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It's interesting that they're using these
bodies as if they were puppets, or decoys,

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because Leone claimed that
one of the inspirations for his Westerns,

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particularly Fistful of Dollars,
was puppet theatre.

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Particularly the Sicilian puppets
called the Pupi Siciliani,

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rather like Punch and Judy in England, or
other puppet traditions all over the world.

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They were large, metal puppets
which were operated by rods from above,

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which enacted stories from
the middle ages. The Song of Roland.

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Orlando and his magic steed
and his magic spear and his sidekick,

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who would fight the Moors
in a re-enactment of medieval battles.

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Puppeteers would go round Sicily,
perform these stories,

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but adapt them to the locality.
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They'd find out who's the local mayor,
the chemist, the bank manager,

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and those characters would appear
in this traditional mythological setting.

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And Leone said when he made his first
Western, he was doing exactly the same.

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He took the Hollywood Western,
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and in the case of Fistful of Dollars,
two Westerns he was very fond of:

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Shane, with Alan Ladd, made by George
Stevens, and Edward Dmytryk's Warlock,

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a complicated Western
made in the 1950s with Henry Fonda.

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He was taking those two films, reworking
them in this Italian and Spanish context,

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and doing exactly
as the Sicilian puppeteers did.

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Take the puppet show, take the Western
as a given, adapt it to the local culture.

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And there are the two puppets sitting
there, lying against the gravestone.

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West German actor playing Baxter,
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conversing with Spanish actor
playing his wife Consuelo.

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And officials and sheriffs
and bank managers and bank tellers


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