A Fistful of Dollars (1964) | Movie Reaction | First Time Watching | Clint Eastwood is a Babe!

[@andrewcharles459]

The production companies were Italian, but almost all Spaghetti westerns were filmed in Spain.

[@lolmao500]

I was gonna say...

[@Gort-Marvin0Martian]

LOL I was about to say the same! Western?? As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.

[@nealabbott6520]

the cast and crew was tri-national. you said your lines in your language, either english, spanish, or italian

[@andrewcharles459]

Sergio Leone did film his magnum opus "Once Upon a Time in the West" in Monument Valley though. He was a massive fan of John Ford westerns and needed to get that off his personal bucket list. But even with Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, and Jason Robards, and being filmed in the US, it was still a spaghetti western. 🙂

[@Baiko]

Basically everyone included in the production were European, mostly Italian, the cast and the crew, apart from a couple of the biggest main stars

[@teksnotdead902]

“Get three coffins ready.” Is one of the most badass lines uttered in film.

[@andrewpetik2034]

'My mistake.....4 coffins... 🤪

[@ratatat9790]

Absolutely!

[@Hum0ng0us]

Yojimbo is such a great movie. Toshiro Mifune is an amazing force of nature as an actor.

[@marioarguello6989]

Sanjuro is better, in my opinion. Doesn't get enough love.

[@Hum0ng0us]

@@marioarguello6989 -- I'd agree.

[@NameOptional-p9u]

The mule scene is the best... "now I know you guys were just fooling around, but the mule...he just doesn't get it." lol

[@bsb1975]

The insult was the excuse. The real reason he killed them all was to showcase his talent as a gunfighter. Get a higher asking price that way.

[@dumbage]

“my mule don’t like you laughin”

[@theHardyMonster1984]

That gunfight at the beginning of the movie is so iconic. Westerns up until this point were very 2 dimensional. That camera angle being behind Clint's gun was a revolutionary technique. All props going to both Massimo Dallamano and Federico Larraya for creating that moment for the silver screen.

[@benjaminherrera493]

Spaghetti Westerns are my absolute favorites! Once upon a time in the west, Duck You Sucker! DJANGO, The Great Silence, Day Of Anger, My name is Nobody are some absolute greats! RIP Lee Van Cleef my favorite Western actor of all time

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

Spaghetti westerns are truly outstanding and redefined the western genre.

[@XDarkSyntaXOriginal]

"Yojimbo" was the samurai film this was based off of.

[@arikauraniemi9383]

Kurosawa does a lot better than this

[@Jake-love939]

As was *Last Man Standing* with _Bruce Willis_ .

[@DJBell1986]

The best one is “For a few dollars more”

[@PFitz-sh4ms]

I think “The Good . . .Bad . . .Ugly” is probably the best but “For a few dollars more” was always my favorite

[@YouHaventSeenMeRight]

One correction: the Man With No Name "Trilogy" was created by the US distribution company. The movies are technically not connected and Clint plays a different character in each movie (as do the other recurring actors). The US distributor just made it seem to be a trilogy for marketing purposes, as Clint basically plays the same archetype of the nameless drifter in all three movies. Technically Sergio Leone made two more Spaghetti Westerns, with "Duck, You Sucker!" and "Once Upon A Time In The West", but those don't star Clint Eastwood. Another Spaghetti Western that I can highly recommend is "My Name Is Nobody", which stars Henry Fonda as a older gunslinger who is looking for a way to retire and the young guy who is trying to make a name for himself, who keeps crossing his path (played by Terrence Hill, an Italian actor who would become most famous for the Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill movies that came later).

[@Kleehv]

All great movies.

[@bobschenkel7921]

The actress Marina Koch (Marisol), was actually German, because one of the financial backers was from Germany. That's how these movies got made.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

Good to know.

[@arnodobler1096]

However, Marianne Koch opted for a career as a doctor instead of Hollywood.

[@marioarguello6989]

@@arnodobler1096 Hollywood isn't in Spain, or Italy.

[@arnodobler1096]

@@marioarguello6989She had offers from Hollywood after the movie.

[@stevenmoules4955]

In a big Clint Eastwood fan...I own everyone of his movies on dvd!...Charles bronson is another favourite!

[@benpascall4297]

A number of them are out on 4k disc. It’s worth checking them out. DVD is such low resolution these days.

[@dbriddie9525]

Most of the filming was actually in Spain and America with some filming in Italy. Spaghetti is because they were Italian productions

[@paul1979uk2000]

Also, if I recall, they spoke a few languages, mostly English, Italian and Spanish, depending on the actor and I think it was shot with no sound and dubbed in post-production.

[@ConstantineFurman]

No filming in America for the Dollars movies. "Once Upon a Time in the West" and "My Name is Nobody" had some U.S. shooting.

[@GeorgeTropicana]

​@@ConstantineFurmanno one said this was filmed in America, they're talking about spaghetti westerns in general

[@ConstantineFurman]

@@GeorgeTropicana DBriddle9525 said "most of the filming was actually in Spain and America with some filming in Italy." That indicates they were talking about this film, "A Fistful of Dollars."

[@GeorgeTropicana]

@@ConstantineFurman no, it doesn't indicate that at all in the context of what they were responding to or not. Take a reading comprehension class, I hear they teach it to little children so you might have a chance at actually learning it (doubt it)

[@Curraghmore]

Yes it has already been said, but these were spaghetti westerns because the director and crew were Italian, but they were filmed in Spain.

[@kelleychilton2524]

That's already been said. 😂

[@cesarvidelac]

They are actually filmed in Spain, La Mancha, but the producers were Italian. La Mancha looks a lot like the typical western landscape.

[@Kickinthescience]

Clint Eastwood’s character was a breath of fresh air in the Cowboy genre

[@paul1979uk2000]

Yep, before this, it was all black and white as in good version bad and too clean-shaven where it felt like before the actors got on set, they've just had a shower and look too clean, which isn't the image we imagine the wild west to be, whereas Sergio Leone westerns felt more like the vision of what we imagine the wild west to be like.

[@TheCrazyCanuck420]

This might not be a popular opinion, but before Eastwood, westerns were boring.

[@valeria262]

A refreshing change that ended up becoming just as cliché

[@DLites151]

@@valeria262 Clint himself ended it with Unforgiven. That's total ownership of a genre.

[@valeria262]

@DLites151 well no cause it's a genre that existed before his time in a different form which he never really touched, the john Wayne style western. Definitely on the mt Rushmore tho

[@charleshays5407]

Mario Brega, who played Chico, appeared in all three movies of the trilogy, as different characters.

[@h91rex100]

For a few dollars more has always been my favorite of the trilogy. Mortimer is such a badass

[@nathanreeves9408]

Yeah, I agree. I think It's the best of the three, though the good the bad and the ugly is still great fun!

[@valeria262]

Can I ask why? Always found it the weakest of the bunch but would like to hear your opinion

[@dangiambrone7350]

All 3 are some of the best and most atmospheric films of all time, by yes, FAFDM is the most focused, has the coolest scenes, is the most stylish (it could so easily be an anime), has the best villain, and like you said, Lee Van Cleef is legendary in it, it has my favourite soundtrack of the 3, it has the most heart.... As much as I love TGTBATU, it's perhaps a bit too much of a comedy at times, and Blondie's plot armour (the break in the army's march allowing Blondie to hear the spurs, the canon hitting the hotel just as he was about to be hanged, Carson's stage coach arriving in the desert precisely before Tuco is about to put him out of his misery.... ) gets a little far fetched.

[@PFitz-sh4ms]

I’ve always preferred For a few dollars more and I agree Mortimer is a great character

[@johnw8578]

HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER is another great movie to react to!

[@lenoliver-k6g]

Yes!!! that one is my fav Eastwood western movie.

[@fanofactionflicks]

"once upon a time in the west" is another great one, its my favourite.

[@lenoliver-k6g]

Yes!!!! that one is the greatest of all time!!! they must react to that one.

[@CrazeeAdam]

"Hang Em High" is also another great Eastwood film from around this time

[@Dontuween]

"Yojimbo" HAS to be a future watch!

[@georgeguzman5973]

I hope so. There is a LOT more to Japanese cinema other than Godzilla & anime.

[@eddhardy1054]

And then Sanjuro

[@tacticalgrace6456]

And The Hidden Fortress! 😃

[@mcbeezee2120]

Love the Spaghetti Westerns.

[@SteveSandersonArt]

the good the bad and the ugly is the best western ever made.....

[@krisa990]

These 3 westerns with Sergio Leoni,the magical music of Ennio Morrecone,and the new,upcoming top western actor at the time,he would do several more,are top notch,state of the art western movies..at least one level above everything that came before and everything that came after...in cinematics,music, camera work, emotion creating,atmosphere creating....everything...Sergio Leoni was a God-gifted western director...its clear to see that he was a perfectionist in his art..he was the first director that understood how important and how crucial camerawork,music and scene creating were,put together,to mixed together in the absolute right moments for each sequence of the movie..with perfect timing...Ive seen plenty of John Wayne movies and they have nothing of this,basically they became americana movie items because of John Wayne himself..because he became so immensily popular and revered as a person, an western icon that became synymonous to the american wild west, to patriotism....not as much the movies per se..In the Sergio Leoni movie we see the western movies as an artform..for the first time...and they become hugely popular world wide..

[@mikecaetano]

Also, Yojimbo, the Samurai film A Fistful of Dollars is based on, was adapted from a Dashiell Hammett novel, Red Harvest, and adapted again in 1996 as Last Man Standing, starring Bruce Willis.

[@gerardcote8391]

The director is Iralian. But most of these were actually filmed in Spain. Fist Full of Dollars release was delayed over copyright issues as it was an unauthorized remake of Yojimbo.... which you got to check out.

[@nohandlenotme]

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, is my favorite.

[@howardb.6205]

which one?

[@757optim]

I recommend watching all of Eastwood's westerns in order of release. (And/or all of his movies.)

[@matthewfisher-sp5fq]

I like watching these films in the winter because they make me feel warm. I want these two to do close encounters of the third kind 😊

[@P-M-869]

I remember seeing Clint Eastwood in the TV series Rawhide as Rowdy, prior to these movies.

[@IanFindly-iv1nl]

But American television was a far cry from European cinema at the time.

[@michaelproctor8100]

Eastwood "borrowed" his gun holster from rawhide for the movie.

[@GeorgeTropicana]

Ok

[@markcraven8386]

Clint even made an appearance on Mr. Ed.

[@glennt3207]

On a 25 inch TV over the air......it became a classic.

[@longfootbuddy]

theres a special silver cloud up there, that people werent aware of.. put a tv in it, instant classic

[@apple4935]

Ennio Morricone, legendary composer of the Leone westerns, also created the tense “dum-dum” soundtrack for The Thing many years later. So versatile.

[@harveylee51]

@apple4935 That was an awesome soundtrack Morricone did for the THING the ''DUM DUM '' as you put it was so eerie and really ratchets up the tension .

Another one worth a watch is Once Upon a Time in the West.Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda.

[@alfredstimoli2590]

Spaghetti westerns were mainly filmed in Spain, and the production companies were Italian. There's a remake called "Last Man Standing" set in the 1920's during prohibition and starring Brice Willis.

[@TheWebcrafter]

3:17 - 'A FISTFUL OF YEN' is a segment of 'Kentucky Fried Movie' (1977) that parodies 'Enter The Dragon' (1973).

[@longfootbuddy]

thats a good one nobody has done yet

[@davephillips433]

I have a suggestion but it’s not a western or spaghetti. It’s a Clint Eastwood movie called Play Misty For Me. Great movie👍🏻

[@longfootbuddy]

i think that was the one where they played the trailor on tv a hundred times

[@tacticalgrace6456]

They should also take a look at The Beguiled, another Clint Eastwood movie that’s a bit different from his usual movies.

[@harveylee51]

@davephillips433 That was a good thriller Play Misty for me was also Eastwood's directorial debut !

[@charcoalberries819]

Mrs Movies hitting us hard with the "he's a babe" face in the thumbnail 😂

[@HAIL-WAR.C]

BEST CLINT EASTWOOD MOVIE......IMO

[@WUStLBear82]

Eastwood was already fairly well-known for playing Rowdy Yates on the network TV Western _Rawhide_ . But this did help launch his movie career.

[@long-timesci-fienthusiast9626]

I remember seeing him in a western role in a Tv Series in the `60`s, the program was Rawhide. I only saw a couple of episodes when I was young here in the U.K., with my Grandad. I think these films were the first things he moved onto after leaving the Series.

[@howardb.6205]

I got to be honest... I really dug the old lady at first, she kept me coming back. But now I just love this dude! You are funny man, I really dig your husband more now

[@longfootbuddy]

the kid is my favorite

[@conniegaylord5206]

Consider watching 2 Mules for Sister Sarah. ❤❤

[@longfootbuddy]

i dont know if i want to

[@KWP1111]

They filmed it in Spain. Because Spain has some terrain like our west. Sergio is italian

[@BolofromAvlis]

These were great but he did some great others. Hang'em High, The Outlaw Josie Wales, and Unforgiven are some of my fave westerns. The Sergio Leone films were all great to me My favorite Leone film without clint has to be Once Upon a Time In the West. Clint made so many great films behind and in front of the camera. really impressive. Any Which Way But Loose, Play Misty For Me, The Bridges of Madison County. I could go on and on. What a talent.

[@totomomo18]

Great movie. I hope you watch the all trilogy. I highly recommend you see the movie "My Name is Nobody" 1973 a really funny spaghetti movie. Another more modern movie you should see that plays homage to this movie is The Quick and The Dead 1995.

[@kelleychilton2524]

'A Fistful of Assholes' doesn't quite have the same ring to it. 😂

[@phil8821]

Clint actually doesn't play the same character. The stories are completely separate and in different time periods. Just like Mortimer/Angel Eyes, Ramon/El Indio are different characters.

[@robertosaldias6181]

01:55 In fact, most of the locations where the Spaghetti Westerns were filmed were made in Spain. A Fistfull of Dollars was also filmed in Spain in Hoyo de Manzanares, northwest of Madrid. The director and some of the main actors are Italian, but the rest are Spanish. The character of Marisol is played by Marianne Koch, a German film and television actress, born in Munich in 1931 and still alive..✌🏻🙂

[@bigp3006]

Eastwood and John Wayne never made a movie together because Eastwood portrayed the dark view point, and Wayne portrayed the light side. Once a script for the 2 was presented to both, Eastwood was ready to do it, but wayne refused, even after Eastwood talked to him about it. The machine gun was actually a Mitrailleuse volley gun it doesn't fire like shown but no gattling guns were available.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

Thank you for this vital information.

[@howardb.6205]

slayer

[@longfootbuddy]

you could take out a whole volleyball team with that

[@martyguy8185]

Can't wait till the other 2.

[@wcookejr]

The book Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett was the inspiration for Kurosawa's Yojimbo which inspired Fistful of Dollars later remade as Last Man Standing with Bruce Willis and Christopher Walken. It went from miners to samurai to cowboys to bootleggers.

[@Nefarioso]

As traildriver Rowdy Yates in the late 50's, early 60's TV series RAWHIDE, Clint Eastwood got a rousing start in Westerns. When RAWHIDE folded, Eastwood had a hard time getting movie roles. Then came the "Spaghetti Westerns" and he was back in business, this time Internationally.

[@longfootbuddy]

he probably bought a swimming pool at this point

[@randomdude3620]

My favorite Clint Eastwood movie is 'High Plains Drifter'. Brutal and surreal.

[@theHardyMonster1984]

Mine is the Outlaw Josey Wales but that music at the end of HPD gave me chills when I was a kid. Was it the actual sheriff who survived the hanging? Or was it his ghost who came back to avenge his death? He does disappear into barren desert during the credits. An illusion or something supernatural?

[@lenoliver-k6g]

Yep!!! same here!!!

[@Woodclaw]

For a bit of historical context, westerns were banned in Italy under the Fascist regime, so in the 1950s cinemas put them on day in and day out. A lot of Italian kids from the 40s and 50s grew up on a steady diet of western movies. As a result, when Leone and others started their own projects as directors, of course they looked at western for inspiration.

[@Aaron3020x]

Questa non la sapevo, mio papà è del 54 e mi ha fatto scoprire questi film ma non mi ha mai raccontato nulla su sta cosa..come mai erano bannati i western?

[@Woodclaw]

@@Aaron3020x perché il regime fascista li considerava un prodotto contrario ai suoi principi autarchici.

[@marioarguello6989]

Ah, poor Commie.

[@Tonyblack261]

Clint was also in the Western TV show - Wagon Train.

[@PaulMcCaffreyfmac]

Mrs Movies rings the pronunciation bell fairly and arguably squarely.

[@TheWebcrafter]

02:00 - A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964) is a retelling of YOJIMBO (1961) a Japanese samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa, who also co-wrote the screenplay and was one of the producers. LAST MAN STANDING (1996) starring Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, and Bruce Dern is also a retelling set in the early Prohibition Era.

[@Otokichi786]

"A Fistful of Dollars": Sergio Leone said that it was a homage to "Yojimbo" (1961). Akira Kurosawa took offense and dragged Sergio Leone into court. I wonder what Toshiro Mifune thought of Clint Eastwood "doing the Samurai strut"?

[@zvimur]

People keep ignoring "Red Sun". Western with Charles Bronson, Alen Delon... and Toshiro Mifune!

[@tomsmith01SF]

And Yojimbo based on a Dashiel Hammer novel, Red Harvest. Great book.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

Good question.

[@longfootbuddy]

face it, clint eastwood wants to be a samurai

[@zvimur]

@@longfootbuddy explains "Gran Torino"🤨🥲

[@TabathaTMartin]

The dollars trilogy.....among one of if not the BEST film trilogies ever made. Clint Eastwood's stoic performance as the Man with no name has been a constant in the spaghetti western genre. ​​The music by the Late Ennio Morricone has reached legendary status as the most epic soundtracks ever made (considering it was made for cowboy films). And Sergio Leone became a master of his craft with these movies. He would define the Spaghetti western genre for decades to come, his use of visual language of the close-up shot to deepen character, create suspense, and even to unlock clues along each character's journey. Not to mention his masterful cinematography which would be used for years to come.

[@lonewanderer3456]

Yeah,...it was "fine",...but no John Wayne. 😵‍💫

[@roywilson4514]

Oh here we go…..an “expert”

[@TabathaTMartin]

@@roywilson4514 I'm just expressing my appreciation for this film.

[@TabathaTMartin]

@@lonewanderer3456 Too each their own

[@valeria262]

Honestly, no. This is the best of the bunch, few dollars more is alright and good bad and ugly is decent but bloated as fuck

[@jordank1813]

There's a scene in this movie that I think is the best scene in all of cinema. I love this movie so much

[@Astuga]

Marisol ("She is pretty") was played by German actress Marianne Koch. She appeared in different movies and TV-shows during the 1960's but like her somewhat famous father became an M.D. later in life. And there are a bunch of other German actors in this movie, like Wolfgang Lukschy and Sieghardt Rupp. Eastwood made his first appearance in the Western Genre as a young actor in the TV show Rawhide (Blues Brothers someone?). The scene with the iron plate as bullet protection inspired the similar scene in Back to the Future 3.

[@longfootbuddy]

she is rather attractive

[@scotthewitt258]

The Western version of "Yojimbo". A Prohibition-era version was also made, starring Bruce Willis, called "Last Man Standing".

[@shanedoe3462]

My family also watched more of the older John Wayne westerns, which are a little more tame than the 1960's Clint Eastwood fare. So, as a kid, when I saw my first Sergio Leone film and heard they were called "Spaghetti Westerns", I thought the reason was because all the blood and guts looked like spaghetti.😃

[@longfootbuddy]

its because all the charactors eat spaghetti

[@V7avalon]

the filming production was done in Italy's Rome Studios and the set was near Madrid Spain

[@scotthewitt258]

An old name for cashy folding money was "horse blankets". Because the first U. S. notes were so big.

[@PaulDrake-u7m]

I would have to say Mrs. Movies is gorgeous! Just my humble opinion. Great Western pick, back then a refreshing change from the standard Hollywood fare.

[@pablochian1439]

Another version of Yohimbo is "Last Man Standing"(1996) is a gangster film written and directed by Walter Hill, and starring Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken and Bruce Dern.

[@manduheavyvazquez5268]

Masterpiece ever. Greatness

[@petequesada2936]

LOL - "He's no John Wayne!"

[@debee8795]

The American market became over saturated with westerns and so they stopped making them. The spaghetti westerns brought them back. The outlaw josey wells is my favorite of the clint eastwood westerns.

[@markplott4820]

you & me + movies - fun fact Clint Eastwood FIRST movie acting role was in Revenge of the Creature 1955 (black lagoon). which you should watch , if you are a Eastwood fan.

[@MichaelDzikowski-ms9iz]

Clint had a couple of lines in the 1955 Tarantula movie as the jet pilot who drops napalm on the giant spider.He was wearing his helmet and the sun visor was down but you can always recognize his voice.

[@oobrocks]

The “hero” of Sergio Leone films was the late, great Ennio Morricone. One of the best of all time 🎉❤😊

[@questprotector]

is anyone going to tell them that the actress playing marisol, marianne koch, is german? she has blue eyes, not brown.

[@dmille1959]

"I don't think it's nice you laughing. You see my mule don't like people laughing."

[@Kamenriderneo]

8:10 He killed them to prove he could do it. He's selling himself as a gunslinger for hire.

[@drlee2]

Yeah, I really didn't understand her issue with this scene. Right before this, the whole plot of the film with Joe and the bartender's exchange "The Rojos on one side, the Baxters on the other, and ME in the middle!" Joe is playing both sides against the middle. He's first ingratiating himself with the Rojos by killing some of the Baxter guns to start his plan of playing them against each other for his own personal gain. Plus, these guys did try to bully and antagonize him when he first came into town. It's not hard to believe he'd also do it just because of petty revenge. I mean, it IS the Wild West! lol I feel like she's trying to over-analyze the plot.

[@leemallard]

they did another movie like this... Last Man Standing is a 1996 action drama directed by Walter Hill and starring Bruce Willis as John Smith, a gunslinger-for-hire during the Prohibition era who stumbles upon a ongoing war between the Irish and Italian Mafia in a small Texas town near the Mexico border The film was inspired by the Japanese samurai film Yojimbo

[@GorgeousGeorge97]

Actually it was filmed in Spain. Not in Italy. But it was an Italian production .

[@lnwolf41]

Add on, the movies were made oversea mainly because most locatio s in the US were marred by telephone poles, as well as hvi g to deal with all the unions that controlled every aspect of movie mmaking. Not just anyone could move a Mike boom or set up a light, it had to be card-carrying union guy

[@longfootbuddy]

and they still mar it up

[@pengwin_]

These movies would have everyone speaking their own language, Spanish Italian, German, English, etc. They would then re-dub everyone and everything, yes even the english speaking people (because remember, these movies came out internationally) So Eastwood is dubbing himself in this.

[@longfootbuddy]

i like to speak pig latin while watching it

[@the_releaser]

He went to the Rohos first and applied for a job. He knew that the Rohos would be watching, which is why he went to their enemies, the baxters, to pick a fight to show the Rohos what he was capable of. He wanted them to see how good he was with a gun, which is also the reason why he doesn't work cheap. Plus he knew that those guys were a-holes. He deliberately picked a fight with them he said it wasn't nice that were laughing at his mule. He wanted to make sure they would draw so he could gun them down.

[@dad_jokes_4ever226]

A lot of this was shot in Spain

[@stevenmoules4955]

If Mrs movies was in this film goodbye bell ringer...The first one she would shoot!😁

[@chuckhackett4493]

This is actually the same movie alternate 1985 Biff was watching in Back to the Future part 2.

[@valeria262]

And that Marty greatly lifts ideas from for part iii

[@SS-hn3zr]

Another great movie directed by sergio leone is once upon time in the west with charles bronson & henry fonda

[@tomsmith01SF]

THAT is the greatest Western of all time.

[@tsmartin]

Back in the day you only put five rounds in your "six shooter" because the firing pin was attached to the hammer. It would be unwise to have the hammer/firing pin resting on the primer of a cartridge which is what you would have in all six chambers had a round in them. Any sharp blow to the hammer would fire the round.

[@longfootbuddy]

thats just a modern safety thing guys tell each other

[@TheMule71]

Well, Spaghettin westerns come in different flavors. First, there are those that attempt at ripping off on the success of American westerns (John Wayne's). It's common, even today. See mockbusters. In Italy those were often contaminated with other genres or rather, with stylistic choises from other genres. Eg. being more violent and grittier. A bit pulp, if you wish. Then you have the ones by Leones. That's a very artist take on the genre. Still, in the Italian fashion, they are more violent (pushing the borders of censorship, that's the reason for the blood being too red BTW), but also dustier and gritter. John Wayne used to spend a week in the wilderness, sleeping under the stars in a bedroll, and wake up in the morning with a perfect shave and an clean, just ironed shirt. Not in Leone's movies. Everyone and everything is dirty. People's souls too, there are no heros. Then there are the rip-offs on Leone's movies, after their huge success. These are of different qualities, some are B-movie, some are so bad they are good, some are definitely good, some are brilliant. Tarantino seems to likes them, Django is actually a series of speghetti western movies, which come with their own rip-offs BTW. The original Django, Franco Nero, appears in a cameo in Django Unchained, and he know that the d is silent, of course. Leone's movies aren't really supposed to be a trilogy and the Man with No Name is just a marketing afterthought. It was common at the time to have just a loose thematic continuity, based on archetypes rather than actual characters. So Eastwood plays a cookie cutter "anti-hero", not necessarily the same character (even tho they do share specific call-backs, like the injury to the hand or the same poncho). The other actors often re-appear alongside him, playing completely different and unrelated characters (e.g Lee Van Cleef and Gian Maria Volonté). That applies also to minor roles, of course. So you can see the same guy die in different movies. Leone went on to more American productions with Once Upon the West and Once Upon in America (which isn't a western).

[@cassesvultus43]

My favorite Clint Eastwood movie is Unforgiven. I think it was the last western he was ever in, and it was the first movie he directed that won an academy award for best picture.

[@longfootbuddy]

i just wish he didnt keep falling off his horse

[@julioarriero4652]

This movie was clearly not her cup of tea!! And i think she made that pretty clear from the beginning, even before the movie started. And yes, he (Clint) did all that for a fistful of dollars. But don't you worry, in the next movie he'll do it for a few dollars more! 😂😂😂

[@andrewcarlson7252]

The Actors recited their lines in their native languages and the film was dubbed into the language of the country that it was being presented in.

[@McVicar-ks8qb]

Recomendations .. . The Deer Hunter (1978) Quest For Fire (1981) Marat Sade (1967) The Tenant (1976) Harold and Maud (1971) Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979) Henry; Portrait of a Serial Killer (1988)

[@longfootbuddy]

im still waiting for someone to do quest for fire

[@jefferywarburton2116]

The t.v. series Rawhide helped Clint become a household name as well as these Italian made films.

[@gorymarty56]

Soundtracks by Ennio were awesome.

[@arnodobler1096]

Sergio and Ennio changed Hollywood for ever.

[@zrofrost179]

another Yojimbo remake is Last Man Standing (1996) with Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken and Bruce Dern. takes place in prohibition-era Texas,

[@gregkirby9059]

othe Eastwood westerns 1.Hang'em High 2.Two Mules For Sister Sara 3.The Beguiled 4.The Outlaw Josey Wells 5.High Plains Drifter 6.Pale Rider 7.Unforgiven 8.Joe Kidd 9.Bronco Billy 10.Paint Your Wagon 11.Cry Macho 12.Honky Tonk Man 13.Coogan's Bluff

[@hanng1242]

I like this movie, but I still prefer the original black and white version starring Toshiro Mifune. All Italian films of this era were dubbed. There were three reasons for this: Firstly, many of these films had an international cast. Even if it wasn't about getting the correct actress who happened to be French (I'm thinking of Edwige Fenech here), a lot of productions were joint productions with companies from other countries. I think a lot of Spaghetti Westerns were Italian-Spanish, and to be able to qualify for the subsidy from the Spanish government, some percentage of the cast or crew had to be Spanish, or some percentage of the movie had to be filmed in Spain. Because of these actors who may not have spoken Italian, it was easier to find a voice actor to dub the film rather than wait for the actor's language coach to get his Italian up to snuff. Secondly, it allowed the "original" language of the film to be whatever native language the country in which the film was to be screened. For this reason, (Continental) European voice actors of this era tended to be very good, since their services were a necessary part of the production, not an afterthought (as it was, and still is, in America - which is why our dubs are often not very good. Finally, and this is probably the most important, it eliminated the requirement for a quiet set, thereby allowing workers to be hammering or sawing stuff building the set for a different picture in the same location as the shooting. Nobody had to record sound during the filming, since it would be added in later anyway, so other things could be going on simultaneously. This naturally sped up shooting considerably and allowed studios to pump out more films. If you like Sergio Leone, you need to watch his magnum opus - Once Upon a Time in the West, starring Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda and Claudia Cardinale. That movie also is the first part of a loose "trilogy" about the development of America. It is followed by "Duck, You Sucker!" (also called "A Fistful of Dynamite") starring Rod Steiger and James Coburn, and then by "Once Upon a Time in America" starring Robert DeNiro, James Woods and Elizabeth McGovern. Not directed by Leone, but you might also want to check out the original "Django" (1966) starring Franco Nero. Then after that, check out the weird Takashi Miike film "Sukiyaki Western Django"

[@monstamac2005]

Last Man Standing also worth a watch, based on the same Japanese film, with Bruce Willis and set during prohibition.

[@donovanbradford8231]

I wasn't a fan of westerns growing up but films like the man with no name trilogy, Once Upon a Time in the West, the Quick and the Dead, and Unforgiven were the types that I ended up like the non romantic style primarily. I did like El Dorado which I think is the only John Wayne western I think I like.

[@Philistine47]

Growing up, I dismissed Westerns as "the boring brown movies my father liked." Then _Unforgiven_ came out when I was in college, and that changed my whole perspective.

[@longfootbuddy]

i just didnt like john wayne john wayne way, ya know.. i think it was mostly his way of talking.. and that .. well, if a guy came walking up to me like that, looking at me like that, id just kick him in the chap

[@marioarguello6989]

@@Philistine47 There are dozens of westerns which are better than Unforgiven.

[@Philistine47]

@@marioarguello6989 That may be true; but given that literally _thousands_ of Westerns were made, "dozens" still puts _Unforgiven_ in the top 1%.

[@marioarguello6989]

@@Philistine47 Thousands?

[@nahkohese555]

Here's something for you to consider, the "Dollars Trilogy" are chronologically out of order. In "Fistful of Dollars" the ambush of the army troops at the beginning is not done with a Gatling Gun, but with a Maxim Gun, which there were a lot of military surplus ones leftover after the Spanish-American War. And many enterprising young US Army Officers had a side hustle going on sneaking across the border and selling guns to the Mexican Army to fight Pancho Villa (around 1900-1910). The Colts and Winchesters carried by everyone closely align with this time period. In "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", it starts out at the end of the American Civil War, about 40 years before "Fistful of Dollars". The three of the first get together at the infamous Andersonville prisoner of war camp. Oh, and as far as your "he's immortal" joke, I refer you to "High Plains Drifter" and "Pale Rider".

[@longfootbuddy]

the only order is the release order

[@iandism]

I love these old spaghetti westerns, my favourites being the Terence Hill & Bud Spencer movies. I was wondering what Mr Movies thought of gangster version of this film, Last Man Standing staring Bruce Willis?

[@longfootbuddy]

im starting to hate last man standing starring bruce willis, and i havent even seen it