Tuco as played by Eli Wallach is one of the great iconic characters in film history. I simply can't imagine anyone else bringing the same range of qualities to the role.
@@BarryHart-xo1oy - absolutely. When he says - "Even a tramp like me, no matter what happens... I know there's a brother somewhere who will never refuse me a bowl of soup", you can feel that a normal family life is something he would love to have, but circumstances didn't let that happen 😞
@@barrierodliffe3452 - yes. That's because we all do realize that he has to do what he has to do in order to survive in that chaos, even if much of the time, the means he employs are not all that pretty.
“The Ecstasy of Gold” plays at the start of every Metallica concert. What a way to start one! 🔥🔥🔥 For years, I thought Blondie was just messing with Tuco at the end, until a reactor pointed out Blondie didn’t want to risk Tuco trying to kill him to get all the gold, so he bought himself some time and distance by forcing Tuco to get into the noose.
@beatmet2355 same thought I have viewed this film at least a dozen times and didn't even click Tuco might have the idea to keep all the coin for himself at the end of the film I also thought Blondie was just fooling with Tuco
@@darrenkoglin3423 Good is relative - but yes. He was honourable with those he dealt with, and who dealt fairly with him. Even leaving Tuco to walk back was calculated not to harm him) - Tuco would have killed him at any opportunity for the money. The only thing he did wrong is not leaving Tuco half the final bounty - and by the end he had learned not to repeat that error.
Not only that, but some scenes that originally were cut out of the international (English 😅) version, were spliced in and dubbed 50 years later using surviving actors and doubles. Which is why Tuco sounds old 10:55 chicken scene.
It was very typical in the 60s and 70s that many european genre movies were co-produced by several people and companies from different countries, usually Italy, Germany, France and Spain. These spaghetti westerns were usually shot in Spain, because it was cheaper and the technicians and workers were very able. The american producer Samuel Bronston was the first one taking advantage of such conditions
The bridge explosion had to be done twice. It was mistakenly blown up the first time before the cameras were ready, had to be rebuilt for that second explosion.
Clint Eastwood starred in a very popular television western, Rawhide, from 1959 to 1965. After its run, he decided to leave Hollywood to shoot what some refer to as spaghetti westerns with Sergio Leone in Europe. Many in Hollywood thought he was crazy to leave after the success of Rawhide. While he wasn't allowed to direct any of the films, he did have input into the scripts and even rewrote some of the dialogue so it would make sense to a Western audience. His Hollywood friends were wrong because The Man with No Name trilogy became a hit and made Eastwood an international superstar.
Yes, so glad y’all did this. Very few will take the chance of tackling it because it’s a long run time. The collaboration of Sergio Leone directing & the score by Ennio Morricone gave us some fantastic films. Hope you will consider doing more. The two I would suggest are “Once Upon a Time in the West” & “A Fistful of Dynamite”. What is amazing about this is the scope, the vastness of the shots, especially the bridge scene with extras….just epic. Too bad we don’t see that style anymore, it’s all about CGI now which just doesn’t bring the same feeling.
After Tuco shoots one-arm and he is standing there with soap all over, he improvised the lines: when you gotta shoot, shoot, don't talk. That wasn't in the script. Tuco was supposed to just stare at him.
These “spaghetti westerns” marked the beginning of Eastwood’s rise to superstardom and influenced a lot of later ones and other types of films like crime movies⚛️❤
"These “spaghetti westerns” marked the beginning of Eastwood’s rise to superstardom " Sure, but this one was a 'Paëlla Western', being shot is Spain. 🙂
You’re right about them dubbing it afterward. It was the norm in 60s-70s Italian movies to ADR all the dialogue, that way they could hire casts who spoke different languages and have them all perform in their own language, then dub it for each respective language. That’s why Clint Eastwood’s mouth matches his dub the best, because he delivered all his lines in English.
The sound track by Ennio Morricone is one of the best in film history. Also, the skeleton in the grave of Arch Stanton was not a fake stage prop. It was the skeleton of an actress who's last wish was to be in one last movie, when she was dying. Her daughter offered to let Director Sergio Leone to use her actual skeleton in the film to fulfill her last wish.
Fun facts: 8:10 That really was Eli tied up on the back of the horse. The gunshots spooked the horse into running completely off set, going almost a mile with the poor guy tied up on its back with no way to stop the horse. 9:40 The bullet missed a small packet of gunpowder in the rope and the shot scared the horse into running, leaving Eli hanging. The face he makes while getting hanged was real!
One of my fave films & one of the best Westerns ever made. The entire trilogy is worth a watch guys so make sure to see A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS & FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (J you'll appreciate them for they do have some more emotions there). Fun reaction as always :D
All time classic. Another great Western by Sergio Leone is Duck you Sucker (A Fist full of Dynamite), it also uses the legendary composer Ennio Morricone.
My favorite Clint Eastwood movie is The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). Also I haven't seen too many reactions to Every Which Way But Loose (1978) and Any Which Way You Can(1980) with Clint Eastwood. Two very funny and iconic movies during the time they were released, at least where I came from they were. "Right turn Clyde." Those who have seen those two movies know that line.
Movie trivia: the body in Arch Stanton's grave is a real skeleton. It was a Spanish actress that put in her will that she wanted to be in movies after her death, so her skeleton was rented out as a prop.
Also, Blondie took the time to comfort two dying men. He didn't have to tell the Colonel, but this way he died happy, knowing no one would die over that stupid bridge any more. And he made the young soldier comfortable. The bridge was blown up for real... twice. The first time because of a miscommunication with no camera's rolling. Thankfully no one got hurt. The funny part? It didn't stretch the budget. You see, for the scene they had help from the local military and they let the commanding officer give the commando to blow the bridge. He wasn't familiar with the movie production slang and gave the order too soon. He had the bridge rebuild so they could blow it up again.
This trilogy and many other 1960s westerns were made in Italy with Italian crew and minor characters. You may notice the voice dubbing into English - mouths not matching with the words being spoken. You may also notice less dialogue than in most movies. These Italian westerns were known by the term "spaghetti westerns" back then. I have no idea if they are still known by this term. They would bring over American actors to star. Lee Van Cleef was the Bad & Eli Wallach was the Ugly. Both had exceptional careers, just like Clint Eastwood. I remember seeing this at the drive-in movies in the late 1960s - early 1970s. Thanks for the memories and reaction.💜
De acuerdo en todo, solo precisar que eran películas italianas pero la mayoría de ellas se rodaban en España, concretamente en Almería, en el desierto de Tabernas, el único desierto de Europa.
I appreciate the fact you both acknowledged the blowing up of the bridge being real because it was and even at that distance it was still dangerous and they must have used a crap load of explosives when you see that explosion, and yes, that shovel angel eyes tossed did almost hit Tuco in the head and he might have warned him of that later but it worked out in the end. Things were dangerous making movies back then and not so simple as using CGI like today. This movie was dubbed because it was mostly filmed in Spain.
There is a story that the bones in the coffin were those of a Spanish actress who wanted to keep acting after she died. Supposedly, she made arrangements for her skeleton to appear as a prop in movies.
Great reaction to this epic classic. FYI the film is set during the American Civil War, particularly the New Mexico campaign. Confederate forces from Texas marched on the territory and attempted to capture California with it's mineral wealth for the CSA. They were able to create an Arizona Territory among other events before being driven out decisively by summer 1862. Tuco and Blondie pass through the Confederate lines at Glorieta Pass at one point, the location of the titular battle.
Defying a gunfight tradition of waiting for your opponent to draw first, Clint shot first. John Wayne hated it, but Clint stated later in interviews it didn't make any practical sense to wait for your adversary to draw first...that it was merely a 'Hollywood construct' that never existed in real life.
53:49 Mark! I'm Viewer #12,226! Thumb Up #917! 👍 You two, you're welcome, and thanks! 😊 Notes: The older movies made before they were monitored by the "ASPCA" and/or "AHS" are cringe inducing indeed whenever horses and other animals are shown falling. Think about the loud bangs happening by their sensitive ears! 😮 Really? You don't recognize that we were the good guys during our Civil War while the slavers were the bad guys? 🤔 😮 The battle scene! It still looks out of place to me because it doesn't look like it fits in anywhere here. 🙄 It looks like it takes place in Spain! But this time, it isn't a WW2 battle! 😂 Spain uses their locations over and over just like we do! 😅 Good deductive reasoning about why each man was labeled they way they were! 🧐 Bye-bye for now and namaste! 🙏
Guys all the three spaghetti westerns of Leon with Eastwood had their lines redone after filming. The crew were Italian, Mexican, Spanish and English. They did not record audio. Even the sound effects were added later like walking, shooting, everything.
The eye patch is also a pirate trick to keep one eye adjusted to the dark and another to the light. It is more useful with ships going below decks but others have employed it.
Eli Wallach said the train / track scene he almost lost his life, The scene has Tuco showcasing his ingenuity as he escapes from his Union army captors. Chained to a soldier he has just killed, he awaits the next train’s arrival to sever the binding chain. Using a real locomotive was risky enough, yet the filmmakers failed to consider lowered metal steps protruding from the oncoming vehicle. In a bid to stress that it was indeed Wallach himself in this risky situation and not a stunt double, director Leone instructed Wallach to turn his face towards the camera - oblivious that something akin to a guillotine was hurtling towards his actor’s head. Wallach recalled the harrowing experience in his autobiography, describing his protestations to Leone about the danger the train steps posed. “Leone said that the cameraman couldn’t see my face because I was too far down in the hole. ‘Did you see that goddamn step on the train?’ I asked. ‘Do you want me to finish the movie without a head?’ Leone stopped and stared as the train disappeared in the distance. ‘All right,’ he said. ‘We’ll use the first take.'”
The film is directed by an Italian director, Sergio Leone, featuring Italian, Spanish, and American actors, and was shot in Spain. For this reason, many actors are dubbed in English. The bridge battle actually took place; Sergio Leone went to Texas to browse through old documents and discovered this war episode that even the Americans themselves had forgotten. Let’s also remember the magnificent music by Ennio Morricone, an Academy Award winner.
36:11 the dangers they faced back in the day, they almost got pelted by stones flying in from the explosion, now a days they would have stunt doubles, CGI explosion, 100 million dollar budget,.. 😂 this is a classic! loved the "Man with no Name" trilogy! started watching it with my dad when i was a kid. another great reaction! 👍
Id like to suggest another great Clint Eastwood movie that gets very little attention but was still very well made called, "Kelly's Heroes" and was set during WW2 with a big cast of actors looking for a way out of the war. It's classic and very entertaining because it's based loosely on a true story.
Tuco Benito Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez All of the voices of the characters are perfect.the score of the movie is the best I've ever heard Clint is the only one left
Great movie. Now you have to check out Once Upon a Time in the West which is, for me, one of the greatest movies ever made. The same genius director and composer worked on it.
My favorite scene in all the Eastwood Westerns is when he fights for his mule's honor....."......my mule, he doesn't understand. He thinks you're laughing at him."
As I recall, Lee Van Cleef was about to quit movie acting when Sergio Leone came calling and made him an international movie star! "Colonel Douglas Mortimer" was a great character with layers in "For a Few Dollars More."
It's a tighter film, without the war scenes. The villain is more interesting too, the Bad isn't that interesting in TGTB&TU. Unfortunately as with other areas most Americans only bandwagon on a few films, requesting the same one endlessly. Same with Hitchcock.
The Ugly forced Blondie on a much longer walk than Blondie forced Tuco on. That's the difference between their walks in the desert, Tuco chose to be vengeful instead of paying back the same. Blondie would never double the pain of his opponent, he would demand the same struggle as he was put in. Tuco doesnt have mercy, he wants to give back the double pain of what he experienced.
you have to feel italo western you have to feel the vibe in those movies and sadly you didnt feel it because you expected a normal movie like other movies. you have to feel these movies
its not an umbrella. its a parasol. the soundtrack is what makes this film legendary. without the music you have a very good film. with the soundtrack you have a CLASSIC! the last 15 minutes of this film brings tears to my eyes every time i watch it. its so beautiful in its combining great music, great acting, great directing and great editing together to produce a devistaing emotional impact. eastwood's character became known as the "man with no name" and became one filmdom's first "anti-hereos." an anti-hero is a character who'll often do the right thing for the wrong reason. robert de niro's character "travis bickle" in "taxi driver" (1976) was another anti-hero. anti-heros became common place in 70's movies. jack nicholson's character "McMurphy" in "one flew over the cuckoo's nest" (1975) is another 70's anti-hero icon. thanks for the video.
Since the 80s Metallica always open all their live concerts with the song "The Ecstasy of Gold" (by Ennio Morricone author of the entire soundtrack) that you can listen when Tuco reaches the cemetery. At least in Italy, I know because I watched them live in 1988, 90 and 92 in Italy
These Early Clint Eastwood movies were made in Italy - We called them Spaghetti Westerns LOL and their style was a bit odd in some respects - the music for one and the still shots or close ups in the face/eyes but after a while the grew on you and you looked forward to them. The other odd thing was they were DUBBED in English and the voices were odd some times to the character that you knew from other movies.
I really hope you two liked this movie. I had so much fun watching this with you. My favorite is Tuco. But anyways, I just want you to know how happy it made me watching this with my favorite reactors! You two are so adorable and I can see how much you love each other and that you’re best friends. Thank’s for the reaction!
It was a three hour movie, but there were so many twists and different scenes. The story flowed beautifully. Yes, Clint Eastwood played the “good” guy, but this was a far different westerns of the past when the good guys were so good that it wasn’t really believable in real life.
He was "good" because, as a professional bounty hunter, he only killed gun-slinging bad guys. Unlike Angel Eyes, who would kill literally anyone, and Tuco, who was somewhere in between.
The scene at 26:57 was cut and was added into the extended version with the dialogue of both Clint and Angel Eyes added decades later by Clint and a voice actor. You can tell Clint’s older,weaker voice as well as AA’s being different.
The wild west was when people settled oht west, it was vast territories with few lawmen and cities springing up. The people that settled it were desperate people looking for a life, they had a chance at free land (imagine what people would do for free land today...would never happen though, if Antarctica was hospitibal suddenly, the corporations would buy it). And a lot of the west had hostile Natives and all types of perils. So naturally criminals would gravitate to it.. Also there's the gray area that is bounty hunters.
Please consider watching The Outlaw Josey Wales 😢 If you don't, my next comment will be one for the Mean Comments episode with @Cinebinge 😂 just kidding, I love you guys 😜
This is a spaghetti western. It was made in Italy. Italians filmmakers have a weird filming style in which they NEVER use onset audio. They hire actors from all over Europe and America and let them say all their lines in their native languages. Then they overdub the entire movie into any language. This makes the dialogue not match the lips, but it also means that the actors are sometimes reacting to someone speaking a language they don't know, and so they are just reading their lines in order without exactly having the same interaction with the other actors. This leads to a lot of the dialogue feeling weird.
Can you two watch these Clint Eastwood Movies? 1.The Outlaw Josey Wales 2.The Beguiled 3.Hang'em High 4.Joe Kidd 5.High Plains Drifter 6.Firefox 7.Escape From Alcatraz 8.Bronco Billy 9.The Eiger Sanction 10.Heartbreak Ridge 11.The Rookie 12.White Hunter Black Heart 13.In The Line Of Fire 14.Where Eagles Dare 15.Kelly's Heroes .... Have you seen Dirty Harry movies?
"The Good, The Bad and the Ugly": The third of Sergio Leone's "Spaghetti Westerns" with Clint Eastwood as the antiheroic lead actor. Over the years, I've noticed that Eli Wallach, as "Tuco," does steal the show whenever he's on screen. It looks like he had a great time, even if he was almost killed at one point. You should hear what the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Chorus did with TGBATU soundtrack: th-cam.com/video/enuOArEfqGo/w-d-xo.html
the pistols in the movie are inaccurate these one us metallic cartridges like modern ones but the time period they used cap and ball percussion ones meaning you load the cylinder with gun powder then a lead ball then seal the chamber with grease, so the bath tub scene the water would have gotten into the cylinder and soaked the gunpowder making it useless
Everyone but Blondie, including the audience, were given plenty of time to ponder who wins a 3-way gunfight of very skilled and independent participants. Answer: Noone. Whoever moves first is either shot by a faster guy he is targeting, or by the other guy reacting. With this knowledge noone shoots first, and so it's either peace or the loser is the one who cannot hold onto the logic but is overridden by fear and anxiety. The cinematography and Ennio Morricone's score elevate this good film to one of the best. Check out the Danish Symphony Orchestra's performance of two songs from the score. "Ecstacy Of Gold" is one of the most beautiful pieces of music IMO. "Where Eagles Dare" is another amazing Clint Eastwood film. It was his first non-western role. It has everything: Beautiful locations, adventure, intrique, mystery, espionage, action, plot twists, musical score, really bad guys, and the good guys. The screenplay & book was written by Alistair MacLean who also wrote novels that were the basis of other action films such as "The Guns Of Navarone", "Ice Station Zebra", "Breakheart Pass", "Force 10 From Navarone", "San Andreas". One thing of note is that the women operative characters are very capable - something quite rare for the 1960's.
This movie was filmed in Spain by an Italian director, Sergio Leone, and the actors were either Italian, Spanish, or, for the lead roles, American. Italy dubbed their films into Italian back then - no subtitles - so each of the actors spoke in their home tongue and everything was dubbed by Italian speakers. As a result, all of the original dialogue recordings were erased. When the filmed was dubbed for the English speaking audience, even the native English speakers had to redub their dialogue, so the entire vocal dubbing was always a bit off.
Great movie. I hope you watch the all Dollar Trilogy this is the last movie in the trilogy the prequel. I highly recommend you see the movie "My Name is Nobody" 1973 a really funny spaghetti movie. Another more modern movie you should see that plays homage to this movie is The Quick and The Dead 1995. This is kind of unofficial squeal to the movie :) th-cam.com/video/ynC0jLGBA_U/w-d-xo.html
It's a great Western, but the pacing is very different than that of modern movies. This film was made in Italy; one of the very popular Italian genre films known as "spaghetti Westerns." Most of the supporting actors were Italian, which is why it had to be dubbed into English.
Tuco as played by Eli Wallach is one of the great iconic characters in film history. I simply can't imagine anyone else bringing the same range of qualities to the role.
Agreed. Funny how Tuco is a complete slimeball yet no one wanted him to die at the end.
You are so right-Tuco is an amazing and oddly sympathetic character.
@@BarryHart-xo1oy - absolutely. When he says - "Even a tramp like me, no matter what happens... I know there's a brother somewhere who will never refuse me a bowl of soup", you can feel that a normal family life is something he would love to have, but circumstances didn't let that happen 😞
@@barrierodliffe3452 - yes. That's because we all do realize that he has to do what he has to do in order to survive in that chaos, even if much of the time, the means he employs are not all that pretty.
“The Ecstasy of Gold” plays at the start of every Metallica concert.
What a way to start one! 🔥🔥🔥
For years, I thought Blondie was just messing with Tuco at the end, until a reactor pointed out Blondie didn’t want to risk Tuco trying to kill him to get all the gold, so he bought himself some time and distance by forcing Tuco to get into the noose.
@beatmet2355 same thought I have viewed this film at least a dozen times and didn't even click Tuco might have the idea to keep all the coin for himself at the end of the film I also thought Blondie was just fooling with Tuco
@@darrenkoglin3423 Good is relative - but yes. He was honourable with those he dealt with, and who dealt fairly with him. Even leaving Tuco to walk back was calculated not to harm him) - Tuco would have killed him at any opportunity for the money. The only thing he did wrong is not leaving Tuco half the final bounty - and by the end he had learned not to repeat that error.
You're right about the film being dubbed. This movie was made in Spain by an Italian director and every actor delivered his lines in his own language.
Not only that, but some scenes that originally were cut out of the international (English 😅) version, were spliced in and dubbed 50 years later using surviving actors and doubles. Which is why Tuco sounds old 10:55 chicken scene.
Good thing his character had just walked a scorching-hot desert and was dehydrated. His old age actually worked in the scene's favor. @@zvimur
It was very typical in the 60s and 70s that many european genre movies were co-produced by several people and companies from different countries, usually Italy, Germany, France and Spain.
These spaghetti westerns were usually shot in Spain, because it was cheaper and the technicians and workers were very able.
The american producer Samuel Bronston was the first one taking advantage of such conditions
First Clint Eastwood movie I ever watched. So iconic.
He co-starred in TV show RAWHIDE before he made these westerns in Spain with director Sergio Leone .
The bridge explosion had to be done twice. It was mistakenly blown up the first time before the cameras were ready, had to be rebuilt for that second explosion.
Wow,that must have been costly and time consuming.
My parents took me to see this on the big screen when it came out. We were a big John Wayne/Clint Eastwood/Steve McQueen family. 😉
Tuco deserves an Oscar.
Very true.
Clint Eastwood starred in a very popular television western, Rawhide, from 1959 to 1965. After its run, he decided to leave Hollywood to shoot what some refer to as spaghetti westerns with Sergio Leone in Europe. Many in Hollywood thought he was crazy to leave after the success of Rawhide. While he wasn't allowed to direct any of the films, he did have input into the scripts and even rewrote some of the dialogue so it would make sense to a Western audience. His Hollywood friends were wrong because The Man with No Name trilogy became a hit and made Eastwood an international superstar.
Yes, so glad y’all did this. Very few will take the chance of tackling it because it’s a long run time. The collaboration of Sergio Leone directing & the score by Ennio Morricone gave us some fantastic films. Hope you will consider doing more. The two I would suggest are “Once Upon a Time in the West” & “A Fistful of Dynamite”. What is amazing about this is the scope, the vastness of the shots, especially the bridge scene with extras….just epic. Too bad we don’t see that style anymore, it’s all about CGI now which just doesn’t bring the same feeling.
You are 100% correct!
After Tuco shoots one-arm and he is standing there with soap all over, he improvised the lines: when you gotta shoot, shoot, don't talk. That wasn't in the script. Tuco was supposed to just stare at him.
This movie is the greatest Western of all time.
You mean the "second greatest"- the greatest western ever made is "Once Upon A Time in America" by the same Director, Sergio Leone!
These “spaghetti westerns” marked the beginning of Eastwood’s rise to superstardom and influenced a lot of later ones and other types of films like crime movies⚛️❤
"These “spaghetti westerns” marked the beginning of Eastwood’s rise to superstardom " Sure, but this one was a 'Paëlla Western', being shot is Spain. 🙂
@@brunobrauer6301ok but I’m sure they eat spaghetti in Spain too haha⚛️❤
You’re right about them dubbing it afterward. It was the norm in 60s-70s Italian movies to ADR all the dialogue, that way they could hire casts who spoke different languages and have them all perform in their own language, then dub it for each respective language. That’s why Clint Eastwood’s mouth matches his dub the best, because he delivered all his lines in English.
The sound track by Ennio Morricone is one of the best in film history. Also, the skeleton in the grave of Arch Stanton was not a fake stage prop. It was the skeleton of an actress who's last wish was to be in one last movie, when she was dying. Her daughter offered to let Director Sergio Leone to use her actual skeleton in the film to fulfill her last wish.
Great reaction to my favorite western! I loved your "Eastwood eyes." Thanks!
Fun facts:
8:10
That really was Eli tied up on the back of the horse. The gunshots spooked the horse into running completely off set, going almost a mile with the poor guy tied up on its back with no way to stop the horse.
9:40
The bullet missed a small packet of gunpowder in the rope and the shot scared the horse into running, leaving Eli hanging. The face he makes while getting hanged was real!
I have been there, in Sad Hill, a beautiful place...don't forget to cry! 😂
One of my fave films & one of the best Westerns ever made. The entire trilogy is worth a watch guys so make sure to see A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS & FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (J you'll appreciate them for they do have some more emotions there). Fun reaction as always :D
All time classic. Another great Western by Sergio Leone is Duck you Sucker (A Fist full of Dynamite), it also uses the legendary composer Ennio Morricone.
My favorite Clint Eastwood movie is The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). Also I haven't seen too many reactions to Every Which Way But Loose (1978) and Any Which Way You Can(1980) with Clint Eastwood. Two very funny and iconic movies during the time they were released, at least where I came from they were. "Right turn Clyde." Those who have seen those two movies know that line.
Chief Dan George stole every scene in Josey Wales
I love you guys and I love this trilogy. I can’t wait to watch! I hope you do all three movies! :)
The standoff in the cemetery - watch how much acting and expression is done just with their eyes. Three masters at work.
Movie trivia: the body in Arch Stanton's grave is a real skeleton. It was a Spanish actress that put in her will that she wanted to be in movies after her death, so her skeleton was rented out as a prop.
so arch was a girl i guess
I seriously doubt that. Where did you get that information from?
@@Vinterfrid There are books written about this masterpiece... you find everything there. As well as in Leone's biography.
Creepy yet admirable.
Also, Blondie took the time to comfort two dying men. He didn't have to tell the Colonel, but this way he died happy, knowing no one would die over that stupid bridge any more. And he made the young soldier comfortable.
The bridge was blown up for real... twice. The first time because of a miscommunication with no camera's rolling. Thankfully no one got hurt.
The funny part? It didn't stretch the budget. You see, for the scene they had help from the local military and they let the commanding officer give the commando to blow the bridge. He wasn't familiar with the movie production slang and gave the order too soon. He had the bridge rebuild so they could blow it up again.
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This trilogy and many other 1960s westerns were made in Italy with Italian crew and minor characters. You may notice the voice dubbing into English - mouths not matching with the words being spoken. You may also notice less dialogue than in most movies.
These Italian westerns were known by the term "spaghetti westerns" back then. I have no idea if they are still known by this term.
They would bring over American actors to star.
Lee Van Cleef was the Bad & Eli Wallach was the Ugly. Both had exceptional careers, just like Clint Eastwood.
I remember seeing this at the drive-in movies in the late 1960s - early 1970s. Thanks for the memories and reaction.💜
De acuerdo en todo, solo precisar que eran películas italianas pero la mayoría de ellas se rodaban en España, concretamente en Almería, en el desierto de Tabernas, el único desierto de Europa.
The best American Western was produced by Italians, financed by Germans, and filmed in Spain.
I appreciate the fact you both acknowledged the blowing up of the bridge being real because it was and even at that distance it was still dangerous and they must have used a crap load of explosives when you see that explosion, and yes, that shovel angel eyes tossed did almost hit Tuco in the head and he might have warned him of that later but it worked out in the end. Things were dangerous making movies back then and not so simple as using CGI like today. This movie was dubbed because it was mostly filmed in Spain.
There is a story that the bones in the coffin were those of a Spanish actress who wanted to keep acting after she died. Supposedly, she made arrangements for her skeleton to appear as a prop in movies.
During the scene with the train tuco almost got his head cut off for real
Ennio Morricone wrote the legendary music for "The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly". Awesome!
Great reaction to this epic classic. FYI the film is set during the American Civil War, particularly the New Mexico campaign. Confederate forces from Texas marched on the territory and attempted to capture California with it's mineral wealth for the CSA. They were able to create an Arizona Territory among other events before being driven out decisively by summer 1862. Tuco and Blondie pass through the Confederate lines at Glorieta Pass at one point, the location of the titular battle.
Defying a gunfight tradition of waiting for your opponent to draw first, Clint shot first. John Wayne hated it, but Clint stated later in interviews it didn't make any practical sense to wait for your adversary to draw first...that it was merely a 'Hollywood construct' that never existed in real life.
53:49 Mark! I'm Viewer #12,226! Thumb Up #917! 👍 You two, you're welcome, and thanks! 😊
Notes: The older movies made before they were monitored by the "ASPCA" and/or "AHS" are cringe inducing indeed whenever horses and other animals are shown falling. Think about the loud bangs happening by their sensitive ears! 😮
Really? You don't recognize that we were the good guys during our Civil War while the slavers were the bad guys? 🤔 😮
The battle scene! It still looks out of place to me because it doesn't look like it fits in anywhere here. 🙄 It looks like it takes place in Spain! But this time, it isn't a WW2 battle! 😂
Spain uses their locations over and over just like we do! 😅
Good deductive reasoning about why each man was labeled they way they were! 🧐
Bye-bye for now and namaste! 🙏
'The Outlaw Josey Wales" and "High Plains Drifter" are Eastwood westerns not to be missed!
Guys all the three spaghetti westerns of Leon with Eastwood had their lines redone after filming. The crew were Italian, Mexican, Spanish and English. They did not record audio. Even the sound effects were added later like walking, shooting, everything.
The eye patch is also a pirate trick to keep one eye adjusted to the dark and another to the light. It is more useful with ships going below decks but others have employed it.
Eli Wallach said the train / track scene he almost lost his life, The scene has Tuco showcasing his ingenuity as he escapes from his Union army captors. Chained to a soldier he has just killed, he awaits the next train’s arrival to sever the binding chain. Using a real locomotive was risky enough, yet the filmmakers failed to consider lowered metal steps protruding from the oncoming vehicle. In a bid to stress that it was indeed Wallach himself in this risky situation and not a stunt double, director Leone instructed Wallach to turn his face towards the camera - oblivious that something akin to a guillotine was hurtling towards his actor’s head.
Wallach recalled the harrowing experience in his autobiography, describing his protestations to Leone about the danger the train steps posed. “Leone said that the cameraman couldn’t see my face because I was too far down in the hole. ‘Did you see that goddamn step on the train?’ I asked. ‘Do you want me to finish the movie without a head?’ Leone stopped and stared as the train disappeared in the distance. ‘All right,’ he said. ‘We’ll use the first take.'”
The film is directed by an Italian director, Sergio Leone, featuring Italian, Spanish, and American actors, and was shot in Spain. For this reason, many actors are dubbed in English. The bridge battle actually took place; Sergio Leone went to Texas to browse through old documents and discovered this war episode that even the Americans themselves had forgotten. Let’s also remember the magnificent music by Ennio Morricone, an Academy Award winner.
Actually Filming took place across four countries, including Italy, Spain, West Germany, and the United States.
Thank you for the revelatory information.
$3000 in 1865 is worth about $60,000 in today's purchasing power. So, not small.
36:11 the dangers they faced back in the day, they almost got pelted by stones flying in from the explosion, now a days they would have stunt doubles, CGI explosion, 100 million dollar budget,.. 😂 this is a classic! loved the "Man with no Name" trilogy! started watching it with my dad when i was a kid. another great reaction! 👍
Id like to suggest another great Clint Eastwood movie that gets very little attention but was still very well made called, "Kelly's Heroes" and was set during WW2 with a big cast of actors looking for a way out of the war. It's classic and very entertaining because it's based loosely on a true story.
Spaghetti Western genre brilliant wel directed film nearly as good as Once Upon a Time In The West
That's a good one... 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽🔥🔥🔥
This and the Magnificent 7 are the greatest westerns ever made.
The final chapter in the Dollars Trilogy AKA The Man With No Name Trilogy.
The best western movie of all time.
It is a masterpiece and the music is sooo good.
Great Movie and Reaction !! Thank You
this is a instant classic
Such a great classic.
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All of the voices of the characters are perfect.the score of the movie is the best I've ever heard Clint is the only one left
Iconic simple as that !
Great movie. Now you have to check out Once Upon a Time in the West which is, for me, one of the greatest movies ever made. The same genius director and composer worked on it.
Classiques!!!
The Thomas Crown Affair (1969, Suspens)
Little Big Man (1970 , Western)
M*A*S*H (1970 , satiric War)
The film takes place during the US Civil war 1960-1964, the North (Guys in Blue), vs the South (Guys in Grey).
I know you really mean 1861-1865.
My favourite in the trilogy is "For a Few Dollars More".
My favorite scene in all the Eastwood Westerns is when he fights for his mule's honor....."......my mule, he doesn't understand. He thinks you're laughing at him."
As I recall, Lee Van Cleef was about to quit movie acting when Sergio Leone came calling and made him an international movie star! "Colonel Douglas Mortimer" was a great character with layers in "For a Few Dollars More."
It's a tighter film, without the war scenes. The villain is more interesting too, the Bad isn't that interesting in TGTB&TU.
Unfortunately as with other areas most Americans only bandwagon on a few films, requesting the same one endlessly. Same with Hitchcock.
Colonel Mortimer, forever one of the smoothest badasses in film history
Now for the other two movies in the trilogy. Fist full of dollars and A few Dollars More
The Ugly forced Blondie on a much longer walk than Blondie forced Tuco on. That's the difference between their walks in the desert, Tuco chose to be vengeful instead of paying back the same. Blondie would never double the pain of his opponent, he would demand the same struggle as he was put in. Tuco doesnt have mercy, he wants to give back the double pain of what he experienced.
Great choice!
Nice reaction!
Bill Carson 😎
Tuco was awesome
you have to feel italo western you have to feel the vibe in those movies and sadly you didnt feel it because you expected a normal movie like other movies. you have to feel these movies
Great reaction to a really great movie!! I read a little about Romania here in the States, and hope you guys stay clear of all turmoil.🙏🙏
Nice! Don’t forget about Arlington Road starring Jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins 🙏🏼
A long time ago i heard an interview where Leone said that the good, the bad and the ugly was in each of us..
its not an umbrella. its a parasol. the soundtrack is what makes this film legendary. without the music you have a very good film. with the soundtrack you have a CLASSIC! the last 15 minutes of this film brings tears to my eyes every time i watch it. its so beautiful in its combining great music, great acting, great directing and great editing together to produce a devistaing emotional impact. eastwood's character became known as the "man with no name" and became one filmdom's first "anti-hereos." an anti-hero is a character who'll often do the right thing for the wrong reason. robert de niro's character "travis bickle" in "taxi driver" (1976) was another anti-hero. anti-heros became common place in 70's movies. jack nicholson's character "McMurphy" in "one flew over the cuckoo's nest" (1975) is another 70's anti-hero icon. thanks for the video.
You should watch Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West". Considered the greatest of the spaghetti westerns.
Since the 80s Metallica always open all their live concerts with the song "The Ecstasy of Gold" (by Ennio Morricone author of the entire soundtrack) that you can listen when Tuco reaches the cemetery. At least in Italy, I know because I watched them live in 1988, 90 and 92 in Italy
These Early Clint Eastwood movies were made in Italy - We called them Spaghetti Westerns LOL and their style was a bit odd in some respects - the music for one and the still shots or close ups in the face/eyes but after a while the grew on you and you looked forward to them. The other odd thing was they were DUBBED in English and the voices were odd some times to the character that you knew from other movies.
My boss at work loves the dollar series new reactions.... definitely showing him this tomorrow 😊
I really hope you two liked this movie. I had so much fun watching this with you. My favorite is Tuco. But anyways, I just want you to know how happy it made me watching this with my favorite reactors! You two are so adorable and I can see how much you love each other and that you’re best friends. Thank’s for the reaction!
Mary Joy, the guy who Tuco shot from the bath who you said looked familiar...maybe you are thinking of Captain Quint from "Jaws".
or maybe the fact that he was the first face seen in the opening of the movie
I live in Albuquerque. Lots of people get un-alive-d in Albuquerque.
It was a three hour movie, but there were so many twists and different scenes. The story flowed beautifully. Yes, Clint Eastwood played the “good” guy, but this was a far different westerns of the past when the good guys were so good that it wasn’t really believable in real life.
He was "good" because, as a professional bounty hunter, he only killed gun-slinging bad guys. Unlike Angel Eyes, who would kill literally anyone, and Tuco, who was somewhere in between.
the movie takes place in the civil war 1860s
My favorite Western movie
The scene at 26:57 was cut and was added into the extended version with the dialogue of both Clint and Angel Eyes added decades later by Clint and a voice actor. You can tell Clint’s older,weaker voice as well as AA’s being different.
The big soldiers payment was Tuco. He was going to turn Tuco in for the reward money.
The wild west was when people settled oht west, it was vast territories with few lawmen and cities springing up. The people that settled it were desperate people looking for a life, they had a chance at free land (imagine what people would do for free land today...would never happen though, if Antarctica was hospitibal suddenly, the corporations would buy it). And a lot of the west had hostile Natives and all types of perils. So naturally criminals would gravitate to it.. Also there's the gray area that is bounty hunters.
enjoyed your reaction 👍☺
3000 dollars, at the time, was huge money.
Please consider watching The Outlaw Josey Wales 😢
If you don't, my next comment will be one for the Mean Comments episode with @Cinebinge 😂 just kidding, I love you guys 😜
This is a spaghetti western. It was made in Italy. Italians filmmakers have a weird filming style in which they NEVER use onset audio. They hire actors from all over Europe and America and let them say all their lines in their native languages. Then they overdub the entire movie into any language.
This makes the dialogue not match the lips, but it also means that the actors are sometimes reacting to someone speaking a language they don't know, and so they are just reading their lines in order without exactly having the same interaction with the other actors. This leads to a lot of the dialogue feeling weird.
Amistad
Can you two watch these Clint Eastwood Movies?
1.The Outlaw Josey Wales 2.The Beguiled 3.Hang'em High 4.Joe Kidd 5.High Plains Drifter 6.Firefox 7.Escape From Alcatraz 8.Bronco Billy 9.The Eiger Sanction 10.Heartbreak Ridge 11.The Rookie 12.White Hunter Black Heart 13.In The Line Of Fire 14.Where Eagles Dare 15.Kelly's Heroes .... Have you seen Dirty Harry movies?
Slow?? You must have been watching a different movie than I was!
One of the best Westerns of all time, along with more recent Tombstone.
"The Good, The Bad and the Ugly": The third of Sergio Leone's "Spaghetti Westerns" with Clint Eastwood as the antiheroic lead actor. Over the years, I've noticed that Eli Wallach, as "Tuco," does steal the show whenever he's on screen. It looks like he had a great time, even if he was almost killed at one point. You should hear what the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Chorus did with TGBATU soundtrack: th-cam.com/video/enuOArEfqGo/w-d-xo.html
many of the actors were italian and their english lines were dubbed. this style of western (filmed in italy and spain) was called 'spaghetti' western
The film was recorded in Spain, my uncle is an extra in the battle of the bridge, greetings guys.
Filming took place across four countries, including Italy, Spain, West Germany, and the United States.
Looking lovelier than ever, Joy!!!
Even way back then there was a Tuco in Albuquerque.
Hot dog jumping frog ?
the pistols in the movie are inaccurate these one us metallic cartridges like modern ones but the time period they used cap and ball percussion ones meaning you load the cylinder with gun powder then a lead ball then seal the chamber with grease, so the bath tub scene the water would have gotten into the cylinder and soaked the gunpowder making it useless
Have you ever seen "Trinity" with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill?
Everyone but Blondie, including the audience, were given plenty of time to ponder who wins a 3-way gunfight of very skilled and independent participants.
Answer: Noone. Whoever moves first is either shot by a faster guy he is targeting, or by the other guy reacting. With this knowledge noone shoots first, and so it's either peace or the loser is the one who cannot hold onto the logic but is overridden by fear and anxiety.
The cinematography and Ennio Morricone's score elevate this good film to one of the best. Check out the Danish Symphony Orchestra's performance of two songs from the score. "Ecstacy Of Gold" is one of the most beautiful pieces of music IMO.
"Where Eagles Dare" is another amazing Clint Eastwood film. It was his first non-western role.
It has everything: Beautiful locations, adventure, intrique, mystery, espionage, action, plot twists, musical score, really bad guys, and the good guys. The screenplay & book was written by Alistair MacLean who also wrote novels that were the basis of other action films such as "The Guns Of Navarone", "Ice Station Zebra", "Breakheart Pass", "Force 10 From Navarone", "San Andreas".
One thing of note is that the women operative characters are very capable - something quite rare for the 1960's.
This movie was filmed in Spain by an Italian director, Sergio Leone, and the actors were either Italian, Spanish, or, for the lead roles, American. Italy dubbed their films into Italian back then - no subtitles - so each of the actors spoke in their home tongue and everything was dubbed by Italian speakers. As a result, all of the original dialogue recordings were erased. When the filmed was dubbed for the English speaking audience, even the native English speakers had to redub their dialogue, so the entire vocal dubbing was always a bit off.
Great movie. I hope you watch the all Dollar Trilogy this is the last movie in the trilogy the prequel. I highly recommend you see the movie "My Name is Nobody" 1973 a really funny spaghetti movie. Another more modern movie you should see that plays homage to this movie is The Quick and The Dead 1995. This is kind of unofficial squeal to the movie :) th-cam.com/video/ynC0jLGBA_U/w-d-xo.html
Best western of all time
It's a great Western, but the pacing is very different than that of modern movies. This film was made in Italy; one of the very popular Italian genre films known as "spaghetti Westerns." Most of the supporting actors were Italian, which is why it had to be dubbed into English.
Filmed in Spain.