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If you think back to the films that shaped the way we perceive the old west, certain things stand out that were forever saved into the memories of people: dusty clothes, unshaved gunslingers, mexican towns, bandits and showdowns. For a Few Dollars more is one of those classics that shaped the image of the western, a stark contrast to the old american movies, a fresh spirit in the genre and as a follow up to A Fistful of Dollars, also one of the most influencial western movies ever made, and incredibly successful back in the 1960s. I like this film more than it's predecessor mostly because here's more room for acting and the film bears more epic-ness. It is nice to look back at these early Leone films and observe the evolution that took place in his filmmaking, which he brought to a head in the three others he made after this. Not to mention the great music by Ennio Morricone! An incredible movie, a masterpiece classic, and one of the best Spaghetti Westerns ever made. A --Sebastian 22:49, 11 August 2006 (CEST)

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This pulse-pounding follow-up to Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars brings back Clint Eastwood as the serape-clad, cigar-chewing Man With No Name. Engaged in an ongoing battle with bounty hunter Col. Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef), the Man joins forces with his enemy to capture homicidal bandit Indio (Gian Maria Volonte). Both the Eastwood and Van Cleef characters are given understandable motivations for their bloodletting tendencies, something that was lacking in A Fistful of Dollars. In both films, however, the violence is raw and uninhibited--and in many ways, curiously poetic. Leone's tense, tight closeups, pregnant pauses and significant silences have since been absorbed into the standard spaghetti-western lexicon; likewise, Ennio Morricone's haunting musical score has been endlessly imitated and parodied. For a Few Dollars More was originally titled Per Qualche Dollaro in Piu; it would be followed by the last and best of the "Man with No Name" trilogy, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. // -?

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