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From the Man with No Name toOnce Upon a clock time in the West ’s Frank , spaghetti western pioneerSergio Leoneis responsible for some of the western genre ’s greatest villains and antiheroes . Leone blaze out the trail for Italian cinema ’s brutal , bloody , darkly comedic take on the American western withA Fistful of Dollars , his westernized remake of Akira Kurosawa’sYojimbo . Leone follow this up with two sequels – For a Few clam MoreandThe commodity , the Bad , and the Ugly – to fill out theDollarstrilogy and solidify his place as one of the human beings ’s greatest westerly music director .
Leone also helmed an underrated spaghetti western jewel , Duck , You Sucker ! , and offered up a determinate treatise on the Wild West with his breathtaking epicOnce Upon a fourth dimension in the West . Leone ’s spaghetti westerns are far-famed for their moral equivocalness , their uncompromising characterization of fury , and their operatic filming mode , complemented attractively byEnnio Morricone ’s iconic scores . But Leone did n’t just bring in captivating visuals to the western musical genre ; he also created some of its most iconic character , likeOnce Upon a fourth dimension in the West ’s Harmonica andThe Good , the Bad , and the Ugly ’s Tuco .
Sergio Leone defined the spaghetti western with the Dollars trilogy and Once Upon a meter in the West . These are the greatest scenes from his horse opera .
10Colonel Douglas Mortimer
Played by Lee Van Cleef in For a Few Dollars More
The first sequel toLeone ’s pioneer spaghetti westernA Fistful of dollar , For a Few Dollars More , shake up the normal by pass on the Man with No Name a collaborator . InA Fistful of Dollars , he was a lonely wolf play by his own rules , looking for criminals to bring to judge , but inFor a Few dollar More , he ’s part of a team . Colonel Douglas Mortimer is a fellow bounty hunter go after the same objective . When they gain that neither of them can vanquish the villains alone , they reluctantly join force out .
Lee Van Cleef shares a spectacular on - screen dynamic with Clint Eastwood in the purpose of Mortimer , which keep the tale rent from head start to finish . At first , they can hardly tolerate each other . But by the oddment of the motion picture , they ’ve evolve a mutual regard for one another .
9Jill McBain
Played by Claudia Cardinale in Once Upon a Time in the West
Claudia Cardindale toy Jill , who arrive in Sweetwater supposedly to marry the mangle Brett McBain .
Leone seldom included any major female characters in his movies – it ’s one of the only unsighted spots in an otherwise about - perfect filmography – but he did feature a distaff lead in the sprawling ensemble ofOnce Upon a Time in the West . Claudia Cardindale play Jill , who arrives in Sweetwater supposedly to marry the murdered Brett McBain . However , as it turn out , she already married him a month sooner , do her the sole heir of the mow down family ’s chance .
Jill drop the rest of the movie being place by Frank ’s partner in crime while try retribution for the death of her late married man and his house . This creates an interesting moral force with Harmonica , because they both have a vendetta against Frank and both desire to see him suffer . Along the way , a touching friendly relationship flower between the two .
8Juan Miranda
Played by Rod Steiger in Duck, You Sucker!
Leone ’s final western , Duck , You Sucker ! , is also his most overlooked . It takes place during the Mexican Revolution of the 1910s and stars Rod Steiger as an unscrupulous Mexican felon cite Juan Miranda . Juan is unlike from Leone ’s other gunslinging antihero in that he ’s not a solitary wildcat ; he ’s a father . His jolly band of outlaws is mostly made up of his own children .
Juan ’s arc inDuck , You Sucker!is similar to Han Solo ’s electric arc in the originalStar Warsmovie . At the commencement of the movie , Juan could n’t care less about the revolution , but after contact somebody with a vested interest group in the resistance – a Fenian revolutionist named John H. Mallory – he finally comes around to seeing the grandness of the gyration . This wake journey is one of Leone ’s honest dramatic storylines , with a actual sense of organic character development .
7Manuel “Cheyenne” Gutiérrez
Played by Jason Robards in Once Upon a Time in the West
Cheyenne is a local bandit overhear in the crossfire between Harmonica and Frank inOnce Upon a Time in the West . Cheyenne and his man are framed for the picture show ’s gap slaying and spend the residuum of the picture show render to clear their names . He has a $ 5,000 bounty on his head , so he ’s eager to get the hit called off and place province on the true hangdog party .
This could ’ve well been a forgettable character who exists purely to pad out the conflict between the main hero and scoundrel and never makes much of an impression in his own right . But that ’s where it comes in handy to throw a covert legend like Jason Robards . Robards , the leading interpreter of the works of dramatist Eugene O’Neill , brought a lot of depth to Cheyenne ’s lineament .
6Angel Eyes
Played by Lee Van Cleef in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Angel Eyes is the eponymic “ The Bad ” inThe Good , the Bad , and the Ugly .
Angel Eyes is the eponymous “ The Bad ” inThe Good , the Bad , and the Ugly . “ The Good ” and “ The Ugly ” are n’t particularly good guys , but they look a lot better compare to “ The Bad . ”Angel Eyes is first introduced interrogate a former Confederate soldier named Stevens for the location of the gold he stole . Angel Eyes ’ duplicitous , ego - serving ways are establish right off the at-bat as he kills Stevens , even though Stevens gave up the information he want , and then he kills his own employer as he decide to seek the gold for himself .
Lee Van Cleef played this part spectacularly . He ’s one of the staples of the spaghetti western sandwich subgenre , perfectly attuned to the singular brutality of Leone ’s Wild West , and his menacing blaze was idealistic for a villainous part . Even his name , Angel Eyes , is uproariously ironic , because he ’s deucedly devious .
5John H. Mallory
Played by James Coburn in Duck, You Sucker!
Whereas Juan does n’t care about the revolution at first inDuck , You Sucker ! , his pardner John H. Mallory is all - in on the revolution from the get - go . Revolution is in his blood . Not only is John a Fenian revolutionist ; he ’s also an explosives expert – and a notorious precious man . After being caught killing British troops in Ireland , John take flight to Mexico , where he ended up joining another revolution .
John has a lot in vernacular with the Man with No Name , freewheel from one locale to the next and seeking jurist along the path , but on a geopolitical scale . The Man with No Name takes down street gangs and lease guns , but John take up down political force . As John barrack Juan to get involved in the revolution , he inspires the audience to get behind it as well .
4Harmonica
Played by Charles Bronson in Once Upon a Time in the West
After finish theDollarstrilogy , Leone left behind the valet de chambre with No Name and gaveOnce Upon a prison term in the Westa raw antihero : Harmonica . Played with the everlasting internal-combustion engine - cold stare byDeath Wish ’s Charles Bronson , Harmonia is so - called because he plays his mouth organ right before he gun down one of his enemy . Much like the valet de chambre with No Name , Harmonica is piano talk and does n’t like to open up about his past . alternatively , the celluloid relies on flashbacks to fill in his tragical backstory .
When he finally tracks down the big bad , Frank , one last flashback reveal what he did . When Harmonica was a untested male child , Frank hanged his older brother and forced him to support his dying brother on his shoulders . Before departing , Frank block the harmonica in the younger brother ’s mouth , at which point in time the young comrade swore retaliation . A emblematical totem like this harmonica is a classic way to make a graphic symbol iconic .
3Tuco
Played by Eli Wallach in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The titulary “ The Ugly ” inThe Good , the Bad , and the Uglyis Tuco , played brilliantly by Eli Wallach . Tuco provides this blood - soaked spaghetti western heroic poem with some much - needed funny relief , and Wallach ’s comedic style lined up attractively with Leone ’s black sense of humour . Out of the eponymic trinity , “ The Ugly ” is the underdog , and arguably the most appealing one of the bunch .
Throughout the in-between section of the movie , the Man with No Name reluctantly travels with Tuco as they both seek the stolen Confederate gold . In these scenes , Tuco and the Man with No Name develop a hysterical on - projection screen dynamic , with Clint Eastwood meet the “ straight human ” opposite Wallach ’s comic antics . Tuco is so memorable and iconic that he die on to become the namesake of an as unpredictable and darkly comedic scoundrel inBreaking Bad .
2Frank
Played by Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West
Arguably the most ingenious piece of ramble in Leone ’s filmography was vomit up Henry Fonda against type to act as Frank , the sadistic villain ofOnce Upon a Time in the West . Frank is easily the most diabolical villain in any of Leone ’s movies . In his introductory scene , Frank massacre the full McBain kinsfolk – kids and all – making him a in truth hateable baddie decently out of the gate .
Fonda was one of the most illustrious movie stars in the earthly concern .
It was a stroke of brilliance to retch Fonda as thisscene - steal western movie villain . At the time , Fonda was one of the most renowned moving picture stars in the world , and he was famous for his clean - cut on - screen persona as a righteous hero . It would ’ve been shock for an hearing to see any grown man murder shaver in a movie in 1968 , but it made it particularly disgraceful that that gentleman’s gentleman was Henry Fonda .
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1The Man With No Name
Played by Clint Eastwood in the Dollars trilogy
Leone created the quintessential westerly pic gunslinger with the iconic antihero ofhisDollarstrilogy , the Man with No Name . Clint Eastwood ’s yammer on - screen persona can be traced back to his unforgettable turn as the Man with No Name . All the other gunfighters he ’s played over the eld have been variations onA Fistful of Dollars ’ stern - faced protagonist . He ’s a military man of few words who tends to allow his bullets do the talk . He ’s a wanderer who drift from town to townsfolk in search of iniquity to fix and fortune to seize .
The Man with No Name has since been used as a template for ice - cool gunslinger characters . Everyone from Boba Fett to Roland Deschain has involve influence from the Man with No Name . He ’s remembered as the define character of theSergio Leoneoeuvre .
