Anatomy of a Scene: The iconic duel in Sergio Leone’s ‘The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly’

Far Out Magazine ^ | SUN 20TH NOV 2022 | Calum Russell

[grey_whiskers]

[dynachrome]

Eli Wallach was great in this one.

[C210N]

[DoodleBob]

Ok, that’s awesome.

[carcraft]

I loved the music score for the movie

[Tijeras_Slim]

I always liked For A Few Dollars More. Clint tallying up the reward money as he loaded up the bodies in the wagon.

[crusty old prospector]

They don’t make good movies anymore.

[xp38]

When you have to shoot shoot...Don’t talk

[cuz1961]

BWA HA HA HA !!!

Can’t
Stop
Laughing

[dynachrome]

His best line.

[virgil]

That is hilarious. 😂

[SaxxonWoods]

Watch all 3 in order and you’ll catch little pieces of continuity and “nods” to this and that. Bonus, the music scores are great.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I have. Guilty pleasures, all of them.

[Deaf Smith]

Guy in the dorm at Texas Tech had the album of Enno Morricine’s spaghetti westerns.

Once a month or so he would play it with his door open.

Everyone in the hall would hear it and trot back to the rooms to turn their TV on to find the movie they thought was airing.

[ansel12]

So it was a showdown between an Army vet, a Navy vet with a Bronze Star, and an ex-Army captain.

[pa_dweller]

When you have to shoot shoot...Don’t talk
- . - . -

Tuco’s dictum.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

“When you have to shoot shoot...Don’t talk.”

This is now informally called “Tuco’s Rule” among gun owners.

[Dave Wright]

Clint actually did “Fistful of Dollars” for $15,000. Leone was sued by Kurosawa for ripping off his “Yojimbo” shogun plot for “Fistful of Dollars” and had to pay him all the box office proceeds.

Clint didn’t really like working with Leone who spoke only a bit of English. The Italian stunt rules were also pretty loose compared to Hollywood and the scene with Tuco’s head next to the train when cuts off his chains nearly killed Eli Wallach. They had to dig a lower pit for him at the last minute to avoid having some hanging parts of the train decapitate him.

The best Morricone cue IMHO in the movie is the “Ecstasy of Gold” music that follows Tuco as he hunts for the grave that contains Bill Carson. Metallica used this as their intro for years and the Modella beer commercial is now using it as well.

I never could follow the original release because it was edited for time by the studio execs and destroyed the continuity. Once the director’s original cut was available it all made beautiful sense.

[The Duke]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enuOArEfqGo