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Gian Maria's Volonté's voice
was dubbed by someone else.
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He didn't speak English at all,
and it was dubbed in the dubbing studio.
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In For A Few Dollars More,
he had to use his voice,
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so he had to learn it phonetically
and speak English on the soundtrack.
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Here's the famous beating-up sequence.
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The stranger seems invulnerable,
he seems entirely on top of the situation,
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but he's made a mistake
and he's gonna pay.
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In most Italian Westerns, and indeed
in most subsequent Clint Eastwood films,
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you get a scene where
he gets very thoroughly beaten up,
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and then resurrects in order to
get his own back in the final reel.
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But this was taking it
several steps further than Hollywood.
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The gleeful laughing of the boys as they
punch him around. It's pure sadism.
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Hurting him because they enjoy it,
not just because they want to hurt him.
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Stubbing out the cigar
on his hand, that was missing
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from most prints in the 1960s
cos it was thought too strong.
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Pouring tequila onto his wounds.
That was also cut by the British censor.
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And it does go on for a very long time.
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Like a Marlon Brando style
beating-up, in On The Waterfront.
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That urban violence rather than
the traditional punch-up of the Western,
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where you break a chair over someone's
head, laugh, and John Wayne goes home.