You really are a film expert. You understood EVERYTHING they were trying to say with this film masterpiece. So impressed with your ability to grasp every nuance of this film. The directing by Leone, the set designs, and of course the unmatched music made by Ennio Morricone. You raved about all three and were absolutely right to. I first saw this film in the early 1970’s as a kid. My dad and uncle introduced me to this movie, and I’ve watched this particular spaghetti western dozens of times. It’s literally in my top 5 favorite films of all time. I was so impressed with how you mentioned the grit and reality of the sets. Before the first film of this trilogy, all famous westerns were so vanilla and all used the same system (pretty much). These 3 films changed the Western genre forever. Also your recognition of Eli Wallace’s acting in this film, you’re 100% correct, it was outstanding, so much so, he should have been nominated for an academy award. People raved about his performance. Clint, of course, was perfect in the no name roles, and became a huge star because of them. As an impressionable youngster, I of course became a huge fan of his. One of the coolest dudes ever. Your reaction and knowledge of film creation is extremely impressive. You understood everything about this film, I’ve yet to see a reaction to this film from others that gets this film as well as you did.
Very few people catches the importance and the beauty of the scene between Tuco and his brother, the way Leone is able to transform Tuco from a dastardly scoundrel to a sympathetic anti hero in just few minutes is amazing.
she's missing something! there was NO agreement between eastwood and the fugatives he turned in for the reward money! these people were eastwood's PRISONERS! they had no choice! would you agree to something like that? eastwood's character is called an "anti-hero!" he may do good things on occasion but he does them for the wrong reasons! and he usually does them in a corrupt and violent way. that's an anti-hero.
I love the scene after that between Tuco and Blondie. Tuco says his brother is crazy about him, Blondie knows Tuco is lying. Tuco knows that Blondie knows. They have a cigar and move on.
Wow, I never once made the parallel between Blondie, "The Man With No Name," and the grave marked "Unknown" with the gold in it until you mentioned it. That totally makes me see that scene and now symbolism much differently now :)
Angel Eyes learns about the Confederate gold by accident when interrogating the family man before he kills him. The guy that hired Angel Eyes didn’t tell him why he wanted to find the soldier who was using Bill Carson’s name. This is my favorite western, next is The Big Country (1958) with Gregory Peck. Tuco is my favorite movie character of all time. Great movie reaction!
Ennio Morricone for the music!!! There are many greats, but there is only one Morricone. Lee van Cleef IS handsome! I agree! You can see him in a nice large role again, opposite Eastwood in "A Few Dollars More", the second of this informal trilogy. Eli Wallach confessed to Leone that he didn't know anything about guns and didn't know what to do in the gun shop scene. Leone told him to just improvise, which, as you see, Wallach did. Angel Eyes can be classified as "bad" since he has intelligence, forethought, and devotes himself to greed, self-interest and disregard for life. Blondie is, by comparison, good, since he also has intelligence, forethought, and doesn't kill unless necessary. His morals are questionable, at least at the start, since he uses Tuco to scam, but his experiences throughout this story (listening in on the Tuco-brother scene, the entire nightmare of the captain and the bridge, including the young dying soldier) makes an impression on him, and by the end of the movie, he might actually be good. Tuco is an animal, a creature without morals, who, as you say, doesn't always think ahead. He's primarily instinct, not stupid, but not a chess player, like Angel Eyes and Blondie. He can and does learn, but he can't afford to have anything touch his heart. The tragic captain is Italian actor, Aldo Giuffrè. When I first watched this movie, long ago, all chopped up on a tv broadcast, and probably under fifteen years old, this character made me cry, and this section along with the Tuco-Pablo scene, remain, for me, one of the strongest and most "important" parts of the movie. But Blondie does care about more than the money. Remember his quiet observation during the battle: "I've never seen so many men wasted so badly." I feel this carnage really affects him. And he knows and feels enough to let the captain know what's going to happen - the captain asks the doctor to keep him alive for a bit because "he's expecting good news." He dies in peace, with that nightmare bridge that destroyed his life and conscience. "Rebecca"! Fantastic - wonderful cast. I must point out that, in addition the the fabulous Olivier and the lovely, sensitive Joan Fontaine (sister to Olivia de Havilland), the supporting cast priceless: Judith Anderson is Mrs. Danvers. She was a world-class theater actress, famous for playing Medea like no one else. You will see George Sanders in one of his signature charm and smarm roles. Gladys Cooper has a small role here, as does Nigel Bruce. Bruce became famous as Watson to Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes, and Gladys Cooper made a career out of playing icily classy antagonists. One of my favorites for her is as the mother in "Now, Voyager", with Bette Davis.
I saw this movie when it came out with my parents at the Drive-in. So glad you did it, it's my favorite. For you amusement you should watch the Danish National Symphony do The Good the Bad and the Ugly. And other of Clint's classic westerns. Metallica also uses the song at the opening of a concert in Moscow 1991 Enter Sandman. And Great Reaction I Really Enjoyed It.
To see another equally well shot and written and scored western by Mr. Sergio Leone, the next time you are in the mood for a great western, I would recommend Once Upon A Time In The West. It is not as well known as The Good, The bad and The Ugly, but the movie is every bit it's equal. And at some points, may be even better. The first ten minutes are excellent, and the dialogue is as sparse as can be, but with direction that makes every moment seem as if it may be the last moment, and the three hour film is just getting started. The stars: Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Charles Bronson and Jason Robards, with many great character actors spread throughout. As they say, a Tour-De-Force.
Just found your channel and love your reactions. Like the classic from way back. Two of my favorites the 1939 of mice and men, and 1962 to kill a mockingbird
The only problem I had with this movie, and yes I saw it when it came out in 1966, was the Firearms are post Civil War. They are using 1870 Colt and Remington Conversions to cartridge and 1873 Colts and 1873 Winchester Rifles. The Civil War was from 1861 to 1865 and fought with muzzle loading rifled muskets and cap and ball revovers. The Only Cartridge Guns at that time period was the 7 shot Spencer Repeating Carbines, used by Northern Cavalry near the end of the War, and some units that bought it themselves (Wilder's Brigade in the Chattanooga Campaign and Atlanta Campaign) and the 16 shot Henry Repeating Rifles, that was not used by the North. At the end of the War, Winchester bought out Henry Arms, and reissue it as the 1866 Winchester ( Yellow Boy ) and then changed the receiver to steel for the 1873 Winchester, used in this movie...
In one of the scenes where Tuco was rescued by Clint, the horse unexpectedly bolted and didn't stop running out of the village. Eli Wallach was sitting on the back of the galloping horse with his hands tied behind his back.
Ever heard of an "Acid Western"? If not, I highly reccomend checking our the work of Alejandro Jodorowsky.. especially his film "El Topo" it's a total mindfreak... a film you cant unsee. It's like if you crossed Leone, Kubrick, and a heavy dose of David Lynch weirdness.
Oh, please don’t compare this to, “GWTW.” Hollywood at the time, mid 1960’s did not think highly of “Spaghetti Westerns,” simply they were the competition. They were considered “Revisionist Westerners.” Old school American Directors like Ford, Hathaway, and a lot of the rest, hated them… Including good old John Wayne. Later, Hollywood did catch up. With “Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid,” “The Wild Bunch.” By the 1970’s you were allowed to show more Blood in a scene, and portray it more graphic. The Ratings system caught up somewhat. The reason for a different look is it filmed in 16mm Techinscope. Really, just to save money. And Luther parts of the world look and photograph different on film. Most of these were filmed in Spain, the Italian Actors cast were Stars in Italy at the time, also.
It's probably too late to recommend, but The Skin Game was an interesting film. It was a western con artist film involving slavery, starring James Garner. It might be worth checking out later.
If you are interested in knowing more astonishing details and fun facts about this movie, I suggest you watch the documentary entitled "Sad Hill Unearthed". ruclips.net/video/BrEQPe7l6zU/видео.html
I'm lucky enough to have seen this the first time on one of Ottawa's largest movie screens. I despise most Westerns, especially the jingoistic, racist tripe that we got from the earliest days of Silent Cinema. But this movie, plus "Tombstone" are masterpieces and highly entertaining, from start to finish.
Brilliant reaction. You HAVE to react to Leone's other masterpiece: "Once Upon a Time in the West". That will deffo blow you away. The score is of course by the master himself: Enio Morricone. Keep doing what you do, cos you're really good at it. 👌👍🙌😎
The term "spaghetti western" was invented out of despise for italians' western movies. Just think about that: Ennio Morricone wrote some of the most beautiful & iconic music, for decades, but HE NEVER WON A OSCAR. Never. Just at the very end of his life Hollywood, in order to prevent this accusation, gave him a Oscar, like to say "you never won one, but we give this as a gift to you". When the good, the bad & the ugly came out the critic described It as a very bad movie. You know why? As Americans, THEY COULD NOT ACCEPT THE FACT THAT ITALIANS OF THE "SPAGHETTI WESTERN" WERE ABLE TO DO SUCH GREAT WESTERN MOVIES! They didn't accept that: the same name "spaghetti western" show what they expected from It: a 3rd level bad copy of US' masterpieces, so when they saw these great masterpieces by 2 genius as Leone & Morricone & the success they had, they decided to slander the movie, trying to put It down. I am Italian, & i learnt many anecdotes & details about this situation from Ennio Morricone himself, who also admittes he was FURIOS when, after a whole life of musical masterpieces, he got almost out of pity one Oscar just before his death. But the good thing Is that Ennio Morricone's music will live for centuries, like the ones from Vivaldi, Tartini, Giuseppe Verdi, Rossellini, Paganini & the other musical italian genius of the past; even the so called "spaghetti western" with its great masterworks is even now, here in Europe & i am sure in many other parts of the World, loved and watched more than John Wayne's movies (i watched one, It was boring & lifeless) or other americans' western.
The 'other two' in the series aren't bad either. And in one, you get to see Lee Van Cleef as the 'good guy', Col. Mortimer. And the music is great as well for the showdown.
The classic Western film, all three lead actors are fantastic and the film score is one of the best ever made. The scene where Tuco is racing around the cemetery is accompanied by Morircone's classic theme 'Ecstacy of Gold'. The Danish National Symphony Orchestra performed a concert of Morricone's music including all three Spaghetti Western themes, well worth a look.
The reason why the noose was needed at the end for Tuco is because Blondie knew he couldn't trust Tuco to simply separate and go his own way. Blondie knew Tuco would easily shoot him in the back to take all 200,000 in gold for himself, so he had to devise a way to make sure he was far enough away and Tuco was at a disadvantage with no horse to pursue him.
You are are the one. Once again... If i have already seen it , you make it better the second time with your review and reactions. Then you pull out the best of the ones I haven't seen. Love it ❤.
The poncho Eastwood gets in this movie (near the end) becomes iconic apparel in the other two movies from A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More, the other 2 parts of the Man with No Name series.
So this is a prequel to the other two movies? I'm sorry, but I'm on Team Not-a-Trilogy, so I have this need to point this out. Nothing against you personally. The idea of the "man with no name" was made up by the American distributers when they sold the three movies brutally cut as a trilogy. Eastwood plays three different characters in the movies; Joe, Monco and Blondie, just as Lee Van Cleef and Gian Maria Volontè plays different characters in their respective two movies of the three. Sergio Leone used the same actors for similar roles in different movies. In the first two movies in this "trilogy" Joseph Egger, Nazzareno Natale, Enrique Santiago, Lorenzo Robledo and Edmondo Tieghi play smaller roles, but not the same characters. Natale, Santiago and Robledo are even in this movie too. But the poncho was a great reference to the earlier movies. It was a nice touch. Or maybe it was just better for the upcoming truel than the heavy jacket?
Someone already mentioned that revolver parts were often interchangeable because they were copied from Colts and Remingtons. Also, because they were produced by hand back then, fit and alignment of moving parts wasn't consistent, so Tuco looking for the parts that fit and functioned the best. The scene is so iconic that there is an homage to it in 2019's "John Wick 3."
I really hated that scene in John Wick. I loved the homage, don't get me wrong, but they spent so long making it happen and then the payoff was gone and he didn't use the gun more than a few seconds. An empty homage if you ask me.
Just to clarify the parts issue, yes you could do that. Sam Colt played mix and match with ten Colt revolvers in London in 1850 and the crowd was astonished. What Eli Wallach did is simply play mix and match with two 1851 percussion revolvers and, when he cocks the hammer, it becomes one the cartridge revolvers because they are going to fire it.
I loved it when you added the facts for this movie, there is one more fact about Lee Van Cleef's Angel Eyes, For the scene where Angel Eyes interrogates Maria the prostitute for information about Bill Carson, Lee Van Cleef was appalled by the fact that he was required to actually hit Maria (played by Rada Rassimov), complaining "I can't hit a woman." Rassimov replied with, "Don't worry. I'm an actress. Even if you slap me for real, it's no problem," but Van Cleef further stated, "I know, but I can't!" As a result, a stunt double was used for shots where Rassimov was slapped, which were intercut with shots of Van Cleef himself. As he later put it: "There are very few principles I have in life . . . one of them is I don't kick dogs, and the other one is I don't slap women in movies"
Both Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach were almost killed on this film. You mentioned those about Wallach and his near disasters. Eastwood’s is in the scene where the bridge blows up and cannons go off. Some of the debris comes back on them. You can see a rock about the size of an fist hit the sandbag about a foot and a half from Eastwood’s head. Also the $200,000 they split in 1864 would be worth over $3.5 million today.
Your comments about them not being all bad or all good are spot on. Hollywood's westerns of the time were very explicate as to good and bad, there was no ambiguity. Leone wanted his characters to be human, to be relatable. No one is totally good or totally bad.
A month of important European films would be interesting though it'd be hard to boil it down to only eight, or ten in a month with five weeks. Since Jean-Paul Belmondo just passed away you should definitely watch him in Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 nouvelle-vague classic, _Breathless (À bout de souffle)._ The next time you dip into Westerns you should watch Sam Pekinpah's 1969 masterpiece, _The Wild Bunch._
Putting a like just doesn't seem enough! I echo some of the above comments and say once Upon A Time In The West is a must watch, also The Professionals and The Wild Bunch should really be on your radar. Take care. XX
I really enjoyed and loved your video. You got the target when you say that, back then, in America they rejected this film, because Leone showed them the dark side of America face (the cruelty of the civil war, the close ups of the scarred faces of those dirty bandits, where there wasn't almost difference between the good and the bad (the good kills even more people in this film than the bad), He showed them that in the far west there weren't unstained heroes as depicted by john ford or john wayne, but they had the filthy face of Tuco or Angel Eyes. I agree with you about the character of Tuco, the only one among the three of them with deep layers and his story, I consider Tuco the main character and Wallach was amazing in that role. Once, in an interview, Wallach said that he risked his life twice in this film: in the scene of the train and in the second scene in which Clint cut the rope (he really risked to be hung). The actor playing the union captain was a famous (in Italy) theater actor named Aldo Giuffré (from Naples), he was an excellent actor and yes, you're right again: his real voice was better and warmer than the english voice they gave him in the movie. it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Giuffré. This movie is really wonderful and the music by Morricone simply amazing! Last but not least: greetings from Rome, Leone and Morricone's city.
Brilliant reaction. Your observations were superb. Now time to watch ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST. Leone said, "I want to make the best Western ever." And he did. Oh, yay, Hitchcock! And your starting with a great one. Joan Fontaine is perfect in it. Hope you'll watch NOTORIOUS as well. Ingrid Bergman's best performance IMO.
Once Upon A Time in the West was a fantastic film, but in my opinion, it doesn't surpass or even match The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. This was the greatest western ever made, hands down.
Two other Leone classics are Once Upon a Time in the West with Henry Fonda against type as a killer and Charles Bronson; and Duck, You Sucker with James Coburn.
This is my first time seeing your reaction and i gotta say you were awesome! If you like Lee Van Cleef and Clint Eastwood I would recommend For a Few Dollars More. Another Sergio Leone film that is the best spaghetti western ever made is Once Upon A Time In The West. Henry Fonda plays an evil son of a bitch in it.
Did you watch Il mio nome è Nessuno (1973) aka My Name Is Nobody. This film was directed by Tonino Valerii and based on an idea by Sergio Leone. The film stars Terence Hill and Henry Fonda.
@@monnezzapromizoulin5169 Yes, I’ve seen it. I’ve seen pretty much every spaghetti western made. I like the scene where their taking shots, throwing the glass behind them and shooting them
It doesn't fit the era of film that you feature on this channel, but on your own you should really check out Sergio's Once Upon A Time In America. It's brilliant. Just make sure you watch the European cut
@@MoviesWithMia Well, it's from 1984 and of course that's close to a 40 year old movie, but I get the sense that you're trying to stay pre 1970 with the movies you focus on. You'd love it though. A classic gangster film told over a few decades. However, as I said, DON'T watch the cut version that was originally released in the USA. You want the uncut version. Oh, it's got DeNiro!!
A lot of “Spaghetti Westerns” not made not made by Sergio Leone are not very good. Not only are Leone’s movies the absolute best of the spaghetti westerns, they are some of the best films made in any genre.
The second guy Angel Eyes killed hired him to find the guy that had the gold (and then kill the guy who told him who had it). The first guy he killed told him that the guy with the gold was going under the name of Bill Carson. Before Angel Eyes killed him, he gave Angel Eyes $1000 to kill the guy that hired him. So he goes back to the guy that hired him and tells him Bill Carsons name, then killed him. That's where you get the line "I always see a job through". He completed ever task he was hired for. Now he has knowledge of the gold and the others who know about it are dead (except Bill Carson). A few scenes later, Angel Eyes is talking to a soldier about Bill Carson. He says they are probably all dead, but if he is alive, he would be at the prison... that is how Angel Eyes got to be at the prison when the good and the ugly showed up. Ben Carson is the guy who is still alive in the stagecoach out in the desert. He tells Tuco the cemetery, and Blue Eyes the name on the grave. Just by bad luck, they get captured and taken to the prison where Angel Eyes is at. By this time Tuco has assumed Bill Carsons name, so when they call role, Tuco answers up as Bill... and that is the name Angel Eyes is waiting to hear.
Mia, I am not sure where you can still find the theatrical release of the film. It may still be available that way on VHS, but everything later includes scenes that Leone had cut and because they have been added back in are quite distracting. For instance, these scenes were added back in and you can tell that the voices of Lee, Clint and Eli are very different and it doesn't really work: Tuco arrives at his old haunt to collect three comrades Angel Eyes meets the Confederates boiling corn cobs and gets information from them Tuco and Blondie arrive at a Confederate camp after sundown Blondie counts out one through six as he meets Angel Eye's subordinates and implies that he will kill all six of them soon
Hi Mia. You were watching the extended cut of this film. I prefer it as it gives more Tuco moments and a little more Angel Eyes hunting down Bill Carson. I love this film for the amazing acting, camera/editing work and that phenomenal score by Ennio Morricone. It also has the best last gunfight of any Western I've ever seen.
Hey Mia! Hope you're planning on doing the first two, unless you've seen them already. As you probably know this one is a prequel to the first two as it's set during the Civil War, and the other two just after (at least on For A Few Dollars More it is). @ 5:45 Since you have a thing for Lee there, you should do the first movie I noticed him in, the sci-fi classic "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" (1953)! His first line is THE most memorable line in that movie to many of us science fiction fans! LOL! He does a very different, but awesome character in For A Few Dollars More. But definitely do what appears to be his 3rd movie ever in 1952 "Kansas City Confidential", and it's very good crime drama you should do someday, and he is awesome in it! @ 12:35 What you said there about "grittiness" is exactly why we liked "A Fistful of Dollars" when it came out in '64, because it had that dingy, authentic feel to it bolstered by that incredible, pure western music background score of Ennio Morricone. If you haven't seen them yet, on RUclips the The Danish National Symphony Orchestra does the theme music from all three of these Leone/Clint Eastwood movies. They're wonderful to watch to get a sense of Morricone's orchestra producing them back in the 60s. @ 23:20 LOL! You actually had it there. Just for a moment! 😁 @ 35:22 OK Mia, now that scene right there is what confirmed it to us Spaghetti Western fans back then that this was a prequel. Seeing Blondie there in that iconic poncho confirmed it! What you said there about the "Man With No Name", in fact he gets a name in the second one but you have to look closely for it. You definitely need to do the first two in order and personally my very slightly favorite of the three is For A Few Dollars More, for some reason. But really I love them all. If you haven't finished doing your western videos and want a Howard Hawks film suggestion do "Red River" (1948). ✌️😎
Ennio Morricone was a musical genius. Now that you've done this movie, you have to do Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West. It's the Gone With the Wind of westerns. Truly a masterpiece. Lee Van Cleef was a good bad guy. Truly a friendship of convenience. You need to check out Clint Eastwood's 1973 High Plains Drifter. It's very deep.
I've mixed feelings about Once Upon a Time (except for the train station scene which is brilliant)... Better: The Outlaw Josie Wales, The Wild Bunch, and a few others.
@@t0dd000 I like all of those. Once upon a time in the west was the first spaghetti western I saw and it was different than any other I had seen. I was more interested in the differences than anything else about the movie. First impressions and so on.
Well done, Tiff -- Hope you do a John Wayne month some time. If you do, I recommend Stagecoach, Red River, Angel And The Badman, Hondo, The Searchers, Fort Apache, The Quiet Man, McClintock, True Grit, In Harm's Way, and The Shootist. All John Wayne classics, but not all westerns. Donavon's Reef is a great classic starring Wayne and Lee Marvin. They also worked together on The Commancheros. Other good Lee Marvin films -- Cat Balou The Professionals, Paint Your Wagon, The Killers, Point Blank, Emperor Of The North, The Big Red One, and The Dirty Dozen.
It was called "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly" to be ironic. Not everything Blondie does is good, not everything Angel Eyes (Called Setienza in the Italian version for. Setienza means sentence or judgment) does is bad and Tucco isn't really ugly. I saw this at a drive-in in 1972. The day after my Aunt, who went with us and lived downstairs from us, had a plumber check the kitchen sink. He looked just like Tucco. When he walked in the door I thought he was Tucco.
Clint Eastwood...is all that has to be said! 🤠👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 You couldn’t trust anyone, that’s why they wore colts on their hips! My Dear, using bath over again was a common thing in the old west. They didn’t bath that often!
It is interesting that Lee Van Cleef was about to quit acting when Sergio Leone came calling and we got "Colonel Douglas Mortimer" of "For A Few Dollars More." His movie career rejuvenated, he went on to greater glory. Villain, Hero, or Shadowy Figure of Authority, he did it all/;) If you like the movie version, the Danish National Symohiny version will amaze you: ruclips.net/video/enuOArEfqGo/видео.html
A great reaction, thank you. Some of the dialog must have influenced modern actors and filmakers. In my head I can hear Arnold Schwarzenegger saying "When have to shoot, shoot! Don't talk!"
There's nothing wrong with you - Lee van Cleef was drop dead sexy and I'm in love with him. Fun fact: despite being dubbed as The Bad, Angel Eyes kills the fewest of the 3 main characters - he kills 3, one in self defense, Tuco kills 6, and Blondie kills 11 - the so-called "good". My two complaints are that Angel Eyes didn't get enough screen time. Lee van Cleef was a fine actor and deserved more. I didn't like him being killed at the end - I would have liked the money split three ways, as none of the three deserved the money any more than the others.
Hi Mia, greetings from germany. If you like Lee Van Cleef you should check out two other great spaghetti western: The big Gundown by Sergio Sollima und Death rides a horse by Gulio Questi!
Arguably the greatest of the spaghetti Westerns this epic features a compelling story memorable performances breathtaking landscapes and a haunting score that was a big badass western 97/100% certified approved ☑️ I'll be better knowing my good friend if by my side to protect me.
Just found your channel today. Definitely subscribing and I wonder if you've seen "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf" if not I hope u do a reaction. You're awesome 👍💯
Hi. I'm about 10 minutes in. I want to suggest that you go back to placing " first time watching" in your title. Or rewatching. I really want to know before I click which one I'm going to see.. And if 1st time don't do any research until after you watch the movie. Show yourself watching the movie first with little information then add on the extras at the end. I believe most people who watch reaction videos mostly enjoy the "first time" reactions along with the reactor knowing as little as possible. That could be just me. Do a poll. If you noticed, your view count is mostly higher when marked 1st time. Also, looks like your view count went down when you stopped putting those in the title. I love your research. But until this moment, I thought you had already seen all the movies you are posting. But you're comments are indicating this is movie new to you. So. I'm feeling confused. Lol
Miss I Hope ya Don't mind me recommending A good western but if ya want to see A Really good one Watch Sam Peckinpah's the wild bunch it came out the same year butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid did and if Ya can't watch the wild bunch try Watching ride the high country it's Pretty good as well and Ya have A good day
One of the best western reactions here Ive seen on youtube by you Mia. The 3 Leone movies with Clint Eastwood must be the 3 best western movies ever done,spaggetti movie,ordinary western or whatever. John Wayne fans may say whatever they want,this is as high as it goes concerning cinema-westerns. Its just way above everything else,these 3 movies. The the music in these 3 movies is also way beyond any other western movie music ever done. Morricone is the man behind that music. Masterful.
John Wayne fans may say the what??? 🤦♂️ you better go and watch The Searchers... as much as I love this trilogy and Leone, he's no John Ford, ask Orson Welles
nice reaction, I recommend that you watch Once Upon A Time In The West, it is Leone's another western film masterpiece, starring Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda
You really are a film expert. You understood EVERYTHING they were trying to say with this film masterpiece. So impressed with your ability to grasp every nuance of this film. The directing by Leone, the set designs, and of course the unmatched music made by Ennio Morricone. You raved about all three and were absolutely right to.
I first saw this film in the early 1970’s as a kid. My dad and uncle introduced me to this movie, and I’ve watched this particular spaghetti western dozens of times. It’s literally in my top 5 favorite films of all time.
I was so impressed with how you mentioned the grit and reality of the sets. Before the first film of this trilogy, all famous westerns were so vanilla and all used the same system (pretty much). These 3 films changed the Western genre forever.
Also your recognition of Eli Wallace’s acting in this film, you’re 100% correct, it was outstanding, so much so, he should have been nominated for an academy award. People raved about his performance.
Clint, of course, was perfect in the no name roles, and became a huge star because of them. As an impressionable youngster, I of course became a huge fan of his. One of the coolest dudes ever.
Your reaction and knowledge of film creation is extremely impressive. You understood everything about this film, I’ve yet to see a reaction to this film from others that gets this film as well as you did.
Very few people catches the importance and the beauty of the scene between Tuco and his brother, the way Leone is able to transform Tuco from a dastardly scoundrel to a sympathetic anti hero in just few minutes is amazing.
And the acting performances that sold it. Real character insight.
she's missing something! there was NO agreement between eastwood and the fugatives he turned in for the reward money! these people were eastwood's PRISONERS! they had no choice! would you agree to something like that?
eastwood's character is called an "anti-hero!" he may do good things on occasion but he does them for the wrong reasons! and he usually does them in a corrupt and violent way. that's an anti-hero.
Well said mate!
I love the scene after that between Tuco and Blondie. Tuco says his brother is crazy about him, Blondie knows Tuco is lying. Tuco knows that Blondie knows. They have a cigar and move on.
Because almost all of those "first reaction" like this has seen the movie before and prepered a script...
Wow, I never once made the parallel between Blondie, "The Man With No Name," and the grave marked "Unknown" with the gold in it until you mentioned it. That totally makes me see that scene and now symbolism much differently now :)
Angel Eyes learns about the Confederate gold by accident when interrogating the family man before he kills him. The guy that hired Angel Eyes didn’t tell him why he wanted to find the soldier who was using Bill Carson’s name. This is my favorite western, next is The Big Country (1958) with Gregory Peck. Tuco is my favorite movie character of all time. Great movie reaction!
Ennio Morricone for the music!!! There are many greats, but there is only one Morricone.
Lee van Cleef IS handsome! I agree! You can see him in a nice large role again, opposite Eastwood in "A Few Dollars More", the second of this informal trilogy.
Eli Wallach confessed to Leone that he didn't know anything about guns and didn't know what to do in the gun shop scene. Leone told him to just improvise, which, as you see, Wallach did.
Angel Eyes can be classified as "bad" since he has intelligence, forethought, and devotes himself to greed, self-interest and disregard for life. Blondie is, by comparison, good, since he also has intelligence, forethought, and doesn't kill unless necessary. His morals are questionable, at least at the start, since he uses Tuco to scam, but his experiences throughout this story (listening in on the Tuco-brother scene, the entire nightmare of the captain and the bridge, including the young dying soldier) makes an impression on him, and by the end of the movie, he might actually be good. Tuco is an animal, a creature without morals, who, as you say, doesn't always think ahead. He's primarily instinct, not stupid, but not a chess player, like Angel Eyes and Blondie. He can and does learn, but he can't afford to have anything touch his heart.
The tragic captain is Italian actor, Aldo Giuffrè. When I first watched this movie, long ago, all chopped up on a tv broadcast, and probably under fifteen years old, this character made me cry, and this section along with the Tuco-Pablo scene, remain, for me, one of the strongest and most "important" parts of the movie.
But Blondie does care about more than the money. Remember his quiet observation during the battle: "I've never seen so many men wasted so badly." I feel this carnage really affects him. And he knows and feels enough to let the captain know what's going to happen - the captain asks the doctor to keep him alive for a bit because "he's expecting good news." He dies in peace, with that nightmare bridge that destroyed his life and conscience.
"Rebecca"! Fantastic - wonderful cast. I must point out that, in addition the the fabulous Olivier and the lovely, sensitive Joan Fontaine (sister to Olivia de Havilland), the supporting cast priceless: Judith Anderson is Mrs. Danvers. She was a world-class theater actress, famous for playing Medea like no one else. You will see George Sanders in one of his signature charm and smarm roles. Gladys Cooper has a small role here, as does Nigel Bruce. Bruce became famous as Watson to Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes, and Gladys Cooper made a career out of playing icily classy antagonists. One of my favorites for her is as the mother in "Now, Voyager", with Bette Davis.
Eli Wallach was fantastic in this.
My #1 personal favorite of all time western! A #1 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍
Nice job re-capping the background to the film. I didn't know quite a bit of that. Thanks.
I saw this movie when it came out with my parents at the Drive-in. So glad you did it, it's my favorite. For you amusement you should watch the Danish National Symphony do The Good the Bad and the Ugly. And other of Clint's classic westerns. Metallica also uses the song at the opening of a concert in Moscow 1991 Enter Sandman. And Great Reaction I Really Enjoyed It.
It is a great movie. I watch it once a year
To see another equally well shot and written and scored western by Mr. Sergio Leone, the next time you are in the mood for a great western, I would recommend Once Upon A Time In The West. It is not as well known as The Good, The bad and The Ugly, but the movie is every bit it's equal. And at some points, may be even better. The first ten minutes are excellent, and the dialogue is as sparse as can be, but with direction that makes every moment seem as if it may be the last moment, and the three hour film is just getting started. The stars: Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Charles Bronson and Jason Robards, with many great character actors spread throughout. As they say, a Tour-De-Force.
Word, just posted a lil earlier, the exact same recommendation. 😊
1st Eli Wallach is the Bandit Chieftain in Magnificent Seven.
2nd. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST!!;
Just found your channel and love your reactions. Like the classic from way back. Two of my favorites the 1939 of mice and men, and 1962 to kill a mockingbird
Lee van Cleef has kinda an unique face
29:17, this is 9 years after Kubrick's Paths of Glory..... Recommend.
Greatest Western of all time in my opinion!
Lee Van Cleef aka Angel Eyes you've seen before playing the parts of one of the side kicks of Liberty Valance.
The only problem I had with this movie, and yes I saw it when it came out in 1966, was the Firearms are post Civil War. They are using 1870 Colt and Remington Conversions to cartridge and 1873 Colts and 1873 Winchester Rifles. The Civil War was from 1861 to 1865 and fought with muzzle loading rifled muskets and cap and ball revovers. The Only Cartridge Guns at that time period was the 7 shot Spencer Repeating Carbines, used by Northern Cavalry near the end of the War, and some units that bought it themselves (Wilder's Brigade in the Chattanooga Campaign and Atlanta Campaign) and the 16 shot Henry Repeating Rifles, that was not used by the North. At the end of the War, Winchester bought out Henry Arms, and reissue it as the 1866 Winchester ( Yellow Boy ) and then changed the receiver to steel for the 1873 Winchester, used in this movie...
In one of the scenes where Tuco was rescued by Clint, the horse unexpectedly bolted and didn't stop running out of the village. Eli Wallach was sitting on the back of the galloping horse with his hands tied behind his back.
Love this movie. Eli Wallach stole the show!!
Ever heard of an "Acid Western"? If not, I highly reccomend checking our the work of Alejandro Jodorowsky.. especially his film "El Topo" it's a total mindfreak... a film you cant unsee. It's like if you crossed Leone, Kubrick, and a heavy dose of David Lynch weirdness.
my top 5 westerns
1. The good, the bad and the ugly
2. Unforgiven
3. Once upon a time in the west
4. The magnificent 7
5. The Young Guns movies
!? 14:00 ... he's not 'letting' anything, he is powerless, this is no super hero.... Tuco holds the gun 🌹
Oh, please don’t compare this to, “GWTW.” Hollywood at the time, mid 1960’s did not think highly of “Spaghetti Westerns,” simply they were the competition. They were considered “Revisionist Westerners.” Old school American Directors like Ford, Hathaway, and a lot of the rest, hated them… Including good old John Wayne. Later, Hollywood did catch up. With “Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid,” “The Wild Bunch.” By the 1970’s you were allowed to show more Blood in a scene, and portray it more graphic. The Ratings system caught up somewhat. The reason for a different look is it filmed in 16mm Techinscope. Really, just to save money. And Luther parts of the world look and photograph different on film. Most of these were filmed in Spain, the Italian Actors cast were Stars in Italy at the time, also.
It's probably too late to recommend, but The Skin Game was an interesting film. It was a western con artist film involving slavery, starring James Garner. It might be worth checking out later.
Sergio Leone is a master film-maker! Too bad he only made a handful of movies.
If you are interested in knowing more astonishing details and fun facts about this movie, I suggest you watch the documentary entitled "Sad Hill Unearthed".
ruclips.net/video/BrEQPe7l6zU/видео.html
I'm lucky enough to have seen this the first time on one of Ottawa's largest movie screens.
I despise most Westerns, especially the jingoistic, racist tripe that we got from the earliest days of Silent Cinema. But this movie, plus "Tombstone" are masterpieces and highly entertaining, from start to finish.
Brilliant reaction. You HAVE to react to Leone's other masterpiece: "Once Upon a Time in the West".
That will deffo blow you away.
The score is of course by the master himself: Enio Morricone.
Keep doing what you do, cos you're really good at it. 👌👍🙌😎
Watch Queimada by Gillo Pontecorvo, 1969, ost by Morricone ;)
ah-yee-ah-ee-ya, wah wah wah...
If you're in for a good laugh, check out _They Call Me Trinity_ starring Bud Spencer and Terence Hill. It's the funniest spaghetti western ever made.
When you have to shoot, shoot! Don't talk!
Greatest movie of all time. Beats godfather. Hands down the greatest movie ever. Prove me wrong.
The term "spaghetti western" was invented out of despise for italians' western movies. Just think about that: Ennio Morricone wrote some of the most beautiful & iconic music, for decades, but HE NEVER WON A OSCAR. Never. Just at the very end of his life Hollywood, in order to prevent this accusation, gave him a Oscar, like to say "you never won one, but we give this as a gift to you". When the good, the bad & the ugly came out the critic described It as a very bad movie. You know why? As Americans, THEY COULD NOT ACCEPT THE FACT THAT ITALIANS OF THE "SPAGHETTI WESTERN" WERE ABLE TO DO SUCH GREAT WESTERN MOVIES! They didn't accept that: the same name "spaghetti western" show what they expected from It: a 3rd level bad copy of US' masterpieces, so when they saw these great masterpieces by 2 genius as Leone & Morricone & the success they had, they decided to slander the movie, trying to put It down. I am Italian, & i learnt many anecdotes & details about this situation from Ennio Morricone himself, who also admittes he was FURIOS when, after a whole life of musical masterpieces, he got almost out of pity one Oscar just before his death. But the good thing Is that Ennio Morricone's music will live for centuries, like the ones from Vivaldi, Tartini, Giuseppe Verdi, Rossellini, Paganini & the other musical italian genius of the past; even the so called "spaghetti western" with its great masterworks is even now, here in Europe & i am sure in many other parts of the World, loved and watched more than John Wayne's movies (i watched one, It was boring & lifeless) or other americans' western.
Ennio Morricone was a genius composer!
He wrote the first Western theme tune that made Number One in the UK charts - sadly I can't remember which it was, just that it was.
I feel sorry for Mia... every hot guy she likes ends up getting killed or almost killed.
My advice: If Mia likes you, run!
Haha!! Love this 😂❤️
Omggg lol
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The 'other two' in the series aren't bad either. And in one, you get to see Lee Van Cleef as the 'good guy', Col. Mortimer. And the music is great as well for the showdown.
' Death Rides a Horse " also.
And if you like Col. Mortimer, and wonder what it might be like if he had his own film, the next step is "Sabata".
The classic Western film, all three lead actors are fantastic and the film score is one of the best ever made. The scene where Tuco is racing around the cemetery is accompanied by Morircone's classic theme 'Ecstacy of Gold'.
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra performed a concert of Morricone's music including all three Spaghetti Western themes, well worth a look.
That was fantastic 👏!!
And since you mention it, here it is:
ruclips.net/video/enuOArEfqGo/видео.html
Trivia note: a stunt double's hand is seen in the slapping scene because Lee Van Cleef could not bring himself to hit a woman.
I have to rewatch it now! Great trivia fact!!
That makes me love him more ❤️❤️❤️
Mia: "I did not see this coming!"
Tuco: "Neither did I!"
Tuco: "One bastard goes in, another one comes out."
The reason why the noose was needed at the end for Tuco is because Blondie knew he couldn't trust Tuco to simply separate and go his own way. Blondie knew Tuco would easily shoot him in the back to take all 200,000 in gold for himself, so he had to devise a way to make sure he was far enough away and Tuco was at a disadvantage with no horse to pursue him.
Wow I hadn’t even thought of it that way!
I've seen this movie in theaters as a kid in the '70s, and I haven't thought of that, but bare in mind that Tuco had no bullets.
@@themorn2112 he could have taken Angel Eyes gun and ammo.
@@lewisner exactly.
You are are the one. Once again... If i have already seen it , you make it better the second time with your review and reactions. Then you pull out the best of the ones I haven't seen. Love it ❤.
The poncho Eastwood gets in this movie (near the end) becomes iconic apparel in the other two movies from A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More, the other 2 parts of the Man with No Name series.
So this is a prequel to the other two movies?
I'm sorry, but I'm on Team Not-a-Trilogy, so I have this need to point this out. Nothing against you personally.
The idea of the "man with no name" was made up by the American distributers when they sold the three movies brutally cut as a trilogy. Eastwood plays three different characters in the movies; Joe, Monco and Blondie, just as Lee Van Cleef and Gian Maria Volontè plays different characters in their respective two movies of the three.
Sergio Leone used the same actors for similar roles in different movies. In the first two movies in this "trilogy" Joseph Egger, Nazzareno Natale, Enrique Santiago, Lorenzo Robledo and Edmondo Tieghi play smaller roles, but not the same characters.
Natale, Santiago and Robledo are even in this movie too.
But the poncho was a great reference to the earlier movies. It was a nice touch. Or maybe it was just better for the upcoming truel than the heavy jacket?
A trilogy in reverse.
Someone already mentioned that revolver parts were often interchangeable because they were copied from Colts and Remingtons. Also, because they were produced by hand back then, fit and alignment of moving parts wasn't consistent, so Tuco looking for the parts that fit and functioned the best. The scene is so iconic that there is an homage to it in 2019's "John Wick 3."
I really hated that scene in John Wick. I loved the homage, don't get me wrong, but they spent so long making it happen and then the payoff was gone and he didn't use the gun more than a few seconds. An empty homage if you ask me.
Just to clarify the parts issue, yes you could do that. Sam Colt played mix and match with ten Colt revolvers in London in 1850 and the crowd was astonished. What Eli Wallach did is simply play mix and match with two 1851 percussion revolvers and, when he cocks the hammer, it becomes one the cartridge revolvers because they are going to fire it.
I loved it when you added the facts for this movie, there is one more fact about Lee Van Cleef's Angel Eyes, For the scene where Angel Eyes interrogates Maria the prostitute for information about Bill Carson, Lee Van Cleef was appalled by the fact that he was required to actually hit Maria (played by Rada Rassimov), complaining "I can't hit a woman." Rassimov replied with, "Don't worry. I'm an actress. Even if you slap me for real, it's no problem," but Van Cleef further stated, "I know, but I can't!" As a result, a stunt double was used for shots where Rassimov was slapped, which were intercut with shots of Van Cleef himself. As he later put it: "There are very few principles I have in life . . . one of them is I don't kick dogs, and the other one is I don't slap women in movies"
Just for fun listen to the Danish national symphony orchestra do the theme song
Yes if you liked the music. It would make a good reaction video also:
ruclips.net/video/enuOArEfqGo/видео.html
Lee Van Cleef is excellent, and never better than in this film. I think it's great that you're fangirling over him.
Both Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach were almost killed on this film. You mentioned those about Wallach and his near disasters. Eastwood’s is in the scene where the bridge blows up and cannons go off. Some of the debris comes back on them. You can see a rock about the size of an fist hit the sandbag about a foot and a half from Eastwood’s head. Also the $200,000 they split in 1864 would be worth over $3.5 million today.
I think Wallach was almost injured by the shovel thrown at him.
My favorite music in this film will always be the score when Tuco enters the graveyard. It is phenomenal.
Your comments about them not being all bad or all good are spot on.
Hollywood's westerns of the time were very explicate as to good and bad, there was no ambiguity. Leone wanted his characters to be human, to be relatable. No one is totally good or totally bad.
Mia, it is time to stop liking the good looking guys (always dying) and go for the ugly ones instead 😁
A month of important European films would be interesting though it'd be hard to boil it down to only eight, or ten in a month with five weeks.
Since Jean-Paul Belmondo just passed away you should definitely watch him in Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 nouvelle-vague classic, _Breathless (À bout de souffle)._
The next time you dip into Westerns you should watch Sam Pekinpah's 1969 masterpiece, _The Wild Bunch._
Putting a like just doesn't seem enough!
I echo some of the above comments and say once Upon A Time In The West is a must watch, also The Professionals and The Wild Bunch should really be on your radar. Take care. XX
The man who plays the nothern capitain is Aldo Giuffrè, a famous theatrical actor from Naples, he died in 2010.
I really enjoyed and loved your video. You got the target when you say that, back then, in America they rejected this film, because Leone showed them the dark side of America face (the cruelty of the civil war, the close ups of the scarred faces of those dirty bandits, where there wasn't almost difference between the good and the bad (the good kills even more people in this film than the bad), He showed them that in the far west there weren't unstained heroes as depicted by john ford or john wayne, but they had the filthy face of Tuco or Angel Eyes. I agree with you about the character of Tuco, the only one among the three of them with deep layers and his story, I consider Tuco the main character and Wallach was amazing in that role. Once, in an interview, Wallach said that he risked his life twice in this film: in the scene of the train and in the second scene in which Clint cut the rope (he really risked to be hung). The actor playing the union captain was a famous (in Italy) theater actor named Aldo Giuffré (from Naples), he was an excellent actor and yes, you're right again: his real voice was better and warmer than the english voice they gave him in the movie. it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Giuffré. This movie is really wonderful and the music by Morricone simply amazing! Last but not least: greetings from Rome, Leone and Morricone's city.
Wow, glad to see you covering this, and makes me wish why would be doing more. Can’t wait to see you cover the Hitchcock films next time.
Brilliant reaction. Your observations were superb. Now time to watch ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST. Leone said, "I want to make the best Western ever." And he did.
Oh, yay, Hitchcock! And your starting with a great one. Joan Fontaine is perfect in it. Hope you'll watch NOTORIOUS as well. Ingrid Bergman's best performance IMO.
OUATITW is the no1 in my book.
Also, " The Outfitters " another Ennio Morricone soundtrack.
Once Upon A Time in the West was a fantastic film, but in my opinion, it doesn't surpass or even match The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. This was the greatest western ever made, hands down.
Two other Leone classics are Once Upon a Time in the West with Henry Fonda against type as a killer and Charles Bronson; and Duck, You Sucker with James Coburn.
Tuco, Angel Eyes and Blondie are 3 shades of grey 😆
This is my first time seeing your reaction and i gotta say you were awesome! If you like Lee Van Cleef and Clint Eastwood I would recommend For a Few Dollars More. Another Sergio Leone film that is the best spaghetti western ever made is Once Upon A Time In The West. Henry Fonda plays an evil son of a bitch in it.
Did you watch Il mio nome è Nessuno (1973) aka My Name Is Nobody. This film was directed by Tonino Valerii and based on an idea by Sergio Leone.
The film stars Terence Hill and Henry Fonda.
@@monnezzapromizoulin5169 Yes, I’ve seen it. I’ve seen pretty much every spaghetti western made. I like the scene where their taking shots, throwing the glass behind them and shooting them
It doesn't fit the era of film that you feature on this channel, but on your own you should really check out Sergio's Once Upon A Time In America. It's brilliant. Just make sure you watch the European cut
What era of film would say it falls into?
@@MoviesWithMia Well, it's from 1984 and of course that's close to a 40 year old movie, but I get the sense that you're trying to stay pre 1970 with the movies you focus on. You'd love it though. A classic gangster film told over a few decades. However, as I said, DON'T watch the cut version that was originally released in the USA. You want the uncut version. Oh, it's got DeNiro!!
@@MoviesWithMia just a heads up, that movie has an uncomfortably long rape scene.
A lot of “Spaghetti Westerns” not made not made by Sergio Leone are not very good. Not only are Leone’s movies the absolute best of the spaghetti westerns, they are some of the best films made in any genre.
Thanks and I'm looking forward to watch Rebecca in the first film in the Alfred Hitchcock mouth I'm so excited about
One of my favorite westerns, Tuco was such a character😂😂
Oh you missed the best part when Zuko said at the end. “Blondie you know where you are just another son of a…”
They cast Eli Walach because he played the Mexican bandit so great in The Magnificent Seven.
Well done. You get it. A hug from Italy. Go on with the blessing of my people
Asian film makers were way ahead of times as well, like kurosawa, king hu, Chang Che jus to mention a couple.
The second guy Angel Eyes killed hired him to find the guy that had the gold (and then kill the guy who told him who had it). The first guy he killed told him that the guy with the gold was going under the name of Bill Carson. Before Angel Eyes killed him, he gave Angel Eyes $1000 to kill the guy that hired him. So he goes back to the guy that hired him and tells him Bill Carsons name, then killed him. That's where you get the line "I always see a job through". He completed ever task he was hired for. Now he has knowledge of the gold and the others who know about it are dead (except Bill Carson).
A few scenes later, Angel Eyes is talking to a soldier about Bill Carson. He says they are probably all dead, but if he is alive, he would be at the prison... that is how Angel Eyes got to be at the prison when the good and the ugly showed up.
Ben Carson is the guy who is still alive in the stagecoach out in the desert. He tells Tuco the cemetery, and Blue Eyes the name on the grave. Just by bad luck, they get captured and taken to the prison where Angel Eyes is at. By this time Tuco has assumed Bill Carsons name, so when they call role, Tuco answers up as Bill... and that is the name Angel Eyes is waiting to hear.
Mia, I am not sure where you can still find the theatrical release of the film. It may still be available that way on VHS, but everything later includes scenes that Leone had cut and because they have been added back in are quite distracting. For instance, these scenes were added back in and you can tell that the voices of Lee, Clint and Eli are very different and it doesn't really work:
Tuco arrives at his old haunt to collect three comrades
Angel Eyes meets the Confederates boiling corn cobs and gets information from them
Tuco and Blondie arrive at a Confederate camp after sundown
Blondie counts out one through six as he meets Angel Eye's subordinates and implies that he will kill all six of them soon
Well, the corn cobs scene explained Angel Eyes' presence in the POW camp.
Everytime i watch this one, it gets better. I still remember how amazed i was when i first watched.
I wanna see you reacting to this film
@@jackprescott9652 haha, sadly, not only i'm shy but also, english is not my first language so i'm not having a reaction channel any time soon. haha
@@celinhabr1 Where are you from?
@@jackprescott9652 Brazil. :)
@@celinhabr1 hope someday i could visit your big amazing badass Country.
Hi Mia. You were watching the extended cut of this film. I prefer it as it gives more Tuco moments and a little more Angel Eyes hunting down Bill Carson. I love this film for the amazing acting, camera/editing work and that phenomenal score by Ennio Morricone. It also has the best last gunfight of any Western I've ever seen.
Hey Mia! Hope you're planning on doing the first two, unless you've seen them already. As you probably know this one is a prequel to the first two as it's set during the Civil War, and the other two just after (at least on For A Few Dollars More it is). @ 5:45 Since you have a thing for Lee there, you should do the first movie I noticed him in, the sci-fi classic "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" (1953)! His first line is THE most memorable line in that movie to many of us science fiction fans! LOL! He does a very different, but awesome character in For A Few Dollars More. But definitely do what appears to be his 3rd movie ever in 1952 "Kansas City Confidential", and it's very good crime drama you should do someday, and he is awesome in it! @ 12:35 What you said there about "grittiness" is exactly why we liked "A Fistful of Dollars" when it came out in '64, because it had that dingy, authentic feel to it bolstered by that incredible, pure western music background score of Ennio Morricone. If you haven't seen them yet, on RUclips the The Danish National Symphony Orchestra does the theme music from all three of these Leone/Clint Eastwood movies. They're wonderful to watch to get a sense of Morricone's orchestra producing them back in the 60s. @ 23:20 LOL! You actually had it there. Just for a moment! 😁 @ 35:22 OK Mia, now that scene right there is what confirmed it to us Spaghetti Western fans back then that this was a prequel. Seeing Blondie there in that iconic poncho confirmed it! What you said there about the "Man With No Name", in fact he gets a name in the second one but you have to look closely for it. You definitely need to do the first two in order and personally my very slightly favorite of the three is For A Few Dollars More, for some reason. But really I love them all. If you haven't finished doing your western videos and want a Howard Hawks film suggestion do "Red River" (1948). ✌️😎
Ennio Morricone was a musical genius. Now that you've done this movie, you have to do Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West. It's the Gone With the Wind of westerns. Truly a masterpiece. Lee Van Cleef was a good bad guy. Truly a friendship of convenience. You need to check out Clint Eastwood's 1973 High Plains Drifter. It's very deep.
Once upon a time in the west is one of my favorites. Good suggestion. On both films. High Plains Drifter is a keeper.
I've mixed feelings about Once Upon a Time (except for the train station scene which is brilliant)...
Better: The Outlaw Josie Wales, The Wild Bunch, and a few others.
@@t0dd000 I like all of those. Once upon a time in the west was the first spaghetti western I saw and it was different than any other I had seen. I was more interested in the differences than anything else about the movie. First impressions and so on.
I paid Angel Eyes $500 to take you out for dinner. You know how good a professional he is, so get ready! ;)
Ooh, I’m sure it’ll be one helluva time 😉
Well done, Tiff -- Hope you do a John Wayne month some time. If you do, I recommend Stagecoach, Red River, Angel And The Badman, Hondo, The Searchers, Fort Apache, The Quiet Man, McClintock, True Grit, In Harm's Way, and The Shootist. All John Wayne classics, but not all westerns. Donavon's Reef is a great classic starring Wayne and Lee Marvin. They also worked together on The Commancheros. Other good Lee Marvin films -- Cat Balou The Professionals, Paint Your Wagon, The Killers, Point Blank, Emperor Of The North, The Big Red One, and The Dirty Dozen.
Yes!! I definitely want to explore more of John Wayne’s films!!
When you get the chance check out the great race with Tony Curtis
I so love Eli in this movie. I think he gave the best performance by far.
He was a great character actor.
Before I knew who Eli was, I thought he was a real Mexican actor.
He has a special place in my heart for playing Tuco, just like Lee van Cleef for his performance in the second movie.
It was called "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly" to be ironic. Not everything Blondie does is good, not everything Angel Eyes (Called Setienza in the Italian version for. Setienza means sentence or judgment) does is bad and Tucco isn't really ugly.
I saw this at a drive-in in 1972. The day after my Aunt, who went with us and lived downstairs from us, had a plumber check the kitchen sink. He looked just like Tucco. When he walked in the door I thought he was Tucco.
Clint Eastwood...is all that has to be said! 🤠👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 You couldn’t trust anyone, that’s why they wore colts on their hips! My Dear, using bath over again was a common thing in the old west. They didn’t bath that often!
It is interesting that Lee Van Cleef was about to quit acting when Sergio Leone came calling and we got "Colonel Douglas Mortimer" of "For A Few Dollars More." His movie career rejuvenated, he went on to greater glory. Villain, Hero, or Shadowy Figure of Authority, he did it all/;) If you like the movie version, the Danish National Symohiny version will amaze you: ruclips.net/video/enuOArEfqGo/видео.html
A great reaction, thank you. Some of the dialog must have influenced modern actors and filmakers. In my head I can hear Arnold Schwarzenegger saying "When have to shoot, shoot! Don't talk!"
There's nothing wrong with you - Lee van Cleef was drop dead sexy and I'm in love with him. Fun fact: despite being dubbed as The Bad, Angel Eyes kills the fewest of the 3 main characters - he kills 3, one in self defense, Tuco kills 6, and Blondie kills 11 - the so-called "good".
My two complaints are that Angel Eyes didn't get enough screen time. Lee van Cleef was a fine actor and deserved more. I didn't like him being killed at the end - I would have liked the money split three ways, as none of the three deserved the money any more than the others.
Just think 🤔 an American style western, directed by an Italian with American actors and filmed 🎥 in Spain 🇪🇸 😀 go figure 🤔 😀.
Hi Mia, greetings from germany. If you like Lee Van Cleef you should check out two other great spaghetti western: The big Gundown by Sergio Sollima und Death rides a horse by Gulio Questi!
Arguably the greatest of the spaghetti Westerns this epic features a compelling story memorable performances breathtaking landscapes and a haunting score that was a big badass western 97/100% certified approved ☑️ I'll be better knowing my good friend if by my side to protect me.
Just found your channel today. Definitely subscribing and I wonder if you've seen "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf" if not I hope u do a reaction. You're awesome 👍💯
Also Dirty Harry - the modern western series.
Hi. I'm about 10 minutes in. I want to suggest that you go back to placing " first time watching" in your title. Or rewatching. I really want to know before I click which one I'm going to see.. And if 1st time don't do any research until after you watch the movie. Show yourself watching the movie first with little information then add on the extras at the end. I believe most people who watch reaction videos mostly enjoy the "first time" reactions along with the reactor knowing as little as possible. That could be just me. Do a poll. If you noticed, your view count is mostly higher when marked 1st time. Also, looks like your view count went down when you stopped putting those in the title. I love your research. But until this moment, I thought you had already seen all the movies you are posting. But you're comments are indicating this is movie new to you. So. I'm feeling confused. Lol
Miss I Hope ya Don't mind me recommending A good western but if ya want to see A Really good one Watch Sam Peckinpah's the wild bunch it came out the same year butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid did and if Ya can't watch the wild bunch try Watching ride the high country it's Pretty good as well and Ya have A good day
The score is just amazing. You should react to the Danish Symphony doing it if you haven't seen it.
Now time to check the video The Good, the bad and the Ugly - The Danish National Symphony Orchestra. You are going to enjoy it!
One of the best western reactions here Ive seen on youtube by you Mia. The 3 Leone movies with Clint Eastwood must be the 3 best western movies ever done,spaggetti movie,ordinary western or whatever. John Wayne fans may say whatever they want,this is as high as it goes concerning cinema-westerns. Its just way above everything else,these 3 movies. The the music in these 3 movies is also way beyond any other western movie music ever done. Morricone is the man behind that music. Masterful.
John Wayne fans may say the what??? 🤦♂️
you better go and watch The Searchers... as much as I love this trilogy and Leone, he's no John Ford, ask Orson Welles
@@JulioLeonFandinho Leone The Genius of western.
@@JulioLeonFandinho Ele não é Ford mesmo, é Leone, o maior de todos.
@@JulioLeonFandinho The ratings speak for themselves. Nothing John Wayne ever made reaches the heights of The Dollars Trilogy. Period.
nice reaction, I recommend that you watch Once Upon A Time In The West, it is Leone's another western film masterpiece, starring Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda
you mean seeing thru the eyes of someone that actually knows history and isnt brainwashed like most .. modern americans
Lee Van Cleef is what happens when you splice human and hawk DNA.
Yes!! I can see it!!
Compare the intro scene of Lee Van Cleef to the one of Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds. Very similar, but different takes.
Please watch The Good The Bad and the weird
Haha! Mia's got her priorities straight. Reacting to a dying man's death scene by saying "OMG! He's so gorgeous!" (Which he is, btw.)