The Desert Southwest

Location from The Dollars Trilogy by Sergio Leone / United Artists

The landscape of the Dollars Trilogy — endless, merciless, indifferent to the men crossing it, and more beautiful than anything happening in the towns.

Also known as: The Desert, The Southwest, The Territory, The Badlands

What They Know

• Filmed in the Almería desert of Spain — a landscape that became its own Western myth
• Used by all three films as transitional space and as the setting for desert-survival sequences
• The distance and scale are narrative tools: Leone used them to establish the weight of arrivals and departures
• No water, no shade, and a very long walk from anywhere — being abandoned here is a death sentence

Connections

• contains — san_miguel
• contains — el_paso
• contains — sad_hill_cemetery

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