Review of My Name Is Nobody (1973) by Ilona W — 05 Mar 2008
This is my absolute favourite Western! I simply love it. And as far as I know it's the best performance by Terence Hill!
Henry Fonda is representing the classic Leone-Italo-Western (Once Upon A Time in the West) and Terence Hill the Barboni-Spaghetti-Western (Trinity) that sort of always mocked the Leone Western.
But the result of blending two styles that are so very different is a very unstable style! The movie has great Leone-moments and great Barboni-moments so it's never a unity stylistically but still inherits the best of both styles. But the occasional weirdness of the movie might also be the result of the fights behind the camera between Leone and his former disciple Valerii.
If you listen and watch closely you'll notice some references to Ulysses. Leone was a great admirer of Homer. Jack is the cyclops (he's short-sighted) and Nobody, asked who he is, answers "Nobody" just how Ulysses answered the cyclops' same question.
Italo-Western was at its demise and Spaghetti-Western on its rise around that time and I very much like the metaphorical level of this film: killing the highly-respected heroes but giving them the chance to go with grace and do the best in trying to take their place.
"Here lies Jack Beauregard.
Nobody was faster on the draw.".
;o).
This review of My Name Is Nobody (1973) was written by Ilona W on 05 Mar 2008.
My Name Is Nobody has generally received very positive reviews.
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