The poncho is the key to the trilogy
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — A Fistful of Dollars
tonyjackie — 10 years ago(October 09, 2015 01:44 PM)
I have always been surprised to read some of the threads regarding the dollar trilogy of movies. Is Clint playing the same character? Which order should they be watched? I have always thought it was obvious that Clint was the same character in every movie and can't understand why anyone would think otherwise. He always has no name (Joe, Blondie and Manco are just nicknames). He is always a bounty hunter and always wears exactly the same poncho.
As for the order? The Good, The Bad & The Ugly is the first as this is where he picks up the poncho near the end of the movie as he and Tuco head for the graveyard. A Fistful Of Dollars is second and a natural progression for the Man With No Name as he now wears his poncho all the time. Finally For A Few Dollars More is the last one as Clint discusses packing it all in and buying a place somwhere.
As a final thought, I wonder if The Man With No Name was actually William Munny all the time? He lived in peace after a life of killing and ended up as a much older man with still the skill to kill many people. OK, perhaps not but it is an interesting thought. -
meguroutsubo — 9 years ago(September 21, 2016 08:07 PM)
That makes sense,
but if that's true, then at the end of the first movie, Blondie had acquired $200,000 in gold coins. Why would he keep riding around the desert like a bounty hunter, killing people for a few hundred bucks? -
Dr_Heywood_R_Floyd — 9 years ago(October 11, 2016 04:31 AM)
It's more a thematic trilogy than an actual narrative trilogy.
The architypal hero is the only character who carries through, and even he has a different name and seemingly different moral code each time.
Dr. Heywood R. Floyd
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mgtbltp — 9 years ago(November 02, 2016 03:18 AM)
The time frame is too far apart between the films
The Good The Bad And The Ugly
takes place during the Civil War.
A Fistull Of Dollars
takes place before the US cavalry switched to khaki uniforms in 1898 and after the first fully automatic machine guns 1895.
For A Few Dollars More
has railroads in both Tucumcari and El Paso which was the case just at the turn of the century.