#maria / eli.

[eggseabutters]

Obsessed with how they’re parallels of each other

[malix4583]

Sorry guys I'm brainrotted and thought this was a good idea

[omercifulheaves]

The Dollars Trilogy Art by Tony Stella

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

How successful would Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez…

Propaganda for the mic skills:

He is a yapper

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Propaganda for the wrestling skills:

He is unbreakable, can crush a man’s skull on a rock, fights with one hand tied behind his back

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[namesisfortombstones]

Okay, we need to deal with this once and for all...

Why in the hell do people seem convinced that Clint Eastwood's character in the Dollars Trilogy are three different people? Like, who put that into their head and why are they listening to such lies?

So, because Gian Maria Volonte, Mario Brega, and Lee Van Cleef are all playing different characters, Clint has to be as well? That's an American mindset… and these are not American movies; that's not how acting and filmmaking are regarded overseas. For example, actor Michael Ripper appears in the Hammer horror films Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, Taste the Blood of Dracula, and Scars of Dracula as three completely separate characters. But that does not mean that Christopher Lee's Dracula are three different Draculas.

They also point to "the Man With No Name was made up by United Artists as a marketing ploy." Yes, they did, but that doesn't mean Clint still isn't the same man in all three films. You know what isn't a marketing ploy? The Italians referred to the character as "Il Straniero/The Stranger." That was their "man with no name" name back then in the 60s. The Italians have since adopted calling him "Uomo Senza Nome/Man Without Name."

And people seem to be convinced somehow that "Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood both said he's three different people." No, they didn't. Never once has Clint made that claim. And Sergio Leone co-wrote all three films (and Once Upon a Time in the West--more there later) and he wrote him as the same man.

But the facts of the matter are there to see in the movies if you watch them. In For a Few Dollars More, the second film, il Straniero is referred to as "Manco." "Manco" in Italian means "mangled" and it refers to his hand being crushed by Chico (Mario Brega) near the end of A Fistful of Dollars. If you pay attention, you'll notice Manco does everything in that movie (play cards, karate chop, drink, etc.) left-handed… except shoot. He still shoots with his right hand. If you pay extra close attention, you'll see that the Man With No Name wears his poncho backwards… to hide the bullet holes shot into it by Ramon Rojo (Gian Maria Volonte) at the end of Fistful.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is an origin story for the character, set during the Civil War before the previous two films. The movie literally has a plot point about how the Man With No Name got his poncho! It chronicles how the character changes from a selfish, dickish drifter to the more altruistic, caring person (as seen in the previous two films) after a near-death experience. Additionally, whilst the dialogue in the screenplay for the film only refers to Clint's character as "Il Biondo/Blondie," the descriptive passages of the script refer to him as "Joe," the nickname given him by Peripero in A Fistful of Dollars.

"But the Man With No Name has $100,000 in gold at the end of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. He has to be a different character because he's poor at the beginning of A Fistful of Dollars!" According to co-writer of For a Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Luciano Vincenzioni, he's poor again at the beginning of Fistful because he gave the $100,000 to Father Ramirez's mission for saving his life. Now, why would he have that answer if they're all different people? Why wouldn't he have said "Oh, they're not the same man," when asked?

On top of that, Once Upon a Time in the West was originally meant to be the final adventure for il Straniero/Joe/Manco/Blondie/the Man With No Name. This gets complicated, so saddle in.

After The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Sergio Leone didn't want to do another western. He wanted to make Once Upon a Time in America, even way back then. But Paramount Pictures told him "We'll make America with you… but you have to give us another western first." So he set about on his fourth western. The script he and his writers (Sergio Donati, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Dario Argento) concocted revealed that everything Il Straniero did in the previous movies was all sort of a training for a revenge duel with Frank (presumably because Frank did to him what he did to Harmonica in the finished film). This is why it would have been such a shocking moment for the audience when Frank asks who the Man With No Name is and he responds "Dave Jenkins." The audience would've gasped, thinking "That's his name?!" before discovering it's just one of Frank's victims. The problem is that on the set of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Eastwood and Leone had a huge fight that nobody seems to talk about often. I've heard that it was Eastwood finally having enough of the lackadaisical manner in which Italians made movies and I've heard it was Leone finally having enough of Eastwood cheating on his wife with his interpreter. Whatever the subject of the fight was, it is what ruined/ended the relationship between Leone and Eastwood. When it came time to make Once Upon a Time in the West, Leone flew to California to personally deliver the script to Eastwood, but Clint would not meet with him (I've also read an interview with Lee Van Cleef where he revealed he was offered the role of Frank when it was set to star Eastwood, but turned it down because he didn't like the script. And he apparently didn't like the finished film when he saw it either). So with his main star gone and still having to deliver the film to Paramount, Leone returned to Italy with his writers and was forced to turn Il Straniero/etc into the new character Harmonica and go from there (and finally managed to cast Charles Bronson in the role). Leone later came up with an idea to have the three gunmen at the beginning of the film be cameos by Eastwood, Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach (though, they were never meant to be the Man With No Name, Angel Eyes, and Tuco--just three randos like in the finished film). It was both a gag and a storytelling device to show the audience, "You thought these guys were bad/cool… Harmonica's even worse/better!" Wallach was in for it. Eastwood was having none of it and Van Cleef turned it down too. For what it's worth, Leone continued to try to work with Clint; he wanted him for the James Coburn character in Duck, You Sucker, but Eastwood wouldn't do it either.

So, whether you call him Joe, Manco, Blondie, the Man With No Name, or The Stranger, they are all the same man in all three films. Unfortunately, the lie that he's not has spread way further than it ever should have.

[butchjesus]

bedevil sketches from the other day (featuring francesco and ange, who I don't think I've posted about before)

[divaincavalli]

Elie Saab's Spring 2003 Couture Fashion Show

[sournote2014]

Shoutout to autistic female fans of Tuco Ramírez from 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'.

[maureenscribbles]

Trying to learn how to draw these guys for the Dollar Trilogy week :)

Not really satisfied with the last one, but it's not so bad for a first time

[onepiecefashion]

Outfit for Black Maria

Elie Saab Fall 2019

[maureenkpliskin]

Warm up activity 2 for the @dollarstrilogyevent featuring Tuco and his amazing umbrella ! <3

[hee-blee-art]

sad and scary danas :( click here for some happy danas [link to another post]

[link to more bedevil comic art]

[image ID: six digital drawings mainly featuring pastor dana, a slim man in his 30s with light skin, long dark curly hair greying at the temples, a beard, and round glasses.

the first is a three panel page, where someone says "dana, your nose," and dana realizes his nose is bleeding. he replies, "oh! haha, must be dry in here. I'm ok. could you grab-?" and is cut off by a bloody cough as someone yells his name. the third panel shows him laying in a hospital bed, hair more grey now and red veins appearing on his skin, as his fiancé ben, a thin person with light skin and a shaved head, cradles his hand and cries. he says "I'm gonna be fine, ri," to which ben replies, "I know, you big dummy," and sniffles.

the second shows dana standing, dressed ina pink hospital gown, looking much worse. the red veins are much more prominent, and his hair is now all white. his eyes are all red. there are indistinct speech bubbles around him.

the third shows him pinning father eli - a thin possessed exorcist with light skin, short light hair, all white eyes, and slashes in his cheeks - against a wall. dana is saying, "you are one, exorcist, and the apocalypse is unfathomable many. their blood will be on you. you cannot save them, elias leon, not like this. heaven- and hell-fire will burn them all the same if this world catches."

the fourth shows eli pinning possessed dana hard against a different cracked wall and pulling a red veiny parasite demon out of dana's mouth.

the fifth is a bust of dana, now with shorter white hair and scuff instead of a beard, looking hollow. there is a text label with an arrow that reads, "post-possession haircut."

the sixth shows him talking with ben, who says, "you cut your hair - and your beard." dana solemnly replies, "yeah. felt like time for a change." ben says, "well it looks nice," with a curved brow. dana doesn't respond. end ID]

[malix4583]

I love old westerns because they can be so easily perceived as homoerotic even though "they're not supposed to be."

Anyway, I got bored and made queer headcanons of main characters from the Dollars Trilogy (except AFOD because I didn't want to lol)

The Man With No Name

So damn gay; I can not see him liking women at all. I mean, the way acts with Douglas Mortimer as Manco and Tuco as Blondie??? The closet is made out of glass.

Tuco Ramirez

Queer and homophobic at the same time. It just makes sense to me. 🤷 Think about it as an "only I'M allowed to be gay" sorta thing.

Angel Eyes

Aroace but also gay yk? Just lives, does his job, looks cool as hell doing it, and doesn't gaf about romance and allat, but MAY have had some sort of history with men in some way.

Moving on to FAFDM (TMWNN is still gay dw /lh)

Douglas Mortimer

So gay bro. Wdym after you got punched by a guy, then make that same guy your partner, and drink together, and then, have only been partners with the guy for only a couple of days, and then be "so worried" about him despite him being a grown ass man who can do better than just handle himself. Plus, both of you got beat tf up together and saw each other at your highest and lowest. Zest fest.

El Indio

It just makes sense, trust.

[jgroffdaily]

Photos from the New York Drama Critics Circle Awards last week from Broadway World, including Jonathan with Eli Gelb, Will Brill and critic Adam Feldman. Photos by Bruce Glikas.

[anxiouscowboy]

Someone please draw Tuco as Tom Selleck in Magnum P.I. I implore you

[thecatalogueofroyalfashion]

Grand Duchess Maria Teresa || Elie Saab