"The opening – a medium shot on the back of Django’s head as he walks away from camera – is the opening shot of Yojimbo. And the ending could be Fistful of Dollars, or A Pistol for Ringo, or Return of Ringo, or any of the Spaghetti Westerns in which the hero’s gun-hand is injured. Except that this is Django, and while the idea may be the same, Corbucci takes it to some weirder, crueller level of Surrealist violence; amplifies the sacrificial religious symbolism of the hero-with-damaged-hands by staging the showdown in a cemetery; and, in case we still don’t get the joke, naming his lead character after the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, famous as a brilliant musician despite a serious deformity of one hand."
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Alex Cox, 10,000 Ways to Die: A Director’s Take on the Spaghetti Western; Oldcastle Books, 2009.
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