So what title best fits this film?

[noodles_leone]

What's really weird is that in Japan three of Leone's films had names that tied them all together, but these three films crossed over the "Dollars" and "Once Upon a Time" trilogies by consisting of the following:

夕陽のガンマン (literally "Sunset Gunman" aka "For a Few Dollars More")
続 夕陽のガンマン (literally "Sunset Gunman sequel" aka "The Good the Bad and the Ugly")
夕陽のギャングたち (literally "Sunset Gang" aka "Duck, you Sucker!")

"Sunset" (夕陽) wasn't used in the names for "A Fistful of Dollars" or "Once Upon a Time in the West".

Nice. Do you have the other titles in Japanese?

[Novecento]

荒野の用心棒 (literally "Wilderness Yojimbo" aka "A Fistful of Dollars")
ウエスタン (literally "Uesutan" as a phonetic spelling of "Western" aka "Once Upon a Time in the West")
ワンス・アポン・ア・タイム・イン・アメリカ (literally "Wansu apon a taimu in amerika" phonetic spelling of "Once Upon a Time in America")

[drinkanddestroy]

I remember Frayling once saying  that he had a copy of the Japanese poster of FOD, and some Jap told him that the title in Japanese means something like "the return of yojimbo" or " yojimbo rides again" or something like that?

[Novecento]

I remember that too. It was on one of the DVD/BD special features. I also remember thinking how wrong he was!

Breaking the Japanese name down:

荒野 = wasteland; wilderness; deserted land; prairie; vast plain; wilds; desert; wild land;
の = grammatical particle making the word above a descriptor of the word below.
用心棒 = Yojimbo

To be honest, I'm not sure what the best translation of the first word would be. Perhaps "wilderness" sounds too much like trees and forests and "plains" would be better.

[uncknown]

I usually dislike using the Italian but in this case GIU, LA TESTA is the one i have settled on.

it just seems right esp. with the numerous other titles from Euro nations
Bruce Marshall

[uncknown]

It pisses me off that when Juan or John say "duck, you sucker: in the French version it is changed or removed completely!!

[uncknown]

In Frayling's SL bio he re- titles it KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN!!!!

[drinkanddestroy]

In Frayling's SL bio he re- titles it KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN!!!!

I believe he titles the chapter on that movie “Keep Your Head Down,” (translation of the Italian title “Giu La Testa” but he never says that any version of the movie in any English-language country had that title.

He titles all the other chapters with the name of the movie in English, and my assumption is that the reason he uses the translation of the Italian for the title of this chapter is that he, rightfully, thinks that both “Dock You Socker” and Fistful of Dynaminte” are ridiculous.

 In Italian, “Giu La Testa” is a saying, so this is not a bad title.

In English, I agree with Frayling, the best title is absolutely “Once Upon a Time ... the Revolution.” As Frayling describes, the “once upon a time” is Leone’s “fairy tale for grownups,” and how the fairy tale may be quite different from the reality.

[Novecento]

In English, I agree with Frayling, the best title is absolutely “Once Upon a Time ... the Revolution.” As Frayling describes, the “once upon a time” is Leone’s “fairy tale for grownups,” and how the fairy tale may be quite different from the reality.

Frayling should have used that for his title - given that we have evidence of Leone explicitly stating during the French dubbing of DYS that he was making OUATIA as the third part of what he had decided was going to become a trilogy.

[noodles_leone]

Of course the French one is the right one.

[cigar joe]

Of course the French one is the right one.