Quentin Tarantino on A Fistful of Dollars

[@sh987]

When I was a kid, my parents bought me a table-top record player and told me they would take me to the store to get a record. The very first album I bought was the soundtrack for a Fistful of Dollars and wore out both my parent's patience and the needle playing it over and over again.

[@raywalsh9152]

I don't know you. But I love you.

[@haroldbirge6881]

The man the myth the legend

[@honuman39]

Ok so NOW I understand why A Fistful Of Dollars is so iconic. Leave it to Tarantino to explain it.

[@williamhurt8512]

if you had been around to see it when it apeared, long after the genra went stale, you would know what sensational shock value it put on everyone's head...............................

[@CoconutsGlow]

This was a great audio clip! The QT ones work so well. Really enjoy Bill Hader ones too

[@paulorlando5877]

Love the beginning and final act,middle part drags a little, imo,but it is an iconic film.

[@Diwasho]

The dollars trilogy coincided with abolishment of the Hays Code which opened the floodgates for filmmakers to actually make good movies without strict regulation restraints. 1965-1979 was the peak era for cinema.

[@gandalfthebraindoc2618]

Great movie. Great commentary

[@alexchernandez88]

Bill Burr on the brothers Karamazov?

[@zerodreaming]

A little off topic but how has there not yet been any good snippets of QT talking about 80s John Carpenter masterpiece Big Trouble in Little China?

[@gsf4lyfe-f6b]

Leone obviously made an incredible, canonical film, but there's a huge debt owed to Akira Kurosawa. Without Yojimbo A Fistful of Dollars wouldn't exist.

[@jpk9902]

And Kurosawa also owes a lot to John Ford's westerns like The Searchers and Stagecoach

[@TheNwahDango]

And it's important to note, it's not like Leone got permission to turn Kurosawa's story into a western. They simply thought they could get away with it at the time, and got sued for it. From Wikipedia: Kurosawa wrote to Leone directly, saying, "Signor Leone, I have just had the chance to see your film. It is a very fine film, but it is _my_ film. Since Japan is a signatory of the Berne Convention on the international copyright, you must pay me."

[@NabberDog]

This makes it so wild to me that Tarantino doesn’t really like Kurosawa that much and calls his stuff “highbrow crap.”

[@csabaarthurdr.molnar8203]

​@@NabberDoghe said a lot of bullshit in his life

[@KClouisville]

@@TheNwahDango Did Kurosawa throw some cheese to the estate of Dashiell Hammett? Because Yojimbo sure seems to cop a lot of it's plot from his novel Red Harvest?

[@GfSavages]

Okay, you can argue about when the modern action film was incepted, but implying that westerns had never been "sexy" before is just ignoring why Western icons actors like John Wayne and Henry Fonda were able to make names for themselves in the 1930s. Not to mention actors like James Dean, Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando all were in Westerns before Fistful of Dollars was even made (Giant, Red River, One-Eyed Jacks). Tarantino is allowed to fanboy all he wants but it's frustrating to see him willfully rewriting cinematic history to fit his preferences, especially when he's an authoritative voice on film literacy.

[@Magooch86]

Well, opinions are like assholes eh?

[@raywalsh9152]

Perhaps it's as simple as Quentin found Eastwood particularly sexy? At the end of the day it's just his opinion. Yes ... he states it emphatically and with a great deal of confidence. But ... he's Quentin Fucking Tarantino. He's a confident madrefrakker. As he should be. I'd be willing to bet that if you brought enough powder, weed, and top shelf liquor, you could have a 25 hour conversation with Quentin about who you thought was the sexiest western cowboy. EDIT: Oh, and by the way ... that came with an upvote. Just simple banter. Doesn't always have to be a confrontation.

[@TheRealNormanBates]

@@Magooch86 Yeah! Everyone else's stink but mine! 😉

[@TheEpicvlas]

The directors cut is 130 min . All dvds, blurays are cut versions they run only 99,100 min .

[@paulorlando5877]

what Brando and Kazan did to film acting,Eastwood and Leone do with the Western

[@tylerthompson1842]

“Do you feel lucky, guy?”

[@barryweston4887]

Saw this at the Drive in ,Niagara Falls ,NY Musta been 8 yrs old

[@jasenweitekamp2036]

You're a very lucky person.

[@SymonSaysTV]

It helps to praise Clint Eastwood when he gave you, in hand, La Palme d’Or 30 years ago. But still, he’s right.

[@TheEpicvlas]

Tarantino has the directors cut

[@juanmanuelbaccino]

I feel so much guilt for not having seen many western and spaghetti western films. So much guilt. I feel like I'm in Alex De Large's room dancing with each other's arms.

[@196cupcake]

The final duel music for A Fistful of Dollars works better over the same scene in Yojimbo.

[@MC-bh8ph]

I'll add that to the list of re-edits that I'll never get around to doing

[@196cupcake]

@@MC-bh8ph it's already on youtube

[@miggy78]

@@196cupcake that’s what makes Fistful of Dollars so good. The director plays off what Akira started and did his own thing. It’s called evolution.

[@WalterBurton]

Yup.

[@paulorlando5877]

your telling me Gabby Hayes wasn't sexy,lol

[@TobyLee-uv7wb]

The best

[@tonym6566]

👏

[@charliebronson1274]

Quentin Tarantino on The Kentucky Fried Movie.

[@dannyboy5008]

I think he might like it

[@brianvail9212]

Quentin Tarantino on A Fistful Of Yen?

[@TheRealNormanBates]

"You wack.. consetwation. Twy again.. but with feewing." "We need you to raid Dr. Clan's hideout." "I am sorry, but my philosophy is one of peace and harmony." "Ah, but there will be 30, maybe 50 men to kill." _(Interest peaks)_

[@PhilospherDjPsychologist24]

I always. thought Clint eastwood looked. a lot like Hugh Jackman, i though that. Logan being like a western was a nod to that

[@miggy78]

If you look at the creators of Wolverine in the comics of the 60-70’s, when the Giant Size X-men #1 revamped the X-men in 1975. They took a character from the Hulk comics and accidentally drew his mask different. Which is the Wolverine mask became. But as far as the personality and look of Logan in the comics Frank Miller admitted he modeled some of his Wolverine traits from Clint East wood.

[@PhilospherDjPsychologist24]

@@miggy78 Cool , funny if they thought of that

[@deakensomoza3305]

Quentin Tarantino on The Iron Giant?

[@TheRealNormanBates]

Yeah.. let's not talk about Errol Flynn, John Wayne or Humphrey Bogart, among others (oh yeah, Kirk Douglas). I like Quentin overall but damn, he can really get up his own ass sometimes.

[@fransbuijs808]

Errol Flynn was sexy as a pirate or as Robin Hood. Bogart as a detective. John Wayne was just a tough guy.

[@WalterBurton]

👍👍👍

[@postmodernrecycler]

QT amped extra hard on the Adderall here.

[@fransbuijs808]

And Sergio Leone made westerns sexy without having women in them.

[@CoolCoyote]

yeah I feel sorry for non gen Xers who wouldnt have a bloody clue what a proper movie is, let alone music itself. only thing thats come close is there will be blood.

[@robstehlik3037]

For A Few Dollars More was a better movie

[@MrBernad09]

Million per cent dude

[@thermonuclearcollider4418]

0:20 "Per un pugno di dollari" ("A fistful of dollars") was not the first "spaghetti western". By the time it was made, the genre was already a staple of the Italian film industry. That's actually why the movie was made: the producers wanted Leone to make them another western on the cheap while the genre was still popular.

[@Jummy-qj3hl]

They ( The Italian's) did not refer to their own films as Spaghetti Westerns they actually took offense to the moniker. It wasn't until the Italian Western's were introduced in America that a critic gave the films that nickname)

[@thermonuclearcollider4418]

@@Jummy-qj3hl I am Italian myself (the real deal, not some American guy whose great-grandfathet emigrated 100 years ago): I can assure you “spaghetti western” quickly became a commonly used term over here. Also, the term originated in Spain.

[@fransbuijs808]

​@@thermonuclearcollider4418 Leone himself didn't like the term.

[@samiam7342]

fistful is a million times better than the good the bad and the ugly............

[@Alexander-tj2dn]

No, the latter is better.

[@symphysis]

Why would you even bother with Fistful of Dollars when you could just go and watch Yojimbo?

[@ifandwhen-kl2cr]

And why bother with Empire Strikes Back when Dersu Uzala exists?

[@bagggers9796]

@@ifandwhen-kl2cr ...? Because Empire Strikes Back is an original work and not a shot-for-shot remake of Dersu Uzala. Dollars is a blatant, beat-for-beat unofficial remake (rip-off) of Yojimbo.

[@ifandwhen-kl2cr]

@@bagggers9796 “do or do not, there is no try”

[@coolgentlemanfromUSA]

Gaaaaaaaay!