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| Man with No Name | |
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| Dollars Trilogy character | |
 Clint Eastwood as the Man with No Name in a publicity photo forA Fistful of Dollars | |
| First appearance | A Fistful of Dollars (1964) |
| Last appearance | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) |
| Created by | Sergio Leone |
| Portrayed by | Clint Eastwood |
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| Occupation | Bounty hunter |
| Nationality | American |
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TheMan with No Name (Italian:Uomo senza nome) is theantihero character portrayed byClint Eastwood inSergio Leone's "Dollars Trilogy" of ItalianSpaghetti Western films:A Fistful of Dollars (1964),For a Few Dollars More (1965), andThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). He is recognizable by hisponcho, brown hat, tancowboy boots, fondness forcigarillos, and the fact that he rarely speaks.[1]
The "Man with No Name" concept was invented by the American distributorUnited Artists. Eastwood's character does have a name, or nickname, which is different in each film: "Joe", "Manco" and "Blondie", respectively.[2][3]
When Clint Eastwood was honored with theAmerican Film Institute'sLifetime Achievement Award in 1996,Jim Carrey gave the introductory speech and said:"'The Man with No Name' had no name, so we could fill in our own."[4] In 2008,Empire chose the Man with No Name as the 33rd greatest movie character of all time.[5]
A Fistful of Dollars was directly adapted fromAkira Kurosawa'sYojimbo (1961). It was the subject of a lawsuit byYojimbo's producers.[6]Yojimbo's protagonist, an unconventionalrōnin (a samurai with no master) played byToshiro Mifune, bears a striking resemblance to Eastwood's character: both are quiet, gruff, eccentric strangers with a strong but unorthodox sense of justice and extraordinary proficiency with a particular weapon (in Mifune's case, akatana; in Eastwood's, arevolver).[7]
Mifune plays arōnin with no name. When pressed, he gives thepseudonymSanjuro Kuwabatake (meaning "30-year-old mulberry field"), a reference to his age and something he sees through a window. The convention of hiding the character's arms from view is shared as well, with Mifune's character typically wearing his arms inside his kimono, leaving the sleeves empty.[8] Prior to signing on toFistful, Eastwood had seen Kurosawa's film and was impressed by the character.[9] During filming, he did not emulate Mifune's performance beyond what was already in the script. He also insisted on removing some of the dialogue in the original script, making the character more silent and thus adding to his mystery.[2] As the trilogy progressed, the character became even more silent and stoic.[citation needed]
The "Man with No Name"sobriquet was actually applied after the films were made, and was a marketing device used by distributorUnited Artists to promote the three films together in the United States film market.[2][10] The prints of the film were physically trimmed to remove all mention of his names.[2]
InA Fistful of Dollars (1964), he is called "Joe" by theundertaker, Piripero, and Eastwood's role is credited as "Joe".[11]
InFor a Few Dollars More (1965), he is called "Manco" (Spanish for "one-armed"; in fact, in the original Italian-language version he is called "il Monco", a dialectal expression meaning "the One-armed one"), because he does everything left-handed, except for shooting.[12]
InThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Tuco calls him "Blondie" ("il Biondo", meaning "the Blond one", in Italian) for his light hair. He is also "the Good" ("il Buono"), from which the film receives its name.[13]
In theDollars book series, he is also known as "The Hunter", "The Bounty Killer", "Mister Sudden Death", "Nameless", "No Name" and "Señor Ninguno", or its literal translation "Mr. None".[citation needed]
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The popularity of the characters brought about a series of spin-off books, dubbed the "Dollars" series due to the common theme in their titles:
A Coffin Full of Dollars provides some background history; when he was young, The Man with No Name was a ranch hand who was continually persecuted by an older hand named Carvell. The trouble eventually led to a shootout between the two with Carvell being outdrawn and killed; however, an examination of Carvell's body revealed a scar which identified him as Monk Carver, a wanted man with a $1,000 bounty. After comparing the received bounty with his $10-a-month ranch pay, the young cowhand chose to change his life and become a bounty hunter.
In July 2007, American comic book companyDynamite Entertainment announced that they were going to begin publishing a comic book featuring the character, titledThe Man with No Name. Set after the events ofThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the comic is written byChristos Gage. Dynamite refers to him as "Blondie", the nickname Tuco uses for him inThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly.[15] The first issue was released in March 2008, entitled,The Man with No Name: The Good, The Bad, and The Uglier.[16] Luke Lieberman and Matt Wolpert took over the writing for issues #7–11.[17][18] Initially,Chuck Dixon was scheduled to take over the writing chores with issue #12, but Dynamite ended the series and opted to use Dixon's storyline for a new series titledThe Good, The Bad and The Ugly.[19] The new series is not an adaptation of the movie, despite its title. After releasing eight issues, Dynamite abandoned the series.[citation needed]
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The Mandalorian is a character I would say built on these icons of film history that we find in some Akira Kurosawa samurai movies, Sergio Leone cowboy westerns, spaghetti westerns, the lonely guy who won't tell you his name, in this case won't show you his face, and a lot of moral ambiguity, and I would say expressed more so in this series and with all of our characters, you know, I think the moral universe ofStar Wars can be very specific and kind of black and white, there's good and there's evil, and in this one we start to play with the boundaries of that more, and that is dealt with very interestingly with this character. He's not your typical hero.
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