What Makes Westerns so Cool? 

Ispired by a japanese filmaker an italian director made a western in southern Spain with an American Actor.

For a Few Dollars More is my favorite western of all time.

Once Upon A Time in the West is probably my favorite Western, so it's nice to hear its score play while someone celebrates it's awesomeness. Well done!

What makes Westerns so cool? Two words: Clint Eastwood 😎

I’m a huge fan of the outlaw Jose’s wales. Definitely Clint’s coolest persona/ look.

I feel like A Fistful of Dollars and A Few Dollars perfected the genre, showing a stranger become one of the coolest mfs in fiction, plus Mortimer is prob my fav Leone character, he has such tragic depth, while also being a badass bounty hunter is truly awe-inspiring 💖

Such An amazing video. Thanks for doing this genre justice.

How are you NOT full of subs yet? SUCH QUALITY!

Thank you. I grew up surrounded by this culture with a Western movie fan for a Dad, but I for the life of me. Just could not see the appeal. I try to keep an open mind but my adhd would always get the best of me.

Hands down one of the best videos on RU-vid

Good video, but could have been shortened down to 3 words: Clint Eastwood squinting

Loved the video dude!

I love this movie and there is some truth in what Tarantino once said, that great directors only steal from other movies and bring them to the screen differently - the good, the bad and the ugly, for example, follows the same principle of It's a mad, mad world by Stanley Kramer - in the beginning a man dies and he has a lot of money hidden and wants to give it away, but of course Sergio Leone's interpretation is different and yet I think he came up with the idea after watching this movie - what I would like to mention at the end is the fact that creative filmmakers literally split up several movies like a puzzle and then create their own work.

Very nicely done.

so well made he should have more viewers

I fucking love westerns, my favorite genre of film. The wild west really is my jam

For afew dollars more is also my favorite. It's the grand western that only the italianwestern could portray

Leone didn't start the spaghetti western genre, his friend Sergio Corbucci directed two Italian westerns Massacre at Grand Canyon (1963) and Minnesota Clay (1964-but earlier in the year than Fistful of Dollars) and Corbucci had a bigger impact on the style of the spaghetti western than Leone (who Imo only is the greatest filmmaker of all time)

what a lovely video !!

Thank God for Sergio Leone

He made such masterpieces like OUATITW, TGTBTU and OUATIA! And For a few Dollars more comes really close.

impresive video man, you should get more views wtf.

"Replacing the heroic cowboy popularized by John Wayne with more morally complex antiheroes" *Plays Clip from The Searchers* Dude, did you WATCH The Searchers?

This is really well written and thought out, but a lot of the time you sound like you're being forced to read it for a school presentation. I mean this constructively. I really enjoyed this video.

So good movie ever made before The Good The Bad The Ugly fantastic move will never forgettenin life

God I love westerns. Good video ❤

Not as cool maybe, but Clint made them as good or better. However, that may just be a continuation of Leone's legacy given his influence on Eastwood.

Using The Searchers as the example of John Wayne's heroic and morally good characters is maybe not the clearest choice :/

Good vid, but surely the most iconic film scene of all time is the one where they say I'm walking here

good video

I think your summation pretty much nails it. Leone took some parts that at the time were considered average to good and assembled his films in a way that elevated all the parts into something more. Other directors could have made decent film with the inputs Leone had, but nobody could have made the films he did. In my home, Leone is a legend and my children all hold Leone, and Morricone, in high regards.

I’m here because of Red Dead Redemption 2.

Nice video! I would slow down your dialogue. Watch how slow Nerdwriter1 speaks in his videos.

5 words “it only takes one bullet.”

Westerns are about being stoic and badass. What's not to like?

First western is an Australian film

Stop. You have made a large error regarding the Fistful of Dollars (FFD). . .and your reliance on FFD as the template for subsequent westerns. You over looked the fundamental fact that Sergio Leone borrowed far more from Kurasawa than merely the plot, etc. The entire concept of the anti hero (Man with No Name/Blondie then Harmonica) was a juxtaposition of Kurasawa's anti hero in Yojimbo and its subsequent Kurasawa films. FFD is practically a shot for shot remake of Yojimbo ... and many of those concepts were carried over into his subsequent films, including the camera closeups of the characters for dramatic effect. Leone did take it further and advanced it from what Kurasawa did ... but what really set Leone films apart are below. What truly and uniquely sets the Leone westerns apart from all others is Ennio Morricone and his soundtracks. The innovative use of the harmonica or the sounds of the compositions for Leone films, differs from all others such as the Symphonic sound of The Magnificent Seven, etc. or Dimitri Tiomkin's score for High Noon. Imagine the scene that you have put out there ... the last gun fight/standoff of Tuco, Blondie, and the Colonel, in Good, Bad, & Ugly with any other soundtrack than Morricone's. Regardless, I do generally agree with your conclusions about Leone, but think greater emphasis should be placed on the points that I've enumerated.

Not People in the middle! The bad is bad and accept it! Kill or be killed as way of life! Unique! Grettings

The good, the bad, and the ugly is the greatest thing to ever be put on film. It shows just how corrupt most people are.

MAUREEEEEN!!!

Pog

It's pronounce Leone not Leon

They represent freedom. Get drunk, hop on your horse. Packing for self-defense.

Its a time where men were men, not the Robert Pattisons we have today…

Eastwood name was never more recognizable than Wayne in westerns.

That's your conclusion???? Well okay.

Let me check with Alec. Oh that’s right he murdered the cinematographer and never finished the film. Young, cool Clint Eastwood vs. old, fat Alec….LOL!

You'd think after all the effort to write and edit this damn thing, he'd at least figure out how to pronounce the great mans name. Kinda laughable, school boy error man.

but do you think its cool lmfao

Westerns aren't cool. Sergio Leone westerns aren't cool. Clint Eastwood westerns are cool.