Thanks to my Prof. Russ Hunter for introducing me to Spaghetti Western films. As I write this essay, I rediscover that kid in me enjoying the icons I liked in my childhood. May be I was more sincere then. According to Leone, he was making action packed fantasy stories about the truth about men of today in a stylistic, yet realistic way; discovering The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, all in one, in everyone. It was true about 'The Dollar Trilogy' / 'The Man with No Name' Trilogy.
What appealed me the most is that journey on a horseback as that 'nameless nobody' to an unknown dessert landscape and keep going to the unknown... as unknown... with the back ground music of Ennio Morricone or the silence... with no company... no commitments... no past... no future... I'm sure 'the man with no name' is an insane Sagittarian.
Christopher Frayling says,
‘The Man with No Name’ was a completely marginalised figure in connection to the social groups he encountered. He was always on a journey – a journey that beings nowhere and ends nowhere.
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