His spurs make a jingle noise constantly thru the film. You can tell it was added in after the fact for effect I guess. But its excessive and its even when he is simply turning to look at someone they throw in the jingle spurs noise effect. Was getting annoying! Other than that, good movie.
shareGood point. A bit ironic, considering Clint's Man-with-No-Name character avoided being gunned down in "The Good, The Bad, The Ugly" by Tuco's gunmen with noisy spurs.
shareThe only time it really got to me was when they were on top of the church scoping out the French garrison. It's like everybody's trying to be QUIET, Clint, ya think ya can take those things off for a minute?!
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Weird thing about those jingles: I was baking cookies when I watched this film, and sometimes when I use my oven it sets off the smoke detector, which sounds a lot like those jingles. I was certain the noise was coming from the fire alarm.
It was a big distraction in this film. I thought the jingling was Sara's crucifix and chains, though.
I know... VERY distracting. Added in after filming obviously, but way overused and annoying right?
shareVery annoying, to the point of distraction. I was trying to block them out to hear the dialogue, but instead I just kept hearing them more at the expense of the dialogue. Really, Clint's character wouldn't have had noisy spurs like that because it would make him hard to slip by unnoticed.
A lot of films, in the interest of "authenticity," add sounds that just wind up seeming phony. It seems like whenever there's a dog in a film, you're going to hear barking even when the dog wouldn't be barking and isn't moving its mouth. Just so you don't think it's a cat or something, I guess.
The sound of the jingling spurs really threw me, near the beginning, when Hogan was rummaging through the pockets of the three men he'd just killed. He was literally picking their pockets, and removing items, including what appeared to be coins. Then there was that tinkling sound, and I thought, great! he's just scored a little handfull of silver dollars off that one dead dude. Then later, when I watched the movie again, I realized that the sound was NOT of coins jingling, but of his spurs... (though I'm sure that he did in fact remove some coinage from that one guy's pocket).
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Agree with you on the spurs. The other thing that stood out for me was how most of the guys who die in the battle scene at the end scream out as they expire. A guy can get shot, knifed, blown up, fall from a height, set on fire, or have his head cleaved by a machete, but more often than not he'll scream out "AUGH!" right after it happens.
Somebody went wild with the post-production sound effects on this one.
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Jingling spurs is sort of an Eastwood trademark. You can hear them in several of his other westerns.
shareI liked the spurs. They were not realistic, but since the movie wasn't a documentary I didn't care. The spurs were cool.
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