Does anyone understand the ending of "My name is nobody?" The guy is shaving him, and then he does something.

Question

Movie "My name is nobody" made in 1973.. really funny. Does anyone get the end?

Basically, it looked like he had his finger up his butt

Answer 1

...at the end of the film, Terence Hill's arrogant character in the film, has finally reached the respected gunslinging reputation that his hero, Henry Fonda's character once had...before he retired (and went out with a bang...albeit a staged one!!).

If you remember the begining of the film, with Fonda's gunslinging character in the barber chair, he made sure that he had a gun barrell firmly pressed on the barber, who was, at the time, shaving his face with a straight razor!!!

In Hill's situation, at the end of the film, his character, ever so arrogant, didn't have a gun at the ready, while the barber was shaving his face with the straight razor....so he used his finger!!!

...does that help???

(RESPONSE EDIT)

.....but that poor barber, sweating, shaking in his boots, and still holding the razor on Hill's character's face, believed that it was a gun!!! It was a humorously ironic and poignant moment where, although the scene emulated the Fonda character's 'barber chair' scene at the beginning of the film, it also emphasized the continued arrogance and reckless over-confidence of Hill's character.....

Answer 2

Jack Beauregard stated reading his letter at the end of the movie "Just one piece of advice from a old timer, when your getting a shave and a cut, be sure the right man is wearing the jacket". Recall at the start of the movie, a killer pretending to be a barber tried to kill Jack. In the old west those who sought out to kill you, a common method was to impersonate the town barber. Then while getting a shave, he would cut your throat. Not knowing if the man shaving you was the REAL barber, the wise gun fighters would hold a gun to the barber. The end scene shows "Nobody" getting a shave and pressing his finger on the barbers rear end, giving the barber the impression its a gun barrel. Why didn t "Nobody" just hold a real gun instead? like Jack said to Nobody earlier "You gonna get yourself killed playing funny games with people"

Answer 3

the thing to keep in mind is this is an italian film, AND it was meant as a post-modern statement about the westerns genre (even before the term post-modern was popular). the gesture with the finger instead of a gun and up-the-guy's-butt especially (on american tv it was edited and they showed a gun instead), AND the fact that it was the actor was terence hill, was ripefull of significance. it was kind of "light-hearted-humor" in the face of dead-serious drama. terence hill was famous for the "trinity" westerns which were irreverent and comedic -- almost cartoon-like -- as a twist to the serious/dramatic westerns that preceded them. so terence hill was an icon of the end of the serious spaghetti westerns and the popularity of the comedic ones. henry fonda symbolized the opposite: henry fonda was a "giant" icon in drama and in the film-history-making "once upon a time in the west." "my name is nobody addressed all these genres and, supposedly, was meant to be a cinematic exercise in putting an end to the genre itself. pointing a finger up the guy's *** instead of a gun, particularly from an italian perspective, was a way to "end it silly," and flip the drama of life-and-death six-gun resolutions on its head.