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"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" Watch Along (Patreon)

Published:
2024-05-09 17:00:11
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2024-05-09 19:36:59
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Howdy! This movie should be called "The Score, the Direction and the Cinematography!" LOL bad joke!

Wow, this movie is a monster! I enjoyed it! I have been having fun on this journey into westerns - a genre I am in the dark about! But I feel like I am able to appreciate so much about it because of the amazing filmmaking! I am enjoying getting to know these iconic characters and gunfights! I think there are probably things I may have missed (but that's why I have you!) So many movies I have seen must have taken inspiration from so much an iconic film!! Especially the cinematography and the direction of the shots. I loved the extreme close-ups and the extreme wide shots! I loved how this movie explored the good and bad sides of humanity, and I thought it was a cool way to tell a story, with the themes and morality against the backdrop of the Civil War! (Time to learn more about that too).

I loved that Clint said "Yeah" a lot! He said that a ton in "Unforgiven". Is this his thing - or was that a callback to this movie's iconic character.

Please let me know your thoughts on this movie! Let me know your fave moments and what you love or dislike about it!!

This week has been so fun with some heavy hitting POLL winners!

Y'all are the best bunch! Love you all to infinity!

xx

ames

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Watch Along

Comments

Bill Maurer

Great western. A bit long in some instances, but one of the best "Spaghetti Westerns" of all time.

Catchermag

It’s a classic spaghetti western. Are there better ones? Yes. But you gotta have your mothers grilled cheese and tomato soup before you know you want to order it at a fancy restaurant to see if it’s better. Besides, hers may not be better, but its cozier. Sorry for the food metaphor, I’m hungry.

Carl Lyngholm

I've seen bits and pieces of this movie (seem to recall seeing the iconic ending standoff in a film class), but never the entire movie. Hopefully, this will give the excuse to bear down and do it. Generally speaking, Westerns have never really been "my thing".

RFK Fan

Omg.. Can never get enough of Eastwood, Van Cleef and the INCREDIBLE Eli Wallach who steals every scene he's in.. But The unsung hero in this film is again, the GREAT Ennio Morricone (Cinema Paradiso) score... Without it? The film doesn't hold a fraction of the emotion or tension. For anyone interested in the life long collaboration of Morricone & Leone you have to check out this documentary on his career. It's as much a tribute to the history of Cinema than it is to Ennio .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_sMAYADwCA

RFK Fan

FYI.. DECADES later?? GB&U fan loyalists sought out to find the location of the final scene in Spain and were able to locate it despite the stone circle being mostly overgrown and covered with dirt. So they started a Gofund Me page to RESTORE the location to it's original 1965 glory by getting anyone who donated their OWN Headstone at Sad Hill Cemetery and it worked! They even held a SCREENING of GB&U at the location and had a special appearance from Clint himself (via remote) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8SfgVM3-eg

Jason Vulgamore

1 of my favorite lines in tv history was on the original Night Court. Christine, Harry, and Bull walked into Michael Gross's office. Michael Gross (on the phone) said, "I have to go. The good, the bad, and the ugly just walked in."

Toc

Ha! Love it: The score, the direction and the cinematography!" Has anyone explained to you what "spaghetti western" is? It's a stylized subgenre of the western; it's Italian movie companies in the 60s-early 70s (sometimes Spanish) making westerns, using an international cast, usually casting one or two (or three) well-known American actors. And all the dialog gets ADR'd later, with all the actors speaking in their native langauges. Sergio Leone's westerns all have this slow style with the close-ups, much parodied over the years, usually with this score playing over it. (That's probably why you recognized the score!) PS: Cleef and Eastwood were western actors; Eli Wallach ("the ugly") was a great character actor from the 50s-70s, another guy to come out of the Actor's Studio era, he's like Martin Balsam, you'll see him pop up in a million movies, right into the 1980s.

Bubba Fett

Eli Wallach is spectacular, every one of his movies he plays the best protagonist. The civil war component wasn't real critical Here, just part of the setting so nothing really to understand about it. On to the rest of the dollar trilogy!!

JM63

You got it, "epic" is the right word to describe everything in this. The location for the Civil War battle with all the extras looks incredible (and amazing that they did all that for a relatively short sequence). Fave shot: The nested arched doorways in the beginning. There's probably some symbolism there that I don't get. Out of the Dollars films, I do still like For a Few Dollars More the best. It's about 30 min shorter than this, and Lee Van Cleef's character is just cooler to me in that one. But my favorite spaghetti western is The Great Silence, about a mute bounty hunter (also features another fantastic score by Morricone). Still, this is a legendary must-see western and it's a good one to check off. Glad you enjoyed it.

John Courtright

What a great first time watch with you, Ames! I'm glad I was able to finally check this one off the list! Morricone's iconic score was so familiar!! It's cool you got to see Clint Eastwood when he was younger! (He was 36 in this film. Not a bad looking guy, I have to admit! Lol!) What a great cast! Lee Van Cleef is always such a classic bad guy! You just know there's no bargaining with the devil! Lol. Eli Wallach as Tuco is amazing! I really like the point you made about Tuco accepting himself for who and what he is, despite his primary character traits being greed and selfishness! Eastwood is perfect as "Blondie"! What a cool character (and he gets to say "Yeah" a lot, lol). It was great to see Sergio Leone's film-making style. The combination of widescreen shots along with the extreme close-ups were epic, especially in that final scene!! I think the film probably would have benefitted from being about 30 minutes shorter, but this was a fun one!

Brando83

Great reaction, Ames! Every frame of this film is pure eye candy for me. Glad you enjoyed it so much. The high-stepping horse Lee Van Cleef ("Angel Eyes") rode was a circus horse. Due to an injury, he needed one. Great observation. When Tuco is recruiting his three "friends," it's the same actor (Eli Wallach) speaking, but it was a deleted scene re-recorded and re-added 35+ years later (when he was in his eighties). Lee Van Cleef's added scenes had to be recorded by another actor.

Andrew Roach

To add to a comment already made. This was an extended version with multiple scenes added decades later which had to be dubbed by Eli Wallace, Clint Eastwood and another person who had to mimic Lee Van Cleef's voice (he may have passed away by then) which is why for different scenes their voices sound different as they are "old man" voices.