MoeFOH's Movie of the Week... Week #28...

[MoeFOH]

Week #28: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

Moe says:

Sergio Leone created something very special with this film. Easily my favourite spaghetti western and the pick of the "Dollars" or "Man with no name" trilogy. It's about the most cinematic experience I can think of, and it's great fun. The trio of Eastwood, Van Cleef, and Wallach produce brilliant performances. Wallach as Tuco (not Salamanca) is particularly memorable.

So many great scenes, lines, and a film-making style that influenced so many... I wouldn't hesitate to put it in my Top 5 all time.

Wiki says:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Italian: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, literally "The good, the ugly, the bad") is a 1966 Italian epic spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood as "the Good", Lee Van Cleef as "the Bad", and Eli Wallach as "the Ugly". Its screenplay was written by Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, and Leone (with additional screenplay material and dialogue provided by an uncredited Sergio Donati), based on a story by Vincenzoni and Leone. Director of photography Tonino Delli Colli was responsible for the film's sweeping widescreen cinematography, and Ennio Morricone composed the film's score, including its main theme. It was an Italian-led production with co-producers in Spain, West Germany, and the United States. Most of the filming took place in Spain.

The film is known for Leone's use of long shots and close-up cinematography, as well as his distinctive use of violence, tension, and highly stylised gunfights. The plot revolves around three gunslingers competing to find a fortune in a buried cache of Confederate gold amid the violent chaos of the American Civil War (specifically the Battle of Glorieta Pass of the New Mexico Campaign in 1862), while participating in many battles, confrontations, and duels along the way. The film was the third collaboration between Leone and Clint Eastwood, and the second with Lee Van Cleef.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was marketed as the third and final installment in the Dollars Trilogy, following A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More. The film was a financial success, grossing over $38 million at the worldwide box office, and is credited with having catapulted Eastwood into stardom. Due to general disapproval of the spaghetti Western genre at the time, critical reception of the film following its release was mixed, but it gained critical acclaim in later years, becoming known as the "definitive spaghetti Western".

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[MoeFOH]

 

[Nevrknow]

Signed in at the right time! Dad turned me onto this series. Love everyone of them. Cemented me as a western fan from 8ish yrs old? 

Going to the drive in ( 70's ) in what would one day be my first 1969 Mach l mustang. Only problem was the drive in doubled as an X rated theatre on the following night. SO....they show previews for tomorrow nights lineup.

Mom and Dad not knowing this. Trying to block the view of me and my younger brother, Mom screaming, my brother and I laughing like hell trying to dodge arm and body blocks catching quick peeks of boobs.  Priceless!

So yea, that movie is burned into my memory forever. 😁

10/10

Edited September 20, 2022 by Nevrknow

[Ken Gargett]

absolute cracker. one of the great westerns - the two best non-john wayne westerns i can think of would have to be high noon and this. love it. seen it many times. and that music...

[helix]

Classic. In 1966 it was something never seen before. 10.  

[BoxPSI_ed]

One of my all time favorite movies. 

[Fuzz]

Love the movie! The theme music is so iconic, the instant you hear the recorder, you know which film it comes from.

Directors nowadays spend millions of dollars to get their big finale scene, Sergio Leone just decided, "Nope, just gonna have 3 guys stare at each other". You can feel the tension in the scene.

 

[Greenhorn2]

A smoker.10/10

[M1B]

A classic - 9/10

[cgoodrich]

Absolutely one of my absolute favorite movies ever, top 3 in westerns. As much as I like Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach makes the movie great. My favorite line:

“If you miss, you better miss very well. Whoever double-crosses me and leaves me alive, he understands nothing about Tuco.”

The final graveyard scene with the music and Tuco running around looking for the grave marker goes on forever, nearly making you dizzy.

Wonderfully directed by Sergio Leone, a veritable classic.

10/10

[Chibearsv]

The best. I never miss it when I see that it’s on. Blondie!  The chase scene where Tuco finds cigars at old campfires until he finds one that’s still lit so he knows he’s caught up to Blondie is brilliant. 
 

 

[La_Tigre]

As 10/10 as it possibly gets…. “Blonnndiiiiiiiieeeeee!!!!!”

[Ford2112]

1 hour ago, La_Tigre said:

As 10/10 as it possibly gets…. “Blonnndiiiiiiiieeeeee!!!!!”

I thought that same line haha

 

10 stars

[Capn_Jackson]

Wallach is so great in this. No one else could have played that part.

[JohnS]

Sometimes, you really need an outsider to tell a story. Sergio Leone, the Italian director,  was an Americanophile. His final film was Once Upon a Time in America, which became another classic film. This film set the trend for anti-westerns from the 1970s onwards. By that I mean that before this time westerns had very clear protagonists and antagonists. The good guys usually wore white and the bad guys were dressed in black. Not in "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly'. The underlying beauty of this film is that the three main characters all share elements of being good, bad and ugly to some degree.

Other motifs that influenced films thereafter include the memorable and amazing film score by Ennio Morricone, extreme close-ups immediately juxtapositioned by extreme long-shots, the slow, tense build-up to conflict which is followed by a very quick violent conclusion (for example, the ending) and of course, the use of the three-way Mexican standoff.

Quentin Tarantino cites this film as one of his favourites. There's always a Mexican stand-off in each of his films included somewhere. Also, I have a new appreciation where those extreme close-ups in Pulp Fiction came from after seeing the film for the first time in 1995 when it was released.

10/10 without a doubt!

[Connoisseur Kim]

The best of the Dollars trilogy and one of my fav Western movies indeed. 10/10

[La_Tigre]

2 hours ago, Capn_Jackson said:

Wallach is so great in this. No one else could have played that part.

Absolutely…just amazing and Oscar worthy if ever there was…

”When you have to shoot, shoot…Don’t talk…”

The original Raiders of the Lost Ark dispatch moment in memory…

[Edicion]

An all-time favorite movie 10/10

[ayedfy]

10/10 without question. RIP Ennio Morricone. 

[Cigar Surgeon]

Yeah this is definitely a 10/10 Western. Anyone would be hard pressed to improve upon this classic.

[Fuzz]

6 hours ago, La_Tigre said:

Absolutely…just amazing and Oscar worthy if ever there was…

”When you have to shoot, shoot…Don’t talk…”

The original Raiders of the Lost Ark dispatch moment in memory…

Even filtered down to Die Hard.

 

[Doctorossi]

Bingo, everyone. What else to say? Fantastic stuff. Once Upon A Time In the West gives it a run, but six of one...

10/10.

[La_Tigre]

11 hours ago, Doctorossi said:

Bingo, everyone. What else to say? Fantastic stuff. Once Upon A Time In the West gives it a run, but six of one...

10/10.

Imagine if Eastwood would’ve accepted the role of Harmonica…. Not detracting from Bronson but.. 😋 

[ha_banos]

Finally a movie I can agree with you guys on! Love watching this. Will put it on in the background while I'm working today.

 

Now you're going to hate. I'm just surprised they haven't remade this. I just guess it's not yet...

 

 

[bassistheplace]

Stone cold classic. 10/10