10. The "Man With No Name" Movies Make Up A Trilogy About The Same Character
I just spent five minutes trying to type out something that resembled The Good, the Bad and the Ugly theme in words, but it turned out to be a massive waste of time. Hey, I tried. Anyway, that was going to be the introduction to this paragraph, but instead, you get this sentence. Contrary to popular belief, then, the movies in Sergio Leone's iconic "Man With No Name" trilogy - A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - aren't and were never supposed to be connected. It was actually just (and still is) a thinly-veiled marketing ploy. Yes, given that Leone's Clint Eastwood-based spaghetti westerns all feature similar characters, similar aesthetics and similar stories, it seemed only logical that the studio pretend Clint Eastwood's character, billed as "The Man With No Name," was the same guy in each one. The reason he got that iconic title, however, wasn't because he had no name - it was because he had three names (Joe, Manco and Blondie, respectively), signifying that he was actually three different characters, and not some guy using pseudonyms, as the studio wanted you to believe.