I can't even fathom a television edit... Especially considering all of the sexual content.
I have no problem with the four-hour DVD cut though. It makes for one hell of a great film. But if Leone wanted a 6-8 hour two-parter, that's what I want to see. It just blows my mind that (assuming the DVD commentary is correct) he shot 10 hours of footage, not including multiple takes and such.
"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."
