Long Live Your Death / Viva la muerte … tua! (Duccio Tessari, 1971)

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@Major Clyde

Comparing A Bullet for the General and Il mercenario, we see El Chuncho agreeing to the execution of Don Felipe for the crime of being wealthy.

But this scene is not a celebration of Don Felipe’s execution, it’s a rather dark scene that shows the revolutionary under a rather negative light. Don Felipe doesn’t seem like such a bad person (if I remember correctly), I think the viewer is supposed to feel some sympathy for him. Stanton made some very interesting remarks about the nuances in A Bullet for the General on the film’s thread :

@Stanton

A leftist film which shows the revolutionaries executing captives (which are only average soldiers), or which contains the complex scene with the weak landowner and his strong wife (and the shooting of Guapo) does not make itself too much illusions about the difference between ideas and what they become in reality. The only person in the film who really seems to believe in the revolution is a stupid fanatic (Kinski). Chuncho is a fool whose main interest is money and his moment of illumination is an emotional one not a rational one. We don’t get much information about the leader who seems to be a integer man, but in the few scenes we see him he is associated with a couch, which is a pretty decadent symbol in a western about an uprising of the starving peasants.

Hope he doesn’t mind I’m using his words to defend the film!