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the director of photography,
filmed at night.
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But some are done with filters, and it
shows what a low-budget movie this was.
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This is the second sequence
which has nothing to do with Yojimbo.
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The scene in the cemetery, this subplot
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of taking the bodies of the massacred
soldiers from the Río Bravo canyon,
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putting them into a cemetery
and pretending they survived.
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This was the second of Leone's inventions
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which wasn't based
on the Kurosawa original.
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Inevitably, it's with coffins,
crosses, cemeteries,
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the iconography of death, with
which he appears to be obsessed.
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A lot of graveyards
appear in Leone's Westerns.
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It's interesting that they're using these
bodies as if they were puppets, or decoys,
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because Leone claimed that
one of the inspirations for his Westerns,
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particularly Fistful of Dollars,
was puppet theatre.
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Particularly the Sicilian puppets
called the Pupi Siciliani,
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rather like Punch and Judy in England, or
other puppet traditions all over the world.
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They were large, metal puppets
which were operated by rods from above,
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which enacted stories from
the middle ages. The Song of Roland.
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Orlando and his magic steed
and his magic spear and his sidekick,
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who would fight the Moors
in a re-enactment of medieval battles.
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Puppeteers would go round Sicily,
perform these stories,
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but adapt them to the locality.
:34:45
They'd find out who's the local mayor,
the chemist, the bank manager,
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and those characters would appear
in this traditional mythological setting.
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And Leone said when he made his first
Western, he was doing exactly the same.