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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.
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We've been told Eastwood
doesn't stand a chance,
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we know the Rojos are well-armed,
there are several of them.
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So what's going to happen?
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The first of Leone's big duels.
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And the duel in
the Western was a linear thing,
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people walk towards
each other on the street.
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Like at the end of Stagecoach with the
Plummer brothers, or like in High Noon.
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But this is a completely different setup.
First, the entrance.
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The explosive music of the "Deguello"
theme played at full whack,
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trumpet with the volume turned up.
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The rhetoric of it, you get close-ups
of their boots to tell you who they are.
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That's all you need to know.
Eastwood wears brown boots,
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the Rojos wear black leather boots.
That's all you need to know.
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There's no inner personality,
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no psychology to these people.
You are what you wear.
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But the way the camera presents this final
shootout is almost circular, as we'll see.
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A circle constructed
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of close-ups of the Rojos, but also circles
created in the sky, as Ramón dies.