"Spaghetti Westerns"

[billt460]

My 3 favorite "Spaghetti Westerns" have always been the 3 Clint Eastwood classic's, "Fistful Of Dollars"... "For A Few Dollars More"... & "The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly".

The music and theme songs to them were every bit as good as the movies were. The Danish Symphony Orchestra performs all 3, and they sound exactly like the movie soundtrack. I've never heard any complex soundtrack to a movie reproduced so perfectly, so long after the movie was released.

Some come close, but not like these 3. Just going by their age, many of these people weren't even alive when these movies came out. They nailed it perfectly!

 

[joekingcorvette]

Yes, those were truly some great shows!

 

[Astro14]

If you love “A Fistful of Dollars” - then do yourself a favor and watch Akira Kurosawa’s “Yojimbo” - same story, set in Japan, with a wandering samurai, done five years before Sergio Leone re-told the tale using a western gunslinger.

Both are great movies - but the very best line in either one is when the Samurai (played by Toshiro Mifune) confronts the farmer’s son at the end of the movie.

Watch it and tell me what you think.

 

[Chris142]

I never could follow the story line on the Google,bad, ugly.

 

[Pablo]

If you love “A Fistful of Dollars” - then do yourself a favor and watch Akira Kurosawa’s “Yojimbo” - same story, set in Japan, with a wandering samurai, done five years before Sergio Leone re-told the tale using a western gunslinger.

Both are great movies - but the very best line in either one is when the Samurai (played by Toshiro Mifune) confronts the farmer’s son at the end of the movie.

Watch it and tell me what you think.

Nothing wrong with that

But Clint and the music make it great

 

[wavinwayne]

I never could follow the story line on the Google,bad, ugly.

3 gunslingers compete and form uneasy alliances in a race to find $200,000 in buried Confederate gold during the chaos of the American Civil War.

 

[Leo99]

The Man With No Name trilogy is fantastic. So bizarre how those movies were made with Mexican actors speaking Spanish and English dubbed over. And such long stretches of the movie with no dialog the way men will hang out with each other but not talk. It's realistic.

 

[wemay]

My favorite Genre of westerns, by far.

"For A Few Dollars More"
"The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly"
"Once Upon a Time in the West"
"Fistful Of Dollars"
"Two Mules for Sister Sarah"

 

[billt460]

My favorite Genre of westerns, by far.

"For A Few Dollars More"
"The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly"
"Once Upon a Time in the West"
"Fistful Of Dollars"
"Two Mules for Sister Sarah"

"Once Upon A Time In The West", was a classic. Especially the fly scene with Jack Elam. How they were able to film that is beyond me.

 

[BMWTurboDzl]

Per one of his sons, Eastwood didn't know they were released in the US until someone told him or he heard about some great Western.

 

[IndyFan]

I LOVE these westerns! My favorite scene of them all is the mule scene in "A Fist Full of Dollars." That is Clint at his legendary best!

 

[Albin]

My favorite Genre of westerns, by far.

"For A Few Dollars More"
"The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly"
"Once Upon a Time in the West"
"Fistful Of Dollars"
"Two Mules for Sister Sarah"

I remember when all of those came out in the movie theaters.

I used to have, in the late 60's, the vinyl record for the TGTBTU; I wonder how much it would be worth today?

 

[Albin]

"Once Upon A Time In The West", was a classic. Especially the fly scene with Jack Elam. How they were able to film that is beyond me.

Jelly on his face and some pet flies.

 

[wemay]

I remember when all of those came out in the movie theaters.

I used to have, in the late 60's, the vinyl record for the TGTBTU; I wonder how much it would be worth today?

I saw my first one (can't remember which) at a movie theater in Panama while on vacation. I've been enthralled since.
That vinyl would be worth it to a collector. Even if just to hang on a wall.

 

[wemay]

I LOVE these westerns! My favorite scene of them all is the mule scene in "A Fist Full of Dollars." That is Clint at his legendary best!

Mine is the hand-chime, duel scene at the end of "For A Few Dollars More". I still get chills watching it. Superb actors, musical score, storyline, and location.

The story behind that chime is poignant. For those of us not in the know.

If you haven't seen it, youtube it.

 

[Astro14]

Nothing wrong with that

But Clint and the music make it great

Actually, the cinematography of Kurosawa is part of what makes it great, and Sergio Leone copied a great deal of Kurosawa’s cinematography. You may not notice it because it’s not quite as obvious as Clint‘s character, but the feeling, the tensions, the atmosphere, are critical to the impact of the story.

When the samurai walks into town, towards the end of the movie, and stands at the ends of the street, having recovered from his capture, and beating, the dust cloud rises behind him, “the storm”, that is about to hit the town is evident.

And Leone used exactly the same scene in his movie.

 

[Speedy3861]

The Dollars trilogy is definitely excellent on many levels, but I think Once Upon a Time In The West is the definitive Spaghetti Western as well as one of the best Westerns ever filmed, The score and cinematography as well as the cast are just outstanding. That and (spoiler: not Spaghetti Western-filmed in Mexico) The Magnificent Seven. My absolute favorite Westerns. Of the Trilogy, For a few Dollars More, is the best IMHO

 

[Astro14]

The Dollars trilogy is definitely excellent on many levels, but I think Once Upon a Time In The West is the definitive Spaghetti Western as well as one of the best Westerns ever filmed, The score and cinematography as well as the cast are just outstanding. That and (spoiler: not Spaghetti Western-filmed in Mexico) The Magnificent Seven. My absolute favorite Westerns. Of the Trilogy, For a few Dollars More, is the best IMHO

The Magnificent Seven is a great movie, and made Steve McQueen as an actor.

Also, a retelling of a Kurosawa film from years earlier - “The Seven Samurai”.

 

[Pablo]

Many stories originate from early ancient tales. I mean Kurosawa's "Dreams" borrows from Japanese stories earlier. It doesn't take anything away from them in a bad way.

 

[Astro14]

Many stories originate from early ancient tales. I mean Kurosawa's "Dreams" borrows from Japanese stories earlier. It doesn't take anything away from them in a bad way.

Not at all, and I didn’t mean to imply that it did.

However, I do have Kurosawa’s movies, as well as Leone’s, in my collection.