"Duck, You Sucker" aka

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 18 10:41:10 CDT 2008


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fistful_of_Dynamite#Plot_summary

Arguably, A Fistful of Dynamite contains more social commentary than any other Leone film. The film opens with a quote from Mao Zedong about the nature of revolutions and class struggle.[1] Throughout the course of the film Leone delves deep into the class differences that shaped Mexico during its bloody revolution. The main villain, Gunter Ruiz (Antoine Saint-John), is presented as a Nazi-like tank commander, complete with an armored car. Throughout the movie there are numerous scenes of execution of revolutionaries by Mexican Federales. These touches were intended by Leone - who grew up in Benito Mussolini's Italy during World War II - to represent a parallel with fascism. The movie was also, despite Leone's left-wing sympathies, meant as a sort of criticism of other left-wing "revolutionary" film makers such as Jean-Luc Godard and the recent spate of so-called "Zapata Westerns" which had predominated in the Spaghetti Western genre. For this, the film
 suffered a great many edits and cuts. To date, many versions of the film have been released, each one offering previously unseen material.

I will go out of my way to seeit as soon as I can.Wish I already had.


      



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