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  Mexico Trilogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The "Mariachi Trilogy" or "Mexico Trilogy" is a series of movies: El Mariachi, Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico all directed by Robert Rodriguez which tell the continuing story of the movies' main character "El Mariachi".
The trilogy originally was just to be one story, El Mariachi, with Desperado as a remake for American audiences.
However, this concept, little known to the movie's audience, is often a large criticism of the film, and it is seen therefore, by many, as a trilogy in which the films became 'weaker' over time.
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 Outpost.com | MGM (DVD)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The picture was the first installment in a cycle commonly known as the "Dollars" trilogy.
Dollars and its companions, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, are raw portrayals of suffering and violence which blur the lines of good-versus-bad.
For Leone, the trilogy would be a training ground for his masterpiece, the big-budgeted Once Upon a Time in the West.
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 DVD Savant: Review: The Man with No Name Trilogy
Fistful of Dollars (there's no "A" onscreen, probably a goof by the producer of the animated titles) copies Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo almost shot for shot in telling its wicked tale of an utterly opportunistic gunslinger who wanders into a feud between rival gangs in a woebegotten town.
If the pan'n scan looks particularly grainy, consider that all three of the 'dollar' films were shot in Techniscope, a clever money-saving format that exposed only half of a 35mm frame by pulling down two perfs instead of four, between frames.
In Spanish it has an extra colloquial meaning of thief: calling someone Manco implies that he's light-fingered and is running the risk of having a hand lopped off as a punishment.
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 The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly is the final instalment in the classic Dollars trilogy, a series of films that forever changed the way Westerns were made due to its frank and deglamourised handling of characters from Colonial America.
Like the rest of the Dollars trilogy, a copious number of age-related faults show themselves in abundance, although this episode is certainly the best of the Dollars trilogy as far as video quality is concerned.
Whilst this is not exactly a crisp transfer, it is a surprisingly sharp one with a surprising amount of definition, and I doubt that this film has looked this good in terms of sharpness or clarity in at least thirty of those years.
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 For a Few Dollars More review
Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy, only two of which had the word "dollars" in their names, was what brought Clint Eastwood into the international spotlight for his now trademark character of a man who, if not genuinely amoral, had his morals buried under several layers of well-aged dinosaur wine.
But if the original A Fistful of Dollars had served as a reminder to the world that a western could be a good film, then For a Few Dollars More was an additional proclamation that a western could also be a really arty movie.
For a Few Dollars More is a great adventure, and a chance to see a masterful director at his most playful.
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 DVD Times - A Fistful Of Dollars SE
Leone throws this away in A Fistful of Dollars, establishing the classic moments of the gun looming in the foreground and the men blown away in the background.
MGM first released Leone's 'Dollars Trilogy' back in the early days of DVD and their slightly unsatisfactory transfers have been the only option for fans who want to see the films in the original Techniscope ratios - panning and scanning is particularly ruinous for these movies.
Paramount will be releasing A Fistful of Dollars 2 disc SE in Germany with restored mono sound and reportedly better image than the MGM SE on October 6th.
www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=56749   (3721 words)

  
 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly DVD - Michael Weise Productions
His trilogy of films, known as the Dollars trilogy, helped establish him internationally as a filmmaker, and also put Clint Eastwood, known up until then only as Rowdy Yates on TV's "Rawhide", on the map as a worldwide heavyweight actor.
The final film of this trilogy, made in 1966 but released in the US at the end of 1967, was the mercurial THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY.
Everything comes to a head in that cemetery, and the result is a spine-tingling face-off between the three men, one of the single greatest of its type ever put on the big screen.
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 Reinventing the Western: Sergio Leone's "Dollars" Trilogy
With A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) the late Italian director Sergio Leone at once shook up and revitalized an ailing film genre: the western.
Since their release from 1964 to 1966, the "Dollars" trilogy has been pored over by film historians and critics who've cast an almost mythical aura to what in essence are three cowboy flicks.
Whatever the truth, the "Dollars" trilogy has had a profound effect on film.
www.amctv.com /article?CID=1469-1--0-4-EST   (699 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Some have hypothesized that "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" (hereafter "GBU") is the first film in Sergio Leone's "Dollars" trilogy, a prequel of sorts, and not the last as was previously thought.
In this installment of the "Dollars" trilogy, the main character still doesn't have a name, but we're not short on things to call him.
The first two films in the "Dollars" trilogy did a lot for his iconic status, but not much for his pocketbook.
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 The DVD Maniacs - Forum - A Fistful of Dollars
Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars began a trend that gave new life to the Western genre and introduced a few elements that would become its trademark.
For A Few Dollars More is just perfect if you ask me. The partnership/competition between Cleef and Clint is perfect and is missed in the GBU.
The DOLLARS trilogy is more hyper-real to me. These are not real people; they're abstracts thrown against a canvas of the old west.
www.dvdmaniacs.net /forums/printthread.php?t=536   (1146 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Man with No Name Trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars / For a Few Dollars More / The Good, The Bad, and the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The follow-up, For a Few Dollars More, teams Eastwood up in an uneasy alliance with Lee Van Cleef in a tale of revenge, but the masterpiece of the set is The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, an epic scramble for buried gold set against the violence of the Civil War.
A Fistful of Dollars is truly one of the big classics in the western genre and one that began a newer, better style of western films.
yojimbo was the blueprint for the first film "a fistful of dollars" as lone gunfighter eastwood rides into a town at war and plays both sides of the street against each other with great gunfights and music by ennio morricone this is the beginning of the legend.
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 DVDFILE.COM: A Fistful Of Dollars review
For whatever reason MGM released the Dollars Trilogy on DVD in the reverse order of the way they were filmed.
But compared to the anamorphic The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars is significantly lacking in sharpness and detail.
I am not really surprised by the scarcity of supplements, but I do wish MGM had given A Fistful of Dollars (and For a Few Dollars More) the same image treatment that it gave to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video/fistfulofdollars.htm   (784 words)

  
 Movie Forums - Best Trilogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.
I dont think that any trilogy really connects and gels together the way that the back to the future trilogy does.
The Godfather trilogy is almost perfect, but I didn't care for the third all that much.
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 Rotten Tomatoes Forums - [Opinion Poll] What is the 2nd greatest trilogy of all time??
It is the only trilogy that doesn't have a "weak" film, sure you could argue that T3 isn't as inventive as the first two, but its definitly better than Godfather Part 3, The Temple of Doom.
I've only seen the first two in Bergman's faith trilogy, but that might take it for me. I think The Godfather Part II is far inferior to the first, and wouldn't say Lord of the Rings is near the greatest.
In this thread, just yesterday, you said that you have never seen The Godfather, parts 1 or 2, yet now you say it is one of the greatest trilogies ever.
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 The CHUD.COM Message Boards - For a few Dollars More
Fistful of Dollars was O.K. but nothing special and the Good, the bad and the Ugly just seemed too long but A Few Dollars More ran just the right length of time.
While you thought "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" was too long, it definitely was one of those perspective altering films for me ("Unforgiven" as well, but not as much as "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly").
For a Few Dollars More and the other two rank 1,2 and 3 (and you can pretty much shuffle the order) as the greatest western themed movies ever made, not to take away from the brilliant "High Noon," Destry Rides Again, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, and a few others.
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 Per un pugno di dollari (1964)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Two people who were offered the role of the man with no name were Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda(four years later Charles Bronson takes the lead role in Once Upon a Time in the West after Clint Eastwood was the first choice for the part).
A Fistful of Dollars was inspired and remade from Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo(1961).
Both A Fistful of Dollars and Yojimbo are based on an obscure Italian play called "the man with two masters".
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 The Dollars Trilogy Message Board - A Bravenet.com Forum
This message board is for questions, comments and discussions about the Dollars Trilogy, other Spaghetti Westerns/Spaghetti Western-related items and discussions about the site itself.
The use of veteran Hollywood heavy Lee Van Cleef as another antihero was a stroke of genius.
In my view the best has got to be a fistful of dollars, mainly because it was so different at the time to most other films which portrayed the hero as a goof guy
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 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
I was entertained for the whole time with no slow moments and the never ending looming spiraling staircase of misfortune and quirky scenarios that kept happening to Blondie, as they called Eastwood and Tuco, his partner in crime.
Without spoiling too much all I can say is that they both know a part of a secret, of a buried treasure; two hundred thousand dollars and each one of them knows on part of the location as they realize they need to join forces and overcome their differences in order to find it.
Hot on their tail is the bad guy, known as Angel Eyes who has no soul and will kill anyone who gets in his way and who is also after the treasure.
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 Spaghetti Westerns: Sergio Leone
Everyone is familiar with the spaghetti western genre: westerns made by Italians, most notably by Sergio Leone, who directed the ultimate trilogy, A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, all starring Clint Eastwood.
Leone’s films are known not only for their unique visual imagery but also for their trademark music composed by Ennio Morricone.
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly is by far the most famous of the "Dollars" trilogy, with one of the most recognizable movie themes of all time.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/italian_cinema/30534   (380 words)

  
 *** THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY ***
was the third film in the "Dollars trilogy".
Setezna sits down and helps himself to the familys dinner, and proceeds to tell the man that he has been sent by a man named Baker to find out some information.
The man tells him the information and also lets it slip that there is a strongbox of money that happened to get lost.
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 One, two, three, magic : The Morning Call Online
As in the famous trilogies of Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman, Mark Donskoi and Krzysztof Kieslowski, Belvaux's work is a glorious expansion.
In this "Trilogie," Belvaux has written, directed and acted in three films that examine the same set of characters in the French border city of Grenoble—showing them during the same time span, but in different places, from different angles and even in different film genres: thriller, comedy and romantic drama.
All these movies keep us coming back for more—whether it's a crowd-pleaser such as the "Back to the Future" trilogy or an art-house classic like Marcel Pagnol's earthy and magnificent "Fanny" trilogy (newly restored and soon to be released on Kino DVD), Johnny Weismuller's Tarzan flicks or Chris Reeve's "Superman" efforts.
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 What is the Best Trilogy - The Superhero Hype! Boards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Star Wars is the trilogy that started the trilogy craze, they are the best movies made.
In particular, it has one big advantage over Star Wars in that its conclusion (Return of the King) was a much better film than Return of the Jedi which was a bit of a letdown after the fantastic Empire Strikes Back.
My two favorites are The Matrix and LOTR, but I gave The Matrix trilogy the benifit of the doubt and voted for it because it doesn't have the best three books ever helping it.
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 The DVD Clinic Movie Review of The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly (SE)
With the release of the "Dollars" trilogy to the American public in the late sixties, Sergio Leone put a decisive nail in the coffin of Hollywood's white-clad cowboy.
No longer was the Old West a modern version of a fairy tale, with a solitary hero rescuing a damsel from the hands of the strange and dangerous Injuns.
Naturally, the focus is greater on THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY and the rest of the "Dollars" trilogy, but you can also find out a bit about his other films.
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 MovieWeb Forums :: View topic - Spaghetti Westerns and 60's/70's WWII Flicks
A few dollars more was more entertaining than fistful, and the good the bad and the ugly...one of the greatest films of all time.
After hearing about how completely bad ass the dollars trilogy was I made it a point to see A Fistful Of Dollars, and actually found it kind of boring.
The Dollars Trilogy and Once Upon A Time in the West are in a league of their own.
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 A Fistful of Dollars
Released in America and England during 1966, Sergio Leone's first entry in his "Dollars" trilogy appeared with the advertising tag-line, "This is the first film of its kind.
A Fistful of Dollars followed the standard procedure in Italian Westerns of casting an American actor in the lead (usually either an unknown such as Richard Harrison or Jim Mitchum, a B-Western actor like Rod Cameron and Alex Nicol, or a former star who had seen better days such as Joseph Cotton).
When Morricone collaborated with Leone on A Fistful of Dollars, he initiated one of the key aspects of the Italian Western – an operatic score heavily marking the genre as the "opera of violence".
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/03/28/fistful_of_dollars.html   (926 words)

  
 New Order Story Films   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The military code is the primary problem - as it has been throughout the cavalry trilogy.
Having told the first two stories in their relevant segments (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More,) Leone proceeds to tell these two stories again in the third segment, together with the new order story.
The title "return of the Jedi" suggests the Discardation story, perhaps appropriate if this film is the last in a trilogy of Dicardation films intended to reside amongst two other trilogies, in a trilogy of trilogies - see Star Wars Note
www.colinmj.com /cinema/neworder.html   (642 words)

  
 Dollars Trilogy - Clint Eastwood - Anchor Bay Entertainment UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
For a Few Dollars More has sadly not been fully restored but thats the only issue with the disc.
A Fistful Of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More were £7.99 on Play for months until a week or so back.
I think I read the dollars films are being re-released in a box for the xmas market (same versions as the s.e.'s).
www.anchorbay.co.uk /forum/showthread.php?t=7757   (650 words)

  
 DVD Review: A Fistful of Dynamite Special Edition
His ‘Dollars’ trilogy made international stars of most of his cast and crew, and a higher budget was offered with each successive film.
In English language countries, it was entitled ‘A Fistful of Dynamite’ to tie in with the ‘Dollars’ trilogy, whereas in France it became ‘Once Upon a Time in a Revolution’ (which coincidently was the screenplay's original title) to tie in with the recent success of ‘Once Upon a Time in the West’.
Here there are mass firing squads, massacres, battle sequences, main characters haunted by their past and a more melodic Morricone which is more attune with the animal trilogy of Dario Argento of the early 70’s than his previous Leone westerns scores.
dvd.monstersandcritics.com /reviews/article_4511.php/DVD_Review:_A_Fistful_of_Dynamite_Special_Edition   (1434 words)

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