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Analysis of the Dollar Trilogy [part 5 of 7]

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Michele Iovinella

July 25, 2025

The Artistic and Cultural Heritage

The Influence on World Cinema

The Dollar Trilogy has exerted a profound and lasting influence on world cinema. Directors such as Sam Peckinpah, George Lucas, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez have absorbed and reinterpreted the Leonian lesson, transferring it to different narrative contexts but keeping its expressive force intact.

[Mario Brega and Clint Eastwood on the set of A Fistful of Dollars] 

Leone’s aesthetic has transcended the boundaries of the western to influence seemingly distant film genres: from urban thrillers to science fiction cinema, from action comedy to adventure films. The visual language developed by Leone has become a common heritage of contemporary cinema.

Global Cultural Impact

The three films have overcome language and cultural barriers to become a phenomenon of planetary scope. The iconic images of the trilogy, its memorable dialogues, its immortal music have entered the DNA of the contemporary collective imagination. From the world of video games to that of advertising, from television series to comics, the Leonian universe continues to generate new forms of expression.

 

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