I felt like watching these again after Django, and they're still outstanding. Watch a film enough times (it's the same with reading books), and it can come to feel a bit like a museum piece - you become familiar with all of its parts, and the experience ceases to be as immediate as the first time(s) through, when all was discovery - and that's how it is with these, but they're still great nonetheless, imagery and music (once again, the perfection of the musical choices for the sword-making interlude, and how that whole section fits with the structure of the film as a whole, struck me) both.
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