One major pattern is comprehensive: the predicaments, and ultimately deaths of each of the lions of San Pablo, who are expected to be undyingly loyal to Villa when joining the revolution, are met with utter indifference (Noble 56). In the scene when they have effectively decided to join the army, Villa says that they are “already a part of” a revolution, which indicates that he does not see them as essential to his cause, but rather as peasants who could be thrown out at any opportunity. Rather than ask how much the lions are committed to the collective cause of the revolution, Villa instead asks whether they are “macho”, which indicates that the revolution, in his point of view, is not born out of the promises for achieving a collective demand (wealth, land, and adequate food) but rather of the revolution’s need to show off his individually driven
One major pattern is comprehensive: the predicaments, and ultimately deaths of each of the lions of San Pablo, who are expected to be undyingly loyal to Villa when joining the revolution, are met with utter indifference (Noble 56). In the scene when they have effectively decided to join the army, Villa says that they are “already a part of” a revolution, which indicates that he does not see them as essential to his cause, but rather as peasants who could be thrown out at any opportunity. Rather than ask how much the lions are committed to the collective cause of the revolution, Villa instead asks whether they are “macho”, which indicates that the revolution, in his point of view, is not born out of the promises for achieving a collective demand (wealth, land, and adequate food) but rather of the revolution’s need to show off his individually driven