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 just full of neat, fun ideas. We get to see Clint Eastwood walking slowly towards a saloon, in the rain, with one hand hidden, and beating up on a bounty with only one fist. We get to see Lee Van Cleef pulling out a big arsenal of rifles and pistols and piecing them together bit by bit to snipe at a fleeing bad guy. And the villain is probably the strangest and coolest of the series.
He uses a musical pocket watch every time he kills one of his victims. When the music stops, he draws and fires. The story surrounding this watch is interesting, too, forming the heart of the subplot involving Lee Van Cleef.
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.
No other Spaghetti Western uses music quite as interestingly as this one. The final showdown utilizes the musical pocket watch, and an orchestrated version of the melody it plays to build up an incredible amount of tension, so by the time someone finally fires a gun, you'll be crazy with anticipation and begging them to just get it over with already so you can stop clutching your fists.
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.
The movie is just full of neat, fun ideas. We get to see Clint Eastwood walking slowly towards a saloon, in the rain, with one hand hidden, and beating up on a bounty with only one fist. We get to see Lee Van Cleef pulling out a big arsenal of rifles and pistols and piecing them together bit by bit to snipe at a fleeing bad guy. And the villain is probably the strangest and coolest of the series.
He uses a musical pocket watch every time he kills one of his victims. When the music stops, he draws and fires. The story surrounding this watch is interesting, too, forming the heart of the subplot involving Lee Van Cleef.
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.
No other Spaghetti Western uses music quite as interestingly as this one. The final showdown utilizes the musical pocket watch, and an orchestrated version of the melody it plays to build up an incredible amount of tension, so by the time someone finally fires a gun, you'll be crazy with anticipation and begging them to just get it over with already so you can stop clutching your fists.
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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