Fistfull of Dollars

Today's blog assignment was to blog about "Whatever". In the spirit of the class, I'll keep my blog English related by giving a literary analysis of the single greatest epic of our time. Fistfull of Dollars is the first in a series of 3 movies starring Clint Eastwood as "The Man With No Name". Most people skip the first two and just watch The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, which, for the sake of the story, is fine, but if you really want to understand all the underlying themes in the trilogy, you have to watch the first two. In Fistfull of Dollars, Clint Eastwood plays a lone bounty hunter who goes from town to town collecting the reward money for crimals he has captured and demasculated. Clint Eastwood's character never gives his name, but you would almost never notice. Many viewers will call the movie "just another western" however, the movie forms the basis for civilization. Eastwood's character portrays the epitome of manhood. He only speaks when necessary and identifies with no one unless he has to. He kills evil men, but only because he will get paid. The only time he isn't smoking a cigar in the movie is if he is rolling one. He drinks water when he's thirsty and whisky when he's not. Best of all, he is never caught unarmed. And he's a badass. You can base any decision in life by what Eastwood does in this movie, and if it weren't the terrible acting on the part of the Mexicans, this would have been easily recognized as the greatest film series, ever. Not to mention he has the greatest theme music, you may not know it, but you'll recognize it. My only regret about this movie is that most of the things he does are now against the law, which is lame because normally I would carry a colt pistol and a bottle of tequila everywhere...maybe one day.