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In The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
there's a famous one.
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They look through the bushes
and there's the trenches
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with literally thousands of troops.
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This is the first of those moments, at
the Río Bravo canyon, called Río Bravo
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because it's the Mexican side and the
Rio Grande was known as the Río Bravo.
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This is the first of the major sequences
in the film that was not in Yojimbo.
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There's no reference to this
in Yojimbo at all. This was added.
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The consignment of gold,
the massacre of the troops,
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the introduction
of the baddie Ramón Rojo,
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Gian Maria Volonté,
an Italian theatre actor.
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All this was added by the scriptwriters
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to fill out the story of Yojimbo,
and make it even more mean.
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The massacre doesn't happen in Yojimbo.
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This ups the ante in terms
of the body count in the movie,
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and makes the violence
that much more larger than life.
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Most of this sequence,
apart from the cutaways
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to Clint Eastwood
and Silvanito, the bartender,
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were in fact shot by Franco Giraldi,
the assistant director,
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who was called in
at the last minute as an assistant
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and told by the producers,
"We don't believe in assistants,
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but we want to shoot this so quickly
we must have two crews working."
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So this famous sequence,
apart from the cutaways,
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was shot by Franco Giraldi, who recalls
sitting in Spain with Gian Maria Volonté...
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Here he is, Ramón.
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Who is rather a left-wing
character in Italian politics,
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sitting in this flyblown location
in Spain, in spring 1964,
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in Franco's Spain, where a fascist
regime was running the country, saying:
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"What on earth are we doing here?
We're making a Western, set in the 1870s,
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in a fascist country."