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where you'd expect a one-on-one duel.
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The scene is almost directly
from Kurosawa's Yojimbo,
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but with a completely
different atmosphere.
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There's an element of parody, taking
hallowed moments of the Western
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and turning them into something else,
whereas in Yojimbo
:15:20
the face-offs have a more informal,
historical quality.
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And the hero in Yojimbo
was a well-known hero, Sanjuro,
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who'd appeared in other films,
so Toshirô Mifune, the character,
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brought that with him. Whereas
this stranger we know nothing about.
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We never learn anything
about his background.
:15:39
He's come from nowhere, he's going
nowhere, he goes round shooting people.
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"My mistake. Four coffins."
In Kurosawa it's three.
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There's a bit of inflation.
Typical Leone gag.
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A rather macabre gag,
involving the coffin maker.
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The town is deserted.
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In other Westerns which use this set,
and there were plenty,
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the town is teeming with life,
with marketplaces and wagons.
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Leone simply couldn't afford, on the
budget from his three coproducers,
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to have extras.
:16:15
Basically, it's the principals and
that's it, except for a couple of scenes.
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Some of the interiors
of the film were shot in Rome,
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and some of them
were shot at a Spanish museum
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which was called the Casa de Campo,
which is a museum of rural life in Madrid,