did he die?


did joe die at the end? he was gasping and you could tell hed been shot but he sent his horse without him why didn't he ride there and collect his money?

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I believe Corbucci wanted his audience to infer that Joe passed on...but did it in a very interesting and visual way.

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I'm not so sure that Joe was dead. It seems very left open to me, and in fact might be saying that he is healing up from his wounds.

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When the horse comes into town with the bags of money, it gets turned around and sent back to Joe with the idea given the Joe is going to need it still. It seems to me that he is just too wounded to go himself. Though it could be that there is some sort of symbolism intended in the final shot of the horse galloping off back to him and that he would soon die of his wounds or something, its all very murky. I think the main thing that can be inferred from the film is that Joe did what he said he would do, and one way or another, moved on afterwards.
----End spoiler----

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"He's dead, Jim."

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I tend to agree, he died. It looked to me like one of the shots he took was in the stomach. Not likely he survived that.

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It's all speculation. You can't say he died or lived. You can think what could have happened,but you can't say you know what happened.And yes, you can get shot in the stomach and live. Of course you need to stop the bleeding and get medical attention which Joe could have done himself.

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The filmmakers left it open because if the movie was a hit like Eastwood's trilogy they'd obviously need Navajo Joe for the sequels. I believed he was able to stop the bleeding and obtain the Native medicine he needed to survive. He obviously didn't ride his horse into town with the money because horse-riding isn't conducive to healing serious wounds.


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