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Greg Jenner

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You're Dead to Me
Hernán Cortés and Malintzin: the Spanish conquest of Mexico

I'm just hearing the voice of Winnie the Pooh whenever Cortez speaks. Of course, Winnie the Pooh craves pots of honey. Cortez is after pots of money. So he's off. He's off seeking gold and glory in 1519. And he is going to meet... Melintzin, finally we get our meet cute, except it's not a meet cute, it's a meet yuck, because she is enslaved and he is arriving as a conqueror.

You're Dead to Me
Hernán Cortés and Malintzin: the Spanish conquest of Mexico

Yeah.

You're Dead to Me
Hernán Cortés and Malintzin: the Spanish conquest of Mexico

Yeah.

You're Dead to Me
Hernán Cortés and Malintzin: the Spanish conquest of Mexico

OK.

You're Dead to Me
Hernán Cortés and Malintzin: the Spanish conquest of Mexico

OK.

You're Dead to Me
Hernán Cortés and Malintzin: the Spanish conquest of Mexico

Cortez has shown up, obviously not able to speak any of the languages spoken by the indigenous people he's meeting. He's like, you know, hola. And they're like, what? So that's not going to work. So how does the translation work then? You know, if Cortez wants to say something to the Maya...

You're Dead to Me
Hernán Cortés and Malintzin: the Spanish conquest of Mexico

Cortez has shown up, obviously not able to speak any of the languages spoken by the indigenous people he's meeting. He's like, you know, hola. And they're like, what? So that's not going to work. So how does the translation work then? You know, if Cortez wants to say something to the Maya...

You're Dead to Me
Hernán Cortés and Malintzin: the Spanish conquest of Mexico

Does she become Marina then and there?

You're Dead to Me
Hernán Cortés and Malintzin: the Spanish conquest of Mexico

Does she become Marina then and there?

You're Dead to Me
Hernán Cortés and Malintzin: the Spanish conquest of Mexico

And Cortés is presumably using charm and violence, those two lovely combinations.

You're Dead to Me
Hernán Cortés and Malintzin: the Spanish conquest of Mexico

And Cortés is presumably using charm and violence, those two lovely combinations.

You're Dead to Me
Hernán Cortés and Malintzin: the Spanish conquest of Mexico

We're talking an army of 600 Spanish soldiers. It's not a huge army.

You're Dead to Me
Hernán Cortés and Malintzin: the Spanish conquest of Mexico

We're talking an army of 600 Spanish soldiers. It's not a huge army.

You're Dead to Me
Hernán Cortés and Malintzin: the Spanish conquest of Mexico

So we have to conquer Tenochtitlan. Well, we're not going to do it. Cortes is going to do it. A vast, vast citadel, an incredibly sophisticated, huge city. Yeah. And 600 Spaniards show up and some allies.

You're Dead to Me
Hernán Cortés and Malintzin: the Spanish conquest of Mexico

So we have to conquer Tenochtitlan. Well, we're not going to do it. Cortes is going to do it. A vast, vast citadel, an incredibly sophisticated, huge city. Yeah. And 600 Spaniards show up and some allies.

You're Dead to Me
Hernán Cortés and Malintzin: the Spanish conquest of Mexico

And they just, what, ring the doorbell and say, hello, we've come to conquer you?

You're Dead to Me
Hernán Cortés and Malintzin: the Spanish conquest of Mexico

And they just, what, ring the doorbell and say, hello, we've come to conquer you?

You're Dead to Me
Hernán Cortés and Malintzin: the Spanish conquest of Mexico

So he's the Atec emperor?

You're Dead to Me
Hernán Cortés and Malintzin: the Spanish conquest of Mexico

So he's the Atec emperor?

You're Dead to Me
Hernán Cortés and Malintzin: the Spanish conquest of Mexico

I should take that title. That's my job.