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| | Sergio Leone: A Fistful-of-Leone! |
 | | A Fistful of Dollars created the spaghetti western genre which encompassed more than 200 films, sharing the features of being created in Italy, frequently being filmed in Spain, featuring self-assured killers with no names, scores either by Ennio Morricone, or in his style, and, of course, the shootout. |
 | | Leone's style grew from imitating Kurasawa to his own style, which uses editing in combination with Morricone's scores to create incredible emotional peaks, dramatic camera movements, and, his trademark, the extreme close-up of the eyes of the characters. |
 | | The genre is called a "Zapata Western", and although Leone did not create it, A Fistful of Dynamite is one of the genre's most memorable films. |
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