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...police chief ... In other words, the archaic drama becomes topical. That's what I've always tried to do.
Leone spots archetypes, as is shown by his remark, "Homer wrote the best westerns". When he saw an early Kurosawa film, in which Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest was transposed to the samurai era, Leone found parallels with Carlo Goldoni's play Harlequin, Servant of Two Masters and transposed it in turn to a western made in Spain. That almost completed the circumnavigation of the globe. He adapted the archetypal, updated the archaic, and transposed geography.
He did not try to portray contemporary Italy, he said, because "it's provincial whereas in America there's the whole world". Where Leone lives, between the walled city and the seafront, Rome could be part of America. Mussolini built there a futuristic city for what was to have been the 1942 World's Fair. The glass box buildings of banks, oil companies and airline offices which are excluded from central Rome here overshadow Fascist architecture which recalls the classic edifices in some De Chirico paintings. The residential zone consists of villas set in broad streets with lush vegetation: it is spacy suburbia, Anglo-Saxon style, which most Roman flat-dwellers see mainly in films.
Leone means lion. His house, at the end of a...
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