I know he was a criminal and perhaps deserved to be punished with death by Mortimer, but if Mortimer's sister was just some woman who he wanted to rape, why did he keep that picture of her? We learn from flashbacks he obviously cared about her, and was disturbed when she committed suicide. I like how he was more of a complex character with more character development, not just blanket evil as in many similar movies.
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Yes, he was a complex character and very tortured by his past deeds. But even his guilt feelings about the past didn't keep him from subsequently killing many others in cold blood. He actually had far more of a chance to save his own life at the end than what he afforded his many victims.
Sorry for him? Not at all. And Volunte was brilliant in his portrayal by the way.
ProudTraitor, you are kidding, right? I thought Indio was one the most despicable villains of all times and actually got off very lightly in the end with a quick bullet. He may have been tortured by his past deeds (that's why he was smoking whatever he was smoking), but I sincerely doubt he felt any real remorse over his crimes at all. He killed whoever was in his way, including little children.
As for "caring" about her, he had an odd way of showing that by raping her and shooting her husband in front of her eyes.
BTW, we don't really learn from flashbacks he cared about her or knew her in any way, only that her suicide somehow disturbed him, because he did not see that coming.
Seriously, pity is misplaced in this case.
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You could say he got off lightly with a quick bullet but at the same time he did kind of suffer when you think about it.From the moment Manco arrives on the scene to "referee" the duel between him and Mortimer,Indio knows he is going to die.You can see the panic and fear in his eyes.It's a no win situation.Even if he kills Mortimer he knows Manco will blow him away.So he's just basically stood there for a couple of minutes fearing death.Sweet revenge IMO.
I must admit though like others have said he's far more complex than the typical western villian.Kudos to the writers for that.
This is a guy who changes from child-like to sinister to psychotic to maniac at the drop of an hat.He massacres guards at a prison and leaves one alive so that he can tell others what he's done,kills his cell mate for fun,has a woman and child killed,shoots at dead bodies,turns on his own men through greed even killing one of his own and smokes weed all the time to because he may or may not be tortured from raping a woman that he may or may not have loved.He makes Angel Eyes from Good/Bad/Ugly look like someone you'd have around for dinner.
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Yeah, if the cell mate would have been recaptured and told them that he told El Indio about the bank in El Paso the gig would have been up pretty quick.
shareHe makes Angel Eyes from Good/Bad/Ugly look like someone you'd have around for dinner.
He keeps the picture of her to remind himself that he is a true monster. That girl had a gun, she could have killed him right then and there, but she chose to kill herself while she was being raped by him. She didn't even kill him, why didn't she kill him? These were some of the fascinations that Indio had with the girl, and the reason that he obsesses over her.
shareThat's an interesting hypothesis. Another hypothesis, on the thread "A question about Indio and Mortimer's sister", is that Indio was basically a stalker who had his advances spurned.
shareEl Indio was a bandit, rapist, and murderer with neither conscience nor compassion. (One significant trait about a Sergio Leone primary villain is that he's always a child-killer.) But that standout thing about Indio is that the guy is impaired for the rest of his life by remembering that while he carelessly left his own handgun within reach of a woman as he raped her, she chose to kill herself rather than him. (Which she clearly could have done.)
Think of how we see his body stiffen at the sound of the gunshot. Afterward, Indio fetishizes the stolen musical pocket watch (a wedding gift from his victim's brother, Colonel Mortimer) by opening it and listening to its tune before ritual gun duels, and getting high immediately after. From Volonte's performance, however, we also understand that Indio can smoke himself into a stupor but never got past the sense of utter contempt/rejection of himself sexually from that victim's suicide.
Indio was an evil character. But while I'm not exactly sorry for him (and certainly don't condone rape or murder), I do feel a sense of loss at the end of the film at seeing this particular monster come to justice. Leone made us feel what that villain felt; and there can be compassion in comprehension.
Most great films deserve a more appreciative audience than they get.
Ah yeah he cared for her that more than makes up for the rape. Total redemption.
shareAre...are you serious? Feeling sorry for a baby-killing rapist? Nah, I'm good.
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