Hi:
Viewed "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" Clint Eastwood movie on "U Tube"
this afternoon.
With the exception of the C&B Colt and Remington Revolvers using self contained cartridges (?) the Locations, Sets,Uniforms, and Weapons were impressive. Also the hundreds of "Extras" in the Film. It appears that this was not a cheaply produced Movie ?

I don't think it was an expensive movie at all to make. What impressed me is that what they got for their money was a hulluva good movie. GB&U is a first class classic.

There's quite a few secondary and tertiary actors who appeared in The G-B-&-U after appearing in the previous two films.

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I am not sure what extras would be paid in Italy for a couple of days work in 68. It was not US scale i am certain.

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"BLONDIE, YOU'RE A SON OF A" ah-ee-ah-ee-ah!

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that's MY PHONE RING .......... I GET AH-EH AHall day LOL

thewelshm

a true classic.one of my favorite movies.

Wisdom from Tuco.
When you have to shoot...Shoot! Don't talk - YouTube

A very enjoyable movie. One of the best of the "Spaghetti Westerns". The absolute best of them was "Once Upon a Time in the West". While filmed overseas it had some pretty big name stars. Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, the delicious Claudia Cardinale, and a not quite yet famous Charles Bronson. Once you get past the excruciatingly slow opening scene, it's a complex, well acted movie.

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If you have not seen the extended version of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly I highly recommend it. There's like almost 15 minutes of "restored" scenes, the ones with Eastwood and Wallach were redubbed by the actors themselves. The added scenes with Van Cleef were redubbed in English (because they had never been dubbed as the scenes were shot but never used in the English version of the film) by a voice impersonator as the actor had already died when the restoration was made.

Worth seeing.

I love Clint Eastwood but I really don't like the Spaghetti westerns. Long, boring and cannot understand what anybody is mumbling.

An Italian director who doesn't speak English and is extremely into American westerns makes an Italian western set during the Civil War, made in Spain, and many aspects of it look more historically correct than John Ford's "the Horse Soldiers" and most other American films set during that period. The battle and various crowd scenes in particular. Then you inject the weird pasta western elements like super gunfighters, bizarre soundtracks that somehow work, and that distinct echoey sound when a gun is fired that for some reason is a staple of these movies that sounds kind of like "PISHERRRRRR!!!!!" instead of "BOOM!".

The Music of Ennio Morricone. Ecstasy of Gold:
I expect the sound from behind the Pearly Gates to be something like this.

Ennio Morricone - Ecstasy of Gold (The Good, the Bad, the Ugly) - YouTube

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I always liked "For a Few Dollars More" (the sequel to the first of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns - "Fistfull of Dollars" ) the best. The villain, fascinated by the watch... Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef going through the town...shooting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDRNE...e_gdata_player

Man, they don't write them like that anymore! Might be just as well, it would trip the circuit breakers of most under-25's today.

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In my younger years, a bar with a western theme opened in the town where I lived. You guessed it, it was called "The Good, Bad & The ugly".

The cowboy craze was soon to wane, so they changed to a GO-GO joint but kept the same name.

I met a friend in a local store shortly after the re-opening of said bar. "Hi, long time, no see" says I "what ya' been up to?"

"We went & checked the new bar last week" he said - - "The bad & the ugly were there."

It wasn't long 'till they had a new name to go with their new theme

I went to that set 25 years ago, its in Teneriffe. My wife got tied up by the bad guys thanks for the memory....


thewelshm

I was just a little too old when they first came out to buy into all the hokey-ness of the music, I think Tuco was my favorite character, my little brother was four years younger and he bought it big time, all he wanted for Christmas was a blanket with the hole in the middle just like Eastwood...he got one and slept in the damn thing. I thought many elements were really stupid like Tuco going into the store and taking all the pistols apart and building the one he wanted...I still liked his character, wearing his pistol around his neck, picking his teeth...great. I remember asking one of my Hispanic buddies why he called Eastwood "Blondie", he told me that they messed up the translation because he probably would have called him "Whitey", a common slang term for an anglo used my Hispanics amongst themselves and a term of derision.

But it is authentic, Old West mumbling.

Fixted.

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should hear the ecstasy of gold on a big Hammond organ in a church with leslie speakers in both ends of the building.

Metallica also does a pretty cool version of ecstasy of gold.

It's one of my favorite movies, one of those you can't help but watch it every time it's on.

I hope I have eyes like Van Cleef or Eastwood when my daughter starts dating.

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Arch Stanton, just dig an unmarked grave next to the porch.

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Back when I was a kid I remember watching these Clint Eastwood movies. I grew up in Oxnard California and when I was 13 I went to the Esplanade mall to get a tire tube for my bike. When I came out of the Sears store I sat on the bench in the mall waiting for my parents to exit so we could leave. A man in a tweed jacket and a hat like the type Tom Landry wore asked if he could sit, I said sure. He asked if I minded if he smoked his pipe. I said not at all. I turned to look at him as he lit his pipe and I said , You look looked the guy from the cowboy movies "Angel Eyes". He said that's me. We chatted for a bit. He asked why I was there. I pulled out my old tube from my pocket that had at least 45 patches on it. We both laughed so hard. His eyes were watering as he chuckled and said why didn't I get one sooner. I said I was cheap and we laughed more. I was in the presence of Lee Van Cleef. He was a cool cat and I'll never forget that day. I saw him there quite often as he bought tobacco goods at the Tinder Box. But hardly nobody rarely noticed who he was.

The success of the "Dollars" movies resulted in a much bigger budget for The Good the Bad and the Ugly.

Everyone always speaks of it as a "Clint Eastwood movie". However, he is barely involved, if at all, in the best scenes. To my thinking, it is an "Eli Wallach movie".

For me, the two scenes that really make the movie are the "Forgive me Brother" scene between Tuco and Pablo Ramirez:
Tuco meets his brother - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - YouTube

... And of course the "Ecstasy of Gold" scene:
The good, the bad and the ugly - Ecstasy of Gold - YouTube

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Is that anything like authentic frontier gibberish?

Dang nabbit, the Sheriffs a BONG!!!!!

AH! The Sheriff is near!

Got it...

My Lord, that had to be the best gunfight scene ever.

I love the silence with the crows cawing.

Somebody mentioned Metallica...

The Good, The Bad and The Metallica - YouTube

There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend...

Tuco "The Rat" (Eli Wallach) was a busy guy. Before his "Hangings" where Clint Eastwod would cut the rope with his rifle, his crimes were read:

….wanted in fifteen counties of this state, the condemned standing before us…sitting before us…Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez has been found guilty by the third district circuit court of the following crimes: Murder, assaulting a justice of the peace, raping a virgin of the white race, statuatory rape of a minor of the black race…derailing a train in order to rob the passengers, bank robbery, highway robbery, robbing an unknown number of Post Offices, breaking out of the state prison, using marked cards and loaded dice, promoting prostitution, blackmail, intention of selling fugitive slaves, and counterfeiting. Crimes against places of high authority include burning down the courthouse and sheriff’s office in Sonora. The accused is also guilty of cattle rustling, horse thievery, supplying Indians with firearms…misrepresenting himself as a Mexican General, unlawfully drawing salarly and living allowances from the Union Army. For all these crimes the accused has made a full and spontaneous confession. Therefore we condemn him to be hung by the neck until dead….may the lord have mercy on his soul….proceed.

Is it just me, or do those Italian horses walk funny?

"If you work for a living...why do you kill yourself working?"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj3dK...e_gdata_player

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Amen!

I also love Hugo Montenegro's versions of that music.

Probably hand-reared by Sophia Loren's lesser known cousin. Clean Break

Reading this thread the other day reminded me of this.
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - The good, the bad and the ugly Theme - YouTube

The music of the movies, what gurus these composer's really are. The music of the movies is like the music of the gods. How do they write and even come up with the music. The movie revolves around the music. Without the music sound track there would be no movie. Ever think about this?

Listening to some of these clips led me to revisit some of Carter Burwell's soundtracks for the Coen brothers' movies, Fargo, for example, and especially Miller's Crossing. The music really can make the movie by setting a tone that would be wholly lacking on the strength of the narrative alone.
Miller's Crossing by Carter Burwell - YouTube

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A Ruger with the album cover.

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