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the cultural atmosphere,
and the originality, is very different.
1:13:06
It's more to do
with Leone and Italian cinema
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than with Japanese,
but that was too subtle an argument.
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Of course, they should
have cleared the rights.
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Some claimed they'd written,
some claimed they didn't.
1:13:19
Some claimed they hadn't got
the money and thought they'd risk it.
1:13:22
Whichever way, Kurosawa did very,
very well out of Fistful of Dollars.
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Lots of sadistic laughter. That's what
baddies do in Leone's Westerns.
1:13:53
Again, not something they would
tend to do in the Hollywood equivalent,
1:13:58
where baddies were very colourful.
1:14:00
A lot of the baddies
in Leone's films were based
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on the colourful villains in the cycle of
films made in the '50s by Budd Boetticher,
1:14:10
the so-called Renown cycle
with Randolph Scott as hero.
1:14:13
Very colourful villains played by Lee Van
Cleef, Richard Boone, James Coburn,
1:14:18
Pernell Roberts, and so on.
1:14:22
You have a taciturn hero who underplays
all the time, and doesn't say much,
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and an over-the-top villain
that talks a lot and is very colourful,
1:14:30
and lots and lots of detail, was something
Leone said he got from Budd Boetticher.
1:14:35
In Boetticher they didn't
laugh when they kicked people,
1:14:38
which is what they tend
to do in Leone's films.
1:14:55
Clint Eastwood has recalled that
when he was shooting these sequences
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where he's covered
in makeup from the beating-up