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In Reply to: RE: Get dictionary, look up, "ironic." nt posted by jamesgarvin on January 4, 2008 at 09:15:23:
Irony: Eastwood is the hero yet he is as evil, as murderous, as criminal as many of the "villains."
Eastwood, and by extention, Leone knows that good vs. evil is not absolute, as had been the common, much-lauded principle of the heavily praised, typical Western.
So we have both story and protagonist aware that the "truth" actually is not so.
All of this, of course, hardly is a shock to anyone with some film knowledge. Leone merely was creating a noir-ish lead in his Westerns.
If one wishes to see realism, Huston is the one to which to turn.
"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" was groundbreaking long before Eastwood was beginning his "Rawhide" years.
Leone's films are almost cartoonish. One man shooting down half a dozen experienced gunmen? Many times?
Leone was having fun and it would probably exasperate him to be so misunderstood.
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