:14:02
They feel they've seen it before,
but never quite like this.
:14:05
There's gonna be violence,
but how much of it?
:14:57
Five shots, four people fall down.
:14:59
The ratio is rather greater than
in Hollywood Westerns of the time,
:15:03
where you'd expect a one-on-one duel.
:15:07
The scene is almost directly
from Kurosawa's Yojimbo,
:15:10
but with a completely
different atmosphere.
:15:12
There's an element of parody, taking
hallowed moments of the Western
:15:16
and turning them into something else,
whereas in Yojimbo
:15:20
the face-offs have a more informal,
historical quality.
:15:25
And the hero in Yojimbo
was a well-known hero, Sanjuro,
:15:28
who'd appeared in other films,
so Toshirô Mifune, the character,
:15:32
brought that with him. Whereas
this stranger we know nothing about.
:15:36
We never learn anything
about his background.
:15:39
He's come from nowhere, he's going
nowhere, he goes round shooting people.
:15:44
"My mistake. Four coffins."
In Kurosawa it's three.
:15:48
There's a bit of inflation.
Typical Leone gag.
:15:51
A rather macabre gag,
involving the coffin maker.
:15:59
The town is deserted.