Did any else find the urinal scene very bizzare?
I mean the engineer is trying to take a leak and Nobody stand right across him and stares at him for a good 3 min, not saying anything!! Then Nobody starts to whistle a note! And again! This has to rank up there with the more bizzare and hilarious scenes in cimenatic history.
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you bet it's hilarious especially when the engineer produces a massively loud and wet fart as he leaves the lavatory.
shareWell apparenlty while producing the film Leone realized that this might have become a very good western indeed (as good as the ones he personally directed!)... and "forced" Valerii to film some silly scenes like the circus-fight and the pee scene. I found the pee scene still ok; but absolutely hated the circus fight-scene.
The engineer can't urinate due to prostrate troubles. Nobody helps him relax so that he can steal the train while the engineer is busy passing water.
I heard you can make horses urinate by whistling. Maybe it also works with train engineers ...
i thought it was odd that Nobody came riding up fast, dismounted, and burst into the bathroom as if he himself had to urinate badly. but the next scene has him calmly leaning up against the wall with the doors swinging as if he had just entered. the engineer didn't seem to notice how abruptly Nobody entered though. in fact, he seemed to be surpised that Nobody appeared in the room as if from nowhere. did i miss something here?
sharePutting together some of the other answers, Nobody arrives to steal the train (he has already planned this, remember, to coincide with the wild bunch arriving). He rushes inside to delay the driver because he has only just made it in time. The whistling probably does help the engineer to relax, as he seems to have prostate trouble (that was also my first impression). While peeing Nobody steals the train.
On the homoeroticism, personally i think it is just a bit of 'earthy Italian humour' more than anything else. I have to say we cracked up watching it for the whole credits. One of the funniest endings I have ever seen.
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He HAD to stick the finger in the guy's behind, because if he tried that trick without a real gun and stuck his finger up front anywhere, the barber just would have to look down and see he was being fooled. Any homoeroticism in Hill's movies is just wishful thinking with some viewers, I think.
Not that Hill wasn't good looking, but let's not put stuff into the movies that aren't there.
I wanted to agree with your interpretation of the "finger". Nobody is the new generation, which is not as honored as Jack Beauregard, and he makes use of fun to get what he wants, with his clever way of doing things.
This movie would surely be a non-comedy classic. The music is simply amazing.
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I don't think that the engineer had any health problems but rather that he couldn't do his business because Nobody was staring at him.
so Nobody is arriving at the station, sees the engineer entering the urinal and he quickly follows him. he then stares at the engineer ) so that he couln't do his business ) long enough for the train to be un/loaded.
now if there is anybody of you who doesn't comprehend my interpretation just try to take a leak when a total stranger is staring in your face ...
I don't think that the engineer had any health problems but rather that he couldn't do his business because Nobody was staring at him.
As said by others, Nobody wants to commandeer the train.
As his character has been comic and "alternative" over the movie, he engineers another trick to steal the train, without reverting to violence (that against an army platoon might not be wise).
So he enters the restroom, and STARES at the engineer for minutes, to cause him a complete urinal block (ever tried to urinate with an armed stranger staring at you? ;-) then, when the discomfort reached its peak (and we see it from the funnier and funnier smirks of the engineer), Nobody helps him by whistling. It's true, many noises such as water falling, or also hissing and whistling help urinating: for example it was a common practice for people suffering from kidney or prosthatic failures to leave their taps slightly opened, continuously "hissing" at home - at least, before the introduction of these horrible but effective electrically powered "pocket" fountains.
That said, Nobody manages to distract the engineer long enough to steal the train.
These were, of course, my 2 cents.
The whole scene was inspired by the plays of Samuel Beckett, whose characters frequently have trouble urinating.
shareYou're on the right track, matcort... Nobody knew how to manipulate the engineer's flow.
This trick works for me: In the pisser, when things just won't flow, just think about Niagara Falls. A trickling faucet works, too. # : ^ d
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