MY NAME IS NOBODY [Blu-ray]

These old Italian films were responsible for the popularity of Westerns in the US. They were often made with a humorous twist, as the Italians seem to like to add something light to the dark themes. "My Name is Nobody" is a perfect example, and hard to stop watching once you start. Enjoy!

This movie is one of my husband's favorites...unfortunately, he actually wore our copy out. When I looked for and found it on Amazon, I was happy to know it is still out there, so I immediately purchased it. It came to us a few days later, and my husband immediately pulled it out of the package and watched it. When I came home the next day, he was watching it again! It is a fun movie and I imagine one day, this copy will be wore out, and you can bet I will be looking on Amazon for another copy!!!

Great movie ! Quality was great. Sound was great.

I'm not sure what this movie was trying to do. It had some interesting concepts and certainly good acting--but it flittered that away by presenting a ridiculously disjointed story and uneven tone.If you've seen the Trinity movies, you will walk into this film with a certain expectation. In those movies, Trinity was a little over-the-top, reckless, but still grounded to reality. He never did things that seemed clownish. Here, however, he's a total clown. He's barely likeable--which is terribly sad since Trinity is one of the best characters in western cinema because he's the opposite of every cowboy in films.In this movie he's (let's just get it out) an angelic figure. Look at the cover of the box and you can immediately tell that. There are a few points in the film where Fonda's character makes the same observation. And then you watch these excessive action scenes where Trinity is unphased and untouchable. Clearly, that's what this movie was going for.This movie is very similar to A Christmas Carol or The Preacher's Wife--where angels come to guide a lost character. It would have been a rather interesting take for this in the western genre. But it flopped here.The overall problem with this film is that it simply doesn't know what tone it wants to convey. The scenes with Trinity alone are comical (to a brief extent--the "comedy" is rather thin). But when he meets up with Ford's character the tone is out of alignment. Ford, for example, plays his character with a straight face. He's very good at it, too. But then the camera will cut to Trinity and he'll talk gibberish that irritates both Ford and the viewer. Frankly, Ford's character would have shot Trinity many times in the movie--funny enough, Ford's character does try to do that, so maybe the writers knew how desperately we'd want Trinity's angelic character to drop dead!Anyway, it's a lost cause. The story needed to be much more refined. Ford's character isn't fleshed out--half the time you're trying to figure out what the hell he's up to, but not in the mysterious way--the story is so poorly written that you literally have no idea what he's doing. And Trinity should have been much more toned-down.This could have been a great morality play--the last hero of his time trying to escape his past, but his past is right on his heels; he's trying to avoid it, running and gunning out of this world into another (crossing the ocean to Europe). But Destiny forces him to remember who he really is, what he once stood for, and make a decision that could see him dead.THAT is what the story fundamentally was about. As I said before, the elements are all there, but it's so awkwardly, stupidly, clumsily executed that the great parts are lost. It's sad. Ford does a great job, despite the script's numerous flaws. And Hill--well, I don't know. I think that Hill felt a lot more comfortable acting Trinity in the tone-down, lazy fashion that character was previously written. In this film, however, Hill seems out of place with the stupid antics and outrageous behavior he has to perform.Those few moments where Trinity is serious, calm, lucid are brilliant. Especially the scene at the Indian graveyard. When he finally has a chance to meet Ford's character face-to-face in a shoot-out. That entire scene is very well crafted and acted. Indeed, Hill's Trinity in that short moment is an enticing, likable, interesting character. There are a few places in the movie where that just shines.Now, technically I have to say that this movie was shot BEAUTIFULLY. There are so many brilliant, amazing shots that despite the lackluster story, I was truly happy with the setting and camera work. My favorite is when Trinity comes into town during a festival and walks smack into someone on stilts. That series of shots is simply wonderful--the angle up to this man on stilts truly makes him seem giant, how the sun reflects off the lens, how the face is distorted, and the voice booming. And then Trinity cuts the image down to size--in a truly great moment of perfect storytelling and camera movement.Unfortunately, the technical greatness of this movie doesn't save it. Should you watch it? Yes. Should you buy a fresh, new copy of the movie? No. Buy it used.

NO SPOILERS. AFTER HIGH NOON AND SHANE, THIS IS MY FAVORITE WESTERN EVER MADE, AND AS WELL THE SOUNDTRACK. THESERGIO LEONE PRODUCTION OF THIS WAS DIFFERENT, AS YOU WILL SEE, BUT EQUALLY MAGNIFICENT AS THE MAN WITH NONAME FILMS. THE STAR, I.E. TERRENCE HILL WAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST PAID ACTORS IN ITALY AT THIS TIME. ALTHOUGH MOST OFHIS MOVIES, A DOZEN OF WHICH ARE ON PRIME NOW FOR FREE, HE WAS PARTNERED WITH BUD SPENSER. IN THIS, SINCE THE THEMATIC STORY WAS TOTALLY DIFFERENT, HENRY FONDA WAS HIS CO-PROTAGONIST. SO, LET’S DO IT........AS FREDDIE MERCURYSAID. FONDA PLAYS ONE OF, IF NOT THE, FASTEST GUNS IN THE WEST AND ALL NEWCOMERS WANT TO ESTABLISH A GREATREPUTATION. FONDA’S CHARACTER, I.E. JACK, MEETS AN UNUSUAL MAN ,I.E. NOBODY, HE CALLS HIMSELF, WHO OSTENSIBLY WANTS TO ESTABLISH JACK AS THE FASTEST GUN WHO EVER LIVED. HOW HE TRIES AND WHETHER HE SUCCEEDS IS FOR YOU TOSEE, AND HEAR, AS I AFOREMENTIONED THE SOUNDTRACK IS TO DIE FOR. I HAVE IT ON MY PHONE, AND WHILE WALKING EACH DAY, LISTEN TO IT. ON PRIME, IF YOU WISH TO SEE TERRENCE HILL AND HIS USUAL PARTNER, ........BOOT HILL.......IS ON AND YOUCAN SEE BUD SPENSER. IT IS NOT PRODUCED OR DIRECTED BY SERGIO LEONE, BUT BY GIUSEPPE COLIZZI, AND IS THE LASTFILM IN HIS ......TRINITY......TRILOGY. SEEING THESE A+ WESTERNS IN HD WITH OR WITHOUT SURROUND SOUND IS SUBLIME AND SUPERB. BUD SPENSER WON, WHEN HE WAS YOUNGER, THE FIFTY KILOMETER SWIMMING TITLE IN ITALY, AND THE RECORDREMAINS TODAY. OH YES, THERE IS AN ARMY OF VICIOUS KILLERS OF ABOUT 150 GUNMEN JACK AND NOBODY MUST CONTENDWITH. ENJOY.

I love this movie, hallarios.

La référence du western spaghetti Mon Nom est Personne "Il mio nome è Nessuno" sorti en 1973. Que dire de plus sur ce film que tout le monde connait. Une musique, un sifflement, un air fredonné signé par le maestro Ennio Morricone. Le chant du cygne, l'oraison funèbre ou le chant mortuaire du western spaghetti. On retrouve toutes les thématiques et tous les codes du western italien : il y a des duels, de longs silences tendus, de la vengeance, une précision des pistoleros à toute épreuve, des méchants, des leitmotivs...Sergio Leone est un peu sidéré de voir le genre qu'il a inventé, etre parodié par Terence Hill dans Trinita. Il décide alors de riposter en confrontant un de "ses" personnages incarné par Henry Fonda avec un personnage du renouveau du western italien incarné par Terence Hill à la fois drôle et charismatique, il fournit ici la meilleure prestation (et de loin) de sa carrière.. Henry Fonda représente le western traditionnel, la sagesse qui annonce la fin du genre. Fonda interprète à la perfection le rôle du justicier vieillissant. Son regard mélancolique qui tire sa révérence sur le progrès et la disparition du Far West tel qu’il l’a connu. Ce western a été conçu sur une idée de Sergio Leone qui s'est inspiré d'un fait divers réel (à partir de 1895, les journaux du Wyoming relatent les méfaits de la "horde sauvage", une bande de 150 bandits qui sèment la terreur dans la région). Leone écrit le scénario, produit le film et en confie la réalisation à Tonino Valerii qui fut son assistant sur Et pour quelques $ de plus, et qui n'a pas oublié les leçons de son mentor, en faisant en sorte que son film soit un hommage au maître du western spaghetti. Même s'il marche bien sur ses traces, on y retrouve le style indiscutable de Leone, le film porte sa signature, et certains critiques n'hésitent pas à le considérer (peut-être à tort car le travail de Valerii est quand même là) comme un de ses films. Il est vrai qu'il s'est pas mal investi dedans, au point qu'il n'oublie pas d'insérer ses références cinématographiques, notamment celles à Sam Peckinpah, dont le nom figure sur la tombe d'un cimetière indien et aussi avec la horde sauvage... Sans compter qu'il a supervisé de près le tournage en Espagne et aux Etats-Unis, et qu'il a dirigé la seconde équipe afin d'en accélérer les délais. Les scènes que Leone a dirigées sont celles des urinoirs publics et du concours de verres et de gifles dans le saloon où Terence Hill s'amuse comme un petit fou, cette dernière étant une longue scène, très drôle qui nécessita une semaine de tournage. Le film est avant tout un magnifique hommage aux légendes de l'Ouest, et renvoie forcément à la réplique mythique d'un autre monument du western : "On est dans l'Ouest ici. Quand la légende dépasse la réalité, alors on publie la légende !", tirée du chef d'oeuvre "L'Homme qui tua Liberty Valance" (1962) de John Ford. L'autre paramètre qui n'est certainement pas à négliger est qu'il reste un film à références tant Tonino Valerii et Leone ont multiplié les clins d'oeil et autres tout le long du film. Une scène culte reste dans nos mémoires, c'est celle du saloon. Mon Nom est Personne est la preuve ultime du western amusant, ultra référencé, qui semble alors comme une parodie mais qui est contre-balancé par un hommage magnifique non dénué de souffle épique teinté de nostalgie. ce qui le rend particulièrement mythique et émouvant. LEGENDAIRE !

this movie tries to be like the Clint Eastwood spagetti westerns, and it is similiar..but falls short...Its a comedy about a young guy who idolizes a gunslinger ( Henry Fonda, how he got in this movie , I will never know!) and wants to see him retire in a blaze of glory, so Nobody ( his name) helps him..Terrence Hill is Nobody and is quite funny..Nobody also has the fastest slap in the west...( you`ll see)...its a silly movie for sure....but the cinematography is simply beautiful..stunning vistas of the West where it was filmed..Quirky for sure but if you want something completely different in a western, this just might be the ticket for you...( Did I say Terrence Hill was handsome, he is...)

Entertaining but nowhere near as funny or as good as when Terrence Hill and Bud Spencer Team up. I bought it because the memory of it was better than I remembered. Not to say that's it terrible, Fonda plays a great reluctant albeit droll reluctant hero. Seeing it again thirty odd years after it's original release you get the feeling that had they written and directed it better it would have stood the test of time better. The movie has an underlying poignancy played against some slap stick comedy that in order to have worked it really should have been handled with some better direction and photography.

Ich liebe (ernsthafte) Western, und der Gute soll natürlich gewinnen. Wenn er das mit so hanebüchenen Colt-Tricks, Ohrlaschen-Stakkatos und so frechen Sprüchen tut -- mal was anderes als der ansonsten hochgeschätzte grimmige John Wayne.

Older spaghetti Western complete with rousing score, fantastic gunplay, questionable dubbing and a fair bit of campiness. Nonetheless, very enjoyable. Terence Hill reminds me a lot of Chris Pratt - maybe if they ever remake "My Name is Nobody" they can cast Chris Pratt.