1964
Aliases: Fistful of Dollars
Aliases: For a few dollars
Filmmaker: Sergio Leone
Actors: Clint Eastwood - Gian Maria Volonte - Marianne Koch
Record Cinéprofil
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Seen blu-ray
In the dark corners of my memory lurks so deep memories of my first Leone I not sure if this is it or "It was a Time in the West "that I saw. Should there be a cycle Leone the movies because the two tracks merge for me now.
Anyway, this handful of dollars, with In retrospect, the revoyures multiple amazes me: the film is the first western de Sergio Leone and already all the invention of the filmmaker is there under our eyes and ears. Sergio Leon e is a painter decorator which absorbed the characteristics of the western myth to rebuild, give him a brand new dress, all flamboyant, highly charged with false signs realistic limits of caricature, as if the film could become excessive, a coarseness of characters where the characters craggy to participate on stage in a conga or a close representation of stuffing festive, colorful and provocative, but very alive and healthy despite the seeming crass, ostentation of villainy.
But they never fall into the ridiculous or in a form too rough for them. I often use the image of the tightrope walker to evoke this graceful gesticulation balancing act that many filmmakers are involved here but I think Leone achieves blatant exploitation in this sense. What is even more amazing is that it will achieve greater mastery in his subsequent films, including more complex sets of relationships between the characters more searched.
In this handful of dollars, human relations are chick comes down to the man with no name (Clint Eastwood ) in his duel with Ramon (Gian Maria Volonte ) and probably something more with subtle Marianne Koch between seduction and benevolence. It stops there.
The main argument of the film, dramatically pumped about "Yojimbo "Kurosawa, is the passage of this strange, nameless, in a city where corruption and violence reign, where two clans clash in a surge of more destructive consequences. The unnamed man by his malice and his sense Moral plays the angel of God, salvation of men, monsters and executioner vigilante killers.
This dog in a bowling game, Clint Eastwood embodies it with skill. The young actor will thus impose his blue eyes , smart, on a series of westerns Leonean before cooling completely for Dirty Harry. It raises a whole new piece of mythology westernienne.
Similarly Gian Maria Volonte manage to expand its role in patient trigger "For a Few Dollars More", but already he imbues his hero infernal rot and any necessary megalomania. I love this actor. It was something indefinable that cares tokens. In many ways, it reminds me of Maurice Ronet: the beautiful faces that could play the hero, but who knew in their faces so well expressed by the darkness of human they are thus Coltines roles bastard of a mess.
Difficult to circumvent the name of Ennio Morricone here who, like others, immediately finds its place in the processing stage of this story. The dressing is wonderfully original music, very catchy, catchy and above all in phase with the sound world that imagines that time. His music is so effective that it was hard then not to associate directly with the genre, the Far West, the true, pure, juicy, with mucus, the hairs of his beard unshaven, the tan , dusty boots, short, real barbaque.
"A Fistful of Dollars" opens the door to the history of cinema hits large Tatana, the Tiagi definitely! And the public dazed at first by what he saw on the screen, then remains fond of this new type of comedia delloueste. Forward for the new peplum, spaghetti western is launched, served al dente!
Trombi : Clint Eastwood
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Marianne Koch :
Gian Maria Volonte :
Jose Calvo :
Sieghardt Rupp :
Benito Stefanelli :
Joseph Egger :
Antonio Prieto :
Margarita Lozano :
Bruno Carotenuto :
Wolfgang Lukschy :
