What was your favorite scene in The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly ?

[HikerGuy83]

The title is the first question.

The second question is who was your favorite character in the movie ? (poll)

I love the Ecstasy of Gold music (where Tuco is combing the graveyard).



Then the Danish Symphony does this....this part of it starts at 2:35



And they knock it out of the park.

 

[The Duke]

Damn... I'm a good shot but wow... you sure don't want to break into that dude's house...

Cajun boy's faster than the make believe movies.

 

[The Duke]

Slut

I love the Ecstasy of Gold music (where Tuco is combing the graveyard).



Then the Danish Symphony does this....this part of it starts at 2:35



And they knock it out of the park.

That is a huge burial ground. Must have been a battle or something.

 

[HikerGuy83]

Slut

That is a huge burial ground. Must have been a battle or something.

It was a supposed to be a civil war battlefield burial ground.

As I understand it, they enlisted the Spanish Army to construct it thinking it would take weeks. Took them two days.

Pretty cool. Don't know if you ever seen this.

Go to 1:32....it shows what it looks like now.

 

[toobfreak]

Eli Wallach pretty much stole the whole movie from the other actors. Great actor, and didn't even have to try hard.

I can't think of anything I've ever seen Eli Wallach in I didn't like. Back in the '70s I think, he did a strange movie based on something Bruce Lee wrote where David Carradine was on some kind of spiritual quest and he comes across Eli Wallach out in the desert sitting in a vat of oil slowly dissolving himself away watching his legs whither to nothing as a means of punishing his penis for its sexual desires trying to attain serenity and oneness.

Only Wallach could have sold the character, making it both serious and a bit comedic at the same time.

 

[Picaro]

I need an Eastwood film I haven't seen lately.
Pretty sure the last 2 were the Clyde ones.
Any Which Way but Loose
and
Any Which Way You Can.

I liked Pale Rider, High Plains Drifter, The Unforgiven, and watch them every time they run, but The Outlaw Josey Wales is my favorite western of his. Heartbreak Ridge and Absolute Power my faves of the non-westerns. I didn't see any on that list I wouldn't watch again.

 

[toobfreak]

I liked Pale Rider, High Plains Drifter, The Unforgiven, and watch them every time they run, but The Outlaw Josey Wales is my favorite western of his. Heartbreak Ridge and Absolute Power my faves of the non-westerns. I didn't see any on that list I wouldn't watch again.

It would have been great to be one of the lesser actors working on the set of Heartbreak Ridge with Clint Eastwood.

 

[Correll]

The title is the first question.

The second question is who was your favorite character in the movie ? (poll)

1. has to be Tuco in the noose, looking at the gold at his feet, while Blondie rides off.

2. They were all perfect characters.

 

[toobfreak]

1. has to be Tuco in the noose, looking at the gold at his feet, while Blondie rides off.
2. They were all perfect characters.

 

[protectionist]

25 years ago I would have said Blondie. A number of people have told me I look like Clint Eastwood including my own mom. But in all honesty in recent years I have come to really appreciate Lee Van Cleef's character more than the other two. A true evil semi believable badass without the good ol boy Hollywood charm that Clint Eastwood's character has. Clint Eastwood's character seems more like a Playboy compared to him. Angel Eyes is a serious mofo. They could easily have made a sequel where Clint Eastwood got his comeuppance from that razor blade of a character, that cold calculating killer with a self serving agenda. In fact sometimes there's something satisfying about seeing Clint Eastwood get the s**t kicked out of him.

I'm not sure I understand the overwhelming love for Wallach's Tuco. You're supposed to like him because he's such a Goddamn pathetic happygolucky doofus! No dice here, hombres. He's mostly just a pathetic loser with great expectations. Obviously expendable.

Favorite scene. I don't know, I probably haven't seen the movie in at least 5 years. But I really like the part where Clint Eastwood says "there's two kinds of people in this world. Those with guns and those who dig. You dig."

And this.

I couldn't disagree more with you about Tuco. IMHO he was the star of this movie, He really made it what it is, but we all have our preferences. This is my favorite scene, especially at the end, when Tuco speaks a piece of good advice > "WHEN YOU HAVE TO SHOOT..........................." >>>

 

[protectionist]

I can't think of anything I've ever seen Eli Wallach in I didn't like. Back in the '70s I think, he did a strange movie based on something Bruce Lee wrote where David Carradine was on some kind of spiritual quest and he comes across Eli Wallach out in the desert sitting in a vat of oil slowly dissolving himself away watching his legs whither to nothing as a means of punishing his penis for its sexual desires trying to attain serenity and oneness.

Only Wallach could have sold the character, making it both serious and a bit comedic at the same time.

Eli Wallach was one of the most underrated actors of all time. His role in ths movie was a masterpiece, from beginning to end.

 

[protectionist]

Eli Wallach was one of the most underrated actors of all time. His role in ths movie was a masterpiece, from beginning to end.

Wow, I take back what I said about Eli Wallach being underrated. He won an Academy Award, a British Academy Award, a Tony, and either was nominated or won a whole string of other awards, including 5 Emmys.

He played in an enormous number of movies for 63 years, from 1951 until 2014, when he died at the age of 99.

 

[The Duke]

Slut

25 years ago I would have said Blondie. A number of people have told me I look like Clint Eastwood including my own mom. But in all honesty in recent years I have come to really appreciate Lee Van Cleef's character more than the other two. A true evil semi believable badass without the good ol boy Hollywood charm that Clint Eastwood's character has. Clint Eastwood's character seems more like a Playboy compared to him. Angel Eyes is a serious mofo. They could easily have made a sequel where Clint Eastwood got his comeuppance from that razor blade of a character, that cold calculating killer with a self serving agenda. In fact sometimes there's something satisfying about seeing Clint Eastwood get the s**t kicked out of him.

I'm not sure I understand the overwhelming love for Wallach's Tuco. You're supposed to like him because he's such a Goddamn pathetic happygolucky doofus! No dice here, hombres. He's mostly just a pathetic loser with great expectations. Obviously expendable.

Favorite scene. I don't know, I probably haven't seen the movie in at least 5 years. But I really like the part where Clint Eastwood says "there's two kinds of people in this world. Those with guns and those who dig. You dig."

And this.

Best part of that movie.

 

[MarathonMike]

His career was down the tubes until he was reduced to doing those B westerns in Europe. They led to his revival and he went on to produce as well. I'm sure he was surprised when they did well in the U.S. He was able to do less corny crap.

He created an entire genre of Westerns with that "corny crap". Clint Eastwood is probably the most prolific actor/producer in American film history. If you have someone better, name him.

 

[Picaro]

He created an entire genre of Westerns with that "corny crap". Clint Eastwood is probably the most prolific actor/producer in American film history. If you have someone better, name him.

Didn't say I didn't like them, but they were comedies compared to American westerns. Just a fact. His TV career was down the tubes; these B movies put him back in the game, and were followed by the Dirty Harry series and ton of better quality and better written movies. Being 'prolific' doesn't have a thing to do with the spaghetti westerns' quality. He wasn't even the best actor in those.

But, he wouldn't have become a movie star without them. John Wayne made a lot of crap before he became an icon and got better directors and better scripts and cinematographers. That is the usual career sequence for almost all actors.

 

[toobfreak]

Eli Wallach was one of the most underrated actors of all time. His role in ths movie was a masterpiece, from beginning to end.

Hollywood is full of underrated actors. So good that they are everywhere, but fall below the radar also because people are so used to seeing them everywhere that they stop noticing them.

Wallach was a niche character actor who just happened to be a good fit for a lot of difficult situations because his acting skills were rather unique.

Other good actors who tend to be underrated that quickly come to immediate mind are both John Vernon and Robert Duvall.

 

[Picaro]

I voted for him. It was one of the best acting jobs of all time.

Good enough that it's hard to imagine anybody who would have done better. Anthony Quinn? Bruce Dern? Quinn maybe, but he wouldn't have the range of facial expressions Wallach had. Lee Marvin? Does comedy well, but still doesn't seem quite right.

People can get all mad n stuff, but Leone was clearly doing spoofs of American westerns, like it or not.

Jack Elam? maybe. But he still looked fairly young back then.

 

[protectionist]

He created an entire genre of Westerns with that "corny crap". Clint Eastwood is probably the most prolific actor/producer in American film history. If you have someone better, name him.

I know that if Clint's spaghetti westerns had never been done, there would be a gaping hole in the history of movies.

 

[lg325]

Best scene graveyard scene and the final shootout.

I picked Tuco as the Favorite, but its tough to find an actor who can do the bad guy better than Lee Van Cleef.

 

[ScorpioRising007]

Always loved Blondie, Eastwood.

Own this film on DVD and watched it probably 30 - 50+ times in my life, too many times to keep track of. The DVD is probably over 20 years old. I still watch it once in a while.