Does Joe (the man with no name) have any honour?
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willjohn — 14 years ago(February 28, 2012 01:03 PM)
"A traditional style (of western) was to portray the heroes with honour."
Traditional, but not realistic. When famed lawman, brothel keeper and fight fixer Wyatt Earp arrived in Tombstone he said "I'm here for the killing." -
phillipsdan83 — 12 years ago(March 14, 2014 12:45 PM)
Most, but not all, Spaghetti Western protagonists are usually given more personal reasons to wipe out the villains past only money, though there are exceptions like THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (Angel Eyes never gives Blondie any reason to kill him past money, though Tuco would have plenty of reasons to shoot the former), and ANY GUN CAN PLAY (the protagonists share the money at the end, but they are never motivated by anything else).
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35541m — 11 years ago(July 11, 2014 07:52 AM)
Traditional, but not realistic. When famed lawman, brothel keeper and fight fixer Wyatt Earp arrived in Tombstone he said "I'm here for the killing."
Well, that's not true is it? Earp was in Tombstone for the money and probably didn't expect to kill anyone. He was hardly a famed lawman at that time either and his kill count when he arrived was 1. -
General_Ackbar — 11 years ago(August 05, 2014 12:19 PM)
He's not driven by money. The audience is deliberately misled to think that he is. His motivation was to save Marisol and her family because they reminded him of his own childhood where no one was there to help. This is why the first thing he sees in the film is the brutal treatment of the kid. Maybe that's just my interpretation though.
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meguroutsubo — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 07:52 PM)
I think when he gives Marisol the fistful of dollars to help her escape the bloodshed, that was his redeeming moment.
Granted, I think I wrote elsewhere on this board that
that particular scene seemed almost tacked-on, to make Eastwood seem like more of a "good guy"
than just some cool dude who snuffed people four or five at a time.