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but he's still not quite sure
he can win. The odds are stacked
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so heavily against him.
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But the choruses in the film, the coffin
maker, the bartender, and the bell-ringer,
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are the ones who survive.
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In fact, they're the only ones who survive.
"Let's see if the proverb is true."
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The stranger's been very clever,
because, of course,
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it takes a lot longer to load
a Winchester '73 than it does a Colt.45.
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So if they place
their weapons on the ground,
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he knows that he's going to win.
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The gun belt and the pistol grips
on the gun, which are metal snakes,
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had been borrowed from Rawhide.
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Eastwood brought them
to Spain as a good luck charm.
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And wore them throughout the trilogy
of films that Leone subsequently made.
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So we've got a Colt on the ground, and
we've got a Winchester on the ground.
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And we're in pure theatre. The puppet
show has become pure puppets.
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In American Westerns, there'd
be dialogue now. It's just sounds.
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And it is quicker to load a Colt. This is it.
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So extend time even more. Close-ups
of eyes, drums on the soundtrack.
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Not extended as much as it will be.
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This goes on for a reel
in subsequent Leone films.
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But the dilation of time,
the stretching of time at that moment.
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They're not talking to each other,
unlike Hollywood Westerns.
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It's just pure ritual, all the rituals
that precede the moment of death.
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The moment of death itself is... It's not
Sam Peckinpah, there's not lots of blood.
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But here's the camera
describing circular motions in the sky.
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And this will turn into the circular duel in
subsequent Leone films, set in a bullring.