Wrong…I’ve seen two different interviews with Eastwood about Eli Wallach and he says himself Wallach gave one of the very best acting performances he’d ever seen at the time, or ever since
@@mr.smithgnrsmith7808 I have no doubt, an Eastwood is a classy gentleman. I'm remembering this from the making of documentary from the DVD; and here is some corroborating text from the Trivia section of IMDB: According to Sergio Leone, it took a lot of discussion before Clint Eastwood agreed to do the movie because he felt his character would be upstaged by Tuco, even before the part was cast. He said, "In the first movie I was just about alone. In the second, there were two of us, and now three. If it goes on like this I'm going to end up with a whole cavalry.
The john wick 3 scene was obviously an homage to Tuco. Fun fact : when they blow up the bridge, they had to do it twice because due to a translation error between the director and the explosive crew, they blew up the bridge without any camera rolling... so they had to rebuild the whole thing to blow it again. The whole cemetary was built in the middle of nowhere from nothing and on the 50th anniversary of the movie fans had rebuilt the site at the same spot and showed the movie on a big screen there. Theres a documentary about it.
The bridge being blown up is a good story. On the set, Sergio Leone had a General in the Spanish Army, who provided all the extras for the epic battle scenes, who was going to push the button to blow the bridge. The General pushed the button early, before the camera crew was ready, and Mr. Leone let out a howl of outrage. It took the Spanish Army two weeks to rebuild the bridge. The second time the actual special effects director pushed the button when they were ready, and we get what we see on the screen. Making movies is never easy.
@@Flix2Us If you thought this one was slow-paced, "Once upon a time" is way WAY slower paced. It's like peak Sergio Leone, and all the aspects of him he was famous for. Like long stretches without dialogue, wide vistas mixed with extreme close-ups of faces, and so on. It's like 15 minutes into the movie before the first word is even uttered, and like 45 minutes at least until you get the first inkling of what the movie is even about. You watched the extended cut - the U.S. cinematic cut omits a number of scenes that don't really contribute much - you get to see where Tuco's henchmen who all get blown away by Blondie came from (just sacrificial pawns), and you get to know how Angel Eyes ends up at the prisoner camp, but none of that is important. The original Italian cinematic cut was actually even longer, but that material has been lost to history it seems. To me, "The Good..." needs to be seen as an experience of sorts - it's from a different era where movies were inherently more slower paced, and you have the vistas to take in, and the music. Ennio Morricone composed the music ahead of shooting, scoring it from descriptions in the script, and Sergio Leone would play the relevant part of the score out loud on-set while shooting, so he'd know how to direct the scene. The story itself, Bill Carson and his gang stealing the gold, burying it, then dying while giving Tuco and Blondie each a part of the location of its burial, and their trials and tribulations trying to reach it, with Angel Eyes following behind is actually quite genius in its simplicity - it all fits together so well. And the Mexican stand-off at the end is such a classic scene in cinema of course. It's right up there with anything else in movie history. Not too shabby I'd say for a low-budget spaghetti western... :) ...Where Eli Wallach almost got killed 3 times making it btw! Ugh. Safety on movie sets really wasn't too big a thing in Italy at the time.
They actually had to shoot the bridge blowing up part twice because the first time they blew it up, a mistake happened and the cameras were not running, so they ended up rebuilding the bridge again.
Director Sergio Leone celebrates playing with the myths of the genre and lets them culminate in ironically staged action climaxes. The finale, with its extreme close-ups driven by staccato Morricone sounds, is one of the best in the history of the Italian western - and the western per se. An often copied but unrivaled western milestone.
For sure it’s an absolute epic. One of the best mob movies ever and unfortunately is quite often overlooked. Morricone’s score alone is near perfection.
Fun fact: the legendary grimace Clint Eastwood has in these films, and later Josey Wales, etc, was due to how bitter those little cigarillos in Italy tasted…he’d then use them in later films
Don’t forget, Angle Eyes was a Union Officer, a Colonel, before becoming a Bounty Hunter seeking revenge for his sister. That‘s why he pulls Blondie aside for his questioning. He already knows Blondie…..he doesn’t know Tuco. Cheers
3 absolutely INCREDIBLE acting performances and Wallach stole the show…seen this maybe 1000 times and it makes fell the same way every single time…going to be a very sad day when Mr.Eastwood passes….something tells me he’ll live to 110…too tough to die
These have been great movies but, in my opinion, the best of Leone's spaghetti westerns is Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), with Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson. Another great western with Eli Wallach is the original Magnificent Seven (1960).
Eli Wallach almost lost his head in real life in the train scene. There was an irregularity in the cars designs that made things more unpredictable than they expected
Yup, that bridge was just... it was trenchwar before WWI. useless loss of soldiers for little to no gain... That captain truly understood the futility of trying to take that bridge, where as the generals up high only looked at a map and had no on-site visual of what was going on.
If you were to watch the Dollars Trilogy in it's true sequential order, "TGTBTU" would be first, because that is where Clint first picks up the serape. Then "For A Few Dollars More", where money really does grow on trees, LOL. And finally "A Fistful Of Dollars". Sergio Leone is an amazing Director, considering all the challenges he faced while filming.
Hey you have to check out ( on your own since you’re not a music reaction channel 😂) in TH-cam the video of “The Danish Symphony Orchestra”performing this theme song of “The Good The Bad And The Ugly “ it’s really cool to see how they create these sounds!!!! Believe me you’ll love it!!!
You can also find plenty of videos here on youtube with Ennio Morricone himself conducting various ochrestras. It’s well worth watching The Maestro at work!
There was a great documentary on Netflix about how a group of fans located and restored the Sad Hill Cemetery that you should take a look at if it's still available.
There is alot more content here than the original theater version. Some scenes cut down because of the violence shown. Tuco,s beating and Maria being slaped around. The dessert march is greatly extended and a bit too long. Eastwood and Wallach did added dialogue for the extended scenes as they did not record at the time of filming. Van Cleef had passed away and a voice actor re-creates his voice perfectly.
No one can walk as sexily on sand like Clint Eastwood. Leone said he had a cat like grace. He wanted Lee Marvin, but couldn't afford him. The name of a young newcomer was suggested to him and tried him. Only other guy I saw with hair like Clint's is the guy in Final Destination who dies in the swimming pool. He was also Steel in Legends of Tomorrow.
Ding dong, the bridge is dead... Which old bridge? The effing bridge! Ding dong the effing bridge is DEAD! There is so much fun trivia about the bridge and the battle scenes around it...I hope a lot of it is in comments here, and that you enjoy looking the rest of it up. LOL
Slow-pace is what makes spaghetti westerns so iconic, especially when Sergio Leone is behind the camera and Ennio Morricone conducting the orchestra. You really need to watch "Once Upon a Time in the West" with different actors but IMO a much better movie than the whole trilogy put together. A Must see if you ask me.
A pity you guys didn´t watched the Theatrical one. Obviously still slower pace then previous two, but everything connects flawlessly. The desert torment is shorter. Tuco has moments in this that seems off, that were cut.
Strongly recommend Once Upon A Time In The West. It’s not just one of the best westerns ever made, it’s quite possibly one of the best movies, full stop.
Great reaction you two. 😁 If you would, please watch, The Outlaw Josey Wales. It's not as epic as this but it's kinda like a 'fan fiction conclusion' to the man with no name saga... It's not an algorithm getter but I know you two will thoroughly enjoy the story. Cheers friends 👊😎
Eli Wallach' had an advantage over his co-stars in that he could speak Italian. So he was able to gain Leone's ear and suggest ways to expand his part. The result is that he wound up overshadowing both Eastwood and Van Cleef. Never did like the extended version, tho. The theatrical version is better.
While Sergio Leone said these movies were independent and not connected, if you watch them in reverse release order, they actually do really work as a trilogy(minus the same actors playing different characters)
Now that you've seen all three films, the truth can finally be told. This movie is actually the prequel in the "Dollars Trilogy". The poncho tells the tale. "Blondie" finds poncho after the battle. The script goes that he gave all his money to Father Ramirez's church for saving his life. Next installment he again gives away all his money to Marisol (continuing his philanthropic characterization) Also, a bandit steps on "Joe's" hand. In "Few Dollars More" Manco" wears a sleeve to cover his injured hand. And the poncho is backwards to hide the bullet holes made by Ramone. The final clue: The man with no name never identifies himself. All the nicknames are given him by the other characters.
I prefer the American theatrical version. Scenes were cut for good reason. Extemded cuts are neat for fans to see more scenes, but it should never be your introduction to a film.
I'm so old that I saw this in the theater when it first came out. LOL I stick with my reaction when I left the theater that night... the movie is "okay", not great, but okay. What makes it memorable is the music (Ennio Morricone). Unusual & awesome. All these years later, that music is still used everywhere..commercials, films, concerts, etc. I suggest you two react to this orchestra - th-cam.com/video/enuOArEfqGo/w-d-xo.html
The wife of the man The Bad kills first, she was considered Cuba's answer to Marilyn Monroe. She was really famous in Europe. She had the tiny non speaking part. Chelo Alonso
One of my favorite 20 movies. I've seen each of them more than 100 times, because i'm that invested in each for different reasons. In this movie i've realized, over the years, Clint's character (Blondie) is just as bad as Eli Wallach's Tuco and Lee van Cleef's character. We are just led to believe he is the 'good' character. How i can say he is just as bad as Tuco is that he killed 3 bounty hunters, out in the desert, to take Tuco in to be hung. And this was right before he left Tuco in the desert to die, while he left with the money.
@@scottneil1187 it took about 10 years, although I've watched it for more than 50 years. Of course it seems like for a hundred years. And I was so in tuned with Eastwood characters at the time, I did not want to see it. You know, like watching a rainbow not wanting to see that goat peeing in the background. Or was that one a dream.
Shame for shame! You didn't include the end of the brothers scene, where Pablo asks Tuco for forgiveness, I think you didn't catch Blondie listening in, and you didn't show us the important silent interaction as Blondie listens to Tuco's wishful lie about himself and his brother. This is important character development for both Blondie and Tuco, and you really need to keep it in mind. Incidentally, Pablo is played by Luigi Pistilli, who was Groggy in "For A Few Dollars More". I think you talked over the Captain's existential torture: he wants to blow up the bridge, and says if he had the guts to do so, he could save many thousand lives. It's why he drinks: he is a destroyed human being, destroyed by war, which is one of the themes of this much larger movie. Tuco was raised a Catholic: he crosses himself like a good son of the church.... He is played by the one and only Eli Wallach, a nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn (as a Brooklynite myself, I'm irrationally proud of that fact). He is also in "The Magnificent Seven".
What you have to understand is that, at its heart, it is a parody of Westerns. Great in its own right, but you can't take all the tropes and stereotypes seriously (really, the sharpshooting? Good fun, but it's kind of done mockingly). To be honest, the music does a lot of the heavy lifting.
Not everybody, there are loads of different nationalities among the actors and they all spoke in their native tongue, all Italian movies at the time had the vocals dubbed or ADR'd later.
Watch it again, you'll see that isn't padding. If you want to give any development to Blondie, who is only marginally "Good" at the start, you need to have him go through as much darkness as possible. He needs to understand what he has done to Tuco that makes this punishment right in Tuco's eyes.
Such an iconic movie and music theme.. I guess Eli (the ugly) and Clint (the good) would be best together to give the movie, let's say, a more humorous outlook to the audiences. Lee ( the bad) would be more direct with shortcomings and too serious. Great actor, though. I remember watching this movie with my parents when it first came out at the movie theatres. Yes, it's a long movie.
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Tuco running looking for the grave while The Ectasy of Gold is sounding. What an scene!
But how can Tuco, who barely can read, spot the correct grave? It´s not that the grave itself is extraordinary? o_O
@@embran8486 You are rigth. It's true.
This is Wallach's movie, and Eastwood knew it, and kind of resented it; but if you have an actor like Eli Wallach, by god, you use him.
Wrong…I’ve seen two different interviews with Eastwood about Eli Wallach and he says himself Wallach gave one of the very best acting performances he’d ever seen at the time, or ever since
@@mr.smithgnrsmith7808 I have no doubt, an Eastwood is a classy gentleman. I'm remembering this from the making of documentary from the DVD; and here is some corroborating text from the Trivia section of IMDB:
According to Sergio Leone, it took a lot of discussion before Clint Eastwood agreed to do the movie because he felt his character would be upstaged by Tuco, even before the part was cast. He said, "In the first movie I was just about alone. In the second, there were two of us, and now three. If it goes on like this I'm going to end up with a whole cavalry.
The john wick 3 scene was obviously an homage to Tuco. Fun fact : when they blow up the bridge, they had to do it twice because due to a translation error between the director and the explosive crew, they blew up the bridge without any camera rolling... so they had to rebuild the whole thing to blow it again. The whole cemetary was built in the middle of nowhere from nothing and on the 50th anniversary of the movie fans had rebuilt the site at the same spot and showed the movie on a big screen there. Theres a documentary about it.
I wonder when they blew up the bridge first time, there was also a delay or was that an idea just for the second one?
The true villain here is the war, not even Angel Eyes.
The bridge being blown up is a good story. On the set, Sergio Leone had a General in the Spanish Army, who provided all the extras for the epic battle scenes, who was going to push the button to blow the bridge. The General pushed the button early, before the camera crew was ready, and Mr. Leone let out a howl of outrage. It took the Spanish Army two weeks to rebuild the bridge. The second time the actual special effects director pushed the button when they were ready, and we get what we see on the screen. Making movies is never easy.
You need to watch another Sergio film called "Once Upon A Time In The West" from 1968, a great spaghetti western.
It's on the list!
@@Flix2Us If you thought this one was slow-paced, "Once upon a time" is way WAY slower paced. It's like peak Sergio Leone, and all the aspects of him he was famous for. Like long stretches without dialogue, wide vistas mixed with extreme close-ups of faces, and so on. It's like 15 minutes into the movie before the first word is even uttered, and like 45 minutes at least until you get the first inkling of what the movie is even about.
You watched the extended cut - the U.S. cinematic cut omits a number of scenes that don't really contribute much - you get to see where Tuco's henchmen who all get blown away by Blondie came from (just sacrificial pawns), and you get to know how Angel Eyes ends up at the prisoner camp, but none of that is important. The original Italian cinematic cut was actually even longer, but that material has been lost to history it seems.
To me, "The Good..." needs to be seen as an experience of sorts - it's from a different era where movies were inherently more slower paced, and you have the vistas to take in, and the music. Ennio Morricone composed the music ahead of shooting, scoring it from descriptions in the script, and Sergio Leone would play the relevant part of the score out loud on-set while shooting, so he'd know how to direct the scene.
The story itself, Bill Carson and his gang stealing the gold, burying it, then dying while giving Tuco and Blondie each a part of the location of its burial, and their trials and tribulations trying to reach it, with Angel Eyes following behind is actually quite genius in its simplicity - it all fits together so well. And the Mexican stand-off at the end is such a classic scene in cinema of course. It's right up there with anything else in movie history. Not too shabby I'd say for a low-budget spaghetti western... :)
...Where Eli Wallach almost got killed 3 times making it btw! Ugh. Safety on movie sets really wasn't too big a thing in Italy at the time.
They actually had to shoot the bridge blowing up part twice because the first time they blew it up, a mistake happened and the cameras were not running, so they ended up rebuilding the bridge again.
Makes me think of that explosion in Tropic Thunder.
They had to build and blow up the bridge TWICE.
Director Sergio Leone celebrates playing with the myths of the genre and lets them culminate in ironically staged action climaxes.
The finale, with its extreme close-ups driven by staccato Morricone sounds, is one of the best in the history of the Italian western - and the western per se.
An often copied but unrivaled western milestone.
Sergio Leone's final movie "Once Upon A Time In America" (1984) starring Robert De Niro and James Woods is another must see!
For sure it’s an absolute epic. One of the best mob movies ever and unfortunately is quite often overlooked. Morricone’s score alone is near perfection.
Fun fact: the legendary grimace Clint Eastwood has in these films, and later Josey Wales, etc, was due to how bitter those little cigarillos in Italy tasted…he’d then use them in later films
Don’t forget, Angle Eyes was a Union Officer, a Colonel, before becoming a Bounty Hunter seeking revenge for his sister. That‘s why he pulls Blondie aside for his questioning. He already knows Blondie…..he doesn’t know Tuco. Cheers
Not the same character
Colonel Mortimer is not Angel Eyes, its just a reuse of an actor for a different role - just like the main antagonist in the first two dollars films.
@@Paul_1971exactly, not to mention Mortimer was from the Carolinas, which would have made him a colonel in the Confederacy.
@@momsnoteatingbugs1919 Ah yes - good point!
there is NO DOUBT the John Wick 3 scene of him building a revolver on the fly was an homage to Tuco.
John Wick 4 was also inspired by this with John, Caine and Nobody as the Good, Bad and Ugly.
3 absolutely INCREDIBLE acting performances and Wallach stole the show…seen this maybe 1000 times and it makes fell the same way every single time…going to be a very sad day when Mr.Eastwood passes….something tells me he’ll live to 110…too tough to die
These have been great movies but, in my opinion, the best of Leone's spaghetti westerns is Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), with Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson.
Another great western with Eli Wallach is the original Magnificent Seven (1960).
Eli Wallach almost lost his head in real life in the train scene. There was an irregularity in the cars designs that made things more unpredictable than they expected
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The train scene WAS risky. Eli Wallach nearly had his head sheared off by the train step.
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Yup, that bridge was just... it was trenchwar before WWI. useless loss of soldiers for little to no gain... That captain truly understood the futility of trying to take that bridge, where as the generals up high only looked at a map and had no on-site visual of what was going on.
The “Dirty Harry “ series of Clint’s movies are a must watch!!
Clint is the King of Cool!!!!
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If you were to watch the Dollars Trilogy in it's true sequential order, "TGTBTU" would be first, because that is where Clint first picks up the serape. Then "For A Few Dollars More", where money really does grow on trees, LOL. And finally "A Fistful Of Dollars". Sergio Leone is an amazing Director, considering all the challenges he faced while filming.
Hey you have to check out ( on your own since you’re not a music reaction channel 😂)
in TH-cam the video of “The Danish Symphony Orchestra”performing this theme song of “The Good The Bad And The Ugly “ it’s really cool to see how they create these sounds!!!! Believe me you’ll love it!!!
Yes. An absolutely amazing performance.
You can also find plenty of videos here on youtube with Ennio Morricone himself conducting various ochrestras. It’s well worth watching The Maestro at work!
There was a great documentary on Netflix about how a group of fans located and restored the Sad Hill Cemetery that you should take a look at if it's still available.
th-cam.com/video/BrEQPe7l6zU/w-d-xo.html
I can't describe my love for this film, great reaction guys.
There is alot more content here than the original theater version. Some scenes cut down because of the violence shown. Tuco,s beating and Maria being slaped around. The dessert march is greatly extended and a bit too long. Eastwood and Wallach did added dialogue for the extended scenes as they did not record at the time of filming. Van Cleef had passed away and a voice actor re-creates his voice perfectly.
No one can walk as sexily on sand like Clint Eastwood. Leone said he had a cat like grace. He wanted Lee Marvin, but couldn't afford him. The name of a young newcomer was suggested to him and tried him.
Only other guy I saw with hair like Clint's is the guy in Final Destination who dies in the swimming pool. He was also Steel in Legends of Tomorrow.
The Good the Bad and the Ugly was Sergio Leone's magnum opus.
Ding dong, the bridge is dead...
Which old bridge?
The effing bridge!
Ding dong the effing bridge is DEAD!
There is so much fun trivia about the bridge and the battle scenes around it...I hope a lot of it is in comments here, and that you enjoy looking the rest of it up. LOL
The Extended Cut works better if you’ve already seen and loved the Theatrical Version. That said, I prefer the shorter original theatrical version.
Slow-pace is what makes spaghetti westerns so iconic, especially when Sergio Leone is behind the camera and Ennio Morricone conducting the orchestra. You really need to watch "Once Upon a Time in the West" with different actors but IMO a much better movie than the whole trilogy put together. A Must see if you ask me.
A pity you guys didn´t watched the Theatrical one. Obviously still slower pace then previous two, but everything connects flawlessly. The desert torment is shorter. Tuco has moments in this that seems off, that were cut.
Strongly recommend Once Upon A Time In The West. It’s not just one of the best westerns ever made, it’s quite possibly one of the best movies, full stop.
Agree!
8:48 the John Wick 3 scene was an homage to this scene
The pot bellied cannon is Big Bertha.
There are two types of spurs my friend. Those that come in through the door and those that come through the window.
Great reaction you two. 😁 If you would, please watch, The Outlaw Josey Wales. It's not as epic as this but it's kinda like a 'fan fiction conclusion' to the man with no name saga... It's not an algorithm getter but I know you two will thoroughly enjoy the story. Cheers friends 👊😎
Pale Rider is good too.
Eli Wallach' had an advantage over his co-stars in that he could speak Italian. So he was able to gain Leone's ear and suggest ways to expand his part. The result is that he wound up overshadowing both Eastwood and Van Cleef. Never did like the extended version, tho. The theatrical version is better.
While Sergio Leone said these movies were independent and not connected, if you watch them in reverse release order, they actually do really work as a trilogy(minus the same actors playing different characters)
25:48 It's called "war". Level everything ... leave nothing standing.
No poncho at the start as this is a prequel, and you saw when he acquired it here. ;)
Now that you've seen all three films, the truth can finally be told. This movie is actually the prequel in the "Dollars Trilogy". The poncho tells the tale. "Blondie" finds poncho after the battle. The script goes that he gave all his money to Father Ramirez's church for saving his life. Next installment he again gives away all his money to Marisol (continuing his philanthropic characterization) Also, a bandit steps on "Joe's" hand. In "Few Dollars More" Manco" wears a sleeve to cover his injured hand. And the poncho is backwards to hide the bullet holes made by Ramone. The final clue: The man with no name never identifies himself. All the nicknames are given him by the other characters.
That's so interesting!
It never was a trilogy, Sergio himself said this, the whole Dollars Trilogy/Man With No Name was a marketing stunt done by an American distributor.
I prefer the American theatrical version. Scenes were cut for good reason. Extemded cuts are neat for fans to see more scenes, but it should never be your introduction to a film.
As child it was m'y favorite western. But i think now it's Once upon a time in the west
Tuco should have got an Oscar. Lee Van Cleef had a carple short on his forefinger, lost during the war.
No, not during the war. He cut off the end of his finger building a playset for his daughter.
The final chapter in the Dollars Trilogy aka The Man With No Name Series
Without the long desert scenes, some of Morricone's great music would have ended up on the cutting room floor.
I'm so old that I saw this in the theater when it first came out. LOL I stick with my reaction when I left the theater that night... the movie is "okay", not great, but okay. What makes it memorable is the music (Ennio Morricone). Unusual & awesome. All these years later, that music is still used everywhere..commercials, films, concerts, etc. I suggest you two react to this orchestra - th-cam.com/video/enuOArEfqGo/w-d-xo.html
The wife of the man The Bad kills first, she was considered Cuba's answer to Marilyn Monroe. She was really famous in Europe. She had the tiny non speaking part.
Chelo Alonso
Top 10 film of all time
Just 2 minutes in and the first Star Wars quote. 😆
One of my favorite 20 movies. I've seen each of them more than 100 times, because i'm that invested in each for different reasons. In this movie i've realized, over the years, Clint's character (Blondie) is just as bad as Eli Wallach's Tuco and Lee van Cleef's character. We are just led to believe he is the 'good' character. How i can say he is just as bad as Tuco is that he killed 3 bounty hunters, out in the desert, to take Tuco in to be hung. And this was right before he left Tuco in the desert to die, while he left with the money.
It took you years and a hundred watches to get that?, bit slow are we?.
@@scottneil1187 it took about 10 years, although I've watched it for more than 50 years. Of course it seems like for a hundred years. And I was so in tuned with Eastwood characters at the time, I did not want to see it. You know, like watching a rainbow not wanting to see that goat peeing in the background. Or was that one a dream.
@scott
Better late than never wouldn’t you say?
Frilly umbrella.
Unk unk...there's no name.
Shame for shame! You didn't include the end of the brothers scene, where Pablo asks Tuco for forgiveness, I think you didn't catch Blondie listening in, and you didn't show us the important silent interaction as Blondie listens to Tuco's wishful lie about himself and his brother. This is important character development for both Blondie and Tuco, and you really need to keep it in mind.
Incidentally, Pablo is played by Luigi Pistilli, who was Groggy in "For A Few Dollars More".
I think you talked over the Captain's existential torture: he wants to blow up the bridge, and says if he had the guts to do so, he could save many thousand lives. It's why he drinks: he is a destroyed human being, destroyed by war, which is one of the themes of this much larger movie.
Tuco was raised a Catholic: he crosses himself like a good son of the church.... He is played by the one and only Eli Wallach, a nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn (as a Brooklynite myself, I'm irrationally proud of that fact). He is also in "The Magnificent Seven".
What you have to understand is that, at its heart, it is a parody of Westerns. Great in its own right, but you can't take all the tropes and stereotypes seriously (really, the sharpshooting? Good fun, but it's kind of done mockingly). To be honest, the music does a lot of the heavy lifting.
The music, that's coyotes.
They're talking in Italian, with English dubbing. So they seem to be saying something and the mouth moves another way.
Not everybody, there are loads of different nationalities among the actors and they all spoke in their native tongue, all Italian movies at the time had the vocals dubbed or ADR'd later.
Watch it again, you'll see that isn't padding. If you want to give any development to Blondie, who is only marginally "Good" at the start, you need to have him go through as much darkness as possible. He needs to understand what he has done to Tuco that makes this punishment right in Tuco's eyes.
Such an iconic movie and music theme.. I guess Eli (the ugly) and Clint (the good) would be best together to give the movie, let's say, a more humorous outlook to the audiences. Lee ( the bad) would be more direct with shortcomings and too serious. Great actor, though. I remember watching this movie with my parents when it first came out at the movie theatres. Yes, it's a long movie.
"Angel Eyes" 😊😊
Sad Hill Cemetery information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad_Hill_Cemetery
Actually, Clent Eastwood said they had to blow the bridge up twice.
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