For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Directed by Sergio Leone
Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.
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There are bows to battle, the sensational stuntwork of silent films (Leone even referenced Buster Keaton’s The General in the “bridge” sequence), the existential character pieces that were permeating the 1960s, and the old-fashioned flourishes that made Tinseltown’s trappings the worldwide standard.
The irony, of course, is that Kurasawa was immensely influenced by the earlier westerns of John Ford, and borrowed the plot of Yojimbo from Dashiell Hammett's noir- ish novel.
Borrowing the storyline from Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo (the very angry Japanese auteur would later sue—and win!), and tossing in unique aesthetic choices, Leone felt he had the makings of a fine film.
Rough, stylistic (especially for the time) remake of Japanese film Yojimbo is more or less on par considering genre change.
Estreara-se com o clássico western High Noon , em 1952, num papel secundário, algo que o perseguiu durante mais de 10 anos.
After failing to land his original choices of Henry Fonda or Lee Marvin, Leone remembered Lee Van Cleef, a character actor, who hardly got more than a few lines in films such as High Noon and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
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Starting with 'A Fistful of Dollars' - as compared to the European (RHV), Region FREE, Blu-ray ( made from a restoration made by Cineteca Nazionale) already reviewed HERE - it appears to be cropped or 'zoomed-in'.
This overt stylization is further aided by repetition, numerous parallels to “A Fistful of Dollars,” and a symbolic musical timepiece, adding poignancy to the unexpected rendezvous in Agua Caliente and the riveting final showdown.
But if the original A Fistful of Dollars had served as a reminder to the world that a western could be a good film, then For a Few Dollars More was an additional proclamation that a western could also be a really arty movie.
A vision in blazing Technicolor, a Pop Art cinematic approximation of a comic strip come to life, and a work of early postmodern silver-screen decadence, Sergio Leone's beloved 1965 spaghetti Western For a Few Dollars More--the second film in his Clint Eastwood-starring "Man With No Name" trilogy, following A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and preceding The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)--ups the ante on Fistful's already freshly inspired, over-the-top take on the Western, which turned it into a surprise hit and launched Eastwood's and Leone's careers.
Sergio Leone followed up his international hit A Fistful of Dollars with this 1965 spaghetti western, continuing a trilogy that would end the following year with The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.