Continuity mistake: In the opening scene, when 'Joe' is helping himself from the well, the angle to the sun varies from the left side to almost vertically. (00:03:00)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
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Directed by: Sergio Leone
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volonte, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy
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When I was a child, I knew that if my father was to blindly watch a film, his default go-to option of the genre was always the Spaghetti Western. He always said they are the easiest not to take seriously, and the easiest to forget. Because I was a child back then, I did not understand. I watched anime works by World Masterpiece Theatre and occasionally, Walt Disney cartoons. I did not want to forget those and I want (even now) to take them seriously. But now, it is very difficult to find a film that does not penetrate deep into one's life. It becomes harder to staunchly believe that whatever you see on TV or theater is factually inaccurate. They seem devilishly plausible.
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Joe: When a man with .45 meets a man with a rifle, you said, the man with a pistol's a dead man. Let's see if that's true. Go ahead, load up and shoot.
Trivia: The boots Clint Eastwood wears in this film are the same ones he wore in "Rawhide".
Question: When the Baxter House is lit on fire, everybody comes out the front door and is promptly shot. Was there no rear exit or window?
Answer: A house that size likely had a back door and windows. Being made of wood, the fire could spread quickly, and the flames may have blocked the rear exit, as well as thick smoke making it difficult to breathe and see where one is going. The front door was probably the closest exit. Of course, the point of the plot is that they all get shot when they run out.
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