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A Fistful of Dollars launched the spaghetti Western and catapulted Clint Eastwood to stardom. Based on Akira Kurosawa's 1961 samurai picture Yojimbo, it scored a resounding success (in I...( read more 
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MCT:May 12, 2008
He underestimates the number of coffins he'll need. He doesn't know anything about peace. He knocks women senseless without compunction. What a man.
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MCT:May 11, 2008I didn't like how the translated English was obviously just recorded onto the movie, it lost all effect of surround sound. I would've preferred reading subtitles. I liked how Eastwood came up with some pretty impressive plans.
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MCT:May 11, 2008
Good beginning to the Man With No Name trilogy, this film is remake of the great Kurosawa film Yojimbo, but lacks the breathe of that film and suffers from a been there done that storyline. Still memorable for the final scene which was referenced to in the final Back to the Future film.
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MCT:May 8, 2008
The introduction of the iconic man with no name saw Clint Eastwood catapulted to international stardom in this remake of Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece Yojimbo. Of course there's a certain irony in the fact that an Italian remake of a Japanese film shot in Spain would be the birth of the modern western, but the elements combine to fit the setting of the old west perfectly. The script has taken rather a trim in comparison, this film concentrating on machismo and gunplay rather than the more artful and character driven original; the result is that Eastwood's gunslinger comes across as more of a cynical operator than Mifune's aimless but moralistic samurai, and the build up has a brisk, almost rushed feel about it. But this film is all about the showdown at the end which, combined with Morricone's unforgettable score, is classic Leone.
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MCT:May 5, 2008This is where it all began for the man with no name. Undoubtedly one of the greatest Westerns of all time and the film that started it all.
Clint Eastwood is such a fine actor. The fact that he never understood Italian and worked with the great Italian director Sergio Leone who doesn't understand English must've meant that they faced a lot of difficulties with the language barrier. Yet he seems to have pulled off the role almost perfectly.
Kudos to Ennio Morricone for the great soundtrack as well. You just can't help but feel like whistling along to the theme tune.
The only thing that bothered me was the fact that the movie is dubbed. But I could understand it considering the time of filming and the fact this was a small budget Italian film with an almost all Italian crew who never spoke or understood any English. All the sound was added during post production and though it doesn't match at times, I got used to it quickly.
This is supposed to be based on the Japanese epic Yojimbo by the legendary Japanese director Kurosawa. I've not watched it yet but after seeing this, I've already made up my mind that I'll definitely be seeing it soon enough.
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