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4	The ''"Dollars Trilogy"'' (also known as ''"[[TheTropeWithoutATitle The Man with No Name]] Trilogy"'' and ''"A Fistful of Movies"'') is a trilogy of SpaghettiWestern films by Creator/SergioLeone. It consists of, in order of production:
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6	* ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars''
7	* ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore''
8	* ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''
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11	They are tied together by the following things:
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13	# Directed and co-written by Creator/SergioLeone.
14	# A soundtrack composed by Music/EnnioMorricone.
15	# Being [[invoked]][[CaliforniaDoubling Westerns filmed far from America]] -- in UsefulNotes/{{Spain}}, since it has more WildWest-type terrain than Leone's native UsefulNotes/{{Italy}} does.
16	# The main protagonists consistently are [[AntiHero anti-heroes]] at best, either {{bounty hunter}}s or {{opportunistic\|bastard}} drifters/outlaws.
17	# Creator/ClintEastwood is in all of them, popularly referred to as the Man With No Name. Although he is referred to by a different name in each film ("Joe", "Manco", and "Blondie" respectively), all of them are nicknames given to him by another character, and it's unclear whether he is even supposed to be the same character, at least until he picks up the poncho he wears in the other two films towards the end of ''The Good, The Bad and the Ugly''. He had to squint due to the brightness of the Spanish desert that was used as film set, and it ended up [[ClintSquint a trope]].
18	# It also features [[ProductionPosse Leone's regular cast members]] consisting of the likes of Aldo Sambrell, Benito Stefanelli, Lorenzo Robeldo and Mario Brega, and both Creator/LeeVanCleef and Gian Maria Volonte appear in two films. Additionally, it was dubbed in its entirety at Creator/TitraStudios in New York, with the exception of scenes added back into ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' in 2003 which were dubbed at Intersound in Los Angeles.
19	# It spawned a series of five tie-in novels: ''A Coffin Full of Dollars'', ''A Dollar to Die For'', ''The Million Dollar Bloodhunt'', ''Blood For a Dirty Dollar'' and ''The Devil's Dollar Sign'', as well as {{Novelization}}s of the films themselves.
20	# Creator/DynamiteEntertainment published a comic series called ''The Man with No Name'' starting in 2008, which was set immediately after the third film. It lasted for eleven issues before the series was replaced by ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'', which lasted eight issues.
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22	The ''"Dollars Trilogy"'' is simultaneously a ThematicSeries (there are no story connections at all and only some cursory ContinuityNod moments) and a DeconstructorFleet, depicting the WildWest as a grim CrapsackWorld. Together, they tell how the West was tamed, and where Men with No Name fit in all of that.
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24	This series ended BlackAndWhiteMorality in later Westerns. It also made everyone who made Westerns after these films want to cast Creator/ClintEastwood, not to mention the FountainOfExpies [[TheExpyWithNoName his image generated]].
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27	!!This franchise provides examples of the following tropes:
28	* CrapsackWorld: The trilogy portrays the WildWest as a grim and violent place where innocents are constantly terrorised and killed by violent criminals, with the closest thing to a hero being an [[UnscrupulousHero unscrupulous]] BountyHunter.
29	* DeconstructorFleet: The trilogy completely deconstructs many of the tropes present in Westerns such as BlackAndWhiteMorality and the idea of the WildWest being an adventurous and more simple time to live.
30	* TheExpyWithNoName: TropeMaker with the main character.
31	* {{Prequel}}: Surprisingly both the second and third films are set before ''A Fistful of Dollars'', which has a gravestone that establishes the film takes place during or after 1873. ''For a Few Dollars More'' has a newspaper dated 1872 and at one point the Man with No Name's hat is shot at creating holes that can be seen in the first film, though there's still enough ambiguity to view it as a sequel, while ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' is firmly set during the American Civil War with gravestones dated 1864.
32	* SpaghettiWestern: While not the first Italian Westerns, these films are the TropeCodifier of the genre and are some of the most famous Westerns of all time.
33	* ThematicSeries: {{Downplayed}}. There are no direct story connections between entries, mainly because Leone never intended for this to be a trilogy. However the character played by Creator/ClintEastwood is strongly implied to be the same person being given different nicknames in each movie and there are some [[ContinuityNod minor references]] that link the instalments to each other, so the series is now seen as telling the adventures of the Man with No Name.

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