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The Passion: a Western
Bruce McAllister

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тАЬThis story, whatever its virtues and vices, has been thirty years in the
makingтАФbeginning with a tropical-storm, lightning-strike bus accident in Mexico in
l974. In the 80тАЩs the story went through a number of incarnationsтАФall of them
bloodyтАФbut not until Mel GibsonтАЩs movie appeared did the blood finally make
sense. IтАЩm grateful to Mel, and hope that ClintтАФwhom I do admireтАФwill forgive
me.тАЭ

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CLINT STARES OUT THE WINDOW at a town of red dust and adobe. HeтАЩs
seventy-five years old, for GodтАЩs sake, and hasnтАЩt made a western in years, but itтАЩs
a western. HeтАЩs youngerтАФhe can feel it in his bonesтАФand though he canтАЩt see
LeoneтАЩs bright blue chair or hear MorriconeтАЩs score, itтАЩs a western. ItтАЩs got to be.

This is Mantos, a voice says suddenly. ItтАЩs the script, of course. They never
used voice-over in films like this.

ItтАЩs a quaint but somehow disturbing town, the voice adds. How pretentious.
ItтАЩs got to be SergioтАЩs. Who else would write like this?

HeтАЩs waiting for someone. He can feel it. TheyтАЩre in this town on a mission.
The script doesnтАЩt have to tell him. But what mission?

HeтАЩll have to wait for clarificationтАФand his partner. Is it Paul? Bob? Hank?
Lee? John? Someone new? He squintsтАФitтАЩs one of his trademarksтАФbut he canтАЩt
remember.

He keeps staring through the broken glass, not knowing what else to do.

We alternate between his eyes and what he sees. The alternation has
meaning.

What meaning? What the hell is the script talking about?

Figures in loose white garments cross and re-cross the street, like dogs in a
John Ford flick, and he knows this pattern should probably mean something, too,
but what?

What would Sergio want it to mean?
 The figures disappear, and now, behind his eyes, in their place, float immense
white flowers like the dogwood blossoms of his own countryтАЩs capital, so far away
now.