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• I guess I prefer the euro version - k-k-k-kenny 15:28:44 01/02/08 (1)
  In Reply to: RE: What a cracking bunch of films they are posted by Tom Brennan on January 02, 2008 at 09:30:55

  As I imply below, one of the things I most enjoy about Leone is that his plots don't drive along fast - lots of individual elements in his films appear a bit purposeless, or could have been done more economically.
  
  I doubt that any US film maker could have persuaded anyone to finance such things, even had they wanted to make it.
  
  Good bad & ugly, especially, wanders all over the place, and to good, no - mighty, effect, I reckon.
  
  Which ain't to say in the least that Hollywood can't make westerns. But I do think that Leone brought them something extra.
  
  If I am not mistaken, Leone has not been taken very seriously as a film maker in the States. It's different here in Oz.
  
  

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  • "... Leone brought them something extra." - Agreed. - mpathus 17:24:02 01/02/08 (0)
    In Reply to: RE: I guess I prefer the euro version posted by k-k-k-kenny on January 02, 2008 at 15:28:44

    I could imagine some of Leone's scenes coming from episodes from WW2 in Italy or from the folklore of small villages, etc. -- stories of worldly relevance that tend to romanticize and embrace life, and that communicate a universal truth even if framed in a demi-past.
    
    His works do honor the scenery and lure of a legendary West, as I don't think it was his desire to do documentary.
    
    Eli Wallach's "Tuco" (G.B&U.) is amazing.
    
    -Greetings from the States
    
    

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