{"id":9145,"date":"2010-05-04T22:47:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T06:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=9145"},"modified":"2010-11-13T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T02:29:00","slug":"the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-sergio-leone-1966-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=9145","title":{"rendered":"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966): Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy<\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed at the TCM Film Festival in Hollywood, CA.<\/p>\n

\"\"Sergio Leone’s third installment of his Dollars Trilogy<\/em>, is a cross-genre of satirical Western, epic war film, and just about\u00a0the best buddy\u00a0picture ever made.\u00a0 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly<\/a><\/em>\u00a0 is a grand masterpiece in storytelling.<\/p>\n

Three gunslingers paths intertwine on their quest for buried Confederate gold.\u00a0 Tuco “the Ugly” (Eli Wallach) is a bandit, wanted in several states for murder, robbery, perjury, bigamy, kidnapping, extortion, and worst of all, using marked cards.\u00a0 Angel Eyes “the Bad” (Lee Van Cleef) is a gun for hire outlaw, and Blondie “the Good” (Clint Eastwood)\u00a0is a bounty hunter.<\/p>\n

Blondie captures Tuco, collects the bounty, and then rescues him just as he’s about to be hung.\u00a0 They split the bounty and repeat their performance in another\u00a0town, until one instance in which\u00a0Blondie’s aim is not so good.\u00a0 Tuco is enraged and\u00a0hollers at \u00a0him “when that rope starts to pull tight, you can feel the devil bite your ass.”\u00a0 Becoming weary of Tuco’s mouth, Blondie abandons him in the desert.\u00a0 The two play cat and mouse through the entire film, but manage to stick together.<\/p>\n

Angel Eyes has been paid $500 by Baker (Livio Lorenzon)\u00a0to find, interrogate, and kill Stevens.\u00a0 Once he finds him, Stevens (Antonio Casas)\u00a0then offers Angel Eyes $1000 to double-cross and kill Baker.\u00a0 Angel Eyes takes all of the money and kills them\u00a0both, telling his victims “when I’m paid, I always see the job through.”<\/p>\n

The three guns\u00a0become entangled throughout the picture, and wind up in a showdown that is staged\u00a0somewhat\u00a0similar to a bullfight.<\/p>\n

Leone’s unique stylized\u00a0filming involves slow, methodical pacing, extreme close-ups, and wide-angle long shots all blended with facetious dialogue and\u00a0Ennio Morricone’s haunting Andalusian soundtrack.<\/p>\n

Eli Wallach steals every scene he is in.\u00a0 With his over the top reactions and facial gestures, the eye cannot help but focus on him.\u00a0 Tuco is a once in a lifetime role which Wallach plays to the hilt.\u00a0 He is given humorous, unforgettable dialogue, which rolls from his tongue with ease.<\/p>\n

The spry 94 year old Wallach, who\u00a0was in attendance to introduce the film with Robert Osborne,\u00a0brought along a birthday card someone had sent\u00a0him, and upon opening it everyone could hear “na na na na na, waa waa waa” – it was\u00a0Morricone’s familiar tune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy.\u00a0 Viewed at the TCM Film Festival in Hollywood, CA. Sergio Leone’s third installment of his Dollars Trilogy, is a cross-genre of satirical Western, epic war film, and just about\u00a0the best buddy\u00a0picture ever made.\u00a0 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly\u00a0 is a grand masterpiece in storytelling. Three gunslingers paths intertwine on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-tcm-film-festival-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}