The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

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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 ?
 
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jimmyj said:
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 ?
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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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!".
 
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 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.
 
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