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| Clint Eastwood's Best MovieThis is Clint's best movie EVER! Not my favorite western, but still pretty awesome. If you're a western fan and you haven't seen this masterpiece, BUY IT NOW!!!
El bueno, el malo y el feoGran edicion, video y audio sensacionales, vale la pena la compra solo falto algunos videos de making of
An Epic Masterpiece!!!An epic masterpiece of tremendous proportions. Sergio Leone is a genius at directing this movie and employed innovative usage of extreme close-ups, unusual camera angles, extended sequences and amazing action that changed how films were made after that. What keeps us coming back to this movie time and time again is the wry humor and the MUSIC!! Along with Jaws, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly elevates itself to the level of the greatest motion picture score of all time. It has become a cliché now when the opening whistle melody embodies the Western shootout in movies, TV, commercials, you name it. Keep in mind, before this, the western ideal for music was always the large orchestral scores with sweeping melodies ala Copland, Korngold, Moross, Elmer Bernstein, etc. Ennio Morricone used electric guitars, whistling and hyena howls!! Talk about innovative!! The Ecstasy of Gold sequence is a cinematic clinic on how to unite editing with music.
Greatest. Western. EVER.Sergio Leone's THE GOOD, THE BAD, & THE UGLY killed off the classic Hollywood pretty-boy Westerns in a hail of hideous hot lead and dragged the genre back into the dusty gutters of the back country where it belongs. John Wayne would soil himself at the sight of Clint Eastwood's steely, unholy stare even as he was blown away by a few well-placed pistol shots.
Unlike the Westerns of previous days that went out of their way to make the West look like a fun and beautiful place, THE GOOD, THE BAD, & THE UGLY takes us to the harsh, hot, and horrific badlands of some godforsaken land where the laws of society and at times even the laws of physics don't apply. A place where the villains are downright demonic and even the heroes are a bit morally ambiguous. Even Clint Eastwood's "Blondie" character is really only in it for the money.
Set all of this rawness against the most fantastic score ever composed for a Western, and you're left with a three-hour mind trip of a movie that will leave you disgusted and dying to watch it again.
"Hey Blondie! You know what you are?! Just a dirty son of a *****!!!"
A SUPERB CLASSICI watched this again for the DVD commentary. Turns out that Clint and the director were at odds in several areas. Clint actually got some residuals from this movie. He didn't like that the explosives were real and was surprised no one got hurt. I didn't realize Eli Wallach was The Ugly (he was the old guy in THE HOLIDAY) and his army doctor background helped with the torture scene. MY GRADE: A minus to A.
DescriptionBy far the most ambitious, unflinchingly graphic and stylistically influential western ever mounted, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is an engrossing actioner shot through with a volatile mix of myth and realism. Clint Eastwood returns as the "Man With No Name," this time teaming with two gunslingers (Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef) to pursue a cache of $200,000and letting no one, not even warring factions in a civil war, stand in their way. From sun-drenched panoramas to bold,hard close-ups, exceptional camera work captures the beauty and cruelty of the barren landscape andthe hardened characters who stride unwaveringly through it. Forging a vibrant and yet detached style of action that had not been seen before, and has never been matched since, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly shatters the western mold in true Clint Eastwood style.
Amazon.comClint Eastwood (the Man with No Name) is good, Lee Van Cleef (Angel Eyes Sentenza) is bad, and Eli Wallach (Tuco Benedito Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez) is ugly in the final chapter of Sergio Leone's trilogy of spaghetti westerns (the first two were A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More). In this sweeping film, the characters form treacherous alliances in a ruthless quest for Confederate gold. Leone is sometimes underrated as a director, but the excellent resolution on this digital video disc should enhance appreciation of his considerable photographic talent and gorgeous widescreen compositions. Ennio Morricone's jokey score is justifiably famous.
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