A Fistful of Dollars (1964) MOVIE REACTION! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!
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- We wanted to start a trilogy we've been wanting to watch for a while now, we wanted to go back to these old classics because not only are they great stand alone movies, but there is a lot to learn about the history of cinema in general with these movies. A FistFul of Dollars is the first in the 'Dollars Trilogy'/'Man with No Name Trilogy' by Sergio Leone Starring Clint Eastwood.
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RiP Ennio Morricone. He made the most iconic soundtrack in the history of western films.
Unforgettable stuff.
The Mozart of Spaghetti Westerns.
And he worked right up until his final day. He was going to score Luca if he'd lived a bit longer.
@@stmi7936 try this dude - it's epic as f...:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - The Danish National Symphony Orchestra (Live)
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A Fistful of Dollars - The Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Tuva Semmingsen (Live)
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For A Few Dollars More // The Danish National Symphony Orchestra (Live)
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@@dacsus but I would argue his greatest piece was the music to the Mission.
Spaghetti westerns were generally made by Italians with West German cash and filmed in Spain. All the actors spoke their lines in their own language on set and *all*
the dialogue was re recorded after shooting and then dubbed over the film. Even in the mid 60s hollywood films were following the Hays code, so there are lots of (often very subtle) things in these films that would never have been shot in American westerns.
And The Good, The Bad & The Ugly is quietly famous for having one of the very, very few examples of an English dub changing the dialogue to fit the mouth movements and it actually being a huge improvement over the original ("more feeling").
Actually, Clint Eastwood said in a Interview that the Italian actor's could lip English and knew how to do that.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is the best of the three, one of the best westerns.
I agree, although there are many who think For A Few Dollars More is the best. Having said that, I think Once Upon a Time in the West is Leone's masterpiece.
@@floydster23 I love A Few Dollars More than the others, but Good The Bad And The Ugly is the best.
My friend and I argue over Few Dollars More and G/B/U being the better. I willingly admit to using utterly bullshit logic to win by saying that G/B/U is the better film simply because it's my #1 all-time favourite film whereas Few More is not *his* #1, just a film he really likes. ;)
Having said that, For A Few Dollars More is magic.
@@KyleS3m3noff Few Dollars More has my favourite Morricone music. I love the duel music (La Resa Dei Conti), how it starts with the chimes, slowly builds up then leaps straight to 11 when the church organ crashes in. :-D
@@cutthr0atjake oh yeah. FEW has a *stellar* score. Hard co-sign on your opinion here.
"Fist Full of Dollars" is an homage/adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo." Shogun Samurai films and Westerns bear striking similarities in tone, narrative motifs, sound, and atmosphere. Both films are worth a watch if interested. I'd also suggest you watch "Once Upon a Time in the West," Leone's magnum opus, as well as ALL of Kurosawa's films. It's also worth nothing that Leone's and Kurosawa's films were great inspirations for George Lucas when he made "Star Wars."
They should definitely watch/react to Yojimbo.
I agree completely that they need to check out Kurasawa’s films especially Yojimbo, since it’s one of my favorites. He did this movie better and about 3 years earlier. Seven Samurai which gets itself stolen and made into the Magnificent Seven is also a really solid film. Not trying to detract from the western but the samurai film did these stories first and usually better.
Plus Yojimbo was a samurai film adaptation of Dashiell Hammetts gangster novel Red Harvest
Lucas was indeed inspired by Kurosawa, Leone not really, but both Kurosawa and Leone were both inspired by their favorite director, John Ford.
@@peterengelen2794 ...and Tarantino was influenced by Leone. :-)
1- Ennio Morricone is a genius composer.
2- Clint Eastwood was the inspiration for the character played by Leonardo DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
3 - The voice dubbing in these spaghetti westerns is magical as none of the voices really match the physical appearance.
"Ennio Morricone is a genius composer." An absolute legend.
Most people feel that The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is the best of the three, but my personal favorite is For A Few Dollars More.
Mine too, love the music box scenes. And its far more "adult"..its more like once upon a time in the west. I hope they will react to the america trilogy, too
Yes this! For A Few Dollars More is a masterpiece and one of my fav movies of all time. Fistful is the weakest and pales to all of Leones other ones but a good movie still. But man For A Few Dollars More, the score and the acting especially Gian Maria Volonte as Indio is just scene stealing, very compelling. Love Leone's movies, you fellas are in for a ride.
Same here, I always preferred it over the other 2. The finale is just incredible. The intensity, the music, the theatrical drama, the symbolism... I have chills just thinking about it as I type this.
"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" is a great movie, But "For A Few Dollars More" and "Once Upon a Time in the West" are the superior Leone's Westerns imho.
Lee Van Clif was astonishing in that movie. The last scene is way better tha the Good,Ugly,Bad one.
According to certain sources, Lee Van Cleef was about to quit "the acting game," when Sergio Leone came calling. He became an iconic figure not only in Europe, but Hollywood, and that is/was a sercvie to humanity.
After the trilogy, you should check out Sergio Leone’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST. It is Leone’s masterpiece, and I consider it the greatest Western ever made.
The final showdown between the 2 main characters is legend.
If no one has mentioned it yet (or even if they have), this movie is a remake of the Samurai movie *Yojimbo* .
And this was remade in a mob/20s setting with Bruce Willis - Last Man Standing, 1996
According to Criterion Collection commentary for Yojimbo Toho kept all of Japanese box office for “A Fistful” in lieu of a lawsuit.
more like a robbery of Yojimbo. They were so blatant that Kurosawa won easily in court.
Toshiro Mifune drank a lot of sake in Yojimbo but what is most important, he was absolutely awesome as the skillfull samurai
and everone forgets the great, un-made western, the "sequel" to Yojimbo called Sakura
After watching this trilogy, I recommend you watch Leone’s following film “Once Upon a Time in the West” which I think is one of his peak achievements.
If Tom thinks this one deserves an 8.5, OUATITW deserves a 10!
I agree i personally think it's better than the dollars trilogy. Also high plains drifter if you want a more gothic supernatural western
Definitely a must-see.
And Once upon a time in America Leone is such an amazing director
After the Dollars Trilogy, try High Plains Drifter--another western masterpiece.
I WAS GOING TO SUGGEST THAT VERY THING! sorry, got too excited.... 😁
Also Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West - a must reaction!
@Sh3p 83 no,only three.But the director also did One Upon a Time in the West.
Outlaw josey wales is another good one
Pale rider too
For a low budget movie in the 60s in an unpopular genre. I have to say this movie is amazing, good action scenes, nice acting, great cinematography with an even greater soundtrack by the masterful Ennio Morricone (RIP to him and most of the cast from this movie that have sadly passed) also the sequels are better than this one
You need to put this film in historical perspective. This was groundbreaking at the time, a breath of fresh air from the stale John Wayne style of Hollywood movie. It removed the romance and brought in the grit.
Exactly! I’ve seen George Lucas and other great directors gush about the cinematography in Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns because of his innovation in this area.
To bad it ripped off yojimbo
They also gave cinematography a sense of fun. Humor if you will... and it feels natural cuz it's a bit more crude than just quippy comebacks and stuff about knowing a reference to flying monkeys.
@@lampad4549 well the yanks ripped off the Seven Samuri with the Magnificent Seven
John Wayne movies suck anyway
Unlike Leone's later works this film is _very_ low budget and it shows. For a Few Dollars More is imho the best of this trilogy. Leone's One Upon a Time in the West starring Charles Bronson is also a cracking film.
RUclips reactors really need to get past this "older movies are boring" thing.
It does seem to be a curse of younger viewers...I've even heard people referring to films from the last decade as "old," which is a pretty narrow view. Special effects have progressed a lot, but most ideas of direction and cinematography can be found in Citizen Kane, which is over 70 years old. It even tells the story out of order, for all those who think Tarantino invented that.
A lot of my friends are put off some of my recommendations just based on the age of the movie
I watched one reactor that bitched because the movie they watched had credits at the beginning of the movie!
I wish certain reactors would stop complaining about everything in a movie as if they have to give a critique every ten seconds.
They gave good ratings and to be fair it’s pretty easily the weakest of the trilogy, but not a bad movie at all.
I'm sure I'm not the first to say this, but Clint Eastwood is technically three different characters in all three films.
there are a few other examples as well such as Lee Van Cleef playing seperate characters across the trilogy
The man with no name
i mean it could be 3 different people but physically and psychologically its the same
Not necessarily.
I would like to throw The Outlaw Josey Wales into the hat of next watch westerns.
Yes, this! A great film.
Greatest Western of all time: Leone's "Once Upon a Time in The West".
"Once A time in the West" is the best Spaghetti Western . IMO.
Yeah that is a good one .. but for me it is Lonesome Dove .. the original if it counts as a movie .. which it should.
Cheers 🍺
That and The G/B/U alternate as my #1 all-time favourite film depending on my mood on any given day.
Epic film with an excellent use of sound and fantastic music score.
The perfection of the entire genre, imo. Though a few later movies were great as reexaminations.
its like the fourth movie in the trilogy.
Ah you need to watch Once Upon a Time in the West after the trilogy. Really one of the few times an Italian director had the chance to work in America with that stunning western scenery and put everything he wanted on screen. Plus how many movies are also written by Bernardo Bertolucci, Leone and Dario Argento.
Absolutely masterpiece so don’t miss out
Le Samourai in your avatar :) I started watching half of it last night, love the sets, camera work etc. I discovered it from an old siskel & ebert episode where they recommended it to viewers.
@@Blitzwing83 ah it’s fantastic - if you’ve never seen it John Woo’s The Killer is a wonderful tribute to Samourai, through a very blood drenched lens. Oh and check out Army of Shadows x given Melville’s involvement in the resistance it’s interesting to see how his experience in occupation play out in his crime movies
Yes, Once Upon is terrific, esp. Henry Fonda & Bronson
I can’t wait for you guys to react to the greatest western film of all time: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (third part of the Dollars Trilogy)
A stunning film imo. Well worth a watch.
Once upon a time in the west is the best in history
I think there are better westerns. The Searchers, True Grit, come to mind. But The Good, the Bad and the Ugly belongs with them.
@@willpina And Once Upon A Time In The West!
For A Few Dollars More is underrated and my favourite of the three.
"The Wild Bunch" and "Ride The High Country"--both by Sam Peckinpah.
Keep in mind that Leone reuses actors and that they are all different characters in the universe. Clint Eastwood's character is the same though. Also the time periods for each of the films is actually in reverse. They didn't plan it but that's how it went.
1st takes place in the 1890s
2nd in the 1880s
3rd most likely in 1865
How is this comment from 6 days ago?
The 2th movie is a sequel so it can not come before the first one. The Third movie is a prequel.
@@Moonwalker1075 its like a glitch in the Matrix.
@@totomomo18 1st movie had weapons from the 1890s. Making it the 3rd in the series chronologically
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Many of the Italian films were made without direct sound, so most were recorded afterwards in Audomated dialogue replacement.
Ennio Morricone wrote over 400 films in his career. The western scores are amazing.
Which brings up my favourite Italian movie fact - when Oliver Reed appeared in Poliziotteschi ‘Revolver’ in 1973 he deliberately put on a terrible stilted accent so his dubbing wouldn’t humilated his American dubbed italian co-stars. I mean, he was still pissed when did it, but it’s a nice touch!
Another great sound track he did was for the movie "the mission". Its a good film as well
@@Welsh_Dragon756 I was very lucky to go to a Morricone concert at the Barbican in London. He had just done an interview outside so my sister and I managed to get is autograph.He was very happy to sign our programmes.
If you guys are interested in the Western genre, these are the best of the best, IMO. Obligatory shoot-outs aside, they have VERY different stories:
1. Stagecoach (1939, dir. John Ford)
2. High Noon (1952, Fred Zinnemann)
3. Shane (1953, George Stevens)
4. The Searchers (1956, John Ford)
5. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962, John Ford)
6. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Leone)
7. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, Leone)
8. Unforgiven (1992, Clint Eastwood)
Not necessarily groundbreaking cinema, but still classic or well-made fun: Rio Bravo (1959), The Magnificent Seven (1960, but watch Seven Samurai first), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Blazing Saddles (1974), Silverado (1985), Tombstone (1993), True Grit (either version), The Assassination of Jesse James (2007)
I agree with every movie listed above! I was going to make my own list, but all the ones listed above would be on it. I'd also add "The Sons of Katy Elder"(1965), "The Wild Bunch"(1969), "The Outlaw Josey Wales"(1976), "High Plains Drifter"(1973), "Hang 'Em High"(1968), "Winchester '73"(1950) and the two "Young Guns" movies. Oh, and "Bad Day at Black Rock"(1955). It's not technically a western, but it has the feel of one, mixed with noir. It's a very different take for the genre if that's what you're looking for.
@@ronrobbins6585 Sad to say, I haven't seen most of these yet! For more unconventional westerns, you could also add The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and Meek's Cutoff (2010).
@@melanie62954 I forgot about Sierra Madre! That's also a great one!
"Its just like that bit in Back to the Future III" ... So you didn't recognise that the climactic scene in this movie was being watched by Biff Tannen in Back to the Future II ?
I suppose it's inevitable that a generation of movie watchers will someday decide that Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone ripped off what Michael J. Fox and Robert Zemeckis did in "Back to the Future III" but hopefully I'll be dead by then.
@@karlmortoniv2951 maybe not, the scene of clint eastwood being shot is in back to the future 2
@@Kolbeck64 You have a higher opinion of people than I do. 😜
@@karlmortoniv2951 not really, but i hope they are smart enough to notice those easter eggs in the movies
Speaking of old films, I think you guys would enjoy Bogart’s character in The Maltese Falcon. I hope it’s on your list. It’s a really fun ride.
@James Cricket I’ve never heard of it. Had to look it up. Packed with big names. Looks like one I need to watch.
I'd love them to watch The Big Sleep and To Have And Have Not.
Once Upon a Time in the West is another western classic. Not part of the Eastwood trilogy but arguably as good if not better. Wel worth checking out.
These shaped our young minds, back in the day ,as well as Dirty Harry series , dirt Harry taught us all about not being bullied and never take any crap from anyone … glad to see your reaction review ,well done gents
Once Upon a Time in the West was his best film, you guys should take a look.
Fun Fact: This is not actually a trilogy, but they are all worth watching. It is often called “The Man With No Name Trilogy” but he actually has (different) names in each of the films.
The Sergio Leone films are late additions to the western genre and are in part a response and reaction to the American tropes seen in the previous decades. Besides the excellent directing, these films would have been surprising and fresh for the time because the grittier West being depicted.
No doubt others will mention this, but the "Dollars" trilogy is only loosely a trilogy. Eastwood appears the same in all three (even dressed the same), but is not necessarily the same character. In addition, you will see actors re-appear across the movies who are clearly playing different characters. There is no through-line story that connects them together.
Yeah, I would definitely say the Dollars trilogy is pretty top tier for Westerns, along with another Leone/Morricone film, Once Upon a Time in the West, which you two should definitely watch too.
Out of the three, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is definitely my favorite.
The thing is, before Leone's films the morally ambiguous anti-hero was NOT a trope of the genre - westerns were traditional Good VS Evil "the good guy never draws first" affairs. It was Leone that muddied the waters and threw a metric fucktonne of gray into this black & white storytelling. John Wayne was famously vitriolic against Eastwood and the Spaghetti Westerns for this reason alone. But then, given his views on a lot of things, who gives a fuck what he thought?
A lot of people do
@@ghostchill3959 ...and they're more than welcome to. Over there. Away from here.
Was looking for someone to mention the Anti-Hero aspect of this movie. Was played out by Eastwood again with Dirty Harry
My fav Sergio Leone is Once Upon a Time in the West. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly comes a close second.
Your hats look Australian not American western. And I can’t stop laughing.
Lol, I was thinking the same, I was waiting for "That aint a knife"😜
And what about Clint hypnotizing a sea crocodile ? I particularly love the scene where the male shark enter the bedroom and Clint steals his denture from him.
@@garryiglesias4074 This is the wildest Crocodile Dundee movie ever.
Take a look at "The Man From Snowy River." They're wearing "working cowhand" hats which fits the Outback. Then there's "Quigley Down Under," which is features Tom Selleck and "Mr. Cowboy" Alan Rickman!
70s Sissy Disco Hats
Clint Eastwood is my favorite Western star my fathers was John Wayne. We bonded over our love of westerns I miss him this brings back great memories thank you.
I've watched Westerns for 50 plus years. They are about the 1800s in general and the western march of civility towards the pacific coast, the settlements so to speak. How can a 100 plus year period only have one common theme? Westerns are as varied as any other genre. There are comedic versions, outlaw versions, those speaking of settling the lands, musical versions. The Westerns went away because time put more of a distance between those days and today.
love to hear your thoughts on "The Wild Bunch"
Leone capped off The Dollars Trilogy with ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, simultaneously one of the most unorthodox and most traditional westerns ever made. It's fucking magnificent but it's a slow burn since pacing was one of his unorthodox choices.
I'm so pleased you decided to do this trilogy and I'm so pleased you were able to enjoy it beyond your expectations. It makes sense that young audiences now are unlikely to be familiar with Westerns and also would generally find movies from this era less appealing given that cinema is a newer artform and so the tools, tropes and techniques have all become much more sophisticated now, and it's good to look back and see the genesis of where those things came from and what the best filmmakers were able to achieve with the tools and knowledge they had at the time. It's great that Cinema Rules and others of your generation are willing to be open minded and share these old movies, as it really does prevent them from drifting into obscurity. Thanks guys!
Those Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns actually broke the mold. He was more of an anti-hero rather than the cliché white hat hero of the time.
One interesting thing about this movie is that since it was an Italian film, it wasn't restricted by Hollywood censorship. When it was made, The Hays Code was still around. Clint Eastwood mentioned that there were certain rules about how you could depict violence, like you couldn't show a gun firing and a person getting shot within the same frame. Eastwood was aware of that, but he never mentioned it to Sergio Leone. That's probably just one of the ways this movie is so different from American Westerns of that era. The action is a lot more stylized, since they were alowed to be more experimental.
I hope nobody spoils the neat little surprise in The Good, the Bad & The Ugly for you, especially as you're going through the three movies in release order.
As much as I love these movies, I think Once Upon a Time in the West beats them for heart and drama. A Fistful of Dynamite is also absolutely fantastic. I know you won't likely want to focus just on SL's films if you're doing westerns - and I think you'd get a lot from Eastwood's other big hitters, High Plains Drifter and Pale Rider - but even if you don't watch them for your channel, they're well worth a watch to see how Leone took the same kind of atmosphere for each as a baseline and turned it into something different each time.
I remember watching these films when I was young in the early 1980’s on T.V. His character was like a superhero to me.
So glad people are still discovering these films. CE is just totally iconic in this trilogy.
I rewatch these every year. So good.
These are probably by favorite westerns, but also The Outlaw Jose Wales, and The Wild Bunch. And of course, Unforgiven.
Note, the first two were so very rough. A budget cleans up a lot of problems.
Sergio leone and Dario Argentos cinematography in these spaghetti westerns are unbelievably well shot
This is actually an unofficial remake of a Akira Kurosawa film Yojimbo (1961). Last Man Standing (1996) is a Prohibition-era action film directed by Walter Hill and starring Bruce Willis, is an official remake of Yojimbo with both Kikushima and Kurosawa specifically listed in this movie's credits as having provided the original story.
You guys crack me up. Enjoyed this a ton.
You must do "Once Upon A Time In The West", imo this is Leone's masterpiece!
I realy love the Dollars Trilogy, but "Once Upon a Time in the West" is by far Leone's biggest masterpiece!
Just pure perfection.
Good movie. The next two are even better. Not a true trilogy, however. Eastwood, though, does play a similar character in each.
At the very least he plays a guy who wears the same poncho in all three movies. There’s a weird, non-sequitur tail end of a scene in the second film that even names Eastwood ‘s character as “Manco” or “Monco” depending on which language you’re listening to. The American studio usually snipped it out to align with their “Man With No Name” publicity campaign.
The scene from Back to the future III is a homage to this film.
You can't go wrong with Leone!You'll find the trilogy gets even better as you go along!
When these came out,they pushed the direction of the Western away from the romantic good guy with the white hat cliches that the genre had gotten stuck in America at that time.Much grittier and dirtier.It's no wonder John Wayne hated the revisionist Westerns Eastwood and Leone were doing.
*Wanna a... coffin-to-go? No thanks, Mister! Gimme three... ehm, four of them! 🤠😂*
Ramón Rojo, played by Gian Maria Volontè, is one of my favorite movie villains. He plays a cruder sort of villain in the movie *A Bullet for the General* which is also a Spaghetti Western, but without Clint Eastwood.
I grew up watching these movies and westerns, so this was fun watching your reactions. And yes the soundtrack for this trilogy is iconic.
I also enjoy the reactions of young folks to these classics. Movies like these simply are not made anymore. The opening title sequences from these movies for example are so memorable. How many modern movies can say this?
Those hats look pretty weathered! I can't imagine y'all just had those lying around!
If you want to see a western where people just don't fall down like kids playing in the schoolyard watch The Wild Bunch. It's a bloody masterpiece, brilliantly directed by Sam Peckinpah. Certainly one of the best westerns ever made.
"Shane" 1953, by George Stevens. All Westerns owe this film.
Some “newer” westerns are really great. Silverado, Tombstone & The Quick and the Dead are three I really like.
@Sh3p 83 sleeper that you never hear about.
Spaghetti Westerns were italian productions made in the 60s and 70s trying to emulate American westerns but they were bloodier with unusual soundtracks mostly by Ennio Morricone.
They were shot in Europe with desert locations representing Mexico shot instead in Spain with Italians playing Caucasians and Spanish actors playing Mexican characters.
They were then post dubbed in English with very bad sinc that you could tell right away.
Clint Eastwood was probably the only one in the cast of A Fistful of Dollars that spoke English in the movie.
After the success of A Fistful of Dollars other Italian directors quickly realised they could make their own Spaghetti Westerns and so the Spaghetti Western craze began.
There where three great directors of the genre and the three were by the name Sergio:
Sergio Leone
Sergio Corbucci
Sergio Sollima.
The second one is my favourite especially the music
Same here, it was the first one i saw so it's kinda special to me.
"How many people do you need for two people?" Watch Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for the answer.
The hero getting beaten up is a trope of Italian/Mediterranean culture that the hero has to undergo a great test of his masculine toughness. That he comes out the other side for revenge makes him (in their eyes) a real man.
Clint Eastwood is just the essence of cool in these movies and what makes him dangerous is the fact that not only is he a great gunfighter but he's very smart and clever, so many people in this trilogy let their emotions control their actions but Clint always keeps his cool.
There's so much soul to be found in the Western genre. Probably no one else will mention this, so I'll recommend "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" - a Netflix miniseries Western by the Coen brothers. It's just beautiful.
This was remade as Last Man Standing, starring Bruce Willis (as the Eastwood character) set in the 1920/30's. Prohibition gangsters in place of Mexican bandits. Its well worth a watch.
And starring Christopher Walken as a badass with a machinegun if I’m not mistaken
... and all of them draw from Dashiell Hammet's book, Red Harvest.
I watched this for the first time 2 nights ago. I’d already seen The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. I still absolutely loved this film. Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack is pure brilliance. Sergio Leone’s direction is spectacular. Clint Eastwood’s acting is perfect. An awesome film.
The Dollars Trilogy movies were not shown in the United States in the years the were released in Europe (1964, 1965, 1966). In the U.S. they were released in chronological order in January, May, and December of 1967. This added to their impact here as they appeared in relatively rapid succession. All of main theme songs from the movies appeared on the pop charts here as well, with the theme from GBU being the most successful, peaking at the #2 position in June 1968.
I think a lot of what you had to say regarding the film is reasonable and balanced (much as I love the movie). It wears its age fairly obviously as well as its budget!
It was funny to hear you say that its what you expect from the genre because of course at the time it very much wasn't the amoral hero in a western was still a rare thing.
I'm sure you will enjoy the remaining movies, particularly the good the bad the ugly.
After that you should consider 'Once Upon a Time in the West' which for my money is Leone's masterpiece and the greatest Western ever made. No Eastwood but a hell of a cast of characters.
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly is a prequel to the other two films, so when I binge watch them I always start with that one.
Love this trilogy.
All are great, I just love the other two more, surprisingly as well, I like a few dollars more, a lot more than good, bad and the ugly because of the story.
Can't wait for your further reactions.
I think the ending to Few Dollars More is better than TGTBTG, has more emotional impact and gives me goosebumps every time
I finally watched this. Eastwood has a truly unique screen presence.
You have no idea what epic journey you two begin.
This movie (the first one) is like e test for the next three.
Guys if your serious about exploring the genre you need to start with the Ford/ Wayne Mann/Stewart Boetticher/Scott westerns which set the template.
Morricone had such fantastic film scores. I genuinely listen to them just out of sheer pleasure like I do any other song, and I can't say that about practically any other film score.
Great film, love old Clint.
When are you guys gonna get to The Omen 3?????????
'For A Few Dollars More' is a much better film.
Before the spaghetti westerns the American westerns were getting complacent & indulgent even the big guns like Howard hawks & john ford, the Italians may not have had the money or john Wayne but they had to rely on it looking murkier and grittier and use music & sound along with experimental camera work to stand out. Context of before & after is always important, you wouldn't know why Hendrix was considered so good if you have no knowledge of how guitarists played before him.
Rick Dalton from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is basically a less forward-thinking Eastwood, who after losing his own meal ticket show Rawhide did go to Europe to make movies like this.
The Ox Bow Incident, The Wild Bunch, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Johnny Guitar and My Darling Clementine are just a few total must sees. Welcome to the Western World!
This was a variation of Yojimbo (1961), about an amoral bodyguard, itself a variation of Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Wind (1932) starring the Continental Op-an amoral private eye. Hammett's novel was adapted by Walter Hill in 1995 as the Bruce Willis gangster movie Last Man Standing...bringing it full circle.
Thank you so much for doing this trilogy as I love each movie with The Good, The Bad and The Ugly being my favourite.
Excited that you are reviewing these. Good, Bad and the Ugly is among my top 3 favorite films ever. The scores for these films are tremendous. Fun fact: Leone drew inspiration for his westerns from the Samurai films of Akira Kurosowa. This film was based on Yojimbo, and The man with No Name is an archetypical movie hero type that you find in later films like Mad Max.
I really like Tom’s hat, and the color/shape of it. At least he knows how to wear a “cowboy” hat 😂😂
To avoid confusion, in the next movie Eastwood's character is called Manco, which means one-armed. You'll notice he like to do things one-handed. I don't know why. To always have one hand near his gun? To avoid damaging his shooting hand (he wears a brace)? Maybe just to look cool.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is the greatest western of all time 🔥😎
I love these films, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Fistful of Dollars, Pale Rider etc, but I've just started watching the Django, and Sartana movies (also spaghetti westerns), and holy hell are they violent for their time. Awesome characters with great storylines. I highly recommend that if you like the Clint Eastwood westerns then you check these others out too!
Ennio Morricone wrote the score for all three movies.
He also wrote the score for John Carpenter's The Thing.
Tom + Shaun -, Tom definitely knows how to admire a real classic :)
The Spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Italian Sergio Leone's film-making style and international box-office success. That’s where the genre Spaghetti Western comes from. Also as you saw the Italian actors voices were dubbed for western audiences.
This movie was based on Yojimbo by Akira Kurosawa, where an errant samurai (Toshiro Mifune) pits two local bands against each othe to benefit himself. The arguments of the other two movies are different, the constants are Clint Eastwood and Enio Morricone's soundtrack. My favorite theme is in the third movie, called Ectasy of Gold. Btw, this is a trilogy of four movies, as some people include in it Once Upon a Time in the West.
1:58 😂 those aren’t even cowboy hats. Looks like something Crocodile Dundee would wear.
4:52 dude, that’s the Dos Equis Man 😂 “I don’t always drink beer but when I do I drink a Dox Equix” 🍺🍺
It's probably already been mentioned in the comments, but the character of Rick Dalton in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is Eastwood at the end of his TV career going to Europe to make Spaghetti Westerns and finding fame, among other things about Dalton's character.
Welcome to Sergio and Enio's realm... It gets better and better, the best, IMHO. being Once Upon a time in the West, simply, my all time favorite THEATER Movie... Best soundtrack... Great story telling, and magnificent pictures and music.
"The Proposition" is a western set in 1880s Australia starring Guy Pearce. Worth a watch
He's supposed to be the embodiment of death on the pale horse. This is also a retelling of the samurai movie Yojimbo. Excellent trilogy
Watch these in order and you'll experience a good progression of the Western. You'll thank me later.
1948 The Treasure of Sierra Madre
1952 High Noon
1953 Shane
1956 The Searchers
1960 The Magnificent Seven
1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1964 A Fistful of Dollars
1965 For A Few Dollars More
1966 The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
1968 Once Upon a Time in the West
1968 Hang'em High
1969 The Wild Bunch
1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1972 Jeremiah Johnson
1973 High Plains Drifter
1976 The Outlaw Josey Wales
1985 Pale Rider
1990 Dances with Wolves
1992 Unforgiven (My favorite)
2003 Open Range
2007 3:10 to Yuma
2010 True Grit
2012 Django Unchained