Arc Words: 'When you shoot to kill, aim for the heart.' Ramon takes his mantra a little too seriously.Anti-Hero: Joe is ruthless and unabashedly seeks money, but he has a soft spot for Silvanito and the family he encounters.Animated Credits Opening: Which, by the way, calls the film 'Fistful of Dollars' - no 'A'.Animal Motifs: Joe's gun has rattlesnake grips on it.Plastic was not around in the late 1800s. Anachronism Stew: Joe, after entering a place for something to eat and drink, holds up what looks like a plastic wreath, looks at it then throws it down back on the table.

Unlike the Rojo Brothers, they are much more affable and less brutal in nature. Additionally, the sergeant's threat to Joe when he approaches the stagecoach is much more explicit. Adaptational Jerkass: In the novelization, the cavalry is more brutal in its depiction, going so far as to strike a nearby child and drawing blood in the process, and then threatening a woman and her child with death just for standing in its path.Joe did it because he's Only in It for the Money. Sanjuro in Yojimbo instigated the gang conflict because it amused him. Juan de Dios, the counterpart of the corrupt watchman from Yojimbo, is simply a crazy bellringer who's an in-universe annoyance at worst and appears to be friends with Piripero.Adaptation Title Change: A Fistful of Dollars is based on the Japanese samurai movie Yojimbo.

Tropes featured in A Fistful of Dollars include: Back to the Future Part III directly homages it, among many other Shout-Outs to this movie.Ī novelization was written by Frank Chandler. The gunfight at the end is the most famous part of the film. However, his sympathies for Marisol, a hostage of the Rojos gang, leads to a change in plans with near-fatal consequences for the Man With No Name.

The opportunity arises in the form of a Mexican shipment of gold passing through the town. The Man With No Name (played by Clint Eastwood and called 'Joe' by the coffin maker) wanders into a small poverty-stricken town on the Mexican border dominated by two feuding crime gangs, the Rojos and the Baxters, and he decides to play the clans against each other, ostensibly so that he can profit from their conflict. It's the first in what's known as The Dollars Trilogy by Western fans, and was followed by For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. A Fistful of Dollars is the 1964 Italian (and originally unauthorized) Spaghetti Western remake of the Japanese film Yojimbo, which itself was allegedly inspired by the novel Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett.

A Fistful of Dollars by Frank Chandler