I've recently been introduced heavily into the genre of "Western." I've made a new friend within the last year and him and I have been forcing each others interests on the other one. I've been forcing all my dark noir gothic films and music on him, and hes been forcing his old school sixties, seventies, Reynolds styles and westerns on me.
REYNOLDS STYLE!
So I went out to my local mart of wal and purchased the infamous "Dollars" trilogy upon my good buddies orders. I finished them over the Easter holiday and I can safely say I defiantly see the appeal in this genre and these films.
I'm not a total stranger to the genre as I am a big fan of the series "Deadwood" and the film "3:10 to Yuma." While Deadwood was more about its town politics than the American old west and Yuma was just its short little contained story and not really about a badass gunslinger...I still know whats what in this area of film.
For those of you who don't know, "the dollars trilogy" consists of three spaghetti westerns, that basically launched the genre and all stared Clint Eastwood as "the man with no name."
The most famous of these three films, is the final entry (which is actually a prequel and takes place before the first two entries) "The Good The Bad & The Ugly" which my buddy assured me is the best in the series.
I respectfully disagree.
Of the three films byyyyyyyyyyyyyy faaaaaaarrrrrrr "For a Few Dollars More" captured me the most. I loved the two teamed bounty hunters, one of which was named "The Man in Black" a title I love. Myabe its because I love noir elements, but of the three film this one seemed to have the most of those and it had the best gun fights and the villain was a ruthless piece of shit. And there was actual a goal of vengeance and it wasn't really about the money...it was about stopping a psychopath.
If anyone is interested I defiantly for continuities sake recommend watching all three films, but make a special effort to see "For a few Dollars more" defiantly the best...in my opinion at least...the fans of the rest of the genre may disagree.
Oh and on a final note, of the 3 films, it also had my favorite theme...
-Von
REYNOLDS STYLE!
So I went out to my local mart of wal and purchased the infamous "Dollars" trilogy upon my good buddies orders. I finished them over the Easter holiday and I can safely say I defiantly see the appeal in this genre and these films.
I'm not a total stranger to the genre as I am a big fan of the series "Deadwood" and the film "3:10 to Yuma." While Deadwood was more about its town politics than the American old west and Yuma was just its short little contained story and not really about a badass gunslinger...I still know whats what in this area of film.
For those of you who don't know, "the dollars trilogy" consists of three spaghetti westerns, that basically launched the genre and all stared Clint Eastwood as "the man with no name."
The most famous of these three films, is the final entry (which is actually a prequel and takes place before the first two entries) "The Good The Bad & The Ugly" which my buddy assured me is the best in the series.
I respectfully disagree.
Of the three films byyyyyyyyyyyyyy faaaaaaarrrrrrr "For a Few Dollars More" captured me the most. I loved the two teamed bounty hunters, one of which was named "The Man in Black" a title I love. Myabe its because I love noir elements, but of the three film this one seemed to have the most of those and it had the best gun fights and the villain was a ruthless piece of shit. And there was actual a goal of vengeance and it wasn't really about the money...it was about stopping a psychopath.
If anyone is interested I defiantly for continuities sake recommend watching all three films, but make a special effort to see "For a few Dollars more" defiantly the best...in my opinion at least...the fans of the rest of the genre may disagree.
Oh and on a final note, of the 3 films, it also had my favorite theme...
-Von
i definitely understand and know about holding out
hence why ive been single for so long