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"I've ALWAYS BEEN fascinated," says Sergio by Sicilian puppeteers. Their puppets act out the drama of Orlando and other knights fighting the Muslims. But because the puppeteer know the village where he presents his show, he gives the puppets the characteristics of the mayor, the chemist, the 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 ...
Source: HighBeam Research, The Leone ranger.(Sergio Leone )(Biography)