"Duck, You Sucker" aka

[Henry]

For more from Leone on the railroad and its civilizing effects, ya also
gotta see the beautiful "Once Upon a Time in the West," one of my top 50
fave.

HENRY MU
Information, Media, and Technology Consultant

http://www.urdomain.us/scuffling.htm 


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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.