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But the other kind of family is factions, the
Rojos and the Baxters, which is a Mafia,

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a clan, a faction, the dark side of
family life - two visions of the family.

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Female characters, Leone's uneasy with.
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He doesn't really know how
to fit them in, so they're treated as...

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In the factions, as one of the boys.
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Basically, it's a kind of
adolescent view of sexuality,

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which you imagine was pitched
at the audiences in southern Italy,

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who had a low boredom threshold
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and talked unless something
happened every ten minutes.

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It's that kind of audience
that this film was pitched at.

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Hence there's action every ten minutes.
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Hence you keep the audience
on their toes all the time,

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assume the audience needs
to be entertained constantly.

:38:47
And I think the sexuality of the movie
makes that assumption as well.

:39:13
This was the museum
in Madrid, the courtyard.

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This museum of rural folkloric life
which was a ready-made.

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The crew went in and shot inside it.
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Other Italian Westerns
used the same location.

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Not too many stunt men around.
The budget couldn't run to it.

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The crosscutting between
the Rojos riding to the cemetery

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to see what's going on
with the two dead soldiers,

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and Eastwood doing a bit of detective
work back at the Rojo residence,


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