The Movie For A Few Dollars More Reviewed
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Everybody’s seen The Good the Bad and the Ugly, but have you taken time to see the other films in the Dollars Trilogy, as well? Namely, For a Few Dollars More. Each film in the series has its own role to play in cinema history and in the trilogy. The Good the Bad and the Ugly is an all time classic and really broke spaghetti westerns through to an international audience, Fistful of Dollars, based on Yojimbo, was the one that really invented and defined the genre, and For a Few Dollars More was, without a doubt, the coolest film of the trilogy. If you still haven’t seen it, put it on your queue the next time you login to your movie download service.
The movie is really all about the cool little details Leone packed into the film. It starts with a great sequence of Eastwood beating a bounty up with a single hand, and then goes on to Lee Van Cleef selecting one of his dozens of long barrel guns to take out a bad guy, and eventually we get to see one of the coolest western villains of all time.
See, he uses a pocket watch every time he kills someone. It’s a musical pocket watch, so he winds it up and lets it play while staring down his adversary. When the music comes to a stop… He draws and fires. Definitely a great villainous ritual for any western baddie to commit to.
Lee Van Cleef plays Colonel Mortimer, who was once a Civil War Hero and has since become a bounty hunter. He plays a sort of a paternal role to Clint Eastwood’s Man With No Name, teaching him a few things about the craft that he doesn’t really know quite yet, while pursuing a somewhat different objective. While The Man With No Name just wants to make a few bucks, Mortimer is hoping to get revenge.
The two have one of the all time best Man Movie bonding scenes, shooting each other’s hats off of their respective heads in an effort to impress and intimidate one another.
There really isn’t another film in almost any genre outside of the musical that uses music quite as effectively as this film. The pocket watch plays a little melody written by Ennio Morricone, and in the finale, the melody is layered into an epic orchestrated piece that really builds an incredible amount of tension before anyone draws a pistol and finally fires.
Leone is without a doubt one of the all time greats, and this is one of his funnest films. It’s only too bad that his career was cut short before he could finish Stalingrad, his epic WWII film he had plans to create.
The one thing missing is perhaps Eli Wallach. There aren’t really any characters in the film with the depth and complex humanity of Tuco in The Good the Bad and the Ugly, but the film is certainly the most fun film of the trilogy.
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