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Van Cleef was truly sinister (:: puffs pipe :: "How's your digestion NOW, Tuco?") , and yet Eastwood's "Ain't No Thang" self-assurance sailed over even that.
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After Tuco had been beaten for the name on the grave, Clint enters the same horror shack...
"mmmm... You're not going to give me the same ... Treatment?" >:-|
"Would it work?"
:leisurely, stoically: "No ... probably not."
:: tosses him the gun ::
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Most of my friends make fun of the spaghetti westerns, but I honestly don't see why they aren't considered high literature. Eastwood imposed an iconic character onto the culture, a part of Americana. It's exactly that interplay between Van Cleef and Eastwood that endures.