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The "Fistful of Dollars" DVD is a classic spaghetti western movie that was released in 1967. The movie is based on the 1961 samurai picture "Yojimbo" and was a resounding success. The advertising campaign for the movie promoted Eastwood's character - laconic, amoral, and dangerous - as the Man with No Name. The movie's refreshing new take on the Western genre and its emphasis on violence were also popular. The Dollars films had a marked influence on the Hollywood Western and Clint Eastwood himself is the most enduring legacy.
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 armored 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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