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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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is in fact not based on Yojimbo,
but it's loosely based on passages
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in Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest,
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a detective novel written
about the Continental Operative,
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who was a private investigator, which has
a very similar story to Fistful of Dollars,
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and Yojimbo,
and The Servant of Two Masters.
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That whole idea of two clans fighting,
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and someone sets them
against each other.
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But the detective element
of this part of the movie
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has a kind of Dashiell
Hammett feeling to it.
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Leone claimed he'd brought
Hammett together with Yojimbo,
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and taken the Japanese story home again,
when he adapted it into Fistful of Dollars.
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Eastwood is about to try
and find where the gold is hidden,
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and he does it not by thoughtfulness.
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Sanjuro in Yojimbo is a very thoughtful
character, who sits back and reflects a lot.
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The Eastwood character doesn't do that.
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Action is character in this film.
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Nevertheless, he's trying to work
out where the gold must be buried,