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It's gonna be the end of the show, and out
we go from the cinema into the real world.
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The realism of the
American Western was different.
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It related to everyday life.
This is myth about myth.
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And the great Italian novelist,
Alberto Moravia,
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wrote about this.
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"There is no West in Italy,
no cowboys and bandits, no frontier,
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no gold mines or pioneers."
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"The Italian Western was born
not from memory,
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but from the instinct of filmmakers who
were in love with the American Western."
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The Hollywood Western
was born from a myth.
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The Italian one is born
from a myth about a myth.
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So this is a movie about the Western,
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transposed into an Italian
and Spanish cultural context.
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In one sense it's not a Western,
it's a super-Western. It's about a Western.
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And at the end of it, you're reminded
of its artificiality as we leave San Miguel.
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And as Morricone's
main title track takes over,
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Eastwood gets back on his mule,
a big man on a little animal,
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like Shane riding off into the hills,
like Young Mr Lincoln.
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Like Jesus riding into
Jerusalem on Palm Sunday.
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Off he goes on his mule
for the end of the show.
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Curtain down.
You could imagine this being in a theatre.
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No one's alive in San Miguel
except the chorus.
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