JFIF``Photoshop 3.08BIM``8BIM x8BIM8BIM 8BIM' 8BIM5-8BIM8BIM@@8BIM8BIM p3PB{JFIFHH&File written by Adobe Photoshop 5.0Adobed            3p"?   3!1AQa"q2B#$Rb34rC%Scs5&DTdE£t6UeuF'Vfv7GWgw5!1AQaq"2B#R3$brCScs4%&5DTdEU6teuFVfv'7GWgw ?L\`r|оٗfK1E %'fFs-÷y7,u6$i.Տp6IO6s[g'n^I:nwt|:(,/uO_{?FP[kS[YadFzo>wz:ZGn bII~ٗٗI$lOgٗI$lOg:.7O) w?}5>ihvY"w>~ 0<HvZ;mJԔlqmeDjIqb>ҹHwÃl꘽l/eWf~8~?d7~w辟E )I$JRI$O*T<ʒ32WNnn.&8ɳ3[a"uَ?AK5_+ẋX«B >ݿf6uS]ϫq`Ev_jߑKԲ_NDZdj?wk {?Ѥ6c]Ac}p0r:mnߊaĿmy6=+:wu~̱l?뾢^~mu =wpΚ%IOK:~7PVa6"ή*ɰAlgg*YYXZ\^7GrɾͩAI.%> t*.C%f冻7 l69Nqa's?HUe[0h~sSv\vmgR?߰5%>a{zy90܌gd챌S}n%" 1ͻя*m/ %<Ӏ!pCĄ$I$)S??*?3q=۾zn~lIg}ҢJnJ];~^qmoSǺI)͑t5ޗ K_"I)/DE!$K_"I)/D|}>[M$8BIMICC_PROFILEADBEmntrGRAYXYZ  acspMSFTnone-ADBEDating In Hong Kong On FirstClickFriend.Com Offers Online Dating Services And Online Personals For All Regions In Hong Kong. Dating In Hong Kong Can Be Really Successful Ith FirstClickFriend.Com

1. For a Few Dollars More is the second film in the Sergio Leone / Clint Eastwood 'spaghetti western' trilogy. It's the one with the pocket watch, in fact.
In the same genre, Leone went on to make Once Upon a Time in the West, and A Fistful of Dynamite (aka Duck, You Sucker), which is possibly the only Western in which James Coburn plays a a motorcycle-riding IRA explosives expert.
A Few Dollars More and its ilk helped knock the last nails into the traditional, old-fashioned 'oater', and throughout the 70s Westerns took a revisionist turn, with The Wild Bunch, Soldier Blue, Little Big Man, The Long Riders et al downplaying the heroics in favour of gritty realism. Perhaps the apotheosis of this was Robert Altman's 1976 Buffalo Bill and the Indians, in which Paul Newman and Burt Lancaster talked a lot. Unless you count Alexandro Jodorowsky's demented El Topo, which was a Christ allegory. Some people read Christ allegories into everything, from The Black Hole to Hardware to King of New York.
-
Great name, 'Altman'. Very Internet-aware, like 'Alt.man', as he was and remains an Alt.film-maker, making Alt.films. I should be writing for the Guardian, I really should.
-
Eastwood himself skirted the boundaries of this trend, with High Plains Drifter, Two Mules for Sister Sarah, and Pale Rider, an early and not entirely successful go at doing an Unforgiven. The Beguiled was probably the most unusual Eastwood Western. I know this to be true because I have not seen it because it is not often on television, just like Inchon, which was similarly unusual, apparently. Then again, they don't show Funeral in Berlin very often either.

1. Having said that, although Few Dollars More is the second of the three films, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly was actually a prequel to Fistful of Dollars, which means that within the chronology of the films, Dollars More is actually the last one. Of them.
Although, having said that, the films are only loosely linked. Lee Van Cleef plays two different major roles in Good and More, and Eastwood's 'Man with No Name' is called 'Joe' in Fistful and 'Manco' in For. He's more rebellious and moral in the latter.

9. There's a certain Star Wars-ness to For a Few Dollars More. Both feature an old warrior and a young man and some desert and guns. And a mysterious religion. And a villain who has a pocket watch. Although we do not learn of Darth Vader's pocket watch in any of the Star Wars films or books, that doesn't mean that it does not exist.
Actually, For a Few Dollars More isn't very much like Star Wars at all. I'll try again later.

6. Spaghetti westerns themselves were produced by the Italian film industry and usually filmed in Spain, which made a useful stand-in for the southern bits of North America. Fistful of Dollars was the western equivalent of Dr No and From Russia with Love, in that, unlike the protagonist of Billy Joel's classic 1986 hit 'We didn't start the fire', it did in fact start off the fire, or a fire, not just fire in general but a specific fire, and that fire was made up of other, even more violent and amoral imitators which presumably had always been burning since the world had been turning, and it didn't try to fight it because the Italian film industry does not care about copying.
The most famous of the filmic fires were the Sabata films, which starred Lee Van Cleef as the titular character, the quick-off-the-mark, long-running Django series, most notable for Django the Bastard, an extremely brutal film with one of the greatest titles ever (apart from The Great Hollywood Rape Slaughter and Microscopic Liquid Highway to Oblivion or whatever it is called), and those ones with Klaus Kinski. There were loads of them. And now there are none. Except for maybe El Mariachi which was sort-of a Western. And bloody Wild Wild West which was sort-of a competent, entertaining film, i.e. it was neither of those things.

1b. Like the rest of its ilk, For a Few Dollars More does not feature the Bangles in any way, shape, or form. And the title cannot be expressed in Newspeak as I don't think Newspeak had a word for 'dollars'.
More to the point, it's dubbed, something which is quite noticeable given that Leone had a thing for widescreen closeups of people's faces. Whether Clint Eastwood delivered his lines in Italian, phonetically, or in English, I can't tell and I don't know. Presumably, if Eastwood had delivered his lines in English the sound people would have used his dialogue intact, instead of dubbing it - unless, of course, none of the dialogue had actually been recorded live.
Along with the voices, the gunshot noises are also particularly jarring, as there seem to be only three of them (see the very top of this article for examples).
The rampant looping actually works, in a way, as the film is so stylised anyway a little bit of extra unreality doesn't go amiss. It would have been even better if they had filmed it in black and white and then coloured it in later, like Tron.

3. Ennio Morricone's musical score begs the question, "Is there such a thing as an operatically-trained whistler, and if not, where did Morricone find one?"
Other instruments include a gunshot noise, whips, chanting choirs, a pocket watch, an electric guitar, and a jaw's harp. The effect should be startlingly strange, and it is, but when I saw this for the first time as a child I accepted the oddness without thinking too much of it, and now it sounds unmistakably 'Western', despite the fact that real Western music was probably a lot closer to Irish folk music than Morricone's bizarre, effective musique concrete.
For whatever reason, the rest of his film scores are very conventional. Perhaps Leone was pushing him really hard in a way that Brian De Palma, director of Mission to Mars, was not.

7. As has been noted elsewhere, different directors treat gunshot blasts with differing levels of lethality. In a Quentin Tarantino film, if you are shot, you tend to die, whereas characters in a John Woo film grimace a bit but seem otherwise okay. Somebody will e-mail me to say where I remembered that little 'meme' from, and I'll get in trouble.
Leone's Westerns lean towards the former example, although with considerably less blood. Unlike in, say, Robocop or The Wild Bunch, gunshot wounds in a Leone film do not result in large pulped chunks of bloody flesh bursting from gigantic exit wounds.
This is perhaps accurate, given that pistols of the period fired large, slow-moving projectiles in the manner of a modern .45. Although such bullets were not very useful at penetrating armour, their instability and sectional density contributed to rapid deceleration when entering flesh, resulting in fragmentation, tumbling, and a large wound cavity, often without an exit wound at all.
Coupled with a lack of modern medical facilities, gunshot wounds in the Old West almost-invariably produced permanent injury or death.
In the world of a Leone film gunshots are, like so many other things, symbolic. When Eastwood shoots a villain, it is not the act of shooting that concerns the film, it is the act of killing. We do not see people shooting each other; we see people killing each other, a subtle difference which is hard to express in words.

1. For a Few Dollars More was common on late-night ITV during the 80s and 90s. It's the least famous of the trilogy, lacking the newness of Fistful of Dollars or the epic bigness of The Good etc, but it's my personal favourite. Fistful is the Western equivalent of Goldfinger, in that there are a few iconic moments but the whole is actually quite dull, whereas Good is the kind of film you respect for its big epicness without actually watching it very often. For is shorter and snappier, and fleshes out the central character a little bit more than in the previous film. Unlike Eastwood's character, Lee Van Cleef's General Mortimer has motivation and humanity, and although Eastwood gets more screen time, and is slightly less monolithic than usual, Van Cleef is more interesting. 'Being born with a beady-eyed sneer was the luckiest thing that ever happened to me', Van Cleef is supposed to have said.
Before making this film, Van Cleef had been in semi-retirement after lots of small acting roles in films and television shows as a disposable heavy. He worked as a part-time landscape artist and was kept afloat with residuals, social security, and his wife, who worked as a secretary for IBM. This film kickstarted his career, and although Eastwood went on to be a considerably bigger star, this, The Good etc, and the Sabata films guarantee Van Cleef steady work until he died, in 1989.

)myY,%x Nzs6rXrCfKp˩pr dF7UA4jPZR =\-{JR51{|l/DAvriQ\XE˜ 4ra)7LӝH#Rz6nXӴ)i"X(uWFjl׸ iÙ,Jwi*i6uo.7t[l ?sa)&oT6{'f&ũ9m%ʒI*ROWgvue !uhhP$L(Kc2z+YBa+CBIT, jͦ^PA\ӋH/tF}aipQ%`9f{WR?-wJ&UOMk)S)JMKR6|l;joxj:opERwz:+-SMӶ7%6we4S?ĮӱnJQy(͉!%Y0̬U:Z[98=MyuSm8isgbug #I9} qZKio[*RyOIPҔZE+9>[e]:YC[i+i-IFavW⺑-~jWjjHiR ;RQe73hR[tj 2_YWx߶o' 7bC[٩hZiEKaEA)iʹ:}wݚPqCs^ߌm BQQIzIrETOl,uE^H%@9s}﹌K7% `9GP[.'eE)b"5RBRPB+6c_U6(Z3 )j֕S8!5 $'lOTu&SiZF!ĨiHWqw`h[jgqD/ \zYy9/PpR:IQPmJ*Q&s'Ok)M2;E` HBI$J+ ,-P~ԭswM]z7m[I^2ïBiu*(a~["R"zj[qN.RF*Y;=_G)SJxVj)D"#$- -%#^'e8ZRk5ttX]) qޮEH:CDVNGf RTÈw̸|kiJz쪺ZBS*%CO.\6I1v70vfgZ^t+% Jr+ܫu֎Izl5E-+B-DFm:gε!+0!B!B!Bu_7\~^(RS; -#XE/TJ38`mQ}(NDS c:D˒6:_*ܐDiws**-;V%#,qkpӂN+b#5Zj*Zڭ O-V H2%]euC&*jFb3-e)Q -vqbmM["!jmHc3TRJe6+gzKS4fBVJ[̗3!+|h"~9v5w֣SPNeTImFdIݻq [,V&<씍B .-GLLF ڙ{`JycΐyJ 135;i L뗩Z*+Y*(+h,f\ mN T%ڪ*:[wBY>škeBT\[U jˑC*ݺj-_-+:FmjVUa'x%Qxo"amyjpGT`Ri'.zNE↝i8R,J&}n8ڲiZ2 PD^#ǴK+ClYnZR!) )SKKN!| k= C*>|fR[Rs &uVG{V Gh|*m+UE8Z<DM2 2ｏh.tTU7߇TjPى Ą'2{p쪕zSJ)!Z[.,Q $ PIX讼 î uBjoCZtΉ+*NB!B!B!GU~~G>EHʡV/%:ƴ6cDoӆ\MJNR ZR*{:"blVl*- Ր-=ΗcmԬ#wLjP88:uL*,uT`$)$$h>!iz#@fNXkY'i9sro$iY;acC* "UHOW ԆFdfV?g>JNitO*- d N}ͷ?]Cg")BELVwjF{V @RR!)EHvKysYK2TgN4SW]k|%%I=q_q;GuuڠZ`mTTC`&XNYPV\͜j+ݭeTs)Yh<gk4p]K)םY[DJQRL'zui֝,AiDiVwOۏ7m :I1T!7yK.Q2%!*e-eFg$ rsF] o+W8m[S{ߺ7wfm$d@LUU,H%ETΙ-?j\(wO4)RBw3sgGN>jVo&G#8ڛǣ2{Ÿ0nTѿB  Ґ/Y9b5.H!jձRh9)2RT B:CLlt5wyKᴥǃMNTӼ)Jyf9MpUP!K=T:Bu!G{!B!B!B!ïo߈>EHT()$I3J#;™.86˭"첡̅b&f/sZn/-)I*HX8lYew)Ȑ'錜}ix dNAVRt匚g;KˆMQ)j2S'9}tt|J3Hh]dJXk1ˋʤOg^+):.yUPu(sG"Kj0% F s 365֛qIS-$$$S1,ѕ?LUW ---("krI;Z{^F*uA r"22d).j!@XB)B!B!B!B!B:>EH]SKSwUfuiJumUqષ\nP*idfP5 DJo 0}J唧˧%ĕ $9KٌFuOQ䤂9GDdQ~A1պU{DNqRBByRFs9DT(MŜ;Jb&qL^ˠ$NR"<T( G8zx3K:q)eS r$c1<;cv)l0Xw`!cy2ʃw)(uҜd8ӫ+J7ypQFfRH<#)ϤE")B!B!B!B!KYUFz7k̄DD`usFmO%2Kԩ a_y!TP B*ʳ"ڲԕǓ|+{qCM)QOŇJNInTxnՕQ=]%O^e;&).>o_>;&?a.>o_>;&?a.>o_>;&?a.>o_>;&?a.>o_>;&?a.>o_>;&?a.>o_>;&?a.>o_>;&?a.>o_>;&?a.>o_>;&?a.>o_>;&?a.>o_>;&?a.>o_>;&?a.>o_>;&?a.>o_>;&?c*$#^Iiww=ۼf{w'io76HʢpyqoWn/mn^}[N\wQ&CWz3S/zS^_yGyWw>K/