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I have a Ko-fi! Support the artist: ko-fi.com/liebermintz
Which means I can make more pointless journal entries.
Well, I saw A Fistful of Dollars today and, despite the sometimes excruciatingly-painful dubbing, it's a pretty good lead-in to the rest of Leone's repertoire. While considered by many an IMDB user to be a ripoff of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo (which did all this stuff before Leone could, but Leone's main inspiration was from his homeland, particularly noir novels and plays), it serves its purpose and actually acts a bit like a dark parody-action film that revived interest in the Western after its convoluted cheesiness since John Ford's The Searchers.
Well, I saw A Fistful of Dollars today and, despite the sometimes excruciatingly-painful dubbing, it's a pretty good lead-in to the rest of Leone's repertoire. While considered by many an IMDB user to be a ripoff of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo (which did all this stuff before Leone could, but Leone's main inspiration was from his homeland, particularly noir novels and plays), it serves its purpose and actually acts a bit like a dark parody-action film that revived interest in the Western after its convoluted cheesiness since John Ford's The Searchers.
