:51:19
Very operatic. The music builds up.
:51:22
"Mama, Mama," says Jesus,
little Jesus as he rushes out.
:51:26
It's like a scene from an opera
of the 19th century in Italy.
:51:32
A Verdi opera.
:51:34
Someone called these Westerns:
:51:36
"An opera in which the arias
aren't sung, they're stared. "
:51:40
And that Leone had given a whole new
meaning to the phrase "horse opera".
:51:46
It's an odd combination of realism in
the foreground, with these grungy faces,
:51:51
and operatic quality in the background.
:51:54
A mixture of cinematic grammar creating
this opera, and very grungy foreground.
:51:58
You don't believe fairy tales
unless they look real.
:52:01
Leone said, "I don't like
Disney fairy tales or movies. "
:52:05
"They're too clean. I don't believe them. "
:52:08
You've got to have grunge,
but it's still a fairy tale.
:52:11
A fairy tale for grown-ups.
:52:13
Welcome home by slapping the boy.
:52:17
That's not something that
happened in Hollywood Westerns.
:52:50
In the morality of Leone's Westerns,
:52:54
you can often tell who the real baddies are
by the way they treat children.
:52:59
Everyone's pretty bad,
and some are worse than others,