A Fistful of Dollars

The films, “A Fistful of Dollars”, and, “Yojimbo”, both focus on an area being taken over by bandits and facing hard times due to this. A man then comes into the area as a “passerbyer” during his travels. The man notices how out of shape the area is and faces off with the bandits. He then goes to discuss what is going on with another man in the area when he was looking for food and drink. Although the films share the same basic storyline with one another, many parts of the films differ. If I, personally

A Fistful of Dollars: A Revolutionary Movie In the late 1960’s a new subgenre was born: “European Western”, most well known as “Spaghetti Western”. Per un Pugno di Dollari (A Fistful of Dollars) is a movie that represents this genre. It was made in 1964 by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, and with a musical score composed by Ennio Morricone. This film set the pace and tone of the genre, so despite personal taste, this movie can be called revolutionary and influential. Key factors for such achievement

Arsenii Maliev 0782626 Film 3006-01 Brian Dunphy Annotated Filmography A Fistful of Dollars. Dir. Sergio Leone. Perf. Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, John Wells, Joe Edger. 1964. Plot summary: A ranger arrives at the little Mexican town of San Miguel. The streets are empty, and the first person he meets is a dead man seated on a horse with a mocking note pinned to his back. From the words of the town’s innkeeper (Silvanito), San Miguel has become a battlefield

Conversely, the man with no name has clear motivations throughout the entirety of Fistful of Dollars. The man with no name is a bounty hunter, his motivation is money. Of course, the man with no name wants to kill everyone. If he kills both gangs he gets paid a great deal of money. The Continental op is supposed to be solving murders not committing them. It seems like he does not care about money so he is not doing it for that. The money Elihu is paying him is going to the detective agency and not

The term Spaghetti Western became popular in the mid 60’s in which A Fistful of Dollars was released as the first film of a trilogy, but this was not Sergio Leone’s first western movie. Leone’s films were not of a typical American western that had been released in previous years, but instead a reaction or his own take of the Western frontier and through many aspects of his films we can see influences from Italian cinematic styles and approaches. This was an interesting time for the western film industry

A Comparison of the Man with No Name in A Fistful of Dollars and William Munney's Unforgiven Compare and contrast the representation of "the man with no name" in "A Fistful of Dollars" and William Munney in "Unforgiven". Do we have sympathy with these re- worked heroes? Your answer should include reference to film language, especially the use of generic conventions and iconography. The Western genre is an extremely important film type as some of the world's most revolutionary

Although both A Fistful of Dollars by Sergio Leone and “Clint Eastwood” by Carty Sewill relate to the dangers of living in the west and what troubles come with it, Sergio Leone depicts that there is nothing but a cold killer in the eyes of a western man whereas Carty Sewill emphasizes that the Western man does, in fact, have feelings due to the bright and vibrant colors used in his painting. Both Sergio Leone and Carty Sewill show that the West is a very dangerous and unfriendly place. In the

Title: Two Versions of a Single Story: National Perspective and Auteur Approaches to the Outsider “Western”. Kurosawa’s Yojimbo and Leone’s Fistful of Dollars Compared. Student: I-Fu Chen Class: CTCS 502 Professor: Priya Jaikumar Due: Oct 8th, 2014 Films: Yojimba, Akira Kurasawa (dir.) 1961, Japan (Viewed Sept 17, 2014) Fistful of Dollars, Serge Leone (dir.) 1964, Italy. (Viewed Oct 1, 2014) This essay is based on films of the same story, told in different ways, with emphasis

Kurosawa 's Yojimbo and Sergio Leone 's A Fistful of Dollars are undeniable and yet both films reached similar levels of success in their respective nations. In fact, the films were found to be so analogous that Kurosawa is known to have sued Leone for the unlicensed production of his film. All of this aside, it is the differences between each of these films that reveal the most about the cultural nuances between each nation at the time. Although A Fistful of Dollars follows Kurosawa 's plot line almost

A Comparison between Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars The Seven Samurai. Hidden Fortress. Yojimbo. These are just a few renowned films directed by none other than the ingenious Akira Kurosawa. Ever since he rose to fame, numerous directors have tried to imitate his film techniques and shots, incorporating these techniques into their own films. However, Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars went far beyond the basics of replicating Kurosawa’s film techniques. Despite some major differences in themes