4. The Man With No Name's Cigar - A Fistful Of Dollars
Clint Eastwood, the man with no name. Well, technically. If you look in the original script to A Fistful Of Dollars you'll see he's actually called Joe. The man with (kinda) no name is one bad-ass character, a creation of Eastwood and Italian director Sergio Leone. The 1964 spaghetti western is an iconic piece of cinema, and the man with (kinda) no name is an iconic character. Throughout A Fistful of Dollars, and I really mean throughout, Clint Eastwood has a short stubby cigar between his lips and is constantly puffing on it. That's not a euphemism. Along with the poncho, the hat and the revolver, there is only one thing which makes the character so memorable, and that is the short cigar. The apparent chain-smoking may seem to fit with Eastwood's persona perfectly, but the actor admitted that he is in fact a non-smoker. The foul taste of the cigars was allegedly used as a way for Eastwood to get into the right frame of mind for playing the role. Despite being a non-smoker, Eastwood bought the cigars from a shop in America and cut them down to size, before heading to Spain to begin shooting. That's right, most Spaghetti Westerns were filmed in Spain and not Italy as the pasta-related name suggests. This article is more than just a look at cigars, you might learn something!
