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I'm not sure who'll pay for all
the funerals, there's no one left to pay.
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But the coffin maker,
played by this music-hall star,
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is enjoying himself hugely with this.
He's going to get a lot of business.
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So Piripero has given him
some sticks of dynamite,
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and you might expect that
he's going to blow up the cantina,
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he's going to blow up the Rojo residence.
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He'll use the dynamite for some
tactical or aggressive purpose.
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He doesn't do any of those. He uses
the dynamite to give himself presence,
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to enhance his charisma
so that as he walks in,
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he's going to make one of the
great entrances in Western movies.
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By explosion, lots of dust,
the creation of dust in the sequence,
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which, according to Leone, was based
on John Ford's My Darling Clementine,
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where the shootout takes place in dust.
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Dust the stagecoach has whipped up,
dust from the desert.
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And the gunfight at the OK Corral in My
Darling Clementine is a very dusty ending.
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There's a dusty ending here, created
by dynamite. Very theatrical entrance.
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So the dynamite
is beefing up his charisma.
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They won't shoot him while he's walking,
because they're so in awe of this entrance
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that they're just gobsmacked.
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And out of the smoke and dust comes
Joe the stranger for the final shootout.
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What was the significance of that
metal plate he cut out and shot?
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We're going to discover that in a minute.
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Remember that the old Mexican
proverb says that a man with a.45
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meets a man with a rifle,
the man with the.45 is a dead man.