Fistful benefits from an extremely high bitrate, although I do wish that there was more detail in the image, which is too soft, but dirt and scratches have at least been reduced. DuHamel's in-depth review of the previously released The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Blu-ray single.Īll three films are preserved in their original aspect ratio of 2.35:1, although I am fairly certain that the studio has used the same masters that were created for DVD a few years ago, now re-authored for Blu-ray. But this collection's grouping surely acknowledges how the tone and style of this ultra-cool badass forever changed the face of cinema. It's difficult to say for sure whether Clint's gunslinger is the same character across the trilogy, as he does in fact have at least a nickname ('Joe' 'Manco' 'Blondie') in each, and the timeline from movie to movie gets a little hinky. It's the summit of Leone's storytelling, full of delicious characters, memorable dialogue and even a bit of humor along the twisty route to a fortune in missing Confederate gold.

And considered by many to be the greatest Western ever made, GBU is the darkest of this wild bunch but also a sprawling epic set against the backdrop of The Civil War. More casts him as a bounty hunter teamed with a rival (Lee Van Cleef) to take down a particular nasty hombre. Fistful was inspired by Akira Kurosawa's samurai film Yojimbo, with Clint putting himself in the middle of a turf war in a small town overrun with criminals. In all three, Clint plays a mysterious master gunhand, shady yet strangely charismatic. The three films they made together- A Fistful of Dollars ( Per un pugno di dollari), For a Few Dollars More ( Per qualche dollaro in più) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ( Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo.)-have been boxed together in The Man with No Name Trilogy. As the popularity of the Western genre was winding down, he reinvigorated it with bold camera angles, jarring violence, moral ambiguity and a hot young star named Clint Eastwood. Like all of the 'great' outlaws of the American West, filmmaker Sergio Leone found his niche by breaking the rules.

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