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of this 19th-century village in Japan
belonging to a wider community.
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A government inspector
comes to the village
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and gives you a sense
of the politics beyond,
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and you also get a sense
that there is law and order
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in the society of 19th-century Japan, but
it's broken down in this particular place.
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In Fistful of Dollars,
there is no sense of law and order at all.
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That there's no law, the sheriff
is corrupt like all sheriffs in Leone's films,
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so the bounty hunters, those on
the take, the factions, the families,
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the Hispanic Mafia which runs these
towns is the substitute for law and order.
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There's a complete
absence of morality and law,
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which makes it take place
in a kind of moral vacuum.
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References to governments outside are
perfunctory. This isn't put in a context.
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It's a piece of theatre about a town
that is a kind of never-never land
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where morality doesn't exist.
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You want Eastwood to be the goodie,
but he never quite behaves like that.
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In most of the film,
he doesn't wear his poncho,
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although that's what
everyone remembers him for.
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He wore it in the opening
and the final sequences,
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but in between, the sheepskin waistcoat,
the blue shirt, the shrunk-to-fit jeans -
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they had one of each
so had to look after it,
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if they got it wet or dirty
they had to dry-clean it
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so he could wear it for the next setup -
was what Eastwood wore.
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Here's the "Deguello" theme, the trumpet
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with the strumming guitar in the
background. A Mexican funeral dirge.