All 3 Dollars Trilogy Movies, Ranked Worst To Best
The Clint Eastwood-starring Dollars Trilogy films are among the most recognizable and iconic Western movies in the cinema history — here are all three, ranked from worst to best. Director Sergio Leone's unique vision of the Wild West has struck a chord with film buffs for decades now and is still just as relevant as it was in the 1960s. Couple that with Eastwood's iconic Man With No Name character and the two make for perhaps the finest series in the Western genre.
In the 1960s, American Westerns had been rather played out, and apart from the odd John Wayne picture being the exception, American-produced Westerns pictures didn't turn a profit as they used to in the previous decades. Filling this void were the Italian Westerns, also known as Spaghetti Westerns, with Sergio Leone's team-up with Eastwood spearheading this movement for the genre, reinventing the Western with a completely new and unique vision. Whereas traditional American Westerns had black-and-white moral structures, following the classic good vs. evil stories, Leone's Dollars Trilogy took a rather morally gray and ugly approach to the genre, with a hero who borders more on anti-hero territory and has selfish motivations.
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Clint Eastwood, coming off of his breakout success with the hit series Rawhide, transitioned to the silver screen in his first big leading role, the Man With No Name. Rather than being the standard John Wayne hero archetype, Eastwood's character isn't much better than the men he's gunning down, though he still has a moral center that keeps him from becoming a villain. This was just a new idea for the genre, and it really revitalized the Western for the better. Here are all three
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