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Leone said, "I don't like
Disney fairy tales or movies."
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"They're too clean. I don't believe them."
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You've got to have grunge,
but it's still a fairy tale.
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A fairy tale for grown-ups.
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Welcome home by slapping the boy.
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That's not something that
happened in Hollywood Westerns.
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In the morality of Leone's Westerns,
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you can often tell who the real baddies are
by the way they treat children.
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Everyone's pretty bad,
and some are worse than others,
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but the real baddies
tend to threaten children,
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or in the case of For A Few Dollars More
actually shoot a child.
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That's the signal
that this guy is really bad.
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So he's upped the ante
on the morality stakes,
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and this is the moment where
Marisol, Mary, the Virgin Mary,
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looks at the stranger.
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She wants to be protected.
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The setup of them is like a painting of the
Holy Family, in the middle of the street,
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which was quite deliberate, just as the
Last Supper will come a little bit later on.
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You could argue that most Hollywood
Westerns were, in fact, Protestant,
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and Socially Darwinist
in their attitude towards the West.
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That you do get references to the
Holy Family, particularly in Shane,
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a model of Fistful of Dollars.
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Marian and little Joey
in their log cabin in the wilderness,