@@awkwardashleigh Jim carrey was nick named rubber face for a reason because he could morph his face into Clint Eastwood and jack Nickolason played the joker and little Joe cartwright smiled and so on .the scene when outsmarted the bad guys is my favorite thing in this movie and it sequel and why Marty mcfly from back to the future would reference this movie in the 3th movie .spongebob did a western about spongebob's grand father in 1890 sponge buck .
@@awkwardashleigh you must see Jim verny Ernest movies and if you do x men do 1 2, and 3 and some of the comic books costume are leather and some spandex and some special materials just like real life .
Sergio Leone made movies like they were operas, setting aside minutes at a time to just let the composer go nuts in the equivalent of an epic aria. And I'm so thankful he and Ennio Morricone found each other, and created a partnership on the same level as Spielberg and Williams.
And he was heavily influenced by comic books. In fact, most Italian directors of that time were influenced by this aesthetic. This explains the shots of the eyes, as in "Tex"
Little known fact: the actor who played Tuco (Eli Wallach) knew nothing about guns. So, in the scene where he goes into the store and picks out a gun was just him improvising. He was told by the director (Sergio Leone) to just play with the guns and make it look like he knew what he was doing. His improvisation made that scene one of the more memorable ones in movie history.
Omg…. I wouldn’t say I was a “gun expert” but dad and I were both snipers in the military. This gun scene always fascinated be because I didn’t think any weapons were interchangeable, but as old revolvers went, what did I know! Then if this scene was pure improvisation, it makes sense but is also highly entertaining!
Almost all the extras outside the three main characters were speaking Italian. So all of those lines are dubbed. As someone else mentioned, this is why these were called "spaghetti westerns" vs the traditional John Wayne type westerns from the 50s where white hat/outfit meant good guy and black hat/outfit meant bad guy. You hit the nail right on the head when you asked if Clint Eastwood was really the good guy, because in this movie it's not black and white for who's good and who's bad. This was the dramatic change from the traditional western.
@@awkwardashleigh This is the Italian original cut , its longer than theatrical release was in elsewhere , they cut out some interactions that did nothing for the plot . They did get all original actors , whom were alive , to do the dubbing , thats why you can hear what scenes were added , Lee Van Cleef was dubbed by voice actor . Sergio Leone , gave actors scrip written in their native languages , then you just dub all lines needed to what ever market you sell the movie . Also that music in end scene was playing there on set , because Sergio had music made before he started filming . That end scene graveyard was build by Spanish military , just for this movie , the middle circle is still there .
Fun Fact, the skeleton in the grave is a real skeleton. An actress had it in her will that she would keep doing movies after she died, and it was cheaper than getting fake bones.
Hundreds of people leave their corpses to science after their deaths. Most are buried after but some had their skeletons used for display. In the movie "Poltergeist," Spielberg used real skeletons because they were the cheapest to order. Nothing like the plastic realistic looking skeletons we have today. Have I told you about the original crash test dummies? Uhuh. They actually used deceased people to test what force it would take to break an arm, a leg or a spine.
Also the scene with Tuko picking out a pistol. He was searching for the smoothest cylinder timing. It wasn't uncommon for people to put more accurate barrels on pistols that had better actions.
"This town ain't big enough for the both of us" is one of those quotes that has gained a life in the the lexicon of westerns. It was first said in The Western Code (1932) but has been said by many characters including Woody in Toy Story.
The Virginian (1929) had a similar line "This world isn't big enough for the both of us!". It became such a western trope and was even used in Bugs Bunny plays on a western, but really didn't appear in any western films outside those two movies. For some reason writers and people latched on to it as the definitive thing one would say at a dual scene.
Fun Fact: 10:16 Lee Van Cleef, the actor for Angel Eyes, actually refused to do the scenes where his character hits her ,even if it is pretend ,so they had to get a double to do it and used camera tricks to hide his face
I saw this at my grandmother's house as a child, and I remember her fangirling over Lee Van Cleef. Clint Eastwood wasn't really a big name at the time, I guess.
In one of Ronald Reagan's rare villain roles, in "The Killers", he also had to hit a woman. Supposedly he hated that movie and that scene particularly.
There are so many ways to detect that Tuco is the true protagonist. One is that he’s the one that takes the time to treat himself. You never really see the other two just indulge in basic human behavior. Angel Eyes can’t even eat food unless he’s doing it to be intimidating but Tuco makes time for a nice bath with salts right in the middle of a military route.
One of my favourite comments on a different reaction channel for this movie was someone saying "As a Mexican, the actor who plays Tuco is an honourary Mexican for this movie." I think about that comment all the time with this film now 😂
Eli Wallach in the role of Tuco is fantastic in this movie. Another great western from that era is "Once upon a time in the west" with Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda
*The Magnificent Seven* is a magnificent western that doesn't get acknowledged enough these days. Yul Brynner is iconic in the movie, as is the music. You will be humming the theme for days afterwards.
My problem with The Magnificent Seven is that I watched Seven Samurai first. That is not to say The Magnificent Seven is a bad movie, but it pales in comparison to what movie it was based off of.
I’m surprised you don’t see more reactions of Kurosawa’s work considering how massively influential it’s been on the movie industry. I remember being like 10 and sneaking into our living room and randomly turning on the independent film channel and The Men Who Tread on the Tigers Tail had just started, followed by Throne of Blood and capped off with Seven Samurai. I just sat there transfixed till my parents woke up. And then I was a total weeaboo well into adulthood lol.
This was one of the more popular of the "spaghetti westerns", so named because they were made by Italian directors. A lot of older western fans, like your grandpa, did not like those movies, as they often clashed with the traditional westerns made in Hollywood. I, as someone in their early 50's, have enjoyed both styles. My favorites amongst this genre are actually comedies, "They Call Me Trinity" and "Trinity is Still My Name".
awesome movies. Bud and Terrence were as much a comedy team as they were western action stars. i loved they bar scene where Trinity pulls the guys gun, puts it back and bitch slaps him. Then does it all over again just faster.
As I understand it, the spaghetti western basically re-invented how westerns were made entirely, which was good because the traditional way of writing and filming them had become extremely formulaic and predictable; they're pretty much the *last* place you'd hear old western cliches like "this town ain't big enough for the both of us."
@@tommcewan7936 They really didn't though. The Revisionist Western had already taken hold in Hollywood, you can see it in earlier films like 3:10 to Yuma, The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance...Even High Noon and the Magnificent Seven. But they had to be circumspect in their revisions until the Hays Code was repealed in 1968 in the US. The European westerns didn't have to do that. You see it clearly in that the Hays Code was demolished in 1968, and a year later, 1969 saw the likes of The Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Death of a Gunfighter and A Time for Dying.
I know I liked "Trinity" but I don't remember the sequel. I'm glad you mentioned it! I'm in my late 50's and I'm losing my memory, what were we talking about? Lol.👍👍
I was 3 years old in 66 and my Dad was a projectionist at our local drive-in. GBU was the very first drive-in movie I ever saw, and my Pops was showing it, , , so you can imagine that this movie has a very special place in my heart!
Hey!!! You got a great memory at 3 yrs old!!! 🐘I was just saying on another channel, that my memory starts at 8 months old! 🐘Most people can only remember back to 6 yrs old!
The wet socks thing is trenchfoot. Gangrene is necrosis due to lack of bloodflow in your tissues and can be caused by many things. We have gotten better at dealing with it but it is still around.
Unforgiven- Clint directs and starsis an absolute must. Character masterpiece. Outstanding performances from all involved. Quoted that movie from when it was released in college to my teenage boys today. Could be Clint's tribute to Sergio as Main character is neither a black hat or white hat.
This is actually the third movie in a trilogy, but each film can be appreciated without having seen the others. The other two are "A Fistful of Dollars" and "For a Few Dollars More." Each one has its classic, memorable moments that still get quoted and spoofed today.
Some people claim that a number of Clint's other films are really the same character as well, although a list i saw the other day including Josey Wales, seemed to be stretching the theory beyond plausibility.
@@chrissonofpear1384 You can certainly take it that way, though it would make you wonder what Blondie/Joe/Manco did with the 100K to have him still as a gun for hire/bounty hunting in AFOD and FAFDM? Did he lose or squander it, or did he simply want to add to it? Imo, it was just an excuse to get Clint back into his classic costume. In a way, I perceived the three films as being a multi-verse, (long before the very tired trend today), where Clint is the constant - always the mysterious nomad - and everybody else variables.
Even today, so *very* few movies have ever dared to have a major character actually do that. Off-hand, the only other film I can think of that has a scene where an important character takes a crucial shot without talking first is Fred Zinneman's superb "The Day of the Jackal" (which I'd highly recommend Ashleigh try, by the way!)
This is easily one of the most timeless westerns and movies of all time for one simple fact: Despite the monikers given to them, all 3 characters are more complex than they seem initially Blondie (The Good) is the most morally consistent of the three. He is still greedy , cunning, endgangers others, but frequently shows a sense of empathy for those around him and is capable of some sense of honor. Shown especially in the end when he says goodbye to Tuco the best way he knows how, while getting back at him a bit, and riding off never to be seen again. Angel Eyes (The Bad) is the same as Blondie, but with no humanity to speak of. His only goal is ambition and self-interest, with his only "good" trait bring that he always fulfills a contract. Other then that there is no line he won't cross. And for the most of the movie, this put him at an advantage... that is until the final showdown where he had no way to escape as both Tuco and Blondie wanted him dead and trusted each other more than they did him. His coldhearted greed gave him a headstart, but destroyed him in the end. Tuco (The Ugly) is by far the most complex character in this movie because he's simply *human* He's a reprehensible coward that really lives up to his nickname of *"The Rat"* But the longer the movie goes on the more we learn of his past and what he would and wouldn't do. The idea that he pays his due tenfold is a pretty good way to sum up his character. In his mind, he was dealt a sh!t hand. Born and raised in a place where you had to kill just to put food on the table and where the criminals took what little the poor alredy had. So, naturally, he decided enough was enough and survived by all means neccesary and took care of his family for as long as he was able, while his brother ran off to escape poverty by becoming a priest. This doesn't make him good or even that sympathetic when you look at his laundry list of crimes, but it makes him understandable. The reason he looks so rough and dirty is because he's relied on only himself for years. And when he DID team up with someone else, he usually used them as cannonfodder to live another day. But by being forced to spend days and weeks with Blondie he legitimately bonds with him and they arguibly bring out the best in each other. So much so that, by the end, you *want* Tuco to succeed as he becomes more of a protagonist than Blondie. And the fact that Tuco gets his half of the gold at the end and has the final words in the whole movie is just perfect PS: fixed some grammatical errors
@@jasongivens6749 it's a possibility but I don't think it's a certainty. Taking the bullets gives Blondie an edge in the three-way gunfight, as he only needs to focus on one opponent, whereas Angel Eyes has to divide his attention between Blondie and Tuco. We see good shooting by both B & T but nothing to really compare them by.
The problem for me, why the film doesn't quite reach 'great' status, is that, at its core, it's satire. That's the only way it makes sense, in terms of quality. It has tons of western tropes, bad expositional dialogue (mostly), and ridiculously accurate marksmanship (okay, that's just another trope). It just doesn't merit top-line status as a straight film, but it's not full on Blazing Saddles parody either. Just a very good, standard-esque western.
The movie was directed by an Italian, filmed in Spain, and used actors from at least three different countries. The idea was to have the actors speak their own languages and dub in later. That dvd documentary goes a little bit into the care taken to try to get the dubbing as natural as possible. The instance I remember is when the solder commands the musician prisoners to play during Tuco's torture scene. The actor was Italian. His line was "piu forte", which means "Louder". But "louder" didn't fit the lip movements. But "more feeling" approximates that movement pretty well and the general meaning of the command still stood. I found that fascinating.
I’ve seen this prob 50x and still love the scene where Tuco is cheering the Confederacy not realizing it’s Union troops in dusty uniforms. A ton of underrated lines in this film!
Okay, now people are claiming to know what individual lines in a film are "rated." Just because you don't hear them quoted every day doesn't mean they're thought of poorly. It just means they're less famous.
The musical theme & other music from the movie are iconic. The music has been sampled & used very many times. It was even been done by symphonic orchestras. The fact you knew the music over 50 years after the film was released speaks to an enduring popularity.
Yes, I think most people with access to television or movies have heard some part of this soundtrack even if they never saw the movie. It does show up everywhere.
They showed this on TV one time when I was a little kid staying over at my grandparents'. Every time a commercial came on they played the music, which I thought was the creepiest and scariest music in the world. So eventually I was just hiding under my blankets sobbing - and they had to let me come out and watch the movie - which is how I became a Clint Eastwood fan. One of my favorite parts is when the Union officer just starts casually brushing the dust off his jacket.
The actor who plays Tuco's priestly brother was in "For a Few Dollars More," but he played one of the Bad guys...the last guy Eastwook shoots in that film.
I always thought that Tuco got some of the crimes he was charged for pinned on him because he didn't mind increasing his reward money, it is a business model and he is a survivor. As others said before, he is definitely the protagonist, because he comes across as very human with all his flaws. He is not a stupid or evil man, rather a glutton and egoist in a desperate world. He does not enjoy the killing as Angel Eyes does (except for revenge).
Angel Eyes kills only 3 people in this movie, 2 of them in self defence and for the 3rd one he was paid. While "the good" kills the most people, some of them just for fun, like the bounty hunters a the beginn or one of Angle Eyes men during the resting
@@wolf310ii Yeah, the "good" is an entirely different story. It's not that he does not care, but he seems demoralized into a constant state of low expectations. He is not emotionally reactive, but rather machine-like compared to others, which gives him this holier-than-thou attitude. I don't think he killed for fun, because he forgot how to have fun. He didn't even crack a smile with the gold in front of him. The title is a reminder that people will think good of those who look like angels and bad of those who look like devils. But I believe of those three Tuco to be the only one with the potential of becoming truly happy after this adventure, even if he wished to simply go back home.
@@wolf310ii Angel Eyes was paid to kill both Steven's and the old man in bed, and would have killed Steven's irrespective of him drawing first. The father knew this, that Angel Eyes "always sees the job through", and that's why he went for his gun first. Angel Eyes also beat up the woman, while it's clearly suggested that he'd had many soldiers tortured in that camp, and also regularly stole their possessions. You're right, Blondie has the highest kill count onscreen, but a. I never got the impression that he enjoyed it (he wasn't a sadist like Angel Eyes) and b. everyone he shot was a gunslinger, bounty hunter etc. He certainly wasn't good; an ironic title if ever there was one, but out of the three, I'd wager that he'd be the only one having the compassion to give that dying soldier a last smoke (Tuco used that moment as an opportunity to get a lead on the cash) or that captain a last drink.
The theme of "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" was a hit single in 1968/69. The album soundtrack reached #4 on the album charts. The music was heard everywhere.
Alright so this was in the genre called Spagetti Western where they were made in Italy. This was the third entry in a trilogy of films called The Man With No Name in reference to Clint Eastwood as his character has no name. All three films are A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More (which is my favorite of the three) and this film. All of them were directed by the same man Sergio Leone and the same composer Ennio Morricone. Some westerns I recommend: Silverado (Kevin Costner, Kevin Kline, Jeff Goldblum), The Frisco Kid (Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford), High Noon (Gary Cooper), The Magnificent Seven (Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach), Once Upon a Time in the West (Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson), The Cowboys and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (the only two John Wayne films I like), When they encounter the Civil War it is making a point of all the bloddshed being pointless from an outsiders perspective.
For me, Once Upon a Time ... is the Western to end all Westerns. I must admit that this is not my favorite genre, but I never get tired of that movie. The opening scene is legendary and the "twist", or better "revelation" of Harmonicas backstory near the end still sends shivers down my spine every single time.
"The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" is one of my Top 10 of all time. Tuco is the best character in it and has one of my favorite lines in cinema history. "If you're going to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."
There's a very cool little extra on the DVD for this movie with stories about how it got made. Eli Wallach (The Ugly) knew nothing about guns, and when Leone told him the basics of the gun store scene, confessed he didn't know what to do. "Improvise," Leone assured him. "Do whatever you want. It'll be fine." I've always loved the gun store scene.
I love the gun store scene as well, but there is a slight problem issue with it. Eli takes several different makes of revolvers, and they are not interchangable. It would make sense if for instance they had all been of say Colt range, or Remington range. Each one has different frames and cylinders.
If you watch John Wick 3..you'll see John pay homage to this scene in fabricating one gun from several others.. Tuco assembled one gun with perfect timing from several guns which Clint later recognized from the sound and allowed him to switch sides to one more advantages to him..
I've heard that the scene in John Wick 3 where John Wick is assembling a revolver including listening to the barrel rotate is a tribute to this scene. Don't know definitively if it's true.
I actually really prefer "For a Few Dollars More" which features a lot of the same actors (but not characters). It has Lee Van Cleef (the Bad in this movie) as a good guy who works with Clint Eastwood's bounty hunter character. I think the acting and pacing is a lot better in that movie and a bit more emotional connection to the characters.
Im going to agree with you on this, that final pocket watch scene, superb. I must admit Im also quite fond of High Plains Drifter, perhaps its that hint of the supernatural, or the fact that almost every character is grey, morally ambiguous. After a few Westerns though it will be interesting to see Ashleigh move on to other Clint films, ie Every which way but loose, and of course Dirty Harry.
I love Josey Wales. Chief Dan George has one of the funniest, most unexpected lines I've ever seen. No spoilers, but it's his line after Clint says "Figures. Just when I get to like'n someone, they ain't around long". Gold.
The Italians dubbed all their movies. Even the Italian versions would have the dialogue done later in a voice studio instead of capturing the dialogue on the set. It made it really easy for them to do international versions of Italian films and develop an international reputation.
Lee Van Cleef is one of the great villains of all time. He has been the bad guy in tons of 50s and 60s movies. He played a good guy in “ A Few Dollars More” the second film in this trilogy. This being the last film in the trilogy.
Fun detail. The music that you so liked to sing along to was actually played during the scenes being shot. So the actors, during the filming of that great duel at the end, heard the same as you do. Some of them said it helped them feel into the situation a lot.
I'm sure a lot of people have discussed this already, but Italian films like this one (this is where the term "spaghetti Westerns" comes from -- Westerns made by Italians) are completely dubbed. Everyone in the cast simply speaks their own language during production, and the actors come in and dub their parts after the fact in various languages, so there is technically no "original" language track. The trivia piece you read was referring to the fact that Eastwood and Eli Wallach (Tuco) came back to complete their dubbing for the additional scenes in 2003, which is of course 37 years after they shot the movie, and you can hear the age in their voices if you're looking for it. The two major additional scenes are Tuco in the camp talking to the chicken, and Lee Van Cleef (Angel Eyes) coming across the military company with the messy drinker and learning a bit more about Bill Carson (LVC had passed away by that point, and was dubbed by someone who did an impression of his voice). The good (heh) news is that the extended cut in this case is actually the most common version of the movie, including on streaming services. It is only in recent years, with the release of the movie on 4K UHD, that there has been some discussion about the possibility that director Sergio Leone cut the scenes intentionally and the shorter cut was his preferred version. The movie was released at the beginning of the DVD era back in 1998 as the theatrical cut, and then it wasn't until 2021 that it got another home video release with the aforementioned 4K UHD. All the DVDs and Blu-rays in between were this longer version, as well as all the digital versions I'm aware of. Also, if I were picking another great Western, I would love to see you watch True Grit (2010). I know many classic Western fans will complain about choosing the remake over the John Wayne version, but having read the book last year, the Coen Brothers version is the one that has the book down pat.
Yes, even the Italian actors came in later to dub their voices as no recorded dialogue from filming was retained . Additionally, all sounds in the movie were added later. Thus, during the filming the set was not "quiet" as a Hollywood movie would be and crew members would be talking during filming, planes flying over etc. It was a difficult thing for Hollywood actors to get used to. In some Italian movies of the era the Hollywood actors would not stick around for the dubbing and so someone else stood in for them. Burt Reynold did not to voice his character in "Navajo Joe". In the 1973 Crime Drama "Revolver" it seems to me that Oliver Reed didn't stick around to do dialogue. In "My Name is Nobody" there are a bunch of American character actors recognizable to fans of 1970s movies but none of them have their own voices.
@@sartanawillpay7977 Not only the Italians did this. You can tell all the early Connery Bond movies were done the same way. There might be some retained dialogue in some of the scenes filmed on an actual sound stage, but all the audio sounds like footsteps, doors closing, car engines, etc etc, are dubbed sounds. No quiet on an outdoor set in a early '60's Bond picture either. Everything dubbed.
Lee Van Cleef (The Bad) was originally cast a a "bad guy" in several of these movies, but he became popular and eventually gained starring roles. Look him up in a series of movies playing a character named Sabata
Another good spaghetti western is called My Name is Nobody (1973). That has a big name actor as the gunslinger legend, who nobody could out-draw. Very interested in your reaction to The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. This has a catchy theme song, and an impressive story.
Ah, but you missed part of that scene with the brothers: remember Tuco says he stayed with the family while his brother went to become a priest. Tuco took care of the family to begin with. It's a complex, complicated relationship, and there is a reason the brother asks Tuco for forgiveness ... even though Tuco can't hear him.
That was part of the reason Tuco's father was asking for him and his brother had some bitterness to him for being the "second choice" As a person who missed his own father's funeral due to his own personal request (I knew how he was before his sickness and he and my mum wanted me to keep that memory) I have known of some who have some sort of "grudge" for those who don't go to said funerals.
Tuco's smile as they rode away from the mission is real for his character. He was reflecting on how even with how bad his acts are, his brother is obligated by the religion to provide him water and bread (or soup), and beyond that is that there is still some kindness between them. His brother is a good man, in spite of his anger at Tuco, and would give that bowl of soup to him along with a sermon. People don't choose the church and stay with it unless they feel a calling to it. Most of those people are genuinely good people, even if they have to fight their own demons and weaknesses just like everyone else. Then they choose to take on other peoples' demons and misfortunes in order to help them.
This movie has made those five notes of the main soundtrack so iconic for 'duels' that it has made its way into almost any scene to indicate that a standoff is being made. You'll almost always hear that little riff starting, even if it's just those five tones. :)
When you started with listing all those Wild West movie stereotypes, I knew it's going to be fun, because this was the very definition of the movie to subvert most of those stereotypes.
Italian films at the time were usually shot without sound,partially because many of the movies had multi-cultural casts who all spoke their own languages,and were dubbed in each language later.
and all the sounds in the movie were also added post production. That is why you get the funky Italian western gunshot sounds that are much higher pitched than you get from actual ammunition. It also meant that they did not keep a silent set during filming, which annoyed some Holllywood actors.
Story time. How I was introduced to Clint Eastwood the cowboy. About 30 years ago, my dad started a new business building an Ice Cream Van (or truck in the US) and he wanted a specific tune to play while driving around. He wanted to use a chime he had heard many years before in a Clint Eastwood film but could not remember which one. So, one day, me him and my brother went to our local video store and rented out all of them and would sit and watch to find the right one. Spent days looking and enjoying each one of his Westerns. Since then, I fell in love with all his old films and he became a hero of mine. Turns out the tune he wanted was the infamous pocket watch melody played in the number 2 of the Dollars Trilogy, 'For A Few Dollars More'.
Great reaction, Ashleigh. You should do reactions to a few other Westerns, 'A Fistful of Dollars', 'For a Few Dollars More', 'Once Upon a Time in The West' and 'Unforgiven', I promise that you won't be disappointed.
i saw this in Anaco Venezuela when I was 8 years old. Our family was down there helping the Venezuelans drill their oil and in the days when Americans were loved down there...we say this is a theatre where beggar children had little packets of warm peanuts that they sold during the movie instead of popcorrn....You really took me back today to a simple time and a magical childhood. Love you!!!
Ooh, love this film! Dark, funny, sun-burnt picaresque AND picturesque if you like desolation. Great stuff. Being filmed in Spain with Italian actors and a crew from both kind of lends all the Civil War stuff an extra layer of black comedy and Goya level visual horror. Italy had its civil war in WWII and Spain's was still an extremely painful memory, so it feels like they really channelled that brutality that other films glossed over. For all that though, still a massively charismatic movie and Eli Wallach as Tuco is just magnificent. Cool reaction, Ashley! Glad ya liked it!
I think the Ugly sniffed the gun to check the freshness of the gun's oil. If a gun is not oiled regularly it becomes less reliable. No, it was not a drug case. It is monkfish, a form of tobacco made to be snorted. When a person is too dehydrated, giving him/her too much water to drink can be deadly. Has it ever happened to you that you were very thirsty and after drinking water you felt as if you had a fever? The temperature rises suddenly, the body does not react well, so you have to rehydrate it gradually. Gangrene is literally the rotting of the tissues of your body. It usually occurs in the extremities due to infection of a wound. The cemetery in the last scene was created especially for the film, near a town (in Spain) and can still be visited. Clint Eastwood's poncho was something improvised for a movie and marked his look in many of the westerns he made
there is a video here where a film nerd spends nearly an hour dissecting the ten-minute scene of the John Wayne, James Coburn and Jimmy Stewart confrontation in the restaurant.
Clint’s debut movie was “Tarantula” about a decade earlier. It was a very small part. He was also a regular on the tv series “Rawhide”. A western series, of course.
@@rickjr37 it is an easter egg in back to the future 3. Marty says to doc I've never seen clint eastwood wear anything like this doc says who?. They are at a drive in theater lot to get to 88mph. There is a poster for the creature returns is playing
the scene where Tuco is recruiting his old gang is one of the restored scenes. the voice you hear is the same actor, but they brought him back at age 90 to re-record the lines. got to a concert with Ennio Morricone, and they played the score from this. it was a religious experience for me. if you liked this, i think you'd like A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More
Glad you enjoyed it. Unfortunately you've watched the last film of the Dollars Trilogy first. But, saying the stories aren't connected, you can still do the first two. Start with A Fist Full of Dollars and then A Few Dollars More. The best part is Clint Eastwood is the lead in both of them 😁
Personally, even though this is the last movie of the Dollars trilogy, I think this is the better movie to introduce Ashleigh to. I think it’s just the more... accessible and polished movie of the three. Not to say the other ones are bad or anything (For a Few Dollars More is my favorite one of the trilogy), but I feel this movie was the best one to ease her into that trilogy, and I hope she’ll check out the other two movies someday.
There is a theory going around that The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is a prequel to the other 2 movies. So at the end when Clint is wearing the poncho it leads in to A Fistful of Dollars. I would still go with the dates they came out though and what a fantastic trilogy.
Not a fan of westerns but the ‘man with no name’ trilogy and ‘Once upon a time in the west’ are endlessly watchable. The paving, the story, the soundtrack, all top notch.
Haven't watched your reaction yet but this is a really heavy duty introduction to Westerns! I would have recommended The Outlaw Josey Wales (starring and directed by Clint) as a great opener.
This movie was very different than most westerns. At the time, it was a clear sort of John Wayne good guy versus bad guy without much creativity outside of that regarding character dynamics. This was the first western that broke that mold with the "Good" being not all that good.
2 Staples of the Western you need to see. This was one of them, and the other is "The Magnificent Seven", one of the last traditional "good guys" westerns (based on a classic Japanese film "The Seven Samurai"). You will recognize most everyone starring in it as well! Another good one to watch as a modern comparison is "Quigley Down Under" with Tom Selleck and Alan Rickman!
I love "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", but I think I love "Once Upon a Time in the West" a little more. It just had a great revenge story. The intro scene is still one of the best ever shot. And I really love how all the main characters had their own theme music (probably where George Lucas got the idea for his character theme music for "Star Wars".)
Agreed - Anyone who hasn't seen it already should definitely check it out (Once Upon a Time in the West) - it's easily my favourite western of all time, despite how many great ones are out there. The Harmonica man is such a great character (from a cast of great characters) and the soundtrack is tragic and haunting.
I may need to try re-watching that. I didn't really enjoy the characters or the plot much first time around, although the cinematography was quite stunning in places. Problem is, it's rather a long film to watch again, knowing I wasn't that keen the first time.
Sergio Leone did not make typical Westerns of the time, normally westerns had clear good guys and bad guys, and the good guy always wins. Sergio made his much more morally grey, and based heavily on cinematics and suspense. Sergio based a lot of his filmwork on old samurai movies adapted to the wild west, and in turn Quentin Tarantino adapted Sergio Leone Westerns into his more modern movie styles.
Lead actor, maybe, but supporting actors "make Eastwood look so good." For example, "Sam The Lion" in "The Last Picture Show" (1971) was played by "Western sidekick" Ben Johnson, who thought little of Larry McMurtry's "dirty book," at first. Then he was asked if he wanted to be remembered only as "John Wayne's sidekick," so he took the role and the rest is movie History.
I'm so glad you gave this one a high score: it's an old familiar movie in our family: our radio station played the music long before I watched the movie, which I did in bits and pieces on broadcast tv, in b&w, over long stretches of time. I cried about the captain with the bridge; and also for Tuco and his brother. Eli Wallach steals it for me, and Lee van Cleef was perfection. Leone hired him because "his eyes burn through the screen." Confession: Clint Eastwood has never been "my guy". Something about him hits me wrong, though I have no idea what it is. As a director, he is marvelous. And I know he's a great actor, but, as with Steve McQueen, something about him is not for me. That said, this may be my favorite way to see him. Blondie is a very good character, who, arguably, is the only one of the three who grows, learns and changes. Again, that scene between the brothers is important because to me Blondie listening in on that and learning about Tuco is the start of his beginning to allow empathy. It manifests when he seems to feel something about the possibility that Tuco's been killed by Angel Eyes. And blowing up the bridge is as much for the dying captain as it is for him and Tuco. Very cool movie. Very cool character.
Ashleigh, I'm so glad you liked this movie because it is one of my favorites. But, as someone mentioned earlier, Clint's best is "The Outlaw Josey Whales". I hope you consider this movie, and look forward to watching it with you. Peace.
@@anonygent I agree. Her comment about knowing "doodley squat" (or something to the effect) was so authentic, I felt like she could have been from my southern family tree. But when Dan George said that they took his horse and made him surrender, it was pure comedy gold.
When he was in the gun shop and rotating the cylinder on the revolver, he was testing the "lock up" of the cylinder. The The tighter and more solid it locks up on each individual chamber is a good indicator of the revolvers timing. When the cylinder rotates, it brings a chamber into line with the barrel for firing and locks it in place via a small notch on the outside of the cylinder which engages a latch connected to the trigger mechanism. A solid lock up improves accuracy where any misalignment results in poor accuracy and shaving lead from the projectile as it passes from the chamber into the barrel.
This is a Spaghetti Western, the most iconic genre of Western movies as we typically think of them today. They are so named because they came mostly out of Italy (hence the dubbing and the premiere in Rome). They are in many ways responsible for the myth of the wild west, though they did not originate the concept (Wild Bill Hickock's old Wild West Show really initially spread the idea). The actual old west was not nearly that wild. You've seen Tombstone. The shootout at the OK Coral was because they were refusing to follow the town's gun control laws. 3 people died and that deathtoll shocked people. Today, it wouldn't even make national news. The wild west was not that wild, nor all that far west.
For the scene where Tuco was putting the pistol together from different guns...the actor had no idea what he was doing, he improvised the entire scene (for the gun construction anyway). John Wick ch 3 has a scene that pays homage to that scene
I'm sorry I'm late with this bit of trivia I think you'll enjoy. The name Clint Eastwood is an anagram for "old west action"... _and it's his real name!_
Two things I'd love you to react to after seeing this... The Good the Bad and the Ugly by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Trust me! Would be a quick easy watch and I think you'd love how they do it. Kelly's Heroes from 1970. Just a fun watch and more of Mr Eastwood in his prime. Costars are an incredible all star cast. One of my favorites.
Yes highly recommend this Danish National Symphony Orchestra, among other famous movies Well worth the watch Just listening to the couple machines (wind etc) And the main singer, and chorus Levels upon levels
Glad you liked the Western. Depending on what kind you want, there's lots of good ones. For example, Liberty Vallance or the original Magnificent Seven are good, classic ones. The two Young Guns or the Quick and the Dead are entertaining newer movies. Then there's the Hateful Eight which is a Tarantino movie (and every bit of.whst you'd expect that to mean) I'd like to suggest you watch one of my favorites, an older one called Cat Ballou.
The bridge that got destroyed was accidently blown up when the cameras weren't rolling and the Spanish military was so sorry that they rebuilt it to be blown up again. And Ennio Morricone music, its iconic. And several from this movie, the main theme, Ecstasy of Gold and the Trio.
Love this movie, it is so well made. I could talk about the film, both the theatrical and director's cut, for hours on end. One of my favorite movies. My dad liked Westerns, and I imagine he was happy when his boys ended up liking Westerns, too. One of the local channels used to run theme weeks for their nightly movies, and one week it was "Squint like Clint" week, and they played five of his Westerns. They started out the week with his Man With No Name Trilogy, and it was awesome. Some of my favorite memories are times I had with family, and many of that time was spent watching classics on TV in the living room.
"Squint like Clint!" I love it! EDIT: Sorry for the absurd spelling error; I can't believe I had a brain-fart that bad. Hope everyone had a good giggle.
"listen fight on the bridge, bottleneck them in or blow the bridge down and make them have to wade in the water. But what to I know? nothing about war. nothing about combat strategy" -- Ashleigh instantly identifying both ideal combat strategies for this situation.
I love this movie and I love that you watched it! I think you'll enjoy The Outlaw Josey Wales more tho, if you want to watch more Clint-westerns! It's a simpler movie but it has such good dialogue and one liners
Jose Wales is majestic. Pale Rider too. She needs to watch Jeremiah Johnson too although we'd have to endure her getting all unnecessary about Robert Redford.
You don't have to put "For a Fistful of Dollars" on your site but if you want to see the first Clint Eastwood spaghetti western, it sets up his whole character. The entire movie is a remake of another Akira Kurasawa samurai movie, Yojimbo, 1961, almost line for line and scene by scene. It's become a classic and has been remade not only as a western with Clint Eastwood, but also as a gangster movie with Bruce Willis, "Last Man Standing," from 1996. Those three movies starred three of the most well known action stars of Japan and the US. Toshiro Mifune was the lead in the samurai version. Often referred to as "Japan's John Wayne," Mifune was a really good actor and in conjunction with Kurasawa, made several films that have been copied numerous times. He was the comic samurai in "Seven Samurai" and played everything from a wandering ronin to Admiral Yamamoto in the 1976 film, "Midway."
To answer a couple of your questions: 1) Sometimes, in frontier towns like that, the guns for sale in general stores weren't new. Shop keepers would occasionally encounter someone trying to unload a gun or two that the owner didn't need anymore. It was a good deal for the shop keeper because he'd buy the gun cheap and sell it for a lot, so there typically weren't a lot of questions asked about where they came from. Of course, some of the guns weren't well maintained, which isn't something a professional gunslinger would want. Tuco was smelling the cylinder because he was trying to determine how long it had been since it had been cleaned. A strong gunpowder smell would indicate poor maintenance. 2) Cobbling together a functional gun from several mediocre condition guns is a tricky process as pieces from different manufacturers or model guns aren't necessarily meant to be interchangeable. He was listening to the action to make sure that the parts he had assembled were working together as they should. Incompatible parts can lead to catastrophic failure, including the gun cylinder exploding and taking a finger or two with it. And I'd just like to point out that the level of knowledge required to know that this is even possible, nevermind successfully DOING it, cannot be overstated. So you were VERY right when you said Tuco was smarter than he looked.
This is actually the third film in a trilogy. First is A Fistful of Dollars. Second is For A Few Dollars More. Then this is the third. They aren't really connected but it's the same character, The Man With No Name. Also this character was combined into the character of Roland Deschain of Gilead by author Stephen King for his Dark Tower series.
The version you watched was the theatrical release. The extended cut is essentially the one shown at its premiere before it was further edited for release. You need to watch Clint in Two Mules for Sister Sara. Great movie with a lot of humor.
This is the 3rd of a Trilogy. The Man with No Name series. 1. Fist Full of Dollars. 2. For A Few Dollars More. 3. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. They're known as "spaghetti westerns" Because they were made in & by an Italian movie maker. It was an affectionate nickname.
The G, B, & U was the third movie of the "Dollars Trilogy". ALL with Clint, 1st - "A Fistful of Dollars", 2nd - "For a Few Dollars More". As far as Eastwood westerns, MY favorite is "The Outlaw Josie Wales". And: "High Plains Drifter" is the most surreal.
Oh, nice! I was actually going to recommend “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.” Great film. I’d also recommend Silverado. You’d love the cast… lots of famous folks in there.
There is many things learned over the course of time lost on the new generation. For instance , back in the cowboy days, to matches did not have a certain chemical in them to make them a :"Safety match" in which case a small amount of pressure or striking on a leather boot sole would set it off. Another thing in the words of Tuco, If you have to watch = watch don't talk.
This movie was filmed in *SPAIN* by an Italian film crew and director, *Sergio Leoni* . All the extras are Spanish and Italian, no Americans here. 😄 Even the cemetery for the duel in the last scene was built in Spain.
If you're looking for another western, I'd recommend checking out They Call Me Trinity. It's a western that mixes spaghetti westerns and slapstick comedy. It's really great stuff.
There is three movies in that group also. My Name is Nobody, They Call Me Trinity and My Name Is Still Trinity. Bud Hall and Terrance Hill made a lot of movies together besides their westerns.
This is my all time favourite film. Equally as Iconic as Tombstone which is another of my favourites. Much as i love Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Alien(s) or Marvel this is still the one. Technically the third part of the Dollars Trilogy it's a fairly loose trilogy centred around Clint's character but you don't really need the previous 2 films & it can function as a stand alone. As far as Eastwood westerns go this probably is the best tied with The Unforgiven for which Clint won the best picture & best director Oscar's. Gene Hackman also won best supporting actor. The Outlaw Jose Wales, Pale Rider, Hight Plains Drifter & the other 2 parts of the dollars trilogy A Fistful of Dollars & For A Few Dollars More are all great films too if you fancy going down that rabbit hole. Other westerns on the same epic scale as The Good The Bad and The Ugly directed by Sergio Leone with music by Enio Morricone that don't star Eastwood that are well worth watching are A Fistful of Dynamite with Eli Wallach (Tuco) & James Coburn & Once Upon A Time In The West with Charles Bronson & Henry Fonda.
Me & the boys had a long hard talk, and we reckon you made up that whole thing about how to cool down a hot pig.
YOU BETTER STOP IT.
@@awkwardashleigh Jim carrey was nick named rubber face for a reason because he could morph his face into Clint Eastwood and jack Nickolason played the joker and little Joe cartwright smiled and so on .the scene when outsmarted the bad guys is my favorite thing in this movie and it sequel and why Marty mcfly from back to the future would reference this movie in the 3th movie .spongebob did a western about spongebob's grand father in 1890 sponge buck .
@@awkwardashleigh you must see Jim verny Ernest movies and if you do x men do 1 2, and 3 and some of the comic books costume are leather and some spandex and some special materials just like real life .
@@awkwardashleigh you need to watch The Outlaw Josey Wales . It’s the best western he’s ever done. He also directed it.
@@johntaylor7635that’s one of my dad’s top favorite movies lol.
Sergio Leone made movies like they were operas, setting aside minutes at a time to just let the composer go nuts in the equivalent of an epic aria. And I'm so thankful he and Ennio Morricone found each other, and created a partnership on the same level as Spielberg and Williams.
I agree. Once Upon a Time in the West is another classic!
I'd heard Leone would play the score on set and time the scene to it. Since all the dialogue would be dubbed in later he could do it this way.
@@livvyb3583 My favorite of the Leone Spaghetti Westerns.
Pity this Ashleigh was nattering annoyingly and didn't play any of it!
And he was heavily influenced by comic books. In fact, most Italian directors of that time were influenced by this aesthetic. This explains the shots of the eyes, as in "Tex"
Little known fact: the actor who played Tuco (Eli Wallach) knew nothing about guns. So, in the scene where he goes into the store and picks out a gun was just him improvising. He was told by the director (Sergio Leone) to just play with the guns and make it look like he knew what he was doing. His improvisation made that scene one of the more memorable ones in movie history.
Correct. Even John Wick does this scene in a movie. I think its in the 2nd movie.
Oh neat, I never knew that! As a fan of him from this and The Magnificent Seven that’s pretty surprising
@@BlazeInjun 3rd movie... its a tribute i think, to tuco and the movie
@@chrisalejado1396 Thanks, I wasn't sure.
Omg…. I wouldn’t say I was a “gun expert” but dad and I were both snipers in the military.
This gun scene always fascinated be because I didn’t think any weapons were interchangeable, but as old revolvers went, what did I know!
Then if this scene was pure improvisation, it makes sense but is also highly entertaining!
Almost all the extras outside the three main characters were speaking Italian. So all of those lines are dubbed. As someone else mentioned, this is why these were called "spaghetti westerns" vs the traditional John Wayne type westerns from the 50s where white hat/outfit meant good guy and black hat/outfit meant bad guy. You hit the nail right on the head when you asked if Clint Eastwood was really the good guy, because in this movie it's not black and white for who's good and who's bad. This was the dramatic change from the traditional western.
ohhh I love this explanation
The Italian-made westerns of the 60s were influenced by the samurai movies of the 50s, which were influenced by the Hollywood westerns of the 40s
@@awkwardashleigh also filmed on location....in Spain..
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And much later somewhere in there (the 70s) a certain race car driver/turned director made a wacky space opera influenced by both.
@@awkwardashleigh This is the Italian original cut , its longer than theatrical release was in elsewhere , they cut out some interactions that did nothing for the plot .
They did get all original actors , whom were alive , to do the dubbing , thats why you can hear what scenes were added , Lee Van Cleef was dubbed by voice actor .
Sergio Leone , gave actors scrip written in their native languages , then you just dub all lines needed to what ever market you sell the movie .
Also that music in end scene was playing there on set , because Sergio had music made before he started filming .
That end scene graveyard was build by Spanish military , just for this movie , the middle circle is still there .
Fun Fact, the skeleton in the grave is a real skeleton. An actress had it in her will that she would keep doing movies after she died, and it was cheaper than getting fake bones.
B.S.
@@1perfectpitch No, it's true. She was a Spanish actress.
Hundreds of people leave their corpses to science after their deaths. Most are buried after but some had their skeletons used for display.
In the movie "Poltergeist," Spielberg used real skeletons because they were the cheapest to order.
Nothing like the plastic realistic looking skeletons we have today.
Have I told you about the original crash test dummies?
Uhuh. They actually used deceased people to test what force it would take to break an arm, a leg or a spine.
The significance of Tuko smoking the cigar is that it's still lit. Meaning he is getting close.
That's how I've always interpreted that scene too. He knows he's right behind him.
Also the scene with Tuko picking out a pistol. He was searching for the smoothest cylinder timing. It wasn't uncommon for people to put more accurate barrels on pistols that had better actions.
DUH!
I'd be very wary of people who interpret it in another way...
Thank you Captain Obvious.
"This town ain't big enough for the both of us" is one of those quotes that has gained a life in the the lexicon of westerns. It was first said in The Western Code (1932) but has been said by many characters including Woody in Toy Story.
"this town isn't big enough for the both of us" is also a song by 'the Sparks-.
More applicable to the first half of For a few dollars more.
Sparks did a great version of that...
@@stephanefraisse381 Love doing that song in a packed karaoke bar and having like two people recognize it.
The Virginian (1929) had a similar line "This world isn't big enough for the both of us!". It became such a western trope and was even used in Bugs Bunny plays on a western, but really didn't appear in any western films outside those two movies. For some reason writers and people latched on to it as the definitive thing one would say at a dual scene.
Fun Fact:
10:16 Lee Van Cleef, the actor for Angel Eyes, actually refused to do the scenes where his character hits her ,even if it is pretend ,so they had to get a double to do it and used camera tricks to hide his face
Hat Tip to Lee Van Clef.
I saw this at my grandmother's house as a child, and I remember her fangirling over Lee Van Cleef. Clint Eastwood wasn't really a big name at the time, I guess.
Cleef was a badass
In one of Ronald Reagan's rare villain roles, in "The Killers", he also had to hit a woman. Supposedly he hated that movie and that scene particularly.
There are so many ways to detect that Tuco is the true protagonist. One is that he’s the one that takes the time to treat himself. You never really see the other two just indulge in basic human behavior. Angel Eyes can’t even eat food unless he’s doing it to be intimidating but Tuco makes time for a nice bath with salts right in the middle of a military route.
Tuco is DA MAN!
One of my favourite comments on a different reaction channel for this movie was someone saying "As a Mexican, the actor who plays Tuco is an honourary Mexican for this movie."
I think about that comment all the time with this film now 😂
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Eli Wallach in the role of Tuco is fantastic in this movie. Another great western from that era is "Once upon a time in the west" with Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda
*The Magnificent Seven* is a magnificent western that doesn't get acknowledged enough these days. Yul Brynner is iconic in the movie, as is the music. You will be humming the theme for days afterwards.
Speaking of Yul Brynner, Ashleigh, you *have* to give the original Westworld from 1973 a try, it's great.
My problem with The Magnificent Seven is that I watched Seven Samurai first. That is not to say The Magnificent Seven is a bad movie, but it pales in comparison to what movie it was based off of.
Watch the ORIGINAL not the remake.
@@darkelfling65 - While we're at it, let's get Ashley to watch "A Fistful of Dollars" and then "Yojimbo". 😄
I’m surprised you don’t see more reactions of Kurosawa’s work considering how massively influential it’s been on the movie industry. I remember being like 10 and sneaking into our living room and randomly turning on the independent film channel and The Men Who Tread on the Tigers Tail had just started, followed by Throne of Blood and capped off with Seven Samurai. I just sat there transfixed till my parents woke up. And then I was a total weeaboo well into adulthood lol.
This was one of the more popular of the "spaghetti westerns", so named because they were made by Italian directors. A lot of older western fans, like your grandpa, did not like those movies, as they often clashed with the traditional westerns made in Hollywood. I, as someone in their early 50's, have enjoyed both styles. My favorites amongst this genre are actually comedies, "They Call Me Trinity" and "Trinity is Still My Name".
awesome movies. Bud and Terrence were as much a comedy team as they were western action stars. i loved they bar scene where Trinity pulls the guys gun, puts it back and bitch slaps him. Then does it all over again just faster.
As I understand it, the spaghetti western basically re-invented how westerns were made entirely, which was good because the traditional way of writing and filming them had become extremely formulaic and predictable; they're pretty much the *last* place you'd hear old western cliches like "this town ain't big enough for the both of us."
Oh yes, Ashley definitely has to do the Trinity movies. 😁
@@tommcewan7936 They really didn't though. The Revisionist Western had already taken hold in Hollywood, you can see it in earlier films like 3:10 to Yuma, The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance...Even High Noon and the Magnificent Seven. But they had to be circumspect in their revisions until the Hays Code was repealed in 1968 in the US. The European westerns didn't have to do that. You see it clearly in that the Hays Code was demolished in 1968, and a year later, 1969 saw the likes of The Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Death of a Gunfighter and A Time for Dying.
I know I liked "Trinity" but I don't remember the sequel. I'm glad you mentioned it! I'm in my late 50's and I'm losing my memory, what were we talking about? Lol.👍👍
I was 3 years old in 66 and my Dad was a projectionist at our local drive-in. GBU was the very first drive-in movie I ever saw, and my Pops was showing it, , , so you can imagine that this movie has a very special place in my heart!
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The wet socks thing is trenchfoot. Gangrene is necrosis due to lack of bloodflow in your tissues and can be caused by many things. We have gotten better at dealing with it but it is still around.
Anyone who has spent substantial time in the wild has had trenchfoot at one point or another.
And it is still without a cure other than amputation.
Unforgiven- Clint directs and starsis an absolute must. Character masterpiece. Outstanding performances from all involved. Quoted that movie from when it was released in college to my teenage boys today. Could be Clint's tribute to Sergio as Main character is neither a black hat or white hat.
It's brilliant of course. I have always had a soft spot for Pale Rider - even though it's basically the same plot as High Plains Drifter.
I think Unforgiven needs to wait until a lot more movies have been seen though.
Indeed..The Magnificent 7...Once Upon A Time In The West...El Dorado...so many others
@@wendigo69 There is nothing like a nice piece of hickory (axe handle).
This is actually the third movie in a trilogy, but each film can be appreciated without having seen the others. The other two are "A Fistful of Dollars" and "For a Few Dollars More." Each one has its classic, memorable moments that still get quoted and spoofed today.
And they also may occur in reverse chronological order, too.
See the history of the poncho, for one.
its not a strict trilogy per se, they are plotwise completely unrelated, but have thematic consistency.
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Some people claim that a number of Clint's other films are really the same character as well, although a list i saw the other day including Josey Wales, seemed to be stretching the theory beyond plausibility.
@@chrissonofpear1384 You can certainly take it that way, though it would make you wonder what Blondie/Joe/Manco did with the 100K to have him still as a gun for hire/bounty hunting in AFOD and FAFDM? Did he lose or squander it, or did he simply want to add to it?
Imo, it was just an excuse to get Clint back into his classic costume. In a way, I perceived the three films as being a multi-verse, (long before the very tired trend today), where Clint is the constant - always the mysterious nomad - and everybody else variables.
When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk. One of my favourite lines from any movie.
Like Die Hard.
Along with.... "In this world there are those with guns... and those who dig. You. Dig."
Even today, so *very* few movies have ever dared to have a major character actually do that. Off-hand, the only other film I can think of that has a scene where an important character takes a crucial shot without talking first is Fred Zinneman's superb "The Day of the Jackal" (which I'd highly recommend Ashleigh try, by the way!)
This was not in the script. Eli came up with this on his own.
Thing is, Tuco fails to follow his own sound advice, thus also takes time to do villain monologuing
This is easily one of the most timeless westerns and movies of all time for one simple fact:
Despite the monikers given to them, all 3 characters are more complex than they seem initially
Blondie (The Good) is the most morally consistent of the three. He is still greedy , cunning, endgangers others, but frequently shows a sense of empathy for those around him and is capable of some sense of honor. Shown especially in the end when he says goodbye to Tuco the best way he knows how, while getting back at him a bit, and riding off never to be seen again.
Angel Eyes (The Bad) is the same as Blondie, but with no humanity to speak of. His only goal is ambition and self-interest, with his only "good" trait bring that he always fulfills a contract. Other then that there is no line he won't cross.
And for the most of the movie, this put him at an advantage... that is until the final showdown where he had no way to escape as both Tuco and Blondie wanted him dead and trusted each other more than they did him.
His coldhearted greed gave him a headstart, but destroyed him in the end.
Tuco (The Ugly) is by far the most complex character in this movie because he's simply *human*
He's a reprehensible coward that really lives up to his nickname of *"The Rat"*
But the longer the movie goes on the more we learn of his past and what he would and wouldn't do.
The idea that he pays his due tenfold is a pretty good way to sum up his character.
In his mind, he was dealt a sh!t hand.
Born and raised in a place where you had to kill just to put food on the table and where the criminals took what little the poor alredy had.
So, naturally, he decided enough was enough and survived by all means neccesary and took care of his family for as long as he was able, while his brother ran off to escape poverty by becoming a priest.
This doesn't make him good or even that sympathetic when you look at his laundry list of crimes, but it makes him understandable. The reason he looks so rough and dirty is because he's relied on only himself for years.
And when he DID team up with someone else, he usually used them as cannonfodder to live another day.
But by being forced to spend days and weeks with Blondie he legitimately bonds with him and they arguibly bring out the best in each other.
So much so that, by the end, you *want* Tuco to succeed as he becomes more of a protagonist than Blondie. And the fact that Tuco gets his half of the gold at the end and has the final words in the whole movie is just perfect
PS: fixed some grammatical errors
The Bad isn't complex. He's just bad.
If you pay attention. Tucco is the best pistoleer in this movie. That's why Blondie took his bullets. He knew he couldn't beat Tucco.
@@jasongivens6749 it's a possibility but I don't think it's a certainty. Taking the bullets gives Blondie an edge in the three-way gunfight, as he only needs to focus on one opponent, whereas Angel Eyes has to divide his attention between Blondie and Tuco. We see good shooting by both B & T but nothing to really compare them by.
The problem for me, why the film doesn't quite reach 'great' status, is that, at its core, it's satire. That's the only way it makes sense, in terms of quality. It has tons of western tropes, bad expositional dialogue (mostly), and ridiculously accurate marksmanship (okay, that's just another trope). It just doesn't merit top-line status as a straight film, but it's not full on Blazing Saddles parody either. Just a very good, standard-esque western.
The movie was directed by an Italian, filmed in Spain, and used actors from at least three different countries. The idea was to have the actors speak their own languages and dub in later. That dvd documentary goes a little bit into the care taken to try to get the dubbing as natural as possible. The instance I remember is when the solder commands the musician prisoners to play during Tuco's torture scene. The actor was Italian. His line was "piu forte", which means "Louder". But "louder" didn't fit the lip movements. But "more feeling" approximates that movement pretty well and the general meaning of the command still stood. I found that fascinating.
Tuco Benedicto Pacífico Juan María Ramírez or "The Ugly" is the greatest name to ever grace a cinematic screen. Thanks for the review!
I’ve seen this prob 50x and still love the scene where Tuco is cheering the Confederacy not realizing it’s Union troops in dusty uniforms. A ton of underrated lines in this film!
Okay, now people are claiming to know what individual lines in a film are "rated." Just because you don't hear them quoted every day doesn't mean they're thought of poorly. It just means they're less famous.
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The musical theme & other music from the movie are iconic. The music has been sampled & used very many times. It was even been done by symphonic orchestras. The fact you knew the music over 50 years after the film was released speaks to an enduring popularity.
Yes, I think most people with access to television or movies have heard some part of this soundtrack even if they never saw the movie. It does show up everywhere.
Metallica used it for their opening music
They showed this on TV one time when I was a little kid staying over at my grandparents'. Every time a commercial came on they played the music, which I thought was the creepiest and scariest music in the world. So eventually I was just hiding under my blankets sobbing - and they had to let me come out and watch the movie - which is how I became a Clint Eastwood fan. One of my favorite parts is when the Union officer just starts casually brushing the dust off his jacket.
Eli Wallach as The Ugly is by far my favorite part of this movie -- particularly when he meets his brother.
Tuco steals the show whenever he’s on screen.
RIP, Eli.
The actor who plays Tuco's priestly brother was in "For a Few Dollars More," but he played one of the Bad guys...the last guy Eastwook shoots in that film.
@@donwild50 ahh I remember he was the bad guy in the last film questioning his leader about why he was doing all the unnecessary shootings tbh
@@johnnymoreno5065 He was also already wounded in the shoulder...he just wanted to clear out but the baddie boss wanted to kill Mortimer and Eastwood.
"I wonder what kind of Western story takes 3 hours to tell?"
Not me over here loving all 6 hours and 24 minutes of Lonesome Dove.
Would net Ashley her Angelica Huston fix too! :)
Lonesome Dove is brilliant and so worth the time.
I always thought that Tuco got some of the crimes he was charged for pinned on him because he didn't mind increasing his reward money, it is a business model and he is a survivor. As others said before, he is definitely the protagonist, because he comes across as very human with all his flaws. He is not a stupid or evil man, rather a glutton and egoist in a desperate world. He does not enjoy the killing as Angel Eyes does (except for revenge).
Absolutely!
Angel Eyes kills only 3 people in this movie, 2 of them in self defence and for the 3rd one he was paid.
While "the good" kills the most people, some of them just for fun, like the bounty hunters a the beginn or one of Angle Eyes men during the resting
@@wolf310ii Yeah, the "good" is an entirely different story. It's not that he does not care, but he seems demoralized into a constant state of low expectations. He is not emotionally reactive, but rather machine-like compared to others, which gives him this holier-than-thou attitude. I don't think he killed for fun, because he forgot how to have fun. He didn't even crack a smile with the gold in front of him. The title is a reminder that people will think good of those who look like angels and bad of those who look like devils. But I believe of those three Tuco to be the only one with the potential of becoming truly happy after this adventure, even if he wished to simply go back home.
@@wolf310ii Angel Eyes was paid to kill both Steven's and the old man in bed, and would have killed Steven's irrespective of him drawing first. The father knew this, that Angel Eyes "always sees the job through", and that's why he went for his gun first. Angel Eyes also beat up the woman, while it's clearly suggested that he'd had many soldiers tortured in that camp, and also regularly stole their possessions.
You're right, Blondie has the highest kill count onscreen, but a. I never got the impression that he enjoyed it (he wasn't a sadist like Angel Eyes) and b. everyone he shot was a gunslinger, bounty hunter etc. He certainly wasn't good; an ironic title if ever there was one, but out of the three, I'd wager that he'd be the only one having the compassion to give that dying soldier a last smoke (Tuco used that moment as an opportunity to get a lead on the cash) or that captain a last drink.
@@PrimeCircuit Good points. You've also got me thinking as to what both Blondie and Tuco would go on to do after the ending.
The theme of "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" was a hit single in 1968/69. The album soundtrack reached #4 on the album charts. The music was heard everywhere.
That's pretty awesome lol
It's good, but I honestly think the theme to "For a Few Dollars More" is better. That whistling...
Ecstacy Of Gold is propably more famous now. Metallica uses it as their intro during concerts.
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@@AshleighBurton2178 Idiot
Alright so this was in the genre called Spagetti Western where they were made in Italy.
This was the third entry in a trilogy of films called The Man With No Name in reference to Clint Eastwood as his character has no name.
All three films are A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More (which is my favorite of the three) and this film. All of them were directed by the same man Sergio Leone and the same composer Ennio Morricone.
Some westerns I recommend:
Silverado (Kevin Costner, Kevin Kline, Jeff Goldblum),
The Frisco Kid (Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford),
High Noon (Gary Cooper),
The Magnificent Seven (Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach),
Once Upon a Time in the West (Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson),
The Cowboys and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (the only two John Wayne films I like),
When they encounter the Civil War it is making a point of all the bloddshed being pointless from an outsiders perspective.
For me, Once Upon a Time ... is the Western to end all Westerns. I must admit that this is not my favorite genre, but I never get tired of that movie. The opening scene is legendary and the "twist", or better "revelation" of Harmonicas backstory near the end still sends shivers down my spine every single time.
She should watch the original Magnificent Seven, Seven Samurai.
I completely agree with you about For a Few Dollars More. Such a great movie.
A lot of outdoor scens in spagetti westerns was also shoot in Spain. The cemetary at the end of the movie is in Burgos in northern Spain.
A Western? With Gene? 😮
This is one of my favorite Westerns ever. Eli Wallach as Tuco really steals the show.
Now you have to watch the Danish National Symphony Orchestra perform The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. It is epic.
Yes! Lots of reactors have filmed themselves watching this. You wouldn't think an orchestra could be so exciting.
"The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" is one of my Top 10 of all time. Tuco is the best character in it and has one of my favorite lines in cinema history.
"If you're going to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."
There's a very cool little extra on the DVD for this movie with stories about how it got made. Eli Wallach (The Ugly) knew nothing about guns, and when Leone told him the basics of the gun store scene, confessed he didn't know what to do. "Improvise," Leone assured him. "Do whatever you want. It'll be fine." I've always loved the gun store scene.
I love the gun store scene as well, but there is a slight problem issue with it. Eli takes several different makes of revolvers, and they are not interchangable. It would make sense if for instance they had all been of say Colt range, or Remington range. Each one has different frames and cylinders.
@@jaquesshugossen9398 That is more than 100% true, but it's Tuco we're talking about: he makes them fit whether they're supposed to or not.
If you watch John Wick 3..you'll see John pay homage to this scene in fabricating one gun from several others.. Tuco assembled one gun with perfect timing from several guns which Clint later recognized from the sound and allowed him to switch sides to one more advantages to him..
@@melenatorr That is very true in itself. Tuco would make ANYTHING fit together.
I've heard that the scene in John Wick 3 where John Wick is assembling a revolver including listening to the barrel rotate is a tribute to this scene. Don't know definitively if it's true.
I actually really prefer "For a Few Dollars More" which features a lot of the same actors (but not characters). It has Lee Van Cleef (the Bad in this movie) as a good guy who works with Clint Eastwood's bounty hunter character. I think the acting and pacing is a lot better in that movie and a bit more emotional connection to the characters.
Im going to agree with you on this, that final pocket watch scene, superb. I must admit Im also quite fond of High Plains Drifter, perhaps its that hint of the supernatural, or the fact that almost every character is grey, morally ambiguous.
After a few Westerns though it will be interesting to see Ashleigh move on to other Clint films, ie Every which way but loose, and of course Dirty Harry.
Waaaay better movie. People just like to be bandwagoners and just go with whats popular.
For a Few Dollars More is easily the best of the three but GB&U gets the love.
"The Outlaw Josey Wales" Should be your next Clint Eastwood western. So many Iconic scenes and lines.
"The toad says we should go to Mexico" is a classic.
I love Josey Wales. Chief Dan George has one of the funniest, most unexpected lines I've ever seen. No spoilers, but it's his line after Clint says "Figures. Just when I get to like'n someone, they ain't around long". Gold.
The Italians dubbed all their movies. Even the Italian versions would have the dialogue done later in a voice studio instead of capturing the dialogue on the set. It made it really easy for them to do international versions of Italian films and develop an international reputation.
Lee Van Cleef is one of the great villains of all time. He has been the bad guy in tons of 50s and 60s movies. He played a good guy in “ A Few Dollars More” the second film in this trilogy. This being the last film in the trilogy.
He's also the first person you see in "High Noon". He never says a word in the movie.
Jesus Christ! I am shocked that you are reacting to this film. It's probably the 2nd or 3rd greatest western ever made. I can't wait to watch this!
#1 for me
Fun detail. The music that you so liked to sing along to was actually played during the scenes being shot. So the actors, during the filming of that great duel at the end, heard the same as you do. Some of them said it helped them feel into the situation a lot.
What was the music called for the 3 man staredown? It wasn't the good, the bad, and the ugly theme, or the ecstasy of gold.
I'm sure a lot of people have discussed this already, but Italian films like this one (this is where the term "spaghetti Westerns" comes from -- Westerns made by Italians) are completely dubbed. Everyone in the cast simply speaks their own language during production, and the actors come in and dub their parts after the fact in various languages, so there is technically no "original" language track.
The trivia piece you read was referring to the fact that Eastwood and Eli Wallach (Tuco) came back to complete their dubbing for the additional scenes in 2003, which is of course 37 years after they shot the movie, and you can hear the age in their voices if you're looking for it. The two major additional scenes are Tuco in the camp talking to the chicken, and Lee Van Cleef (Angel Eyes) coming across the military company with the messy drinker and learning a bit more about Bill Carson (LVC had passed away by that point, and was dubbed by someone who did an impression of his voice).
The good (heh) news is that the extended cut in this case is actually the most common version of the movie, including on streaming services. It is only in recent years, with the release of the movie on 4K UHD, that there has been some discussion about the possibility that director Sergio Leone cut the scenes intentionally and the shorter cut was his preferred version. The movie was released at the beginning of the DVD era back in 1998 as the theatrical cut, and then it wasn't until 2021 that it got another home video release with the aforementioned 4K UHD. All the DVDs and Blu-rays in between were this longer version, as well as all the digital versions I'm aware of.
Also, if I were picking another great Western, I would love to see you watch True Grit (2010). I know many classic Western fans will complain about choosing the remake over the John Wayne version, but having read the book last year, the Coen Brothers version is the one that has the book down pat.
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Yes, even the Italian actors came in later to dub their voices as no recorded dialogue from filming was retained . Additionally, all sounds in the movie were added later. Thus, during the filming the set was not "quiet" as a Hollywood movie would be and crew members would be talking during filming, planes flying over etc. It was a difficult thing for Hollywood actors to get used to. In some Italian movies of the era the Hollywood actors would not stick around for the dubbing and so someone else stood in for them. Burt Reynold did not to voice his character in "Navajo Joe". In the 1973 Crime Drama "Revolver" it seems to me that Oliver Reed didn't stick around to do dialogue. In "My Name is Nobody" there are a bunch of American character actors recognizable to fans of 1970s movies but none of them have their own voices.
@@sartanawillpay7977 Not only the Italians did this. You can tell all the early Connery Bond movies were done the same way. There might be some retained dialogue in some of the scenes filmed on an actual sound stage, but all the audio sounds like footsteps, doors closing, car engines, etc etc, are dubbed sounds. No quiet on an outdoor set in a early '60's Bond picture either. Everything dubbed.
Lee Van Cleef (The Bad) was originally cast a a "bad guy" in several of these movies, but he became popular and eventually gained starring roles. Look him up in a series of movies playing a character named Sabata
Another good spaghetti western is called My Name is Nobody (1973). That has a big name actor as the gunslinger legend, who nobody could out-draw.
Very interested in your reaction to The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. This has a catchy theme song, and an impressive story.
Nobody made a funnier western.
I'm afraid Nobody would flat out kill Ashleigh.
That's one of my all time favorites!
The graveyard at the end is Sad Hill Cemetery in Burgos, Spain. It was built by the Spanish Army and, being a tourist site, can easily be visited. 😊
Ah, but you missed part of that scene with the brothers: remember Tuco says he stayed with the family while his brother went to become a priest. Tuco took care of the family to begin with. It's a complex, complicated relationship, and there is a reason the brother asks Tuco for forgiveness ... even though Tuco can't hear him.
That was part of the reason Tuco's father was asking for him and his brother had some bitterness to him for being the "second choice" As a person who missed his own father's funeral due to his own personal request (I knew how he was before his sickness and he and my mum wanted me to keep that memory) I have known of some who have some sort of "grudge" for those who don't go to said funerals.
Tuco's smile as they rode away from the mission is real for his character. He was reflecting on how even with how bad his acts are, his brother is obligated by the religion to provide him water and bread (or soup), and beyond that is that there is still some kindness between them. His brother is a good man, in spite of his anger at Tuco, and would give that bowl of soup to him along with a sermon. People don't choose the church and stay with it unless they feel a calling to it. Most of those people are genuinely good people, even if they have to fight their own demons and weaknesses just like everyone else. Then they choose to take on other peoples' demons and misfortunes in order to help them.
Outlaw Josey Wales is an excellent example of Eastwood westerns (he 😂even directed). Great action with the right amount of comedy.
One of the greatest westerns ever
This movie has made those five notes of the main soundtrack so iconic for 'duels' that it has made its way into almost any scene to indicate that a standoff is being made. You'll almost always hear that little riff starting, even if it's just those five tones. :)
When you started with listing all those Wild West movie stereotypes, I knew it's going to be fun, because this was the very definition of the movie to subvert most of those stereotypes.
Italian films at the time were usually shot without sound,partially because many of the movies had multi-cultural casts who all spoke their own languages,and were dubbed in each language later.
and all the sounds in the movie were also added post production. That is why you get the funky Italian western gunshot sounds that are much higher pitched than you get from actual ammunition. It also meant that they did not keep a silent set during filming, which annoyed some Holllywood actors.
Story time. How I was introduced to Clint Eastwood the cowboy. About 30 years ago, my dad started a new business building an Ice Cream Van (or truck in the US) and he wanted a specific tune to play while driving around. He wanted to use a chime he had heard many years before in a Clint Eastwood film but could not remember which one. So, one day, me him and my brother went to our local video store and rented out all of them and would sit and watch to find the right one. Spent days looking and enjoying each one of his Westerns. Since then, I fell in love with all his old films and he became a hero of mine. Turns out the tune he wanted was the infamous pocket watch melody played in the number 2 of the Dollars Trilogy, 'For A Few Dollars More'.
The tune I saw on the OST soundtrack LP was: "Sixty Seconds to What."
Great reaction, Ashleigh.
You should do reactions to a few other Westerns, 'A Fistful of Dollars', 'For a Few Dollars More', 'Once Upon a Time in The West' and 'Unforgiven', I promise that you won't be disappointed.
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i saw this in Anaco Venezuela when I was 8 years old. Our family was down there helping the Venezuelans drill their oil and in the days when Americans were loved down there...we say this is a theatre where beggar children had little packets of warm peanuts that they sold during the movie instead of popcorrn....You really took me back today to a simple time and a magical childhood. Love you!!!
another great spaghetti western is "Once Upon a Time in the West".
Ooh, love this film! Dark, funny, sun-burnt picaresque AND picturesque if you like desolation. Great stuff. Being filmed in Spain with Italian actors and a crew from both kind of lends all the Civil War stuff an extra layer of black comedy and Goya level visual horror. Italy had its civil war in WWII and Spain's was still an extremely painful memory, so it feels like they really channelled that brutality that other films glossed over. For all that though, still a massively charismatic movie and Eli Wallach as Tuco is just magnificent. Cool reaction, Ashley! Glad ya liked it!
"For a Few Dollars More" is my favourite in the trilogy.
@Martin Sv Is, "Three Mules for Sister Sarah," part of that trilogy? I can't remember.
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I think the Ugly sniffed the gun to check the freshness of the gun's oil. If a gun is not oiled regularly it becomes less reliable.
No, it was not a drug case. It is monkfish, a form of tobacco made to be snorted.
When a person is too dehydrated, giving him/her too much water to drink can be deadly. Has it ever happened to you that you were very thirsty and after drinking water you felt as if you had a fever? The temperature rises suddenly, the body does not react well, so you have to rehydrate it gradually.
Gangrene is literally the rotting of the tissues of your body. It usually occurs in the extremities due to infection of a wound.
The cemetery in the last scene was created especially for the film, near a town (in Spain) and can still be visited.
Clint Eastwood's poncho was something improvised for a movie and marked his look in many of the westerns he made
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a GREAT western too!
there is a video here where a film nerd spends nearly an hour dissecting the ten-minute scene of the John Wayne, James Coburn and Jimmy Stewart confrontation in the restaurant.
Ecstasy of Gold, the opening music, was covered by Metallica on their S&M album with the symphony. Love it.
Clint’s debut movie was “Tarantula” about a decade earlier. It was a very small part. He was also a regular on the tv series “Rawhide”. A western series, of course.
Thought it was the creature returns
Oops! You’re right.
@@rickjr37 it is an easter egg in back to the future 3. Marty says to doc I've never seen clint eastwood wear anything like this doc says who?. They are at a drive in theater lot to get to 88mph. There is a poster for the creature returns is playing
@@ingibingi2000 it was The Creature Returns. He was uncredited and he was the only lab assistant with any lines.
His best suspense movie is Play Misty for Me.
Ashley: "A drinking test? What kind of enlistment test is this."
And the current military members and veterans think all at a once: "A realistic one."
the scene where Tuco is recruiting his old gang is one of the restored scenes. the voice you hear is the same actor, but they brought him back at age 90 to re-record the lines.
got to a concert with Ennio Morricone, and they played the score from this. it was a religious experience for me.
if you liked this, i think you'd like A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More
One of my all time favorite movies. I even named my dogs Tuco and Blondie.
Angel eyes would not make for a good dog name
@@ingibingi2000 A mean one, maybe. It'd be like naming a bald guy Curly
I feel like she spends so much time yapping that she can't truly appreciate how good these movies are.
Glad you enjoyed it. Unfortunately you've watched the last film of the Dollars Trilogy first. But, saying the stories aren't connected, you can still do the first two. Start with A Fist Full of Dollars and then A Few Dollars More. The best part is Clint Eastwood is the lead in both of them 😁
Personally, even though this is the last movie of the Dollars trilogy, I think this is the better movie to introduce Ashleigh to. I think it’s just the more... accessible and polished movie of the three. Not to say the other ones are bad or anything (For a Few Dollars More is my favorite one of the trilogy), but I feel this movie was the best one to ease her into that trilogy, and I hope she’ll check out the other two movies someday.
There is a theory going around that The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is a prequel to the other 2 movies. So at the end when Clint is wearing the poncho it leads in to A Fistful of Dollars. I would still go with the dates they came out though and what a fantastic trilogy.
FOR a few dollars more, not a few dollars more.
Not a fan of westerns but the ‘man with no name’ trilogy and ‘Once upon a time in the west’ are endlessly watchable. The paving, the story, the soundtrack, all top notch.
once upon a time in the west was great, and she needs to see who Charles Bronson is.
Its called The Dollars Trilogy
@@innercircle341 both are used. Most of the box sets say “man with no name trilogy”.
Haven't watched your reaction yet but this is a really heavy duty introduction to Westerns! I would have recommended The Outlaw Josey Wales (starring and directed by Clint) as a great opener.
"Hell is coming to breakfast....." 🙂
Maybe ease into the genre with Silverado.
Ashleigh: "I don't feel like these old timey cowboy guns with these open sights are that accurate."
Me: (laughs in Quigley Down Under)
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This movie was very different than most westerns. At the time, it was a clear sort of John Wayne good guy versus bad guy without much creativity outside of that regarding character dynamics. This was the first western that broke that mold with the "Good" being not all that good.
2 Staples of the Western you need to see. This was one of them, and the other is "The Magnificent Seven", one of the last traditional "good guys" westerns (based on a classic Japanese film "The Seven Samurai"). You will recognize most everyone starring in it as well!
Another good one to watch as a modern comparison is "Quigley Down Under" with Tom Selleck and Alan Rickman!
I love "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", but I think I love "Once Upon a Time in the West" a little more. It just had a great revenge story. The intro scene is still one of the best ever shot. And I really love how all the main characters had their own theme music (probably where George Lucas got the idea for his character theme music for "Star Wars".)
Couldn't agree more. Absolute masterpiece.
Agreed - Anyone who hasn't seen it already should definitely check it out (Once Upon a Time in the West) - it's easily my favourite western of all time, despite how many great ones are out there. The Harmonica man is such a great character (from a cast of great characters) and the soundtrack is tragic and haunting.
Interesting fact on Once Upon a Time in the West. The famous Italian horror director Dario Argento (Susperia) was one of the co-writers.
I may need to try re-watching that. I didn't really enjoy the characters or the plot much first time around, although the cinematography was quite stunning in places. Problem is, it's rather a long film to watch again, knowing I wasn't that keen the first time.
Unforgiven (92) and Gran Torino (08) are probably his two most highly-regarded works.
And Million Dollar Baby.
@@suicyconaut and High Plains Drifter and Outlaw Josey Wales and
Clint Eastwood is a gun slinger, he is not a "Cowboy" per say. He is the mysterious gun slinger that comes into town and then moves on.
Sergio Leone did not make typical Westerns of the time, normally westerns had clear good guys and bad guys, and the good guy always wins. Sergio made his much more morally grey, and based heavily on cinematics and suspense. Sergio based a lot of his filmwork on old samurai movies adapted to the wild west, and in turn Quentin Tarantino adapted Sergio Leone Westerns into his more modern movie styles.
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who think Clint Eastwood is the greatest cowboy actor ever, and those who are wrong.
Lead actor, maybe, but supporting actors "make Eastwood look so good." For example, "Sam The Lion" in "The Last Picture Show" (1971) was played by "Western sidekick" Ben Johnson, who thought little of Larry McMurtry's "dirty book," at first. Then he was asked if he wanted to be remembered only as "John Wayne's sidekick," so he took the role and the rest is movie History.
I'm so glad you gave this one a high score: it's an old familiar movie in our family: our radio station played the music long before I watched the movie, which I did in bits and pieces on broadcast tv, in b&w, over long stretches of time. I cried about the captain with the bridge; and also for Tuco and his brother. Eli Wallach steals it for me, and Lee van Cleef was perfection. Leone hired him because "his eyes burn through the screen."
Confession: Clint Eastwood has never been "my guy". Something about him hits me wrong, though I have no idea what it is. As a director, he is marvelous. And I know he's a great actor, but, as with Steve McQueen, something about him is not for me. That said, this may be my favorite way to see him. Blondie is a very good character, who, arguably, is the only one of the three who grows, learns and changes. Again, that scene between the brothers is important because to me Blondie listening in on that and learning about Tuco is the start of his beginning to allow empathy. It manifests when he seems to feel something about the possibility that Tuco's been killed by Angel Eyes. And blowing up the bridge is as much for the dying captain as it is for him and Tuco. Very cool movie. Very cool character.
Ashleigh, I'm so glad you liked this movie because it is one of my favorites. But, as someone mentioned earlier, Clint's best is "The Outlaw Josey Whales". I hope you consider this movie, and look forward to watching it with you. Peace.
*Wales
It's long but never boring. And it has by far the most interesting people playing secondary characters I have ever seen in any movie.
@@anonygent True. i love me some Chief Dan George.
@@gordonduke8812 The old lady smoking a pipe selling goods seems like a real person yanked out of the 19th century.
@@anonygent I agree. Her comment about knowing "doodley squat" (or something to the effect) was so authentic, I felt like she could have been from my southern family tree. But when Dan George said that they took his horse and made him surrender, it was pure comedy gold.
@@gordonduke8812 They have him pulling a wagon up in Kansas I'll bet
When he was in the gun shop and rotating the cylinder on the revolver, he was testing the "lock up" of the cylinder. The The tighter and more solid it locks up on each individual chamber is a good indicator of the revolvers timing. When the cylinder rotates, it brings a chamber into line with the barrel for firing and locks it in place via a small notch on the outside of the cylinder which engages a latch connected to the trigger mechanism. A solid lock up improves accuracy where any misalignment results in poor accuracy and shaving lead from the projectile as it passes from the chamber into the barrel.
This is a Spaghetti Western, the most iconic genre of Western movies as we typically think of them today. They are so named because they came mostly out of Italy (hence the dubbing and the premiere in Rome). They are in many ways responsible for the myth of the wild west, though they did not originate the concept (Wild Bill Hickock's old Wild West Show really initially spread the idea). The actual old west was not nearly that wild. You've seen Tombstone. The shootout at the OK Coral was because they were refusing to follow the town's gun control laws. 3 people died and that deathtoll shocked people. Today, it wouldn't even make national news. The wild west was not that wild, nor all that far west.
For the scene where Tuco was putting the pistol together from different guns...the actor had no idea what he was doing, he improvised the entire scene (for the gun construction anyway). John Wick ch 3 has a scene that pays homage to that scene
Good catch.
Watching this movie every day, when my son was in the hospital was the only thing that kept me sane.
I love this movie, and I loved this vid!
I'm sorry I'm late with this bit of trivia I think you'll enjoy. The name Clint Eastwood is an anagram for "old west action"... _and it's his real name!_
Two things I'd love you to react to after seeing this...
The Good the Bad and the Ugly by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Trust me! Would be a quick easy watch and I think you'd love how they do it.
Kelly's Heroes from 1970. Just a fun watch and more of Mr Eastwood in his prime. Costars are an incredible all star cast. One of my favorites.
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Yes highly recommend this Danish National Symphony Orchestra, among other famous movies
Well worth the watch
Just listening to the couple machines (wind etc)
And the main singer, and chorus
Levels upon levels
Glad you liked the Western. Depending on what kind you want, there's lots of good ones. For example, Liberty Vallance or the original Magnificent Seven are good, classic ones. The two Young Guns or the Quick and the Dead are entertaining newer movies. Then there's the Hateful Eight which is a Tarantino movie (and every bit of.whst you'd expect that to mean)
I'd like to suggest you watch one of my favorites, an older one called Cat Ballou.
The bridge that got destroyed was accidently blown up when the cameras weren't rolling and the Spanish military was so sorry that they rebuilt it to be blown up again. And Ennio Morricone music, its iconic. And several from this movie, the main theme, Ecstasy of Gold and the Trio.
Love this movie, it is so well made. I could talk about the film, both the theatrical and director's cut, for hours on end. One of my favorite movies. My dad liked Westerns, and I imagine he was happy when his boys ended up liking Westerns, too. One of the local channels used to run theme weeks for their nightly movies, and one week it was "Squint like Clint" week, and they played five of his Westerns. They started out the week with his Man With No Name Trilogy, and it was awesome. Some of my favorite memories are times I had with family, and many of that time was spent watching classics on TV in the living room.
"Squint like Clint!" I love it!
EDIT: Sorry for the absurd spelling error; I can't believe I had a brain-fart that bad. Hope everyone had a good giggle.
"listen fight on the bridge, bottleneck them in or blow the bridge down and make them have to wade in the water. But what to I know? nothing about war. nothing about combat strategy"
-- Ashleigh instantly identifying both ideal combat strategies for this situation.
I love this movie and I love that you watched it! I think you'll enjoy The Outlaw Josey Wales more tho, if you want to watch more Clint-westerns! It's a simpler movie but it has such good dialogue and one liners
Jose Wales is majestic. Pale Rider too. She needs to watch Jeremiah Johnson too although we'd have to endure her getting all unnecessary about Robert Redford.
You don't have to put "For a Fistful of Dollars" on your site but if you want to see the first Clint Eastwood spaghetti western, it sets up his whole character. The entire movie is a remake of another Akira Kurasawa samurai movie, Yojimbo, 1961, almost line for line and scene by scene. It's become a classic and has been remade not only as a western with Clint Eastwood, but also as a gangster movie with Bruce Willis, "Last Man Standing," from 1996. Those three movies starred three of the most well known action stars of Japan and the US. Toshiro Mifune was the lead in the samurai version. Often referred to as "Japan's John Wayne," Mifune was a really good actor and in conjunction with Kurasawa, made several films that have been copied numerous times. He was the comic samurai in "Seven Samurai" and played everything from a wandering ronin to Admiral Yamamoto in the 1976 film, "Midway."
To answer a couple of your questions:
1) Sometimes, in frontier towns like that, the guns for sale in general stores weren't new. Shop keepers would occasionally encounter someone trying to unload a gun or two that the owner didn't need anymore. It was a good deal for the shop keeper because he'd buy the gun cheap and sell it for a lot, so there typically weren't a lot of questions asked about where they came from. Of course, some of the guns weren't well maintained, which isn't something a professional gunslinger would want. Tuco was smelling the cylinder because he was trying to determine how long it had been since it had been cleaned. A strong gunpowder smell would indicate poor maintenance.
2) Cobbling together a functional gun from several mediocre condition guns is a tricky process as pieces from different manufacturers or model guns aren't necessarily meant to be interchangeable. He was listening to the action to make sure that the parts he had assembled were working together as they should. Incompatible parts can lead to catastrophic failure, including the gun cylinder exploding and taking a finger or two with it.
And I'd just like to point out that the level of knowledge required to know that this is even possible, nevermind successfully DOING it, cannot be overstated. So you were VERY right when you said Tuco was smarter than he looked.
Honestly this is one of my favorite Clint Eastwood films. The cinematography is amazing...
This is actually the third film in a trilogy. First is A Fistful of Dollars. Second is For A Few Dollars More. Then this is the third. They aren't really connected but it's the same character, The Man With No Name.
Also this character was combined into the character of Roland Deschain of Gilead by author Stephen King for his Dark Tower series.
I always pictured Roland as a blend of Clint Eastwood and Scott Hall.
The third film made, but perhaps the first of the (disconnected) stories. We see here where the Man With No Name acquires his iconic poncho.
The version you watched was the theatrical release. The extended cut is essentially the one shown at its premiere before it was further edited for release. You need to watch Clint in Two Mules for Sister Sara. Great movie with a lot of humor.
Ashley is watching the International Cut..not the edited US cut.
This is the 3rd of a Trilogy.
The Man with No Name series.
1. Fist Full of Dollars.
2. For A Few Dollars More.
3. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
They're known as "spaghetti westerns"
Because they were made in & by an Italian movie maker.
It was an affectionate nickname.
The G, B, & U was the third movie of the "Dollars Trilogy". ALL with Clint, 1st - "A Fistful of Dollars", 2nd - "For a Few Dollars More". As far as Eastwood westerns, MY favorite is "The Outlaw Josie Wales". And: "High Plains Drifter" is the most surreal.
Oh, nice! I was actually going to recommend “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.” Great film. I’d also recommend Silverado. You’d love the cast… lots of famous folks in there.
Definitely a good call with Silverado, great cast, lots of fun, an often overlooked classic!
“I know he’s the bad guy, but he has nice dimples…”. This is why we can’t have nice things, Ashleigh lol.
"If you've got to shoot, shoot -- don't talk." Words to live by.
Amen to that
This was reiterated in a different but similar line in Die Hard. ruclips.net/video/i7slAvhZhRw/видео.html
There is many things learned over the course of time lost on the new generation. For instance , back in the cowboy days, to matches did not have a certain chemical in them to make them a :"Safety match" in which case a small amount of pressure or striking on a leather boot sole would set it off. Another thing in the words of Tuco, If you have to watch = watch don't talk.
This movie was filmed in *SPAIN* by an Italian film crew and director, *Sergio Leoni* . All the extras are Spanish and Italian, no Americans here. 😄 Even the cemetery for the duel in the last scene was built in Spain.
I hope someday you will watch Gran Torino. It's my favorite Clint Eastwood film. It's powerful and interesting.
I"ll def start adding his stuff into the mix of polls!
One of the best western movies of all time.
If you're looking for another western, I'd recommend checking out They Call Me Trinity. It's a western that mixes spaghetti westerns and slapstick comedy. It's really great stuff.
There is three movies in that group also. My Name is Nobody, They Call Me Trinity and My Name Is Still Trinity. Bud Hall and Terrance Hill made a lot of movies together besides their westerns.
This is my all time favourite film. Equally as Iconic as Tombstone which is another of my favourites. Much as i love Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Alien(s) or Marvel this is still the one. Technically the third part of the Dollars Trilogy it's a fairly loose trilogy centred around Clint's character but you don't really need the previous 2 films & it can function as a stand alone. As far as Eastwood westerns go this probably is the best tied with The Unforgiven for which Clint won the best picture & best director Oscar's. Gene Hackman also won best supporting actor. The Outlaw Jose Wales, Pale Rider, Hight Plains Drifter & the other 2 parts of the dollars trilogy A Fistful of Dollars & For A Few Dollars More are all great films too if you fancy going down that rabbit hole. Other westerns on the same epic scale as The Good The Bad and The Ugly directed by Sergio Leone with music by Enio Morricone that don't star Eastwood that are well worth watching are A Fistful of Dynamite with Eli Wallach (Tuco) & James Coburn & Once Upon A Time In The West with Charles Bronson & Henry Fonda.
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is another great Western with John Wayne and James Stewart. There's a twist but I wouldn't dream of spoiling it.
Lee Marvin as liberty