Thank you, everybody calls him The ManWith No Name and you point out, United Artist started that gimmick for A Fist Full Of Dollars and it;s stuck since. Actually that is why one of the reasons that people think these Dollar Trilogys are prequels and sequels and according to Sergio Leone Clint Eastwood's gunman in each movie are not the same character, nor are the stories to these 3 films linked.
@@wiseguymaybe None of what you said is correct. Sergio Leone and Eastwood never said any of that. And while "the Man With No Name" was invented here in America, in Italy, the character was always known as "Il Straniero" (The Stranger). Nowadays, the Italians themselves have adopted the "Man With No Name" moniker, referring to him as "Hombre Senza Nome/Man Without Name." At any rate, the character is called "Manco" here, which in Italian means "Mangled" and it refers to the Man With No Name's right hand being crushed by Chico at the end of the previous movie. If you pay close attention in this film, you'll see that he does everything left handed... except shoot. Additionally, you can see the bullet holes where Ramon Rojo shot him, but the Man With No Name wears the poncho backwards so they don't show. "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" literally has a plot point about how the Man With No Name got his poncho. Additionally, in that movie's script, he is referred to in the dialogue only as "Il Biondo/Blondie," but the descriptions of the script refer to him as "Joe," the character's nickname in the first movie. Additionally, Leone wrote "Once Upon a Time in the West" to be the fourth and final adventure of the Man With No Name, and reveal who he is and why he's been doing what he does. However, Eastwood and Leone had a huge fight on the set of GBU and even though Leone personally came to California to deliver the script to him, Eastwood refused to see him. Since Leone had a deal with Paramount where he HAD to deliver a western to them, he and his writers re-wrote the script to where the Man With No Name became Harmonica and got Charles Bronson to do it. Yeah, he's the same guy in all three movies.
Pity that Gian María Volonté never got better recognition outside Europe, where he's also known for classics like La Cercle Rouge and Investigation of a Citizen Under Suspicion. Loved him in this. Same goes for Klaus Kinski - a legend in Germany (for both his acting prowess and wild exploits) and father to Natassja. He had roles in some big English language movies but is still best known for reprising Max Schreck's title role in Herzog's brilliant Nosferatu remake. And yes, Shrek is named after Max Schreck btw.
FAFDM is my favorite of the trilogy. I love Good, Bad, Ugly, but the 2nd movie has a tighter story and I love the relationship between Eastwood and Van Cleef. The musical build-up to the final duel scene gives me chills every freaking time.
I told you this was way better than the first. It may not be the most famous but that doesn't mean it's not considered by some to be the best. The theme tune of the 3rd film is more famous but the music in this one is also great. Of course this isn't an American landscape, it was filmed in Spain, but passes well enough as being the wild west.
Yes, Leone and other SW directors had a... limited actor pool repeatedly appearing in the movies. A good guy in one could play a villain in the next. And vice versa. This movie and the next one do exactly that.
In the countries outside of the United States the movie makers are not so stuck on roles. If you watch the telenovelas from south and central America you will have a pool of actors that will do a series for a few months and then they conclude the story and use the same actors for a whole new show. They are not nearly as set on the role the actor plays as “Ooo neat my favorite actor has a new series out.”
Very nice commentary as usual! By the way, "monco" in Italian identifies someone who is missing a limb. I guess that's a reference to the fact that, at beginning of the movie, the character keeps his right arm hidden underneath the poncho and only uses it when he shoots.
In Spanish too (where it's spelled as it is in the subtitles as "manco"). Cervantes, who lost his hand in the Battle of Lepanto, was nicknamed "El Manco de Lepanto".
@@panikov Glad to help! If you like, here's Cervantes' own good-natured description of himself, taken from the Prologue of "Exemplary Novels: "This person whom you see here, with an oval visage, chestnut hair, smooth open forehead, lively eyes, a hooked but well-proportioned nose, & silvery beard that twenty years ago was golden, large moustaches, a small mouth, teeth not much to speak of, for he has but six, in bad condition and worse placed, no two of them corresponding to each other, a figure midway between the two extremes, neither tall nor short, a vivid complexion, rather fair than dark, somewhat stooped in the shoulders, and not very lightfooted: this, I say, is the author of 'Galatea,' 'Don Quixote de la Mancha,' 'The Journey to Parnassus,' which he wrote in imitation of Cesare Caporali Perusino, and other works which are current among the public, and perhaps without the author's name. He is commonly called MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA. He was for many years a soldier, and for five years and a half in captivity, where he learned to have patience in adversity. He lost his left hand by a musket-shot in the battle of Lepanto: and ugly as this wound may appear, he regards it as beautiful, having received it on the most memorable and sublime occasion which past times have over seen, or future times can hope to equal, fighting under the victorious banners of the son of that thunderbolt of war, Charles V., of blessed memory."
I think because there was a language barrier they relied more on visual story telling which works out better than telling us what's going on. We figure things out for ourselves and there are things we will never know.
I think I commented that in "Fistful of Dollars" already, but there's a korean movie that amalgamates all three of those and sets them in the early 20th century. It called "The Good, the Bad and the Weird". definitely worth a watch, doubly so if the recollection of the trilogy is still fresh.
❤These are such great movies. 🤠Clint directed himself in the High Plains Drifter 1973 which is top classic western. Clint is also great in Hang Em High 1968. Saturday was Westerns Night at our grandparent's house and we loved it. We saw all of the older westerns
Great analysis. And yes, the actors are all playing different characters in every Sergio Leone film. It's actually a coincidence that Eastwood's characters all wear a poncho. FUN FACT: Sergio Leone originally wanted Charles Bronson for the role of "Joe" in "A Fistful of Dollars". He finally got the chance to cast him in "Once Upon a Time in The West" in which Bronson actually plays "the man with no name".
The Man with No Name, Joe, Manco, Blondie, are all the same guy. It's not just the poncho, it's the vest, the boots, the snake on his gun, the cigar, the gunbelt, the mannerisms, the injured hand in Fistful of Dollars that he wears a brace on in For a Few Dollars More. He goes by various names because from one place to the next a certain name may not be healthy to use. Plus, apparently Manco is supposed to be Monco and it translates to One Armed or carries that implication. Joe could have started using that name since his injury in FoD would mean he had to use his other hand more prominently. Blondie found the poncho that Joe and Monco wear later. It's still up for debate though and most fans can't agree one way or another.
@@Falcun21 Thanks for the info. So, your theory is that the actual chronological order of Sergio Leone's films starts with "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly", followed by "A Fistful of Dollars" and ends with "For a Few Dollars More." Seems probable. Which blows away my theory that the character was akin to a "Spectre" type entity. However, this begs the question how one could spend $100,000 dollars in only seven years?
@@thequietrevolution3404 According to the co-writer of For a Few and GBU, Luciano Vincenzioni, the Man With No Name is poor again at the beginning of Fistful because he gave the 100,000 in gold to Father Ramirez's mission for saving his life.
@@ConstantineFurman That actually makes sense and is in keeping with "Blondie's" philanthropist type character. Remember, he also gave all the money he made from Baxter and Rojo to Marisol and her family.
One of the bad guys is played by Klaus Kinski, a classic german actor who played into two classics of cinema that you guys should totally watch eventually : Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre, the Wrath of God. Fantastic movies made by Werner Herzog.
Honestly I never got into Clint Eastwood westerns, Any Which Way But Loose 1978 is my most memorable movie of him with Play Misty For Me (1971 I think) a close second.
My favorite will always be "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. But this movie has grown on me over the years. Another "no-name" movie of Eastwood's is "High Plains Drifter ".
Excellent movies to consider, SPY GAME, THE PEACEMAKER (2009) , THE SUM OF ALL FEARS, BEHIND ENEMY LINES, SICARIO, SICARIO: The Day of Solado, Sophie’s Choice
This movie had a brilliant cast all around, Lee van Cleef as the morally good guy, Gian María Volonté playing one of the best villains of all time and of course Clint Eastwood as The Man with No Name, or Branco :) The story was really good , certainly an upgrade from the last movie. Really enjoyed the dynamic between the two main protagonists. I hope you will react to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. It's definitely in my top 5 favorite movies of all time, if not number one!
My dad and I had a bumpy relationship, he was a police officer (ret). But we loved this movie and could talk for hours about the fire arms on film. ironically this bring back very good memories. He was a terrific hunter, when I was a kid I watched him lifting a pigeon with his left hand and shoot another one with the shotgun one handed from the hip. As always I had a great time watching this with you ❤
Strangely similar parallel with my dad (Korean War vet and MD with 3 ex-wives - not the warmest personality). We had a pretty rough relationship, but half of my good memories of him somehow involve watching Clint Eastwood movies.
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The man with no name concept was created by United Artists, the American distributor, he has a name in all the films and none of them are connected.
Thank you, everybody calls him The ManWith No Name and you point out, United Artist started that gimmick for A Fist Full Of Dollars and it;s stuck since. Actually that is why one of the reasons that people think these Dollar Trilogys are prequels and sequels and according to Sergio Leone Clint Eastwood's gunman in each movie are not the same character, nor are the stories to these 3 films linked.
@@wiseguymaybe None of what you said is correct. Sergio Leone and Eastwood never said any of that. And while "the Man With No Name" was invented here in America, in Italy, the character was always known as "Il Straniero" (The Stranger). Nowadays, the Italians themselves have adopted the "Man With No Name" moniker, referring to him as "Hombre Senza Nome/Man Without Name." At any rate, the character is called "Manco" here, which in Italian means "Mangled" and it refers to the Man With No Name's right hand being crushed by Chico at the end of the previous movie. If you pay close attention in this film, you'll see that he does everything left handed... except shoot. Additionally, you can see the bullet holes where Ramon Rojo shot him, but the Man With No Name wears the poncho backwards so they don't show. "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" literally has a plot point about how the Man With No Name got his poncho. Additionally, in that movie's script, he is referred to in the dialogue only as "Il Biondo/Blondie," but the descriptions of the script refer to him as "Joe," the character's nickname in the first movie.
Additionally, Leone wrote "Once Upon a Time in the West" to be the fourth and final adventure of the Man With No Name, and reveal who he is and why he's been doing what he does. However, Eastwood and Leone had a huge fight on the set of GBU and even though Leone personally came to California to deliver the script to him, Eastwood refused to see him. Since Leone had a deal with Paramount where he HAD to deliver a western to them, he and his writers re-wrote the script to where the Man With No Name became Harmonica and got Charles Bronson to do it.
Yeah, he's the same guy in all three movies.
Pity that Gian María Volonté never got better recognition outside Europe, where he's also known for classics like La Cercle Rouge and Investigation of a Citizen Under Suspicion. Loved him in this.
Same goes for Klaus Kinski - a legend in Germany (for both his acting prowess and wild exploits) and father to Natassja. He had roles in some big English language movies but is still best known for reprising Max Schreck's title role in Herzog's brilliant Nosferatu remake.
And yes, Shrek is named after Max Schreck btw.
Some of the inexpensive guns of the western era were so badly made that from firing at a target at 20ft away you could see a metre and half deviation.
Add to it poorly made ill weighted bullets....
Joe, Manco and Blondie=Man with No Name.
THREE BIG STARS (not two) Gian Maria Volonte was a very important actor
FAFDM is my favorite of the trilogy. I love Good, Bad, Ugly, but the 2nd movie has a tighter story and I love the relationship between Eastwood and Van Cleef. The musical build-up to the final duel scene gives me chills every freaking time.
The war sections towards the end aren't so necessary.
@@joebloggs396 Politely disagree: the war is a constant through the movie, and becomes more central as the story progresses.
My fav of the 3 also - FAFDM is a tremendous western...!
ı still prefer " this is my cool mum Jen." :)
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You have to watch The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.
I told you this was way better than the first.
It may not be the most famous but that doesn't mean it's not considered by some to be the best. The theme tune of the 3rd film is more famous but the music in this one is also great.
Of course this isn't an American landscape, it was filmed in Spain, but passes well enough as being the wild west.
Yes, Leone and other SW directors had a... limited actor pool repeatedly appearing in the movies. A good guy in one could play a villain in the next. And vice versa. This movie and the next one do exactly that.
In the countries outside of the United States the movie makers are not so stuck on roles. If you watch the telenovelas from south and central America you will have a pool of actors that will do a series for a few months and then they conclude the story and use the same actors for a whole new show. They are not nearly as set on the role the actor plays as “Ooo neat my favorite actor has a new series out.”
Love these old movies. You may also enjoy Terrance Hill. My name is nobody.
MARIO GIROTTI alias TERENCE HILL !
Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😊
these were italian bugs that were brought to spain, and dubbed in english
Very nice commentary as usual!
By the way, "monco" in Italian identifies someone who is missing a limb. I guess that's a reference to the fact that, at beginning of the movie, the character keeps his right arm hidden underneath the poncho and only uses it when he shoots.
In Spanish too (where it's spelled as it is in the subtitles as "manco"). Cervantes, who lost his hand in the Battle of Lepanto, was nicknamed "El Manco de Lepanto".
@@melenatorr thanks, I didn't know that
@@panikov Glad to help! If you like, here's Cervantes' own good-natured description of himself, taken from the Prologue of "Exemplary Novels: "This person whom you see here, with an oval visage, chestnut hair, smooth open forehead, lively eyes, a hooked but well-proportioned nose, & silvery beard that twenty years ago was golden, large moustaches, a small mouth, teeth not much to speak of, for he has but six, in bad condition and worse placed, no two of them corresponding to each other, a figure midway between the two extremes, neither tall nor short, a vivid complexion, rather fair than dark, somewhat stooped in the shoulders, and not very lightfooted: this, I say, is the author of 'Galatea,' 'Don Quixote de la Mancha,' 'The Journey to Parnassus,' which he wrote in imitation of Cesare Caporali Perusino, and other works which are current among the public, and perhaps without the author's name. He is commonly called MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA. He was for many years a soldier, and for five years and a half in captivity, where he learned to have patience in adversity. He lost his left hand by a musket-shot in the battle of Lepanto: and ugly as this wound may appear, he regards it as beautiful, having received it on the most memorable and sublime occasion which past times have over seen, or future times can hope to equal, fighting under the victorious banners of the son of that thunderbolt of war, Charles V., of blessed memory."
@@melenatorr this is great!
@@panikov Glad you liked it!
Please don't neglect, The Outlaw Josey Wales. It's a very good movie. 😁
Also, The Quick and The Dead... Not Eastwood but really good 👍
These films influenced such directors as Quentin Tarantino, Francis Ford Coppola, and Martin Scorsese.
And boba fett
Oh you guys are in for a surprised for the actor who plays the bad guy in the next one. My favorite of the trilogy and the most well known.
I think because there was a language barrier they relied more on visual story telling which works out better than telling us what's going on. We figure things out for ourselves and there are things we will never know.
Maybe it's the European influence on it too. The visuals, the humour, the darkness of this world.
I think I commented that in "Fistful of Dollars" already, but there's a korean movie that amalgamates all three of those and sets them in the early 20th century. It called "The Good, the Bad and the Weird". definitely worth a watch, doubly so if the recollection of the trilogy is still fresh.
❤These are such great movies. 🤠Clint directed himself in the High Plains Drifter 1973 which is top classic western. Clint is also great in Hang Em High 1968. Saturday was Westerns Night at our grandparent's house and we loved it. We saw all of the older westerns
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26:29 That is the German actor Klaus Kinski, he is a real crazy mad maniac of a man in real life too.
Non mi piacciono i film western ma la Colonna sonora del film è stratosferica.
Grande Ennio Morricone
(RIP 🙏
Great analysis. And yes, the actors are all playing different characters in every Sergio Leone film. It's actually a coincidence that Eastwood's characters all wear a poncho. FUN FACT: Sergio Leone originally wanted Charles Bronson for the role of "Joe" in "A Fistful of Dollars". He finally got the chance to cast him in "Once Upon a Time in The West" in which Bronson actually plays "the man with no name".
He wanted Clint back for once upon in the west but Clint playing the character 3 times declined
The Man with No Name, Joe, Manco, Blondie, are all the same guy. It's not just the poncho, it's the vest, the boots, the snake on his gun, the cigar, the gunbelt, the mannerisms, the injured hand in Fistful of Dollars that he wears a brace on in For a Few Dollars More. He goes by various names because from one place to the next a certain name may not be healthy to use. Plus, apparently Manco is supposed to be Monco and it translates to One Armed or carries that implication. Joe could have started using that name since his injury in FoD would mean he had to use his other hand more prominently. Blondie found the poncho that Joe and Monco wear later. It's still up for debate though and most fans can't agree one way or another.
@@Falcun21 Thanks for the info. So, your theory is that the actual chronological order of Sergio Leone's films starts with "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly", followed by "A Fistful of Dollars" and ends with "For a Few Dollars More." Seems probable. Which blows away my theory that the character was akin to a "Spectre" type entity. However, this begs the question how one could spend $100,000 dollars in only seven years?
@@thequietrevolution3404 According to the co-writer of For a Few and GBU, Luciano Vincenzioni, the Man With No Name is poor again at the beginning of Fistful because he gave the 100,000 in gold to Father Ramirez's mission for saving his life.
@@ConstantineFurman That actually makes sense and is in keeping with "Blondie's" philanthropist type character. Remember, he also gave all the money he made from Baxter and Rojo to Marisol and her family.
3:23, granted a man can shave of his moustache, but, really, the guy doesn't look like the poster!
I know, right??
One of the bad guys is played by Klaus Kinski, a classic german actor who played into two classics of cinema that you guys should totally watch eventually : Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre, the Wrath of God. Fantastic movies made by Werner Herzog.
Nastasia Kinski father
Honestly I never got into Clint Eastwood westerns, Any Which Way But Loose 1978 is my most memorable movie of him with Play Misty For Me (1971 I think) a close second.
This is a Sergio Leone western. A Clint Eastwood one like Unforgiven is definitely worse.
My favorite will always be "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. But this movie has grown on me over the years. Another "no-name" movie of Eastwood's is "High Plains Drifter ".
Excellent movies to consider, SPY GAME, THE PEACEMAKER (2009) , THE SUM OF ALL FEARS, BEHIND ENEMY LINES, SICARIO, SICARIO: The Day of Solado, Sophie’s Choice
Thanks for the suggestions! Sicario is on our channel. 😊
@@Jen-MomIt's pretty harrowing but amazing.
The reason he took the badge from the sheriff was that he was saying why the sheriff didn't get Cavanaugh himself.
16:10, in case you haven't figured it out, the Colonels super pistol has a longer range.
This movie had a brilliant cast all around, Lee van Cleef as the morally good guy, Gian María Volonté playing one of the best villains of all time and of course Clint Eastwood as The Man with No Name, or Branco :) The story was really good , certainly an upgrade from the last movie. Really enjoyed the dynamic between the two main protagonists. I hope you will react to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. It's definitely in my top 5 favorite movies of all time, if not number one!
The director liked to re use his actors a lot..
So do Martin Scorcesse and Quentin Tarantino.
there is one more after the trilogy that is even better than the good the bad and the ugly. the phenominal 'Once Upon A Time In The West'
Nice!
The second film in the Dollars Trilogy!
Your second italian movie 😍
My dad and I had a bumpy relationship, he was a police officer (ret). But we loved this movie and could talk for hours about the fire arms on film. ironically this bring back very good memories. He was a terrific hunter, when I was a kid I watched him lifting a pigeon with his left hand and shoot another one with the shotgun one handed from the hip. As always I had a great time watching this with you ❤
Strangely similar parallel with my dad (Korean War vet and MD with 3 ex-wives - not the warmest personality). We had a pretty rough relationship, but half of my good memories of him somehow involve watching Clint Eastwood movies.
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@@Dystopia1111 A hug for you my friend
That cowboy was a 'Half-Beard'