A Fistfull Of Morality Facts

Just some thoughts. I have been reading the Sergio Leone book, Something About Death. by Christopher Frayling. In a passage Sergio talks about his motivation for the story of the GBU. We can see that he was thinking about GBU as a morality play as well. He comments on his characters and their personification of abstract ideas like goodness, badness and of course ugliness as is common in the average everyday morality play.

Leone says...I had always thought that the good, the bad and the violent did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me interesting to demystify these adjectives in the setting of a Western. An assasin can display a subline alurism while a good man can kill with total indifference. A person who appears to be ugly may, when we get to know him better, be more worthy than he seems and capable of tenderness. I had the old Roman song engraved in my memory, a song which seemed to me full of common sense.

E'morto un Cardinale (A Cardinal is dead,)
che ha fatto bene e male (who did good and bad things.)
Il mal l'ha fatto bene (The bad, he did well)
e il ben l'a fatto male. (and the good, he did badly.)

Interesting, don't you find? The making of a morality play, on film of course, if I every did see one. And using such a revered reference and some Italian even. Lends a bit of class and credence to my arguement that GBU is indeed what it appears, a spaghetti western morality play.

Ok, it is a stretch, but I have to try. Perhaps my ideas will become more clear and the connections made more profoundly as we process. I could of course use some help.

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