Line #2 Headscratchers/Unforgiven


1	* According to [[WordOfGod Clint Eastwood]], [[Creator/ClintEastwood Bill Munny]] is what became of The Man With No Name from the Film/DollarsTrilogy by Creator/SergioLeone after settling down to a life of peace... If so, why the '''heck''' does an intelligent and cunning man like Blondie/Joe/Manco have such trouble holding onto the ludicrous windfalls of cash he ''repeatedly earns'', and build a happy life with it? The fact that Blondie/Joe/Manco ended up a lowly dirt-poor pig-farmer means that he has blown through ''every'' coin from his share of the $200,000 in Gold Pieces of Confederate Dollars he and [[Creator/EliWallach Tuco]] won in ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'' '''and''' the $27,000 for the lives of El Indio and his gang (plus another $40,000 for returning the stolen money to the Bank of El Paso) that Colonel Mortimer let him have every cent of in ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore.'' '''Surely''' a man as smart as "Bill Munny" would ''already'' have invested in a big city canning business the very next day after killing [[Creator/LeeVanCleef Angel Eyes]] in Sad Hill Cemetery, and ''afford'' doctors who could have saved his wife's life (not to mention give his children a proper education). Instead, he wastes every penny of his hard won blood-money in the 25 years that follows, leaving his wife dead and his children in poverty. How does ''that'' make any sense considering how cunning/smart/far-sighted Munny has shown himself to be in ''The Dollars Trilogy?''
2	** He was robbed, lent money foolishly, invested unwisely, and gave too much away. Basically, the same thing that happens to modern lottery winners ... with some violence thrown in.
3	*** $100,000 in 1860 gold coins would, in reality, be far too heavy for one horse to easily carry in a few small sacks. It's possible that Blondie's share of the treasure didn't turn out to be worth as much as he hoped.
4	** I think you misunderstood a bit what Eastwood said, he most likely is referring to the general archetype represented by the Man With No Name, not that he is literally playing an older version of the same character.
5	** It is worth mentioning that within the context of the Dollars movies themselves, Blondie/Joe/Manco was ALREADY penniless by the time ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' began. Though, WordOfGod stated that Blondie/Joe/Manco immediately gave the Confederate gold to Father Ramirez's mission because they needed it more than he did. Assuming he also gave them Angel Eyes' gorgeous stallion in exchange for a mule and that dovetails nicely into where ''Fistful'' begins.
6	** It also has to be remembered that more than a decade separates ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'' and ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars''; the former takes place in February-March 1862, during the New Mexico Campaign of the American Civil War, while the latter occurs no earlier than 1873 (the film features a tombstone with the date of death as that year). Lots of things could have happened to the $100,000 in Confederate gold during the preceding decade, even without the WordOfGod above.
7	** That's because Clint Eastwood never claimed that Munny is the Man With No Name. Original scripwriter David Peoples also indirectly verifies in [[https://archive.is/6fDTh#selection-2093.0-2093.78 this interview]] that he doesn't view Munny as the ''Dollars'' protagonist.

Context Headscratchers / Unforgiven