The Man With No Name

TheKeenMachine

Just wondering whether or not you think the Man With No Name is the same character in all three films in the Dollars trilogy. Personally, I think he is - he finds the poncho in the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, set during the Civil War, before the other two movies. Also, he injures his hand in Fistful and in For a Few Dollars More, he is known as Manco - translating left handed one or something similar. It's a question that really annoys me, what are your opinions?

omahaid

I assumed that he was not the same person in each film (obviously a similar person) same as Lee Van Cleef played Angel Eyes in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Douglas Mortimer in For a Few Dollars More i.e. same actor different characters.

johndoe99

In a fistful of dollars he's referred to as 'Joe', Joe is a generic name used by italians when a name is not known.

In for a few dollars more, he's called Manco, again this is not a name, in spanish it translates to 'one-armed'.

In the good the bad and the ugly he's simple referred to as 'blondie'.

so i believe it was the same character, the term "The Man With No Name" was coined by the italian media and it caught on.

MakeEmLaugh

Yes, I think it was the same character in all three films. He's only referred to once, briefly, as Joe in A Fistful of Dollars. In For A Few Dollars More he's referred to as Manco, and in The Good, The Bad And The Ugly he's referred to as Blondie, but only by Eli Wallach's Tuco, so it is implied that this is just a nickname relating to his fair hair.

True, both Lee Van Cleef and Gian Maria Volonté play different characters in more than one film of the trilogy, but Eastwood's character was always dressed the same, and behaved in the same way.

Without that one overlapping character, those films don't work as an official trilogy, and I'll be damned if I'm going to stop listing them as my favourite movie trilogy of all time!

MiloYossarian

It's the same guy. Sergio Leone said as much.

Duggy747

Throughout The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly he gather's pieces of his outfit (hat, poncho, etc) so by the end he looks like the character we all know and love from all three of the films

Fistful of Dollars


For A Few Dollars More


The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly




Because of this it's considered by many as a prequel to the other 2.

ziggyman17

along with Nolans Batman, my favourite trilogy of films of all time.