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he's managed to get within
range for a proper shootout.
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And Ramón hasn't lost his touch.
He shot all round the heart.
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High-pitched trill on the soundtrack,
lots of close-ups.
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Around the central fountain of San Miguel.
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And now it turns into pure theatre.
1:30:28
Real time is suspended,
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where this turns into
just a piece of cinematic rhetoric.
1:30:35
They just stand there staring at each
other, in time-honoured Leone fashion.
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Well, that's all of them down
except Ramón, with one go.
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Now the odds are even.
But Piripero's not sure.
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He's seen the stranger
do all these feats of marksmanship,
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but he's still not quite sure
he can win. The odds are stacked
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so heavily against him.
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But the choruses in the film, the coffin
maker, the bartender, and the bell-ringer,
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are the ones who survive.
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In fact, they're the only ones who survive.
"Let's see if the proverb is true."
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The stranger's been very clever,
because, of course,
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it takes a lot longer to load
a Winchester '73 than it does a Colt.45.
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So if they place
their weapons on the ground,
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he knows that he's going to win.
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The gun belt and the pistol grips
on the gun, which are metal snakes,
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had been borrowed from Rawhide.
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Eastwood brought them
to Spain as a good luck charm.
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And wore them throughout the trilogy
of films that Leone subsequently made.