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1:20:12
Again, the hero is impassive.
1:20:14
You'd expect Randolph Scott,
or John Wayne, or Gary Cooper

1:20:18
to react to this massacre.
It's pointless.

1:20:21
And here comes Consuelo,
the matriarch of the clan coming out.

1:20:25
Surely they won't shoot her.
Even in the worst Western,

1:20:28
no one shot the heroine
or one of the lead female characters.

1:20:32
But this is an Italian Western.
1:20:50
A very elaborate Spanish
curse being cast at them.

1:20:54
And it's not in fact Ramón
that shoots her, it's his brother.

1:21:11
And Ramón looks at him,
a slightly enigmatic look.

1:21:13
Would he have done that?
1:21:16
Was the brother right to do that?
1:21:18
In any normal morality he wasn't right,
1:21:21
but in the strange morality of Leone's
film that's an interesting moment.

1:21:25
Ramón doesn't quite approve
of what his brother's done.

1:21:30
The view from the coffin as we go out.
The whole movie is a view from a coffin,

1:21:35
in a sense, this town of death, this town
of widows, of cemeteries and bell-ringers.

1:21:40
No priest, and a corrupt sheriff.
1:21:42
It's the view from the coffin.
1:21:45
And here's Eastwood in a mine shaft,
rehearsing his gun hand

1:21:49
for the final showdown.
1:21:56
With a piece of metal
that's been cut out of...


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