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Product Description A Fistful of Dollars is the western
taken to the extreme, with unremitting violence, gritty realism
and tongue-in-cheek humour starring Clint Eastwood\
Amazon.co.uk Review A Fistful of Dollars launched the
spaghetti Western and catapulted Clint Eastwood to stardom. Based
on Akira Kurosawa's 1961 samurai picture Yojimbo, it scored a
resounding success (in Italy in 1964 and the U.S. in 1967), as
did its sequels, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and
the Ugly. The advertising campaign promoted Eastwood's
character--laconic, amoral, dangerous--as the Man with No Name
(though in the film he's clearly referred to as Joe), and
audiences loved the movie's refreshing new take on the Western
genre. Gone are the pieties about making the streets safe for
women and children. Instead it's every man for himself. Striking,
too, was a new emphasis on violence, with stylized, almost
balletic gunfights and baroque touches such as Eastwood's
armoured breastplate. The Dollars films had a marked influence on
the Hollywood Western--for example, Sam Peckinpah's The Wild
Bunch--but their most enduring legacy is Clint Eastwood himself.
--Edward Buscombe
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