He hired Eastwood to play The Man with No Name before ever meeting or talking to him. Leone drew stubble on the actor’s boyish face, broadened his shoulder, inserted a hat low over his brow, and sketched one of Italy’s signature Toscano cigars sticking out of his mouth. After Leone watched an episode of Rawhide that Eastwood appeared in, entitled “The Incident of the Black Sheep”, he ordered Eastwood’s headshot. Italian director Sergio Leone had a vision for the new western hero: cynical, glib, alluring not for his virtue, but for his style.Ĭlint Eastwood was not Leone's initial choice for his first western Fistful of Dollars, an adaptation of Kurosawa’s samurai film Yojimbo. More than that, American audiences no longer bought the all American boy-scout hero, with his noble intent and incorruptible virtue. By the mid 60's the American Western was a dying genre and the Spaghetti Western emerged to take its place.Ĭlassic cowboy stars like John Wayne and Henry Fonda were getting older, gaining weight, and couldn't ride like they used to.
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