"A Fistful of Dollars" Leone and Eastwood. A masterpiece of macaroni western created by the collision of different talents.

“A Fistful of Dollars” synopsis

San Miguel is a small town on the border between the United States and Mexico. One day, a wandering gunman named Joe (Clint Eastwood) shows up. When he learns that the roughneck Miguel and the sheriff Baxter have divided the town into two and are constantly fighting over territory, he quickly kills Baxter's henchman and becomes Miguel's bodyguard. Joe maneuvers his way around and tries to force both sides to fall, but then Miguel's son Ramon (Gian Maria Volonte), an expert rifleman, returns.

Index

• The spark of the macaroni western that saved the depressed Italian film industry
• The price of the unofficial remake of Yojimbo was expensive
• The first leading role that came to Eastwood after many rounds.
• “Anonymous Man” created by Eastwood
• An innocent, free spirit who destroyed Western grammar.

The spark of the macaroni western that saved the depressed Italian film industry

In the early 1960s, the Italian film industry was in the midst of a recession. Blockbusters such as `` Cleopatra '' (63) and `` Sodom and Gomorrah '' (63) were huge failures at the box office. The gorgeous historical dramas that once flourished lost their momentum, and the film industry itself began to shrink.

Under such circumstances, Italian film producers had high hopes for Western movies as a new source of minerals. Although Hollywood was already in decline, its popularity in Europe remained high. The film that sparked this was the release of ``A Fistful of Dollars'' in 1964. It was a huge hit, earning around $15 million at the worldwide box office despite a production cost of $200,000. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the history of Italian Westerns...the so-called Macaroni Westerns began here.

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This film was also the first Western film by Sergio Leone, who was later called the ``father of macaroni westerns.'' At the time, he was a novice director who had just directed two films, `` The Last Days of Pompeii '' (1959) and `` The Fortress of Rhode Island '' (61), after a long career as a junior. Moreover, due to the recession, there was no work at all.

One day, he receives a strong recommendation for a Japanese film from his friend Enzo Balboni, a cinematographer. Balboni had just seen the film in the theater and was beyond excited. Here is the synopsis of the movie. A skilled ronin comes to a certain post town. There, two factions are at odds, and Ronin offers himself as a bodyguard. However, the story goes that it was a plan to wipe out both forces in one fell swoop.

yes. That Japanese film is Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece historical drama Yojimbo (61).

The price of the unofficial remake of Yojimbo was expensive