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Admittedly, Joe the stranger
feels rather guilty about what he's done,
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but it's a surprise moment
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that is rather unpleasant
in its sexual implications.
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Lots of hoof noises and whinnying as the
horses arrive, superimposed afterwards.
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Most of the actors would have spoken
their own language on the set.
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The German actors spoke German,
the Spanish actors spoke Spanish,
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the Italians spoke Italian,
and Eastwood spoke American.
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Sometimes you get a kind of pause for
a second or two in moments of dialogue,
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as people register what the other's saying.
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Then they went into the dubbing studio
and recorded different languages.
:46:58
Leone himself hardly spoke English at all.
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He just had one phrase, "Watch me."
:47:04
So what he would do is he would stand on
the set in a cowboy hat with thick glasses,
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wearing a pair of toy guns,
looking a bit like Yosemite Sam.
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"Watch me, Clint." And he'd act out
what he wanted the characters to do.
:47:17
So his direction was all done
at the level of mime.
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The assistant director reminisced to me
:47:25
that he thought one of the distinctive
Italian features of this movie
:47:29
is that in doing the mime, Leone would
turn the character into a Roman character.
:47:35
That actually
in performing it for the actors,
:47:38
the Western hero
became this Roman trickster.
:47:41
This Harlequin figure from Italian culture,
:47:44
a very strong figure within
Italian theatrical traditions.
:47:49
It was the miming, "Watch me, Clint",
:47:51
that created, partly, the character of
the man with no name, Joe the stranger.
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Partly that, and partly the fact
that when Eastwood arrived in Spain,