The Good, The Bad and the Ugly - re:View
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Set phasers to "grandpa" as Rich and Jay talk about a stuffy old Western. Or is it?????
It's The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly...one of the most famous and influential movies ever made, and it was done by some weird Italian guy.
Tuco has one of the greatest character introduction scenes in cinema. Literally bursting onto the scene (through a glass) after killing three bad looking men with a turkey leg in one hand (and half in his mouth), and a gun in the other. And then that freeze frame lmao. Just great filmmaking
Also did wonders for showing that as scruffy and goofy as he is compared to the other two, he is sharper than is given credit for. Has some real madcap ideas when he gets the drop on someone like getting some guys together just to see them all get killed while he came from the window or how he had a gun good and ready while he was bathing hiding under some bubbles. Takes the most punishment out of the 3 and still ends up in better shape than....well, bad.
@@motherplayer There's a word for that type of person: ..."ornery."
See, I was gonna say Clint Eastwood's introduction where it shows him talking shit to a guy before sending him to his death (or so he thinks) once he's no longer profitable, and then having the entire movie freeze to label him "the good" is perfect for setting the tone for the world this movie exists in
I hold Tuco as the greatest movie character of all time!
@@motherplayer pretty sure that's exactly the point Leone was making with the whole movie-"it may not be pretty, but it gets the job done".
Tuco is unrefined and clueless, but he pulls through every single time because he's got no illusions of being above shit. He'll cheat, he'll fight, he'll grovel, he'll beg-but he won't accept defeat.
He's not good, he's not bad, and he certainly isn't handsome-but in the end, he's alive and no worse-off than he started.
3:01 goddamn did I feel the joy in rich's heart when jay said "one of the best things I have ever seen" I felt the joy in my heart as well because this film really is beautiful!!
Lol, same here. I remember thinking that westerns were lame, but when I watched this at the age of 16 or so, it really kicked off my love of westerns. I went on a HUGE western binge after watching this.
I never appreciated westerns until I played through the 1st red dead redemption. After that I fell in love with the genre. Good bad ugly is in my top 3 fave movies.
@@TrempBoy2It’s a film that WILL convert the haters. Also UNFORGIVEN (another Eastwood masterpiece)… I know nothing about the early westerns other than the fact that they seemed boring as sh*t when I caught them on late night television as a child. I had no interest in westerns until I saw Once Upon A Time In The West in my early 20s. I was instantly drawn in and I’ve become a Leone fan ever since. Every film I watched blew me away, and the ones I didn’t immediately connect with became some of my favorites upon a second viewing (Once Upon A Time In America!!!)….
If you had this movie in your life and then you were lucky enough to play LucasArts FPS Outlaws.. yeaaa
It's pretty much top 3 films of all time if you understand the art of film making and the scope and talent. Maybe number 2. Possibly #1. It's potentially the greatest film art ever made but their are films with better scores so it loses an infinitesimal point. To top 2 or 3.
Lee van Cleef was indeed a very sweet man. He lost part of his middle finger building a doll house for his daughter. You can see it in the close up of his hand in the duel scene.
That is the most wholesome story.... until you realize that somehow a dollhouse set was dangerous enough to take a man's finger off during assembly. They don't make children's toys like they used to I guess.
@@The0spetsnaz0 be probably built it from scratch with hardware lol I don't think it was from an assembly kit
@@The0spetsnaz0 It wasn't a plastic kit from WalMart. He was building it from raw material, which means hammers, saws and lathes were involved.
This is the standard practice (and danger) of building any object that requires skill and craft, and not just assembling some shit you got from Amazon.
He was also one of those bygone-era gentlemen, who couldn't even feign hitting a woman...so they had to put a man in a dress for him to finish the scene where Angel Eyes roughs up a prostitute.
@@TheGoodChap classic
“…and it’s the best fucking thing I’ve ever seen.”
My heart soars like a hawk.
There's nothing better than showing your buddy a movie and having him freak out.
Wait till he watched Once Upon A Time in the West.
@@jackbauer4186 That's just what I was going to say. But the trilogy movies may be a necessary introduction. OUTW can be a bit much for modern viewers.
then id say he should watch the related Kurosawa films also - yojimbo, sanjuro...
@@jackbauer4186 I am only 29 but I was quoting Josey Wales as early as 5 years old. "You gonna pull them pissels or wissey dissey." I didn't see OUTW until earlier this year and have watched it about 30 times now. By far my favorite western, if not my favorite movie. I think it is better than Unforgiven, the dollars trilogy, Josey Wales.
This is why I follow Red Letter Media. Rich is a great actor but when it comes to talk film, he's very knowledgeable and charming, not to mention humble. He brings about the best in Jay. The dynamic of these two is so different than, say, Mike and Jay, or Mike and Rich for that matter. That's probably why my favorite videos are Rich and Jay teaming up.
What impresses me about Rich recently is his genuine humility. He came across as a pure narcissist early-on (to me), he'd always blatantly steal Jack's ideas (after having already stolen Mike's long ago), but his reactions in quiet moments belie this first impression. He basks in attention towards himself, but he enjoys when others have their moments too.
The Rich/Jay dyad is by far the most wholesome, except for maybe Jay and his Canadian dad
I met Eli Wallach while I was in grad school. He was a lovely human being. He said that for the longest time he thought that he was the "bad" of the trio.
When I first saw this film I honestly believed that Eli was in fact a Mexican actor. I don't know how he does it but he was a lovable bandit in this film. He's a total degenerate but for some reason you love him.
Phenomenal actor. 😊
I love the story that Eastwood returned back to the states. And he heard about this amazing western playing in theaters. He had to check it out. Quickly found out it was his own movie he made in Italy.
funny how Eastwood became first a movie star in Europe with Leone's westerns, and later in USA with Dirty Harry.
The first movie has the exact same plot as Kurosawa’s yojimbo, although yojimbo feels a little less morally grey (even though it absolutely is). You probably have, but definitely watch it if you haven’t yet.
Yojimbo got the sickest theme ever
Yeah I think the first film was so close to Yojimbo that they were sued.
I'd love to see Japanese samurai films get talked about on the show.
I was surprised Jay (the film buff) didn't recognize this.
Kurosawas influence is really great on cinema in general
What's interesting is Westerns were influenced by Samurai films like Seven Samurai or Yoijmbo, those same Westerns also ended up influencing Japanese film makers and animators. As far as film goes there is a lot in common between Cowboys and Ronins. Hell they have a whole subculture in Japan of Western fans that dress up like cowboys for conventions.
I was so excited to see you guys do this one. In addition to "Westerns can be cool" and "Be like your Grandpa", these movies can definitely bridge the Generation Gap. My son (28 years younger than I am) and I bond regularly over the "Dollars Trilogy". The ultimate expression of this was when he and I went to the British Film Institute on the South Bank in London a few years ago and watched them all, one after the other in sequence on the big screen in a one day special showing. It took commitment but, we loved every minute of it. Thanks, Rich and Jay!
I'd be down for that. Sounds like a good time.
A friend lent me this movie on vhs when I was like 14. I had heard of it, but did not know what to expect. Thankfully it was a letterbox version. And that made me realize for the first time how much you could miss watching movies on 4:3. That's the only time I have watched it and I can recall some scenes that were imprinted on my brain since then.
I love that scene when Clint Eastwood gives his cigar to the dying soldier. That’s the scene that proves he is The Good in the movie I think. Even in all the dollar movies Clint Eastwoods character does something that gives him humanity at the end of each film.
I remember my Mum pointing this out when showing me this film when I was too young to really appreciate it. ;)
Prior to this if I recall he also offers Tuco a Cigar after he spies on him having a heated argument with his brother about his criminal life. Tuco babbles on about how his ol brother loves him and Blondie just says "sure..." before offerings him a Cigar. He begins to empathise with Tuco, seeing him as a reflection of his own criminal self at this point in the film, later on this is why he ensures Tuco gets 50% of the riches unlike how he rips him off at the beginning. The moral of the story is "even though there's two kinds of people, those with guns and those who hang, you shouldn't take advantage when you're the one with the gun because that hanging person is just like you"
One of my very favorite scenes!
Killing the soldier faster = good
YES. Great scene for that reason.
The shoot out and the end of this movie is one of the best pieces of film ever made. Even removed from the story, the dramatic tension of the scene is carried my the music and cinematography in such a way that you can get invested without any knowledge of who's who and what's going on.
I remember when DVD's were first becoming popular I spent 5 dollars on this movie and it was a revelation. I had only ever seen it in 4:3 on a snowy cable broadcast. The details were so clear it looked like a different movie. Plus I had never seen it unedited before. It was like seeing a classic car restored to former glory
hard to believe jay's never seen TGTBTU before now, but it does explain why I've always felt his reviews have been missing something - he had never seen the greatest movie ever made.
Nah Pretty sure Jay HAS seen No Country For Old Men
No no no. He was clearly referring to Lawrence of Arabia.
@@monkeyangelo717 Hold on. I love No Country, but did you really just compare it to TGTBATU? God, I wish I was that dumb. Life would be alot easier.
I think Jay had seen Blade Runner 2049, there's a review of this movie from him smh 💀
Now they need to watch Once Upon a Time in America.
Delighted that Jay loves this, it's a genuine masterpiece
I had the same reaction. Waited until I was like 34 when I finally saw TGTBATU and then realized I I had just watched one of the greatest films ever made.
Actually stayed away from the entire genre for most of my life up until that point and then went on a Western binge over the course of the next several months.
It wasn't until my father passed that i watched all these films, i never got to really relate or hear what anyone else had to say about them. So it was really awesome to hear Jay had the same reaction i did basically ONE OF THE BEST THINGS IVE EVER SEEN! For a few dollars more is my favorite in particular
The line from Lee van Cleef "This train'll stop at Tucumcari." from For a Few Dollars More is one of my favorite lines ever. He's just so perfect in those movies.
"Clint Eastwood has two expressions: with and without a hat." -Sergio Leone
As a gen Xer in Europe, we saw ALL the Italo Western movies on VHS back in the 80s. There are many more gems for you to discover. I am talking Eli of course, James Coburn, Klaus Kinsky, Mario Adorf, Franco Nero, Charles Bronson. Many great movies. At their time they were the most brutal but also the most cynical movies you could watch.
This is my favorite movie, and hearing that Jay loved it made me feel all kinds of validated.
This is my favorite thing you guys have made lately, after the John Carpenter filmography ranking.
I wish they did the entire trilogy because every movie is great in it's own way. Love all three of them, I am not a western guy in general, but this trilogy of movies I adore.
To anyone who hasn't seen it before, I recommend watching the original, theatrical cut over the "Extended cut" version. I think the extra scenes add nothing to the story and slow the pace even further. Plus the audio for the cut scenes was never originally recorded so Eastwood, Wallach and an impersonator for Van Cleef recorded their parts sometime in the late 90s which was a big distraction for me. Still a excellent movie which is well worth your time.
I agree, this one drags but it does have its moments. The most common version seems to be the extended cut, I don’t remember seeing a theatrical version.
@@Prizm44 they are both worth watching, I guess it could be because I grew up with the original theatrical cut but I think it's shorter runtime would work for more people. Maybe watch that extended cut after.
It's true. However, it's not many scenes - the one with Tuco in the cave is cringy, the others are just a little pointless. And short.
The fortress scene is very good IMO. Some great cut and music, it gives deep to Angel's eyes character.
I really hope they do re:views for the other 2 movies. And just based on Jay's love for dark and weird movies I want them to do High Plains Drifter
I really hope they do.
That would be a great film for re:view, such a strange take on the western
@@jimmysgameclips If you love weird takes on westerns, you gotta see Django 1966. It mixes gothic horror with Leone's style and it's so damn brutal and violent for it's time (it was banned in EU until the 1990s). Plus, you'll love the coffin reveal.
@@frankuraku5622 I completely forgot to get that one, thanks for reminding me! Finding a copy now
Jay discovering an old classic and loving it made me so happy.
Great choice of movie. I think re:view is my favourite RLM format
An absolutey legendary film
Tuco is one of the greatest movie characters ever! A bad guy that you just can’t hate. Wallach was brilliant in that role!
After years of being inflicted with plinkettos and star trek references, they decide to review my favorite movie of all time? Truly a roller coaster of emotions
Once Upon A Time In The West takes everything you get in these 3 movies and puts it all together into one of the single best films ever made, period. I'd love to see a review of it.
Agreed. i get the feeling that our RLM heroes havent seen hardly any westerns. I smell a series. Once upon a time is possibly the greatest western (and one of the greatest films ever). Harmonica. Just *that* tune. The opening gunfight (one horse to many) epic. And of course Unforgiven. And Shane. Bloody shane. The Man who shot liberty Valance, Tru Grit(s). So much gold to mine!
Tbh I couldn't disagree more, I watched that movie recently being a huge fan of the dollar trilogy and was very disappointed. The story, acting, and cinematography of unce upon a time felt so much less interesting than in the dollar movies...I even had to double check that the movie wasn't made before since it felt so much clumsier!
@@ColasTeam You are probaby in the minority with that opinion. Dont really see how you can reasonably justify that position, but whatever. / squints
/plays harmonica
/looks threatening..
I watched this for the first time a few nights ago. It's definitely not a movie you love for the story, its more about a series of memorable scenes with these characters.
Fun fact about "A Fistful of Dollars" is that it's a remake of Yojimbo with the samurais replaced by cowboys.
I'm always thankful to Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco for letting Sergio Leone borrow the Spanish Army so they could build a bunch of the sets and rig all of the explosives. Thank you Francisco Franco and the Spanish Army.
did you know they had to build two bridges?
The irony of the movie: Even in real life Clint survived the bad and the ugly, both of them. by the way the perfomances were not great they were utterly godlike by all three of them!
He was the youngest by a decent margin if I remember correctly. Eli Wallach was a good 15 years older than him.
@@jayclean5653 Lee Van Cleef was only 5 years older than Clint, looked much older though
@@sun290 Interesting.
@@jayclean5653 in For a Few Dollars More he was calling him “old man” too haha
@@sun290 I knew he wasn't as old as Eli, but Lee looked 20 years older than he was lol.
If only I had this video to help me with a paper I had to write back in my High School Italian class.
I think my favorite moment in the movie is when Tuco catches up with Angel Eyes and Blondie and mid killing he spots Blondie. They talk and Tuco just goes back to killing everyone while Blondie watches because he doesn't care who he has to team up with to get the treasure.
So that's why you came to Tuco.
It doesn't matter, I'll kill em all.
The tuco actor discussion reminds me a lot of the speedy gonzalez debacle. He was briefly removed from looney tunes because white people thought he was an offensive stereotype, but was brought back because mexican viewers loved him.
Having international cast speaking their lines each in their own language and then being dubbed over wasn't only Italian thing. It's how it's done with international co-productions in Europe in general. Dubbing doesn't bother us because we're used to it. Most of US and other foreign films and shows you'll see on TV are dubbed anyway.
Jay shouldn't avoid watching the other ones, I actually think For A Few Dollars More might be better paced, and the villain makes an excellent performance.
Fistful of Dollars is probably the least impressive of the three, I much prefer Yojimbo
I agree for a few dollars more is definitely my favorite of the three. Felt it was the only one of the three where the soundtrack was reflected in movie with the music box. lol also have a soft spot for van cleef liked seeing him as the good ish guy
Hey, Few Dollars is worth checking out just for Clint and Lee teaming up alone. How much more hype can you get?
We are the same person.
No you can absolutely do that with revolvers in the same gauge, especially if they’re from the same manufacturer. The precision manufacturing we know today didn’t exist, so two guns from the same line would not be identical. Picking the best parts from half a dozen different weapons is very much a thing a professional might do.
Also, the Good the Bad & the Ugly is both Goldie & Tuco. The point is that in this kind of setting, everyone has all the three aspects
There's no better feeling than going into a movie as a cynic and coming back as a fan. I had the same response to this movie.
An Italian director, with American starring actors, filmed mostly in Spain.
An amazing movie, even if I do think it's second to Once Upon A Time In The West in Leone's filmography.
"Be like your grandpa"
No problem, Murder she wrote, MASH, and Columbo are awesome as fuck.
I first watched The Good, The Bad and The Ugly while sitting in the open at a firebase in Vietnam in 1968 wondering if when mortars would start coming in....3 weeks later the Tet Offensive began.
My personal favourite is tje second: the amazing acting by El Indio, the outstanding framing of the final duel and the score... Amazing.
If it hasn't been mentioned already John Wick 3 paid homage to Tuco's gun assembly scene. I was pleasantly surprised when I saw that scene.
God, old movies look incredible in 4K
While this movie is a masterpiece, I feel that Once Upon A Time In The West, also directed by Leone(AND co-written with Dario Argento) gets little to no credit and is rarely talked about. I consider it to be Leone's best, but I might be particular to revenge tales, late-game reveals, and vulgar spaghetti western style machismo and chicanery more than most people are
The score of that movie made me cry. Imagine on your wedding day finding out your whole family and husband to be are all murdered.
I just have to mention this; Yes. You can assemle guns from different manufacturers. As long as the parts in question is somewhat compatible. It's pretty much like using a car battery from one manufacturer and simply put it in whichever car you need it to. As long as there's compatibility to it, it absolutely works ^_^ Mostly spare parts though. Except some of the bigger parts. Cylinders, barrels, etc. They are mostly interchangeable.
One of my favorite movies ever.
I mean Tuco isn’t dumb, he tricks a bunch of guys to distract Blondie while he comes in through the window.
He's wily but not exactly intelligent
@@Querymongerthat doesn’t mean he’s dumb
I was floored to hear that Jay the film buff hadn't seen this film until now. (Or, well, until they made this video 2 years ago. You get what I mean.) I guess it wasn't weird enough for him to seek it out.
I remember being really confused when I watched this movie, because I had totally bought into the "Man with No Name Trilogy" marketing, and was wondering why Lee Van Cleef's character went from a goody two shoes upstanding man in the second film to literally "The Bad" in this film. It took me like half of the movie to realize that it wasn't supposed to be the same character.
its cool to see them discuss a movie that takes place during mike's childhood.
It's actually Mr. Plinkett's childhood
Mike is just a character that Mr. Plinkett plays
Ha! Mike, Rich and I are roughly the same age...1967 really isn't that long ago in the grand scheme of things.
Well Man Childhood he was over 20 at the time.
@@xp8969 nah Mike is ancient
@@Null94 he also justified
“Go full boomer, watch a western” I watched Fistful of Dollars earlier this year and the plot was so tight and simple yet atmospheric and entertaining, it was better than anything I’d seen that past year I swear
The thing is you don't have to go full boomer to watch any of these old classics, all people have to do is just put them on they're really that good. especially if people are still wowed by them 40-70 years after they drop.
I have not seen that movie but from seeing the clips in this video it looks like the story might be the copy of the Japanese film made by kurosawa, the name I think is yojimbo I'm not sure.
@@amitmeena2961 yeah I'm pretty sure it is, that happened with a lot of kurosawa movies
@@amitmeena2961 The first movie of the "trilogy", A Fistful of Dollars, is a remake of Yojimbo. A Few Dollars More and GBU aren't remakes. You should definitely watch them, they are all amazing, especially GBU.
@@beam5655 I have seen those two but I have seen yojimbo so I'm not watching the western remake anymore
As a mexican, i give Elli Wallach a honorary mexican card. He killed that part.
I am from Mexican decent and many of my family members that i have are Mexicans, also agree Elli Wallach gets a pass
That is what you call great acting, if anybody can play as anybody e.g. Robert Downey Jr. as Kirk Lazarus: An Australian method actor and five-time Academy Award winner, Lazarus had a controversial "pigmentation alteration" surgery to temporarily darken his skin for his portrayal of the black character, Staff Sergeant Lincoln Osiris, in Tropic Thunder a really funny movie.
@@jedi_drifter2988 that movie sucks! It's not funny at all! I kind of laughed ONE TIME at Tom Cruise telling the kidnappers to "go fuck yourself"!
Stupid bullshit for the braindead masses!... kind of like Star Wars now
Tuco gets a pass. El es un hombre muy chingon.
Yo también le doy el mexican pass. Se lleva la película. Saludos de Puebla.
Not to be outdone by a table, Rich has taken it upon himself to hold the movie case for the entire review.
Folding chables are overrated
Mike crushed their table with a chair, Rich had no choice!
chable*
It makes his penis cry. Its special to him.
Jay missed the point of the bridge scene. Yeah they blow it up cos it's in thier way out it's also a small favour to the dying union captain, who has seen thousands of men die for nothing. He gets a little bit of hope just before he dies. So it was a small heroic moment.
It also allows the two armies to disperse, as there's nothing left to fight for. Which means there won't be anyone else going to the cemetery when they go to look for the gold.
Oh yeah. It's character building for Blondie. After he almost dies from thirst and exposure, he starts doing little nice things, here and there, the first of which is sharing his cigar with Tuco as they leave the mission.
It's almost like this movie was ...well written? All the characters have layers and even growth(well..maybe aside from Angel Eyes, he is pretty much an horrible pos the entire movie, but he also has a couple of interesting moments). Another scene is the one between Tuco and his brother. While it's true that the brother is disappointed in Tuco, what Tuco says is the truth: the only way to escape poverty for them was either being a bandit or donning the cloth. It just so happens Tuco was the tougher and meanest of their family, so he left to be a bandit and not burden the others. He made difficult choices, at a very young age. The brother had the easiest path. It's also the moment Tuco discovers his mother died, now he is TRULY alone. There's no home to go back, no one will be waiting for him. We see under his tough skin a little glimpse of what was a little mexican boy from a poor village, still ashamed to tell Blondie his brother wasn't pleased to meet him. Still sad about what happened. Tuco is a terrible man, but also has an heart. It's a scene that grounds him and makes him " real". He isn't just a "cigar smoking bandito" that is convenient to the plot, he actually has a place in the world. Like i said, good writing.
I also think it's a very ironic scene, that these two lowlife bandits end up saving the lives of thousands of men. For me, it's all part of the epic character of this film. Vast landscapes cut with extreme close-ups, soaring operatic music interjected by long silences, a sweeping civil war punctuated by the petty rivalry and squabbling of the characters... This movie isn't just pure cinema, it's the entire human condition, grand and yet trivial, tragic and absurd.
@@ravecrab brilliantly said
Seeing Jay genuinely enjoy this classic really brightened my day.
Hearing Jay say that he’d never seen it until recently and then hearing he loved it… Might be my single favourite RLM moment
I first saw this on my little 14" bedroom black and white TV in 1988 when I was 13 - it was the Sunday matinee on a local TV station, and it's been in my top 10 ever since. I had it playing in the background on a projector at my bachelor party in 2006 and everyone stopped drinking and talking and sat down to watch the whole thing & we had to get the sound going. My boys are 14 and 12 now, wondering if I show it to them, will they just be bored, or will it capture them like it did me?
@@DoctorDewgong Agreed. TGBU is actually my least favorite of the three, mainly because it's so much less focused
Yeah that was really awesome! Basically how i felt
@@Beer_Dad1975 don’t spoil it or build it up, let them watch it fresh.
They only get that once.
The number of times Jay says, "I loved it," throughout this re:View is awesome. It's a film everyone has heard of and is widely praised, but it still managed to exceed his expectations. You can tell how genuinely happy he is to sit down and talk about it with Rich. And now I'm looking forward to watching it myself thanks to this video.
That is how it do be. You kinda just need someone to tell you it's a deconstruction of something to realize it is worth watching.
Weird how you take pop culture references of a classic film for surface value of the whole film your whole life, but when you actually watch the movie you realize it's meme holds up so long because the movie itself is amazing and more than the reference you took for granted. I'm just as guilty, but I was surprised to find out Jay, a well known picky film snob that enjoys good and bad Italian knock offs, NEVER SAW The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. Everyone has their flaws, he just corrected one of his on (RUclips) camera.
It's as good as they say. The other ones (Fistful of Dollars & A Few Dollars More) are great too. The recent HD versions look fantastic too, including MGM's 2014 restoration made from the original camera negative. Can't go wrong with these suckers!
@@jamesgreenwood5185 I should've said it in my original comment - but I'm actually excited to see this whole trilogy. Had to catch up on some other films before I could jump in so I still haven't - top of my list though.
@@GdotHost let us know what you think
For Tuco's revolver: it's plausible, but takes to explaining.
He picked a bunch of era appropriate revolvers to start with and all of the ones he took apart and swapped around were manufactured by Colt. And the specific parts he swapped around were ones that were either designed to be taken apart and changed (such as cylinders) or ones that could work well if you didn't think too hard about it. But the real point of the scene is to show that Tuco actually knows what he's doing, he essentially picks the best parts from all of the Colts on offer. It's a very impressive scene.
Similar concept with a lot of modern firearms, ie the AR-15. There are many forms of it with different interchangable parts, ie barrels, receivers, grips, stocks, etc. Take ten of them that all look different, and you can make one amalgamation of them because they're the same underlying system.
Fun fact: Wallach didn't know anything about guns. Leone just told him to improvise and they'd edit whatever they got. Assembling Tuco's pistol was a complete accident - thankfully because the prop guy had selected a bunch of Colt knockoffs. If you look, the worried looks on his face were 100% genuine - he thought he was messing up a bunch of props and they wouldn't even be able to use it.
Love the awesome homage to it in John Wick 3 as well!
Did I see correctly that the final 'FrankenColt' is a ball and cap revolver converted to handle cartridges?
Paused right after they mentioned the comments section cause I knew someone MUST have answered the question.
Rich, you're selling yourself short, buddy. I always find your participation in re:views to be insightful and endearing. Imposter syndrome is certainly a real thing, but you needn't lose sleep over this.
Richard Evans is the person we all aspire to be.
Well this video's already over 300k views, so I get the hesitation. It's interesting thinking about his re:view appearances with that in mind, because he does usually take a support role on these, and they're always movies he's watched many times before (and has probably researched a bit), so he can speak with some authority about some aspects. As someone with a similar "don't talk or they'll know you don't know things" problem, I don't mind him admitting this.
Honestly he kind of impresses me about how much he knows and even when held against Rich and Mike. He seems like someone who watches as many movies as I do. Just maybe not always the same ones.
I am not interested in a re view unless it has at least Mike and Rich together , Jay and Mike together or Jay and Rich together .... No offense to the guest reviewers
Rich has more knowledge than these guys in so many areas. I still remember him pulling out the fact about Soviets experimenting with gorilla human hybrids, and because I already knew that one it was great watching the others on the table reacting with such incredulity.
I'm sad Rich feels insecure about having to be "intellectual" on re:View. On alot of videos he has some really insightful and profound takes.
That is unfortunate
Not sure why all of them are so afraid of analytical engagement with media
I love their dynamic. Rich is philosophical, Jay is technical, Mike is cynical
He is our every-man, carpenter philosopher & we love him for that.
AAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDSSSSSSS!!!!!!!
Fun fact! All the revolvers Tuco disassembled were different versions of the same Colt revolver. The parts he exchanged, the cylinder and barrel, would have been more or less interchangeable, and were only held together with removable pins. Overall not too inaccurate!
I would also like to add he was given no direction or education on the weapons. He was just told to do some stuff and he made it all up.
It was totally inaccurate though. It 100% wouldn’t work. That scene is fantastic as a piece of cinema, but not realistic at all, and absolutely would not work. Tuco supposedly loads brass cartridges in a cap-and-ball (Colt Navy) Pistol that he swaps cylinders with a Smith & Wesson. You can’t do that. A Colt Navy, being cap-and-ball, loads from the front.
The movie is set in 1862-64. Colt pistols wouldn’t fire metallic cartridges until Smith & Wesson’s patent expired in 1869, and they didn’t sell a conversion of the Navy revolver until 1871, and those were factory guns, not just cylinder swaps.
@@PristineTX so there were actual conversion navy revolvers that would fire cartridges, so is the issue that the movie was set before those were in circulation? i totally get the whole ball n cap issue, it wouldnt work like that
Yup, and guns were often offered with customization from the manufacturer for an extra fee. Barrel length, finishes, and grips were all customizable.
Besides, if you want to point out the glaring issue with the pistols in this movie, the most egregious issue is in the final showdown, where the closeup reveals Van Cleef to be carrying a full belt of metallic cartridges... for his 1858 Remington cap-and-ball pistol, primers clearly visible.
The funny thing about the cynical Civil War take is that kind of stuff really was happening. I was looking at a Time Life photo book of the Civil War a long time and one of the stories they tell (and show) is that the most famous (and one of the most prolific) CW photographers was exposed after people started to notice that a lot of his photos had the same corpses in them. He was dragging and posing bodies on the battlefield.
It think it was less cynical and more sad.
Really interesting how it doesn't take sides either, it shows suffering from both sides.
Because war doesnt do much for the people fighting in it. Only those back home, just a reality of war
@@illseeyaonthedarksideofthemoon - Well yeah but in the case of the civil war one side went out of their way to start the war specifically to uphold the institution of slavery so like fuck em
@@851852093114208513no, the Corwin Amendment was meant to stop that. It wasn’t solely to preserve the institution. The north still had 5 slave states during the war and even after the emancipation proclamation. The largest hanging event was in New York when the people of NYC heard that the war was about freeing blacks… it was a war of grievances than actual humanitarian cause. Look up Charles Adams’s book “When in the Course of Human Events: Making the Case for Southern Succession”. The book discusses tax history coming from the author who majors in the topic and shows the US aggression via tariffs.
The only thing the North did was further create a divide in the south. Because of Sherman hatred was brewed, because of the removal of citizenship from everyone in the south the statues were built, carpetbaggers stole land, and even the kkk came about as militia groups in protest of the north later turned into a racially focused white supremacist group that even Nathan Bedford Forest protest and left.
I have no skin in the Civil War game as I have no ancestors here, but to treat the war like a football match, dehumanizing the opposite side to fit one’s own narrative is quite bizarre.
If the 3% were the only people in the CSA to hold slaves then they must’ve had the dumbest civilians to convince them that preservation of slavery is a valid war. Robert E Lee even freed his own at the start of the war… you know the guy whose 5 family members signed the Declaration of Independence and whose father was Virginia’s governor?
I don’t like erecting false idols but the statues are reminders of the hatred and yet it is seen as offensive…
History will repeat itself with the current divide of the modern peoples as you hear the new anti-Semite, anti-Ukraine, anti-black rhetoric being talked about on controlled opposition media. It’s clear we are seen as sheep to be herded off of cliffs of party affiliations and social political opinions. First world problems that have no relevance to the famine, wars, and tensions of quarreling nations.
Goodbye
When I was 10, my grandfather found out that I hadn't seen this movie... he literally drove to buy it and brought me home to make me watch it. My grandfather was awesome!
My grandfather gave me a dress and made me sit on his lap
@@reek4062 no I didn't!
My aunt did me the same why when It came to Star Wars back in 99…. She lost her shit and ran straight to blockbuster and got all the OT… I was only 6 ma’am calm down 😂…. But because of her I love movies
@@BrentWalker999 I wish you did
You had an awesome grandfather.
The scene with Tuco finding the graveyard is one of the most iconic scenes in film, period.
The background low boil of hatred this channel has for Cinema Sins gives me life
I loved the fact that Jay just watched this movie and was blown away by it. Truly great films never get old.
EDIT: Man I'm so glad they talked a little about the "Ecstasy of Gold" Sequence. I have always thought that's the purest 15 minutes of cinema ever filmed.
I want to see Metallica live because I love their music, but even more so to see their intro with that scene live.
And the song for a soldier i get goosebumps just hearing it again
That's such an intelligently edited sequence. Trying to capture the concept of being overwhelmed by all sides? I don't think I've ever seen it done as well in a film before this.
Not to mention the musical piece of the same name is like an orgasm in musical form.
I'm genuinely glad to see how Jay felt about this film, as like with Rich this has been a favourite movie of mine for years. But I had the same impression going in as Jay: THINKING I understood what the movie was, or would be, and being so amazingly surprised and blown-away by what it actually was.
I really want to track down that new 4K release, the last time I viewed this film was on the old Special Edition DVD set!
That 4k release looks stunning, and makes it look even more epic.
I came here to say this, but thank you for succinctly saying it before I had a chance to butcher its essence.
I remember watching this movie at a friend's house when i was 12, we were watching it at 2am, on his shitty Panasonic, children-torso-sized tv with faulty exposed wiring, and it always stuck with me, not only because of the amazing cinematography, but also because i got electrocuted launched back against a wall when i touched the cable by accident.
Similar experience for me - sans electrocution - I first saw this on my little 14" bedroom black and white TV in 1988 on a local station Sunday afternoon movie slot when I was 13. It was a National Electronics TV, which is what Panasonic called themselves before they became Panasonic. My boys are 14 and 12 now, wondering if I show it to them, will they just be bored, or will it capture them like it did me?
Child torso is a really weird unit of measurement, but also very accurate
"i got electrocuted launched back against a wall when i touched the cable by accident."
Cable TV at home: XD
It's great to meet the inspiration for Poltergeist. The horror genre salutes you
Having Jay say he absolutely adores something is the most fulfilling thing possible
Just watched this “trilogy” for the first time a few weeks ago per RLM’s recommendation! Was moving out of Arizona and watching some classic westerns felt like an appropriate sendoff. 🤠
I strongly recommend you to watch Sergio Corbucci's ones now. Especially The Great Silence.
Where did you move to?
Welcome to the valley of the sun ☀️
Here's some good ones: the OG "Django" and "Death Rides a Horse."
Need to make sure you watch once upon a time in the West too.
i remember reading years ago that Leone elevated cinema violence to a new "standard" of sorts. in the 40s and 50s, whenever a gun was fired, it was done shot-reaction shot, i.e. the shooter would be in one frame and fire, then there'd be a cut to the victim in a different frame, who'd fall over. what Leone did differently was have the shooter in the extreme foreground with the victim in the background, and the sequence would all play out in a single frame.
that little nugget of film history and filmmaking is what got me really excited about movies, and the western genre in general. the Dollars trilogy is way up there in my top favourite flicks of all time.
No one cares
@@lawton6123 “I’m a giant asshole”
@@erderamir6994 There are people who can help you
@@lawton6123 so you can go away on your merry way then
That’s not actually true. You can see the shooter and victim in the same frame in numerous films that predated Leone. John Huston’s version of The Maltese Falcon, for one.
That union/reb dust gag scene is still one of my all-time favorite jokes in any movie, I remember watching it for the first time when I was twelve and laughing my ass off.
Tuco: Hurrah! Hurrah for the Confederacy! HURRAH! Down with General Grant! Hurrah for General... What's his name? Lee! LEE! Ha ha. God is with us because he hates the Yanks too. HURRAH!
Blondie: God is not on our side because he hates idiots also.
All these people who watched these movies as kids, it makes you wonder why George Lucas tried to water the OT down, seeing that the original take of the Han vs. Greedo scene was based on these movies, but for some reason Lucas thinks that kids only watch babies' movies.
@@white-dragon4424 It has nothing to do with movies, remember George own the rights to the toys, until a point where the toys profit probably exceeded his box office profits. In the original trilogy he collaborated with many talented because he's making a movie, but for the prequels he's making toys. It's probably the reason he started to call Star Wars a kids movie.
This was the fastest I’ve ever clicked on a RLM notification! My favorite movie of all time!
It's the third of the Dollars Trilogy ri8?
You sure it isnt the thing!? Haha
For a few dollars more is my preferred of the three
I was faster
mine too this i a fucking dream
Since Jay appreciates the epic feel of this one and its cinematic craft, he shouldn't cheat himself out of watching Leone's other opus and masterpiece, Once Upon A Time In The West, in the best quality possible.
Used to be my favorite movie. I love it.
I really hope they do a review of once upon a time in the west, such an absolute great film.
I was curious if he saw this as well. I prefer it over The Good, the bad, and the ugly.
I used to think The Good The Bad The Ugly was peerless until I watched Once Upon a Time in the West. It’d be difficult for me to decide which is better.
Claudia Cardinale in 4K its a religious experience
I would love to see a re:View of Fistful of Dollars alongside Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo. Fistful of Dollars is basically a remake of Kurosawa's film with some minor deviations. I think it would fascinating to see Rich and Jay's individual takes on the differences/similarities in addition to their thoughts on both films in general.
same, i was thinking of this the whole time. yojimbo is great
Pretty sure the Sergio got sued by Kurosawa.
@@amircash And Kurosawa ripped of Red Harvest. Circle of life.
Jay has probably never seen any Kurosawa films before either, that fraud.
A fist full of travelers cheques is an amusing parody ;)
With so many shitty movies/tv shows being made over the last few years and watching so many (non-shill) online reviewers tearing them apart, it's so refreshing to hear "this is one of the best fucking things I've ever seen in my life."
Can you name an example of a shitty movie or show made in the last years?
@Reek Good one, lad. Really.
So about three weeks ago, I finally watched The Godfather, and I felt like Jay watching The Good The Bad and The Ugly, like I would say to my friends and family eh I’ll get to it, thinking I knew what happened, but my gosh, after watching that I was blown away! One of the greatest things I’ve ever seen
@@anthonytrani1066 that happened to an old girlfriend, we were just sitting at home chilling I’m like wanna watch The Godfather? She was glued to the screen completely, it’s such a great movie.
@@MyMusicSosa the slow buildup of Michael taking over the family, thinking he would be some type of side character, but, turns out it’s his movie was wonderful. Still need to watch Part II, I will get it to it eventually
I was so happy when Jay finished his story about never getting around to seeing the movie, and said that it was one of the greatest things he'd ever seen in his life.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is my vote for the best movie ever made. From an art snob standpoint, looking at the cinematography, the direction, the score, etc it is absolutely phenomenal. From a dumb action movie standpoint, looking at the stunts and the clever one-liners, it is absolutely phenomenal. And when your movie is both Citizen Kane and Die Hard, your movie is the best movie ever made.
Great analysis, really. I'd dare say it's my fave, too. I knew it would be in Jay's wheelhouse.
sorry but that'd be "Once upon a time in the West": that's basically the opus magnum of all his Western works. Even by his own saying.
Fax.
My vote goes to A Serbian Film
Don't get carried away.
Morricone's score still to this day feels so edgy and fresh. I love how the main theme keeps popping up throughout the film with different instrumental arrangements. Electric guitars, flutes, men hollering and shouting, and towards the final act when they're in the war it's played on just marching drum. It's so playful and creative.
Each of the characters gets their own variant of the theme to represent them. Particularly like Tuco's. Just *chef's kiss*.
Leitmotivs popping in and out at different times with odd instruments is one of my favourite things in movies and videogames.
Another movie with an oft-repeated leitmotiv is the fantastic "THE LONG GOODBYE" by Robert Altman.
Gould is so good in this movie, as well as every other actors.
@@DrummerDucky I think the best and clearest use of leitmotif by Morricone during that period was in Once Upon a Time in the West, where each major character has their own very different and distinctive them. Harmonica's and Frank's (both used in the same piece during the finale) are super-famous, but for me it's Jill's theme that stands above the others - it's lovely, grand and looks towards the later, more refined and lyrical, themes that Morricone would use in the 1980s.
One of its best uses was in Kelly's Heroes.
I heard Metallica starts their show (while they're walking out on stage) to this film's theme, at every concert they play.
As far as the gun assembly scene goes, fitting different parts together by hand was an important process in early mass-produced firearms. This fitting would be done at the factory, but of course quality control wasn't the highest priority, especially during wartime. Tuco is taking Colt model 1851s that have parts that fit together well enough but not great, and he's taking the best parts from these and sticking them together into 1 well fitted gun.
Important to note that due to location and the fact that it's during the civil war, a lot of the parts he was going through probably weren't colt (due to them being on the Union side geographically) and were more likely a huge variation of handmade confederate parts patterned off the colt navy that would be way out of spec. if assembled together with other confederate and colt parts.
I was looking for this comment.
IIRC, Eli Wallach said that he improvised the the gun assembly and that he had no knowledge of guns.
I knew the answer to Rich's question was "yes" but had no real knowledge further than that so thank you for the comment!
Scrolled down specifically to find someone pointing this out. Thanks
I'm going to go against the grain and be earnest here: Rich you're really good at what you do. There's a reason you can spin out 80s plots at will, and it's because you approach material like a writer, which is a valuable perspective. You're insightful and smart and I'm glad your job is this rather than delivering telephone books or whatever the weird shit you used to do is. So enjoy the compliments you'll never read from a person you'll never meet.
I believe he mentioned in a Best of the Worst that he use to instal fire sprinkler systems.
@@jayjaydeth No wonder he's so cool about fire safety.
That was really nice and I agree.
Can even go a step further and say, all of the RLM cast can bring different stuff into a re:View, that's why they're fun. It's a different format.
@@jayjaydeth , yep, went to high school with Mike, then Mike went to film school and Rich entered a trade.
But Rich was the one out of the job when the recession hit, so he went to Mike in desperation.
Fun fact about the civil war battle scene:
The bridge explosion was incredibly expensive, and a crew member yelled at some actors to get in position. The pyrotechnics guy thought that was his queue, so he detonated the bridge when the cameras weren't filming.
They had to build it and destroy it again from scratch.
my understanding is the Spanish military was involved and were apparently apologetic enough to rebuild and re-explode it...or they just wanted to play with the explosives
I came to the comments before finishing the review to see if someone commented that they didn’t bring it up. I was sad to see it wasn’t mentioned by the guys but happy to see someone mentioned it in the comments
That’s a cool story. Imagine having to explain that to your boss. 😂
Leone must have had an aneurysm.
Lmao 😭😭😭
You can also see a brick almost kill Clint Eastwood when it blows up, it hits a sandbag about a foot away from his head
Eli Wallach wasn't in brown face. It was a natural suntan having spent several months in very hot Spain filming the movie. A lot of the Spanish and Italian actors, who were mainly from the south of Italy and Spain, also had natural olive-skin / brownish complexions. You can clearly see that both Confederate and Union soldiers in the movie were Mediterranean looking, which I found mildly amusing as Confederate soldiers were of British descent and most of the Union soldiers too. However, it didn't detract from this classic movie.
Imma let you finish, but they cast a Jewish guy instead of a Mexican. And Mexicans (or at least Spaniards) weren't hard to find. So there's a reason people complain. He was still amazing.
I think Jay brought up a good point that all the extras in this are weird looking and I think the variety of actor genetics muddled together by suntans, sweat, and grime really contributes to that and enhances the look of the movie overall. Looking at all the characters together with their wildly contrasting builds, facial structures, ect. gives the film this sort of fantasy quality you that normally you only see in animation or effects heavy live action.
Confederates were all over the place ethnically, and Union conscripts were even worse. Look at some of the pictures from the period. Most of these folks weren't pretty. They looked like the dregs of humanity.
any makeup at this point is considered "______face"... Tim Curry was in clownface, etc
There is a reason. That reason is still stupid as shit.
Actually, my grandfather was managing a concession stand, during a showtime for this movie, back in 1967 when a middle-aged Rich Evans approached him for a tub of popcorn.
No way !
Rich doesn't look a day over 90, tops.
Was one of your parents conceived that night? I don’t think it’s possible to resist rich
As a former gun museum guy, all the revolver manufacturers were stealing and copying designs from each other back then (at least more openly than now)
Interesting
It was the dawn of replaceable parts, most of the designs were heavily based off one set of parts that could be replaced and repurposed on-demand. We didn't have pipelines for stupid shit like we do now.
Due to industrialisation during the Indian wars (pre civil war) the us army began weaponry with stanardizind weaponry parts so guns could be broken down and repaired in the field.
Gun manufacturers would also sell proprietary ammo to makeup the loss e.g in Red Dead Redemption 2 each gun used its own custom made cartridge you couldn't swap between brands. Gun catalogs from the Old West had a wide variety of ammo loads and sizes fragmented even further by gun company. There was no effort for standardization until after WW1 with so much surplus.
Eli Whitney came up with the concept and mass produced muskets for the army. Samuel Colt cheated to get the government contract for revolvers. He didn't have the machinery accurate enough to make interchangeable parts. He went through his guns until he found several guns with parts that could be swapped out.
He then took those guns as an example of his workmanship and won the government contract. He used the money from that contract to then build a new factory that had the accurate machinery necessary for interchangeable parts.
as an italian myself, i felt offended at "some weird italian guy".
He was batshit insane
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly has it all. When it tries to be funny, it’s hilarious. When it’s sad, it’s heartbreaking. When dramatic, it’s epic. The film is both gritty, but feels like myth. The story is wonderfully written. The direction, cinematography, and mise en scene are excellent. Morricone’s score is only (maybe) surpassed by a handful of other films… that he also scored.
It's actually feels more like an anti-war movie dressed up like a western than a western with the war as a backdrop. I love the movie. The bridge scene is one of my favorite moments
I absolutely love all of Sergio Leones filmography. My favourite has to be Once Upon A Time In The West.
Once Upon A Time In The West is comfortably my favourite Leone too & I do believe it's his best work. All his films are very good though.
@@NoirFan84 all his movies are works of art!
Was that the one with the barrel scene (huge gigantic mega barrel he somehow supposedly set up a trap with whilst barely alive after being beaten by the baddies over and over?) And where he had the metal chestplate he somehow cut out of a boiler with no tools? 😅 I might be mistaking it for A Fistful of Dollars, but it was still excellent despite those niggles and was the inspiration for Marty McFly's chest plate in back to the future.
Never trust a man that doesn't trust his own pants.
I especially love his last masterpiece Once Upon A Time In America.
Granted Angel Eyes disappears for a good chunk of the first act, however, every time you see him, he gains a piece of information about Bill Carson. When he disappears, you don't see him again until after Tuco and Blondie learn about Bill Carson. The Bad seems inconsequential at first, but he is essential to the overall story narrative.
Regarding 17:53 - I don't know how realistic it is, but neither did Tuco's actor. He knew next to nothing about guns but they wanted the scene to show him as being an expert, so Sergio Leone just told him 'fuck around with the gun parts and pretend you know what you're doing'. It's hilarious to think about, but he did a damn good job of making it look like he was on the ball with it and really DID know how to assemble a gun like that. Everything he did was just made up nonsense, but it worked.
that same scene was replicated in John Wick number 2 (or 3... I've only seen parts or 1, but know of this scene), and it actually is grounded in reality, he's in a museum and has to interchange the cylinder and did it as an homage to the classic scene.
He was basically taking the best parts from different revolvers to make Best Revolver ™️ say like a revolver has a good trigger but the cylinder might lock up sometimes or doesn't have very good sights, stuff like that.
What’s funny is Rich saying he doesn’t feel movie literate and intellectual enough for these discussions; the man has some of the greatest insights on Re:View. As an Everyman Rich Evans see what Jay and Mike miss quite often. You keep at it dude!
I feel like as long as people can say what they like and what they don't like, they have somthing worth listening to.
He fuels his mighty intellect by gorging on the brains of murdered children
Chable
Yea Rich is very intelligent.
Yeah that caught me off guard. He has always come off to me a very bright and almost to the point that he may be smug about it in real life. Again just speculation based on people I have known.
And surprise he’s a good person who constantly doubts himself as an over correction lol.
You’re smart Rich!
If Rich is "The Ugly" it would explain why he always steals the show.
Just tell Jay that Klaus Kinski plays “the Hunchback” in For a Few Dollars More, and I promise he’d watch it.
The classic westerns don’t get enough love these days. The Leone westerns and post-westerns like Unforgiven have been deservedly remembered and showered with praise, but the John Ford westerns like The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Searchers, and My Darling Clementine, and others from the same era like The Gunfighter all dealt with much more interesting and complex themes than your basic white hat vs. black hat westerns.
TLDR: There’s a lot of great classic westerns, I hope more people give them a chance.
You are spot on. People who don’t watch westerns have very strong opinions and incorrect information on them. Most no B-movie westerns have morally complex and are far from cliche driven crap that people think it is. Even the westerns of the silent era we’re doing everything the spaghetti westerns did in the 1910s-20s. The good the bad and the ugly is close to a remake of 3 Bad Men
I hated westerns when I was first getting into movies (even though I hadn’t seen basically any), then I watched fistful of dollars, the searchers and Johnny Guitar and my whole opinion changed. I mean I’m 21 so clearly young people can enjoy them, it just takes the right one.
High Noon, Shane and Pursued are also excellent, although despite the setting I don't know if one could put Pursued in the western category at least it is not a "pure" example of the genre.
The Searchers is my favorite film of all time. Made Godard cry from his review, influenced Scorsese and Schrader in Taxi Driver. John Wayne’s character of Ethan really set up a lot of those dark characters!
Best western is Yojimbo though «_«
In the extras on my dvd copy there's a great anecdote about the overdubbing. During the Tuco torture scene, at one point it cuts to the henchman commanding the musicians, who says "piu forte" (louder). They tried overdubbing it with "play louder" but it didn't look right, so the ADR director came up with "more feeling". It matched the actor's mouth movements better and added a layer of ironic pathos unanticipated by Leone.
This is one of the reasons I love the soundtracks of these films. The uncanny, partly-matched dubbing; the pop-operatic scores; the over the top foley... it's all so heightened, so exaggerated. It's like the aural equivalent of Argento's gaudy, saturated colours.
What's Foley
@@urgamecshk Mick Foley?
@@urgamecshk sound effects, recorded to mimic or enhance the visuals.
You actually can do that with Colts because they had so many copies made of them from other companies that bought their license or just copied them with varying quality. This was just as replaceable parts started to become commonplace instead of hand fitted parts. So using a bunch of Colts copy parts to make the perfect one is feasible.
They did a bad job on the historical accuracy regarding the revolvers though....our three protagonist carry cap & ball percussion revolvers, but have cartridge belts...and if you look closely, they haven't been converted to handle centerfire cartridges (they still have percussion cap nipples on them). Centerfire cartridge revolvers didn't become common until a few years after the US Civil War anyways.
Once cartridges came around, headspacing became critical. With cap and ball you just have to check timing and basic fit.
This was also an accident! Wallach had no clue about guns, and if you look he's terrified the whole scene that he's messing up the props. Leone had just told him to improvise. The fact that the prop guy was using a bunch of Colts with interchangeable parts was a total accident. The fact that the gun works means Wallach literally acted a gun into being.
Keep in mind we're discussing a movie prop that exists in a fictional movie where the actions and events of all things are dictated by the screenwriter. People constantly comparing movies to reality is always a disappointing assertion on the purpose of art.
@@mellusk9194 If you look closely they have cap and ball revolvers in scenes where they don't have to shoot, and cartridge conversions when they have to fire blanks.
Jay's reaction is the best and I love Rich's joy in hearing that his friend likes one of his favorite movies.
@JamesMacPherson I am not surprised, there is a ton of movies that considered a classic, and it's hard to watch even half of them, despite how big of a cinephile you are
I'd love to see them cover Yojimbo or Seven Samurai someday. They're so legendary and so influential, and also Toshiro Mifune is the coolest cat to grace the silver screen. The music is incredible, the shots are incredible, and the action, while minimal, is great. I think my favorite part of the film is how it uses blood to highlight certain fights. Most of the time there isn't blood until the shots of the aftermath, but certain sword slashes bring forth geysers of blood.
I am incredibly biased, because I've seen Yojimbo more than any other movie. Not even an exaggeration, I've easily watched it 15-20 times in my 24 years on this earth.
Edit: honestly it's probably way more than 15-20 but I don't keep track of these things. At least once a year for the past 18 years.
please god please
I agree, although I think there are other Kurosawas I’d love them to review even more, namely High & Low and Ran
What they really need to watch is The Hidden Fortress seeing how massive an influence it was on GBU.
I think I've seen 3 Ninjas and The Benchwarmers that many times, and neither of those are close to my favorite movie
True story - Eastwood did the first Dollar movie cuz he liked Yojimbo ;)