The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

[Pirate]

I've seen this movie again yesterday on TV, what can I say, great movie, 10/10, my favourite all time...

Much better than American westerns (although I liked High Noon with Gary Cooper for example, but still, this is much better), and waaaaaaaaaaaay better than ANY movie made in last 10 years, particularly the American ones which are complete crap if you ask me.

Great characters, great story, legendary dialogs, great music, great scenes...



The end scene is probably the greatest scene ever.

Trailer for the movie

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Compare this trailer with modern trailer and you can see the quality, less talking in trailer is better.

Anyway, the movie is about three different characters searching Confederate gold during American civil war - Blondie (The Good, cold-tempered bounty killer), Angel Eyes (The Bad, sociapathic killer and mercenary) and Tuco (The Ugly, Mexican bandit who talks a lot and a typical bandit scumbag accused of all kinds of different crimes and wanted by authorities). Btw in the trailer The Ugly and The Bad are switched. I recomend this to everyone who haven't seen it yet.

[bombadillo]

Originally Posted by M.R.

The end scene is probably the greatest scene ever.

The end scene is interesting because of Blondie's cunning. First of all, he hasn't written anything on the stone -- so if he gets killed the survivor/s won't be able to understand that the blank stone means the grave with no name on it. Secondly, he's emptied Tuco's revolver. So while Angel Eyes has his attention divided between two rivals, Blondie can focus just on Angel Eyes: a decisive advantage.

The unrealistic part of the film is when the near-illiterate Tuco runs around the cemetery scanning the names of hundreds, if not thousands, of names (earlier on he had been unable to read a simple note from Angel Eyes).

The film is part of the genre of "Spaghetti Westerns": the director was the Italian Sergio Leone, and the films are distinguished by silences and laconic speech.

[3rdEye]

And great photography. Generally, the visual aspect of the movie is truly awesome, both landscapes and action, like the scene where Angel Eyes is playing around with Blondie's hat.

[Ricardo Reis]

The whole "Man with no Name" trilogy is a remake of "Yojibo", which was directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Watch the original and pretty soon you will forget all spaggheti westerns you have seen.

[Pirate]

Originally Posted by Gnist

And great photography. Generally, the visual aspect of the movie is truly awesome, both landscapes and action, like the scene where Angel Eyes is playing around with Blondie's hat.

That scene is in other movie, For a few dollars more.

Originally Posted by bombadillo

The unrealistic part of the film is when the near-illiterate Tuco runs around the cemetery scanning the names of hundreds, if not thousands, of names (earlier on he had been unable to read a simple note from Angel Eyes).

I don't see it really as unrealistic, he was just looking for one name, that doesn't mean he was reading all the others, he was just looking around to find that name and he was very lucky. That's the way I see it.

Originally Posted by Ricardo Reis

The whole "Man with no Name" trilogy is a remake of "Yojibo", which was directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Watch the original and pretty soon you will forget all spaggheti westerns you have seen.

As far as I know, only the story of Fistfull of dollars was a copy...

[3rdEye]

Originally Posted by M.R.

That scene is in other movie, For a few dollars more.

Oh... then I've seen both.

[bombadillo]

Originally Posted by Gnist

Oh... then I've seen both.

You've seen one Spaghetti Western, you've seen them all. But Kurosawa -- he's in a league of his own (The Seven Samurai, Rashoman, Ran, etc.). "The Seven Samurai" was copied by Hollywood (maybe other Kurosawa films as well).

[Savorgnan]

I've seen this film with my father at the cinémathèque de Paris in 99. A non-restaured, italian integral version (182 min.) borrowed from Leone's widow collection. We expected the audience to be in their 50's, and we were amazed to see that the average spectator was about my age (22 at the time). Btw, french, italian and spanish versions are way superior to the original english IMO.

However, my favourite Leone's film is "Duck, you sucker!". James Coburn is such a better actor than Clint Eastwood.
Sergio Leone once said to Eastwood: "You only have two expressions: one with the hat, and the other without the hat!". End of their friendship.

[Kernunnos]

Eh eh, the movies of my youth ... they were considered so and so products, very popular indeed ... critics were too busy kowtowing to Pasolini and , ok, Fellini.

[Savorgnan]

Originally Posted by Kernunnos

Eh eh, the movies of my youth ... they were considered so and so products, very popular indeed ... critics were too busy kowtowing to Pasolini and , ok, Fellini.

Like Monicelli's (bloody communist btw) cinema. "L'Armata Brancaleone" is one of my favorites films. Age and Scarpelli's linguistic invention is a masterpiece.