Соответственно этот фильм я посмотрела первым.
Вот сидишь, смотришь и с каждым кадром понимаешь, что соприкасаешься с величием фильма и вообще кино как искусства в целом.
Каждый кадр просто уже история! Сценарий, съемка.
Музыка Эннио Морриконе которая буквально захватывает дух!
А что уж говорить об актерах.
Образ Клинта Иствуда уже легендарен благодаря both его игре и его харизматичности.
И конечно же другие два актера - Ли Ван Клиф и Джан Мария Волонте создали просто нереально крутых персонажей!
Также было много запоминающихся образов второго и далее планов.
Забегая вперед, скажу, что из всей "долларовой трилогии" этот фильм мне понравился больше всех. На мой взгляд, он идеален во всем.
Filmed in 1965, but not released in the U.S. until 1967.
Director Sergio Leone did not want to make a sequel to For a Fistful of Dollars (1964), but it was such a huge hit that Jolly Film - the production company refused to pay Leone what it owed him from that film unless he made a sequel to it.
Director Trademark: Sergio Leone - [extreme close-up].
читать дальшеSergio Leone wanted Henry Fonda for the role of Col. Mortimer, but Fonda turned it down. Leone next approached Charles Bronson, who wasn't interested.
It was then that Leone offered the role to Lee Van Cleef, who hadn't worked in films since How the West Was Won (1962), although he had worked fairly steadily in television.
Van Cleef thought that Leone only wanted him for a few scenes, and was astounded when he discovered that he was actually to be the co-star.
Despite having a successful acting career for many years, this was Lee Van Cleef's first major role in a movie. He'd starred in a few famous Hollywood westerns prior to this but always played small roles.
During filming, Sergio Leone felt that Gian Maria Volonté was sometimes too theatrical as Indio and would often use many takes as a way of trying to tire the actor out.
Volonte became so angry with Leone's methods that he eventually stormed off the set.
Unable to get a ride across the desert he returned to resume filming but swore he would never make another western again, which he felt was a tired genre.
"Monco" is officially not the same character as "Joe" in For a Fistful of Dollars (1964).
This was the finding of an Italian court that adjudicated the lawsuit brought by Jolly Films, producer of "A Fistful of Dollars".
After the release of the first film, director Sergio Leone had a falling out with the producers and made this sequel with a different producer,
Alberto Grimaldi. Jolly Films sued, claiming ownership of the "Joe" character, but lost when the court decided that the western gunfighter's persona, characterized by the costume and mannerisms, belonged to the public domain's folklore.
Sergio Leone broke many 1960s Hollywood rules with this film, although he did not know any of them at the time. Among them: showing the shooter and the victim in the same shot, a horse being gunned down, marijuana use, and a rape scene.
The town of El Paso, designed by Carlo Simi in Almeria, was the biggest set that Sergio Leone was responsible for at the time.
It would be re-used the following year for several scenes in Хороший, плохой, злой (1966) in which it stood in as several different towns.
It's still standing to this day and is called Mini Hollywood.
Although Clint Eastwood's poncho was never washed during the production of the "Dollar" trilogy, it was mended.
In the final scene of For a Fistful of Dollars (1964), the poncho is pierced by seven bullets from Ramon's Winchester.
In the sequel, Eastwood wears the same poncho back-to-front and the mending of the bullet holes is clearly visible in several scenes.
The mended area, originally on the left breast, is now worn over the right shoulder blade.
Clint Eastwood's character calls Lee Van Cleef's character "old man", while Van Cleef's character calls Eastwood "boy". In reality there is only a 5 year age difference between the two actors.
The Man With No Name (Clint Eastwood) calls himself Monco in this film. "Manco" is Spanish for "lame of one hand", "one handed" or "one armed",
which is pretty appropriate considering his habit of fighting, drinking, etc with his left hand only. His right hand always remains on his gun underneath his trademark poncho.