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Eastwood, who was a refugee
from the TV series Rawhide
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when he went over for the summer to
shoot in Spain and Italy, came for $15,000.
:13:11
So, Don Miguel, I do work cheap.
:13:25
This is the first classic Mexican
face-off in Leone's Westerns,
:13:30
where the lone stranger
has this sharp, hip dialogue,
:13:35
and the baddies are much more abusive
than they are in American Westerns.
:13:39
And the tension builds up.
:13:41
In a Hollywood movie of the time,
this would take ten seconds.
:13:45
Stranger would stand there,
pull his gun, there'd be a fight.
:13:48
This is heightened into a form of rhetoric.
:13:51
It's the first example of Leone taking a
classic situation from a Hollywood movie,
:13:56
pumping it up,
:13:58
and making it into something
a bit more exciting for '60s audiences.
:14:02
They feel they've seen it before,
but never quite like this.
:14:05
There's gonna be violence,
but how much of it?
:14:57
Five shots, four people fall down.
:14:59
The ratio is rather greater than
in Hollywood Westerns of the time,