Duck, You Sucker
1972 ‘Giù la testa’ Directed by Sergio Leone
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Duck, You Sucker! (Italian: Giù la testa), also known as A Fistful of Dynamite and Once Upon a Time… the Revolution, is a 1971 Zapata Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Rod Steiger and James Coburn. It is the second part of a trilogy of epic Leone films including the previous Once Upon a Time in the West and the subsequent Once Upon a Time in America, released thirteen years later. The last western film directed by Leone, it is considered by some to be one of his most overlooked films.
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Duck you Sucker is probably Sergio Leone's least well known film, as Director. It was released in 1972 between His magnum opus, Once Upon a Time in the West and a full 12 years before, his cinematic swansong, Once Upon a time in America.
It was not a success. For this reason many of you may know it as a Fistful of Dynamite.Honestly it should have really been called, "the Good and the Ugly join a revolution". The central characters of Juan Miranda(Rod Steigers) and Sean Mallory(James Coburn) are to all intents and purposes are re treads of Blondie and Tuco, from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, but if things ain't broke......
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Strange and stylish. This movie starts out confusing and spends a lot of time getting to know the lead characters (not a bad thing, overall). When it comes together it does so to be extremely satisfying! Good camerawork, over the top Ennio Morocone score, and that gritty Leone, spaghetti western appeal. This movie came in a box set with "The Man With No Name Trilogy," and has always been overlooked but it gets better with each viewing!
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Just brilliant. Political in a way his previous films were not. Very charismatic (though horribly accented) lead performances. Of course it is incredibly choreographed and shot (one particular tracking shot of the aftermath of a massacre was just absolutely brilliant) and has an amazing Morricone score.
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Duck, You Sucker is Sergio Leone's most overlooked western. Admittedly, it isn't as good as the Dollars trilogy or Once Upon A Time In The West, but it is pretty good. Leone is the best director of spaghetti westerns and is among the greatest European directors of all time.
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Another Sergio Leone's masterpiece!
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Duck, You sucker, in my opinion marks the end of a journey. An end to Spaghetti Western. And almost all of westerns, if it were not for Clint Eastwood (with The Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, and Unforgiven). It dragged for a bit, but not to the point where I was begrudgingly watching, just to the point where it felt as though the scene could have ceased about 3 minutes ago. Overall, the film is by far Leone's weakest (one could argue that, that would belong to Once Upon a Time in America, but this is simply my opinion).
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Duck, You sucker, in my opinion marks the end of a journey. An end to Spaghetti Western. And almost all of westerns, if it were not for Clint Eastwood (with The Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, and Unforgiven). It dragged for a bit, but not to the point where I was begrudgingly watching, just to the point where it felt as though the scene could have ceased about 3 minutes ago. Overall, the film is by far Leone's weakest (one could argue that, that would belong to Once Upon a Time in America, but this is simply my opinion).
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Sean and Juan play politics and act out Robin Hood fantasies under the guidance of Sergio Leone. The movie is a real blast. [snicker]
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The most frustratingly, criminally underrated movie of perhaps all time. An beleivable chemistry between the two leads, great action sequences, one of Ennio Morricone's best scores and some real emotional scenes, more so than anything Sergio Leone has made before or since. The ending is a real tear jerker.
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"Fuck you and your revolution."
I couldn't help but think the whole way through that Donati or Leone had been listening to the White Album shortly before beginning the screenplay. I am a huge Beatles fan so this would be a plus from my standpoint, in any case.
I'm glad that Eastwood turned down the role of John. It would have been pretty weird to watch Blondie throw dynamite at everything, and Coburn portrays him about as well as could be wished for. The flashbacks are a little confusing at first, especially since all you have to differentiate the two men is a mark on one of their heads. But I love that even at the very end you're not…
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Sergio Leone's last western has all of the legendary director's great trademarks -- camerawork, closeups, exquisite style, shot framing, a sweet sounding Morricone score, and likable lead performances from Rod Steiger and James Coburn. But what really hurt this film for me (and this why I need to start reading the synopses of movies) is that it descends from a fairly entertaining heist western into a political rambling on the Mexican Revolution, which I found very anti-climatic (though the ending sequence of this movie just became one of my favourites of all time... it's a beauty). That said, I think this was Leone's attempt to try something different from his generic westerns (which, flair aside, was the entire Dollars Trilogy,…
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Duck, You Sucker is Sergio Leone's most overlooked western. Admittedly, it isn't as good as the Dollars trilogy or Once Upon A Time In The West, but it is pretty good. Leone is the best director of spaghetti westerns and is among the greatest European directors of all time.
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A very strange western from master Sergio Leone. Its clear by the extreme variety of shot styles utilized in this picture that Leone was experimenting quite a bit. This lack of polish however is one of the reasons it succeeds. Top it off with Rod Steiger playing a wonderful Mexican and James Coburn having the greatest mustache ever put to celluloid. My all time favorite wester.
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Duck you Sucker is probably Sergio Leone's least well known film, as Director. It was released in 1972 between His magnum opus, Once Upon a Time in the West and a full 12 years before, his cinematic swansong, Once Upon a time in America.
It was not a success. For this reason many of you may know it as a Fistful of Dynamite.Honestly it should have really been called, "the Good and the Ugly join a revolution". The central characters of Juan Miranda(Rod Steigers) and Sean Mallory(James Coburn) are to all intents and purposes are re treads of Blondie and Tuco, from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, but if things ain't broke......
(Eli Wallach was the first… -
A departure from The Man With No Name Trilogy and a great film at the same time.