Red Dead Road to Redemption: The Spaghetti Western and 'Dollar Trilogy' The Dollar Trilogy, three films directed by Sergio Leone followed that gave name to the Spaghetti Western genre, and made famous by Clint Eastwood. These are 'A Fistful of Dollars' (' A Fistful of Dollars', 1964), 'The A Few Dollars More '(' For a Few Dollars More ', 1965) and' The Good, the Bad and the Ugly '(' The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ', 1966)
There are a few information and curiosities I read somewhere or that I have observed myself:
Production
The first, 'A Fistful of Dollars "was filmed with 4 drives. All clothes except the poncho Clint Eastwood green (pants, shirt, sheepskin vest, hat) he bought it second hand in California before traveling to Spain for the shoot. The budgets of the three films are in around $ 200,000, $ 600,000 and $ 1,300,000 respectively.
whole team of 'A Fistful of Dollars', including himself Leone and Ennio Morricone, he changed his stage name to something that sounded American "to sell the movie in USA.
For this first film, Sergio Leone had no money to pay Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson would not accept the argument because he felt bad. The two, Fonda and Bronson worked a few years later under the direction of Leone in 'Once Upon a Time in West (1968)'. Also shuffled James Coburn and Richard Harrison. The latter recommended to Clint Eastwood. Years He later said "Perhaps my greatest contribution to film there but not to 'A Fistful of Dollars' and recommend to Eastwood for the role."
All three films were shot in 1964, 1965 and 1966 respectively, but the three were released in the USA during 1967. When Clint Eastwood called to record the second, 'For a price', it did not dare to accept without seeing the English-speaking version or release in USA. I sent a copy in perfect Italian envisioned a group of friends, without really knowing what they would find. Everyone liked him, accepted the second, and went to Almeria recording.
'A Fistful of Dollars "is an unauthorized remake of Yojimbo, Akira Kurosawa. The Japanese claimed to Leone, and won in court. Among other things, Kurosawa received 15% of all proceeds from the film by Leone. In the end, Kurosawa made more money with the movie of his Leone that :-) Interesting to note that while the protagonist Yojimbo uses the sword to beat the bad guys with guns, in Clint Eastwood spaghetti version uses the gun to win the rifles.
note also in production the first two movies are "Hispanic." Absolutely everything except Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef is set in Mexico, and it shows much that is Italian-English. Come to the mountains of Madrid is the most American have. The third movie has a lot more but American air. Not only noticed by a lot of resources and budget increase, but also the theme set in the civil war is very supportive.
The music of Ennio Morricone's music for films. It's really impressive, and not much else to say. The music was recorded before the movie. A Sergio Leone was so fond of music, which lengthened the expected scenes of the music ended, I did not want half cut any topic. That is one reason why these movies are so slow: by music.