A Fistful of Dollars

A Fistful of Dollars is a film from 1964. The film was the first in a long series of spaghetti westerns and is seen by many as an influential film. The main roles are for Clint Eastwood and Gian Maria Volonté.

The film forms the first part of the Dollarstrilogy which further consists of Per qualche dollaro in più (For a few dollars more) and Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (The good, The bad and the ugly).



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == An unnamed Mexican town of San Miguel in the Sharpshooter arrives. He soon discovers that the city is ravaged by two rival gangster bosses: John Baxter and Ramón Rojo. The alien kills four men of Baxter's gang, and is hired by Don Miguel Rojo Ramóns brother to come with his gang. However, the alien decision to save the situation by getting currency from rent to both parties, and they are so set against each other. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Production[ Edit] == The film was a western made by Italian Director Sergio Leone and the film is completely taken up in Spain. Next to Clint Eastwood were most actors of Spanish, Chilean, Italian or Mexican descent. The film, however, was such a success that countless other Italian filmmakers also westerns in Spain went up. Thus, the spaghetti western emerged.
 * 2 Cast
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The story of the film was copied from the Japanese Samurai film Yojimbo. Leone had not only the story of Yojimbo literally taken over, he had some scenes redone and self pieces copied verbatim dialogue. Because the movie so much on Yojimbo seemed, had to be postponed the premiere in the United States . The writers of the screenplay by Ryuzo Kikushima Yojimbo, and Akira Kurosawa, were by the Court had indicted and Leone namely as regards their initial demands. For that reason had to be ceded to them 15% of the proceeds. The idea of a Japanese Samurai film to the Wild West to translate was also not original. John Sturges had done this before with The Magnificent Seven.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The music is by Ennio Morricone, the beginning of a long collaboration between him and Leone. Both were former classmates from each other.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Per un pugno di dollari was shot in Cinecittà in Rome and on location in Almería and Madrid. ==Style<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="70" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film is in marked contrast to all American westerns, because:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Stylistically the film can also be called revolutionary: a lot of sound, Assembly and camera techniques that were applied in this film would later be imitated countless times by other filmmakers. Although it should be said that many of these influential characteristics were applied much more emphatically in the later films of Leone. A Fistful of Dollars was only a small lowbudgetproductie that lasted only 90 minutes. Leone did not have the full space and only got in later films much more space to experiment to your heart's content. ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * In American westerns are always clear to see a dividing line between good and evil is. In this genre is the main character just as bad as the criminals he fights.
 * The film contains much more action and violence than American westerns.
 * The action is interspersed with black humor.
 * In American westerns is always will be shown the beauty of the American landscape. This film is set in an apocalyptic desert, a dry, arid and ominous landscape.
 * Previous westerns romanticize the Wild West especially. This film shows the Wild West shows up as nasty, realistic-pessimistic, full of violence and dishonesty.
 * The title was actually Il magnifico straniero (The magnificent stranger), but three days before the premiere was still changed to the current title.