A Fistful of Dollars - Patreon Version
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So just a couple of fun facts about this movie: it is, beat-for-beat, a copy of Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" (literal translation: "Bodyguard," and one of the scenes in Yojimbo was featured in the film "The Bodyguard" starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston (their characters are shown watching Kurosawa's film in a theater)). Sergio Leone didn't ask permission to remake the movie and Toho, the production company behind Yojimbo's film, sued. They settled out of court with Sergio Leone giving Toho a percentage of this film's earnings. The coolest thing: Clint Eastwood was relatively unknown at the time this movie was filmed. He went out to Italy, not speaking the language, to film with a relatively unknown director because it was paying work, and he didn't know if the movie would be any good or not. The movie was released in Italy and everyone went absolutely wild over it, so Sergio Leone immediately called Eastwood up to put together a deal for a second movie. Eastwood was like (paraphrasing), "I haven't even seen the first one yet, how do I know it's any good?" So Leone sent a copy over to Eastwood to view, but they hadn't done the English-dubbed version yet, so it was in Italian. Eastwood invited a bunch of his friends over for a viewing and they all watched it together. Even though neither he nor any of his friends could understand any of the lines, his friends were all like, "that was amazing, and you have got to do another movie with this director!" Thus, "The Man With No Name" trilogy was born, and the newly-invented "Spaghetti Western" genre took the industry by storm.
Tenn Seven
2025-05-19 22:25:08 +0000 UTCI'm late to this party, but the Eurowestern was a new type of Western when it arrived and part of the demythologisation of the classic Western. The Classic protagonist was a decent and moral lawman, not an unshaven, sarcastic, insolent antihero with personal goals in mind. 😄
Opti_Frog
2025-05-17 06:25:37 +0000 UTCy’all need to react to Yojimbo. This is also the version of Clint Eastwood that you see in Rango the animated movie with Johnny Depp.
BigGuy209
2025-05-13 21:18:30 +0000 UTCInexactitude
Mark Alex Leach
2025-05-12 12:30:07 +0000 UTCI recommend they watch the original version of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, not the extended version. The movie is already long and the extended version is probably too long for the average person. If someone wants to rewatch the movie, it might be worth it to see the extended version, but I say go with the original theater release.
Al
2025-05-12 04:19:12 +0000 UTCThis was great. Definitely keep going with the trilogy - it only gets better. And Sergio Leone's later western Once Upon a Time in the West is a classic and would be a lot of fun, especially having seen Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men. For more younger Clint Eastwood but getting out of westerns a favorite has always been Where Eagles Dare which is a WWII commando movie. Nothing heavy, just a good action-adventure/thriller. And Yojimbo is great and certainly worth a watch. An early take on the lone anti-hero and it's also an easy introduction to Kurosawa's other samurai classics like Seven Samurai.
Seth
2025-05-12 04:02:47 +0000 UTCI hope they'll react to the rest of the trilogy
Vincent Arfeux
2025-05-11 23:50:23 +0000 UTCIf you're ever interested in a Clint Eastwood comedy check out 'Every Which Way But Loose' (1978).
Beddoe
2025-05-11 23:09:25 +0000 UTCNow i have to watch this reaction again but this time knowing Simone tought the setting of the movie was in Europe.
King_Panarisi
2025-05-11 19:00:06 +0000 UTCYojimbo for watch
Kartik Negi
2025-05-11 16:26:52 +0000 UTCThe basic plot of Red Harvest/Yojimbo/A Fistful of Dollars is infinitely adaptable. Rian Johnson’s first movie, Brick, set it in a high school. It basically works wherever two gangs are caught in a stalemate. These movies were huge in the 60s especially with the counterculture. The violence and the amoral hero set the tone for a lot of indie films of the 70s
Jacob King
2025-05-11 10:38:15 +0000 UTCOne for each other and all for one!
MacGuffinStuff
2025-05-11 07:51:18 +0000 UTCVerisimilitude I learnedl , I think it was in a Theater History class I took, was a fun class for me. But denouement, is my word. I learned it in an English Lit class and I'm so glad I never had to say it out loud because I would have embarrassed myself, at least to the professor. It's basically the way the elements of a story come together in conclusion. And the way I learned to pronounce it was actually watching Ken Burns's documentary series about baseball (my favorite Ken Burns documentary series because it's relatively fun compared to his war documentaries), the phrase was "and it was the exquisite literary denouement...", pronounced like day-new-MA, not duh-NOW-mint lol
MacGuffinStuff
2025-05-11 05:47:01 +0000 UTCSo a first time watch for me as well. George, cowboys as a concept as what we think of them today originated in Spain. They were called "vaquero" which means "cowherd or cattle-herder." They existed in North America starting around the end of the 1500s, coming from Spain, though what most people think of as a "cowboy" in the US really started in the mid-1800s. As a number of people have already mentioned here and in the YouTube cut's comments, "Joe" is not the character's real name. Here, "Joe" is the nickname given to him by the bartender but he is known as "The Man with no Name" and that appellation is also referenced in "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome": https://youtu.be/9yDL0AKUCKo?t=166 Miguel and some of the others are wearing sombreros, the large-brimmed hat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sombrero Some of the whitewashed "adobe" buildings used in the movie still exist: https://forum.spaghetti-western.net/t/hunting-leone-fistful-of-dollars/6386 The machine gun and most of the other guns in the movie are too modern for the setting. I don't know much about rifles and revolvers, but as soon as I saw the closeup of Ramón firing that automatic weapon in the wagon I knew it was wrong as he is merely holding down the trigger when he should be operating a hand-crank to fire it. https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/A_Fistful_of_Dollars The machine gun is a fake, portraying a pre-gating weapon called a Mitrailleuse Machine Gun, a French weapon from the 1960s-1870s. The movie is apparently set in 1873, so the time periods for a Mitrailleuse Machine Gun used by the "American" Army here is conceivable, and I suppose the backstory could be that the Mexican gang seized a Mitrailleuse Machine Gun from the "real" Mexican Army. American soldiers at this point would be using a newer Gating Gun. In this movie, the "Mitrailleuse Machine Gun" was mocked up using parts of a much newer Maxim machine gun, the world's first true automatic machine gun, invented in the UK in 1884. Both the Gatling and the Mitrailleuse Machine Gun were hand-cranked, the main difference being that Gatling's barrels rotate for cooling purposes and a bullet is fired from only one barrel at one time as they all rotate. One barrel is loaded in turn, the bullet fires, and then the just-fired barrel moves away and the next barrel moves into place is loaded and fired, all in sequence. In contrast, the Mitrailleuse Machine Gun barrels are all individually loaded and it can fire one or all of its barrels at the same time. It is known as a "volley gun." Gatling Gun firing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w95L7lqGM2E Mitrailleuse Gun firing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wApeDr6-Bdo The gun in the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsPVyvwwVns Needless to say there is no way Ramón could have fired that gun for as long as he did in the movie without stopping to reload! "Marisol" means "sea and sun": mar (sea) y (and) sol (sun). Rojos means "reds." A bullet fired from the handguns and rifles seen in the movie cannot knock a person over, there is simply not enough mass and momentum in the bullet to overcome the mass of the person who is shot. People being knocked backwards after being shot is a long-standing movie trope. If the momentum of the fired bullet were somehow able to do this, the person firing the gun would also be knocked backwards as she or he fired from a standing position. Eastwood's first movie appearance was in "Revenge of the Creature" from 1955, playing lab technician "Jennings." I have seen this movie and it's a cheesy monster movie, but here is a clip of him in it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za_awKJQ3mk Anyway, that was a lot of fun! Hope to see more of these Westerns!
REDR58
2025-05-11 05:20:49 +0000 UTCOh right... I forgot, I also recommend The Good, The Bad and The Weird... it's a bonkers Korean Western with the best chase scene I've ever seen...
Monica Alarcon
2025-05-11 04:40:17 +0000 UTCYou need to finish the trilogy and then watch the other classic western: The Three Amigos!
Monica Alarcon
2025-05-11 04:39:05 +0000 UTCItaly and Spain actually have very similar climates and landscapes to the American southwest, but it was much cheaper to film there.
Simone's Coconut Squire
2025-05-11 03:04:27 +0000 UTCWord that needs to be used more: Platitudinous.
Simone's Coconut Squire
2025-05-11 02:56:52 +0000 UTCNow lets get to the rest so ya’ll can watch The Good The Bad and The Ugly and hopefully someday do Once Upon A Time In The West. Also Yojimbo is great. The GOAT Toshiru Mifune is awesome in it
Haye Zeus
2025-05-11 02:40:00 +0000 UTCYou guys have to watch Yojimbo now lol
Stanley Etienne
2025-05-11 02:12:51 +0000 UTCIt was filmed in Spain, and the story takes place in Mexico
Stanley Etienne
2025-05-11 02:09:41 +0000 UTCClint Eastwood has been nominated for Oscars in the categories of Producing (a.k.a. best picture), Directing, and Lead Actor. He has won twice for Producing, and twice for Directing.
Skyruff
2025-05-11 01:58:14 +0000 UTCBecause of the delay in releasing the three "dollar" films in the US, Americans first saw Clint Eastern in a movie western leading role with "hang em high" (1968). Eastwood was originally, a western star but branched out quickly into a wide range of roles. He has done almost all types of films. For seeing him laugh try his only attempt at a romantic(ish) comedy style film, "Pink Cadillac" (1989). Not his best work. Or a scene in "In the line of fire" (1993) which is a highly rated film.
Skyruff
2025-05-11 01:53:55 +0000 UTCThere is a lot of stories about the making of this and the two follow up films. The three "dollar" films were all made as three completely separate movies, with no written or expected connection. Clint Eastwood's character dressed alike as he was required to bring his own wardrobe and just 'borrowed' the outfit from the set of "Rawhide". He actually is given a different name in each film, but they all sound like nicknames, thus "the man with no name". The were each huge hits in Europe before being released in the US. For marketing purposes, United Artists decided to push them as a trilogy and pushing "the man with no name" label.
Skyruff
2025-05-11 01:39:17 +0000 UTCThis was so fun. I love this movie and his others. I grew up with my dad binging every western known, especially these and John Wayne, Rifleman, listening to the music etc. They really hold up too, so much was done with so little really. Even the over dubbing has a charm to it.
s0rd3z
2025-05-11 01:31:07 +0000 UTCSo glad you are finally doing the dollars trilogy. I can't wait until you guys react to the Good, The Bad and The Ugly. A true masterpiece and classic. Tarantino's fav film! Love you guys!
Michael Robayo
2025-05-11 01:24:58 +0000 UTCThe Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is the best of the three, but my favourite is For a Few Dollars More
G P
2025-05-11 00:36:31 +0000 UTCI mean, Akira Kurosawa is a legend of cinema, like Hitchcock, Spielberg, Scorsese, and many others. So yeah, watch Yojimbo and and all of his others.
Jesse Coombs
2025-05-11 00:27:08 +0000 UTCMy word that I wish I used more, but never seems right in a normal conversation is "callipygian." Also, "verisimilitude" appears a lot in movie reviews and film criticism, and, yes, most of the time, the person does come off as an asshole—and this is me talking.
Simon Peened Me
2025-05-10 23:59:34 +0000 UTCMy favorite word (technically this is prolly a sniglet, which is also a fun word.) is "shuggleftulation". The dance people do when walking at each other and trying to pick a side to move to as not to collide.
droodly
2025-05-10 22:57:40 +0000 UTCThe Good, The Bad & The Ugly is my favorite of the three movies. My favorite long word to use is - information, What? 😂
FranciscoGios
2025-05-10 22:21:47 +0000 UTCThe first would be in the silent era, they were popular until the genre kind of colled down (Ford was already around then). John Ford 40's and 50's era is really the classic one, the most influential in setting the tropes and imagery. The 60's, including spaghetti, were a new phase of more revisionist and cynical, but also influential with a huge Leone and Eastwood contribution I hope they watch The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
João Rafael Ferreira
2025-05-10 21:52:12 +0000 UTCThat Red Hot Chili Peppers joke was fire 🔥 🖖.
SpankTheMonk
2025-05-10 21:40:27 +0000 UTCGeorge said he wanted to see clint eastwood doing something different then what they saw on the channel. Well, im gonna suggest again my favorite of his, Bridges of Madison County. Its a masterpiece, beautiful, emocional. You wont regret it
João Rafael Ferreira
2025-05-10 21:35:25 +0000 UTCSo I believe the John Ford movies are the first generation of American West movies, then this period and then the period around Unforgiven is the modern. Please anyone else correct me or add extra infos. Also the famous shawl that Clint wears, which you will see again if you watch the other dollar films was paid tribute in Back to the Future 3, and the armor part too.
SpankTheMonk
2025-05-10 21:32:09 +0000 UTCFor me it is the best Sergio Leone western and perhaps his best film.
SpankTheMonk
2025-05-10 21:26:17 +0000 UTC3:10 got second place on the same western poll this film won, so it should be on their watch schedule in the near future
SpankTheMonk
2025-05-10 21:21:23 +0000 UTCGrrr. I never get to use Onomatopoeia.
Skyruff
2025-05-10 20:57:29 +0000 UTCGreat reaction! I think the music might be my favorite part of the film.
ComradQuestion
2025-05-10 20:46:03 +0000 UTCAntidisestablishmentarianism. There I finally got to use it. Please don’t ask me what it means cause I don’t have a fucking clue.
Young Blood Priest
2025-05-10 20:26:57 +0000 UTCThe last few reactions posted are why George and Simone are such great entertainers. Well done, friends.
Texas J
2025-05-10 20:01:43 +0000 UTCdeoxyribonucleic acid
Diplo's Sandwich
2025-05-10 19:17:53 +0000 UTCI was already having a good time in this reaction, but Simone realizing this was meant to be North America at 1h40 into a 1h40 film broke me. Please never change, Simone.
Tom Hess
2025-05-10 18:03:33 +0000 UTC3:10 to Yuma (2007) Open Range The Quick and the Dead
Odd Thomas
2025-05-10 17:46:00 +0000 UTCAbout the dubbing (sorry if anyone else already mentioned this): Italian films in that era didn't record sound on set at all. So all dialogue had to be dubbed in post production. In a lot of cases the actors would do their own dubbing in their language (like Eastwood), but it was common for a director to hire an actor for their look and then have another actor record the dubbing. In a lot of movies there would be German/Italian/Spanish/American actors all in one scene and they would each be performing in their native language knowing that they would be dubbed over later on. In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood the narrator briefly mentions that Rick Dalton did not enjoy that method of filmmaking.
Brandon
2025-05-10 17:23:57 +0000 UTCMost Terence Hill and Bud Spencer westerns are great! I love their non-western movies too, but they are not really popular outside Europe.
Zoltán Bublos
2025-05-10 16:41:05 +0000 UTCGreat Western from Clint, but the two greatest westerns ever that I highly recommend are Once Upon a Time in the West with Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson from 1968 and Clint Eastwood's classic, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. These two movie classics are the greatest ever and every modern western made across time has tried to emulate them but none has surpassed them. Both masterpieces by the way were Directed by Sergio Leone.
Lana Gorgeous
2025-05-10 16:39:39 +0000 UTCFor the end: Don't feel bad Simone, this is why we love you. :D
Zoltán Bublos
2025-05-10 16:38:42 +0000 UTCRegarding Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo', I think it's definitely worth watching! In fact, I appreciated 'Fistful' even more after watching it. In many ways, Leone's film is a shot for shot remake, with similar dialogue, and an almost identical story arc, however that by no means devalues Leone's movie in my eyes. When viewed together, the two films offer an incredible look at how Eastern and Western cultures differ in their values and perspective. How the same story can convey very different worldviews. (For me, the bridge from Leone to Kurosawa through these films finally put me onto Japanese, and Eastern cinema for the first time.) it's worth noting that Kurosawa himself was heavily influenced by Westerns, especially the films of John Ford. It's really quite a rich cultural exchange. "Y’know, Kurosawa did see Fistful [...] and he liked it, just like he liked The Magnificent Seven. But in the case of Fistful, it was an infringement. So Toho (Kurosawa’s studio) sued Leone, and Kurosawa sent a letter, and Leone was very pleased to get it; the letter said, ‘I’ve seen your movie. It’s a very good movie. Unfortunately, it’s my movie.'" (Source: Flavorwire) Sergio Leone's subsequent films are original stories, and in my opinion, they only get better. 'The Good, The Bad and the Ugly' and 'Once Upon a Time in the West' are peak Westerns for me, and just excellent masterpieces in general. I can't wait for you to continue on this journey. It's best to watch Leone's films in order of release.
Cincassette
2025-05-10 15:28:29 +0000 UTCTop 3-Italowesterns to follow it up with: - The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (Part 3 of the Dollar-trilogy you just started) - Once upon a time in the west - The Great Silence
Christopher Feiertag
2025-05-10 15:01:36 +0000 UTC"The amount of venom that can be delivered from a single bite can be GARGANTUAN. You know, I've always liked that word... 'gargantuan'... so rarely have an opportunity to use it in a sentence."
Mastervodo
2025-05-10 14:55:44 +0000 UTCOne of my favorite “big” words I don’t use every day is: “perspicacious adjective having or showing an ability to notice and understand things that are difficult or not obvious” https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perspicacious
REDR58
2025-05-10 14:45:07 +0000 UTCEastwood described the shooting on set as a "Tower of Babel" situation. Because a lot of the actors and extras were from Europe and didn't speak English, they just spoke the lines in their own language instead. Everything was over-dubbed. When learning lines, you just had to remember who got to speak and when, and then do your line, kind of a "you go, I go" deal. The other thing that was happening is behind the cameras, there wasn't much discipline from the crew. Eastwood said the reason why he is so squinty and focused in the films is because he didn't want to get distracted by people playing frisbee off behind the cameras and being loud. But it works! It doesn't matter to me that the mouths and the voices don't synch up, it gives the films a certain charm to them, and makes them unique. And yes, Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' is awesome and definitely worth a watch, as is most of his films. 'Seven Samruai' for sure.
Mike FromOz
2025-05-10 14:35:31 +0000 UTCMore importantly than the Brandon Sanderson books, Simone - How are those Dune books coming along?
Mastervodo
2025-05-10 14:32:30 +0000 UTC“What is a Spaghetti Western? The spaghetti western was born in the first half of the sixties and lasted until the second half of the seventies. It got its name from the fact that most of them were directed and produced by Italians, often in collaboration with other European countries, especially Spain and Germany. The name ‘spaghetti western’ originally was a depreciative term, given by foreign critics to these films because they thought they were inferior to American westerns. Most of the films were made with low budgets, but several still managed to be innovative and artistic, although at the time they didn’t get much recognition, even in Europe. In the eighties the reputation of the genre grew and today the term is no longer used disparagingly, although some Italians still prefer to call the films western all’italiana (westerns Italian style). In Japan they are called Macaroni westerns, in Germany Italowestern.” https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Introduction
REDR58
2025-05-10 14:19:31 +0000 UTCYep, this is one of my escapes from all that…madness.
REDR58
2025-05-10 14:15:45 +0000 UTCSeconded!
REDR58
2025-05-10 14:13:25 +0000 UTCA way more comedic spaghetti Western is "My name is nobody", with Terrence Hill and Henri Fonda. It's quite close to a parody. But it also has a story and good music. Plus some good comedic moments. I recommend for a reaction in a lighter mood.
Guillaume Huet_rennibou
2025-05-10 14:02:48 +0000 UTCOh... And if you eventually get to ALL of Eastwood's westerns, (Italian and Hollywood), that would be the best. Especially since he directed a few of them.😉
Prof. Writhms
2025-05-10 14:02:46 +0000 UTCIf you were a quick gunslinger back then in North or South Dakota... Would that be Dakota fanning? 😁 Sorry. I'll let myself out.
Prof. Writhms
2025-05-10 13:58:10 +0000 UTCThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly is the best S Leone movie for me. Followed by Once upon the time in the West, and its iconic score by Morricone. Well. Most Leone Movie have a wonderful score by Morricone. Third in my mind is A Fistful of Dynamite/"Duck, you sucker". With the same director/composer duo.
Guillaume Huet_rennibou
2025-05-10 13:54:08 +0000 UTCEastwood is also famous for his "Dirty Harry" movies: "Dirty Harry" (1971) "Magnum Force" (1973) "The Enforcer (1976) "Sudden Impact" (1983) "The Dead Pool" (1988) In the first 2 films, you might say Eastwood looks even younger than he did in the Dollar trilogy, on the count of him being clean shaven in the 'Harry' movies. Please check them out!
Prof. Writhms
2025-05-10 13:53:11 +0000 UTCHope you’ll watch the rest of the trilogy and Once Upon a Time in The West… which is my personal favourite western. And ofc some of the others western that Clint Eastwood did.
lee - ber nool
2025-05-10 13:50:45 +0000 UTCOnce Upon a Time in The West is absolutely Amazing
Benjamin Herrera
2025-05-10 13:47:57 +0000 UTCShooting quickly with a revolver is called "Fanning" I think
Joseph Schiller
2025-05-10 13:19:07 +0000 UTCGeorge wearing the Unleash the Archers T-Shirt shows that he's a man of culture and great taste. If anyone reading this loves epic metal, you should check out Unleash the Archers!
Grandalf
2025-05-10 12:41:59 +0000 UTCIsn't "verisimilitude" one of the words that Jim uses to show someone that he's smart in American Pie? :)
Grandalf
2025-05-10 12:35:44 +0000 UTCFirst heard that word in Accidental Death of an Anarchist from school and have never forgotten it haha
JakeyShakeyBakeyBoy
2025-05-10 12:33:42 +0000 UTCGreat movie and the follow-ups get better with each one. Definitely worth exploring for sure. Two words come to mind for your opening question: extemporaneous is the fancy word and flibbertigibbet is the silly word. Let’s just say neither do me any favours trying to act normal down here in Australia when saying them. Silence only follows haha
JakeyShakeyBakeyBoy
2025-05-10 12:29:25 +0000 UTCI really hope you'll do the next two movies (and "Once upon a Time in the west"), "the good, the bad and the ugly" is my all time favorite ! They just get better and better and my god the score of these movies !!!!
Luc Zettwoog
2025-05-10 12:27:16 +0000 UTCOut of these, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" is a must.
Mike FromOz
2025-05-10 12:26:20 +0000 UTCI would suggest you guys watch the rest of Sergio Leone's films in order of release. For a Few Dollars More (1965) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). I would watch the extended cut. Duck, You Sucker! (1971) Also known as A Fistful of Dynamite and Once Upon a Time ... the Revolution Once Upon a Time in America (1984). Make sure you watch the Extended Cut of this. Do not watch the Theatrical cut.
JediLounger
2025-05-10 12:25:30 +0000 UTC"Are they going to have Italian accents?" Oh, no, it's going to be way funnier than that.
Mike FromOz
2025-05-10 12:20:45 +0000 UTCDefenestration - the action of throwing someone out a window 🤣
Justtired
2025-05-10 12:17:25 +0000 UTCSo much content! I can't even keep up anymore, probably because I spend a lot of each day watching reels and reading articles, each outlining all the ways my government and country are burning to the ground right now. Anyway, back to Bloodsport! 😆
Gary Fixler
2025-05-10 12:07:28 +0000 UTC
