Talk:A Fistful of Dollars

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Contents 1 References 2 Groundhog Day 3 Picture 4 Filming Locations? 5 Empty Titles 6 Johnny Wels vs. John Wells 7 Opening scene

[edit] References

These two are getting a bit desperate as a reference for this film arent they? so other films have gunfights in them...

Back to the Future trilogy: In Back to the Future Part II, a short scene is seen where Joe survives a gunfight which forshadows the scene in Back to the Future Part III where Marty does the same thing (in the same costume).

Should this refer to him as Joe? yEvb0 16:51, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

No. --193.11.177.69 05:57, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Star Trek: The Next Generation: In the episode 'A Fistful of Datas', Worf and Troi are trapped in a holodeck western until they play it out to the end of the story. Meanwhile, each of the characters is being replaced by a likeness of Data.

I'm not familiar with the Star Trek reference, but the Back To The Future scene is definitely a Dollars reference - Marty protects himself with a metal plate during a gunfight, just like the man with no name did at the end of Dollars. Rhobite 15:17, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

During the gunfight near the end of that TNG episode, Worf uses a makeshift forcefield to protect himself from the bullets of a villainous, holographic version of Data. 70.172.212.3 19:32, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Groundhog Day

Surprised no one has listed the scene in Groundhog Day when Bill Murray shows up for a movie screening wearing the outfit. Only thing, I can't remember if he is actually seeing the film. I know he says "I told you - I love this movie" or some such, but I can't recall if you can see the marque. RoyBatty42 10:21, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

The picture showing Gian Maria Volontè is not from "Fistful of Dollars" but from "For a Few Dollars More". In that movie he plays a character called "Indio". Shouldn't it be changed? Another picture or something like that? 213.101.239.203 18:54, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Filming Locations?

It would be nice to include where this was filmed. Was it filmed in Spain or Italy?

All three Dollar-films were shot in Spain. I also included some information in the article.

[edit] Empty Titles

Why does somebody always include empty titles like "Pacing", "Characters" and "Music" without writing anything about these subjects? Of course these are important issues, but you'll also have to include some information, not just the titles. 83.181.74.236 12:02, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Johnny Wels vs. John Wells

I know that IMDb says that Gian Maria Volontè is credited as "John Wells" in A Fistful of Dollars. However, this is not exactly true. My source are the opening credits of the movie itself. I think everybody agrees that this is the best source. In the External Links-section there is a link for the opening credits and the title theme of the movie on YouTube. There you can see for yourself that Volontè is actually credited as "Johnny Wels", not "John Wells".Dutzi (talk) 12:30, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Opening scene

Has any ever seen the first ten minutes of this movie? The first scenes of the movie have been deleted somewhere over the years and when the movie is shown on televison and in the VHS and DVD versions there is never a hint that there was an opening scene that is not shown. Its been so long, I don't think anyone even remembers the original opening scene. This file did not originally open with the scene "at the well" where Chico kicks Marisol's son and the Eastwood character watches somewhat indifferntly while getting a drink of water. The film opened in a prison where Eastwood's character is a prisoner with no apparent hope of ever being released. He is brought to the warden and given a chance to receive a full pardon - all he has to do is accomplish an impossible task - go to San Miguel and clean up the town. Most of the shots are close up of the eyes of the speaking characters. Cut to the scene at the well and the opening credits. Of all the comments about this film I have read, this has never been mentioned. Submitted by L Ofstedahl, ofstedahl@hughes.net.

The original Leone film does not contain this scene. The scene described was made for its first showing on US TV. It was a weak attempt by the network to alter the amoral nature of the film. The scene is included as an extra on the recently released special edition DVD. It features Harry Dean Stanton as the warden and a double for Clint who looks nothing like him and whose poncho hangs clear to the floor. MarnetteD | Talk 04:35, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

For MarnetteD - this is the only way I could figure out to respond to your answer to my recent question regarding the opening scene. Thank you and I appreciate what you said. I do not doubt that you are correct, but I first saw this movie in 16mm in 1968 - it I find it a little hard to believe that the 16mm movie I saw was an "edited for television" version. (I did not see it at a theater, however - this was at a milatary base) Again, thanks for responding. L Ofstedahl Ofstedahl@hughes.net —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.169.125.46 (talk • contribs) 17:14, 31 December 2007

You are welcome. I'm afraid that I can see where the prologue described would be used by the military for the same reasons that the network did. I hope that you get to see the special edition DVD where things are explained in more detail then what I typed above. They also have a feature where some filmmakers went back to Spain and took pictures of the locations where the film was made to show what they look like today that is excellent. MarnetteD | Talk 20:44, 31 December 2007 (UTC)