Word: villista
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...like for themselves. In the silent days, audiences crowded into tent theatres, sat ankle-deep in dust watching the leaps of Douglas Fairbanks, the tears of Barbara La Marr. They took it all very seriously, bombarding the villain on the screen with fruit and dirt. Occasionally an old. leathery Villista Dorado (Pancho Villa bodyguard) would come down from the mountains for a show, angrily pepper the screen with his six-shooter to save the heroine from the buzz saw. But the arrival of sound was tough on Mexicans, who had to follow the dialogue either with badly written Spanish titles...
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