I believe in most European languages, addressing a stranger in the familiar is a sign of contempt. It certainly is in German and Russian. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bandalero-film-translation/949043/10 "2021-08-23T01:41:07Z")
My Wife, who can get along in Spanish, but probably doesn’t know words like that, said that the familiair is also a sign of respect, something you would not give a rapist. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bandalero-film-translation/949043/11 "2021-08-23T02:00:33Z")
If you know the person _well_, the familiar is of course a sign of affection or respect. How well does Raquel know the rapist? In Russian, BTW, the fastest way of showing someone you no longer even consider them a human being is to switch from the familiar to the formal. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bandalero-film-translation/949043/12 "2021-08-23T10:27:30Z")
Never saw him before. He is your basic Mexican Bandit.