Thank you for this. I've got the rare Criterion DVD without the commentary, so it was wonderful to play this audio track while watching my DVD on low volume.
I'd like to have been a fly on the wall when Kurosawa saw a fistful of dollars 😆... Leone totally ripped yojimbo off...he did it well but still...if that's me I'm pissed
Yes, if you watch the movies side by side the cuts are almost identical, but both stand alone in that they are instant classics 50 plus years later. Americans got a version of a Japanese classic and both countries have heroic strong figures. I will always walk Clint Eastwood together with Mifune knowing Kurosawas influence on Leone. But, Leone took "The Man with No Name," to a whole different place in historical cinema and his The God, The Bad and The Ugly is exemplar of that.
Thank you for this. I've got the rare Criterion DVD without the commentary, so it was wonderful to play this audio track while watching my DVD on low volume.
I'd like to have been a fly on the wall when Kurosawa saw a fistful of dollars 😆... Leone totally ripped yojimbo off...he did it well but still...if that's me I'm pissed
Yes, if you watch the movies side by side the cuts are almost identical, but both stand alone in that they are instant classics 50 plus years later. Americans got a version of a Japanese classic and both countries have heroic strong figures. I will always walk Clint Eastwood together with Mifune knowing Kurosawas influence on Leone. But, Leone took "The Man with No Name," to a whole different place in historical cinema and his The God, The Bad and The Ugly is exemplar of that.