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"In a week, you'll be back in shape."
It would take about three months.
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And there's still more to come.
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And at this moment, Chico the thug,
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played by Mario Brega,
brings his heel down on Eastwood's hand.
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Only it's his left hand,
so Chico isn't bright enough
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to bring his heel down
on Eastwood's gun hand.
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Instead, he does this to his left hand,
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which isn't going to affect his gunfighting
abilities. Chico ain't that bright.
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In Leone's cinema, there's
a lot of sequences involving torture
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and, "Will someone talk,
will someone betray?"
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Leone reckoned that
his obsession with that kind of setup,
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the Eli Wallach scene in
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,
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the Doctor Villega scene in Giù La Testa,
A Fistful of Dynamite, Duck You Sucker,
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someone being punished,
and will they betray?
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This is a folk memory in Leone's mind
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of what happened in the 1940s
in Rome, when the Nazis occupied,
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when a lot of people did business with the
Nazis and some went into the Resistance.
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This issue of, "Did you talk? Were you
tortured? Did you give away secrets?"
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was an important part of Italian culture.
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That's Chico out of the way,
with a barrel, full one, into his body.
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So the stranger hasn't talked,
and his only option is to get away.
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But there's a lot of Italian history in these
films, in particular recent Italian history,
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of those that fought in the resistance
against the Nazis, those who collaborated.
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Those who had some things they might
be ashamed of in the Second World War,
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and those who were treated
as heroes after.