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