Directed by:
Sergio Leone
Starring:
Eli Wallach AS Tuco
Clint Eastwood AS Blondie
Lee Van Cleef AS Sentenza/Angel Eyes
This movie completely took me surprise and blew my mind.
From the (quite possibly the best ever) AMAZING opening credits I knew I was in for a treat.
wah-wah- wahhh-wahh
I was like god damn that’s where that sound came from.
where it all came from
wah-wah- wahhh-wahh
I couldn’t get that damn sound out of my head for a month
“Sergio Leone established a rule that he follows throughout “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” The rule is that the ability to see is limited by the sides of the frame. At important moments in the film, what the camera cannot see, the characters cannot see, and that gives Leone the freedom to surprise us with entrances that cannot be explained by the practical geography of his shots. There is a moment, for example, when men do not notice a vast encampment of the Union Army until they stumble upon it. And a moment in a cemetery when a man materializes out of thin air even though he should have been visible for a mile. And the way men walk down a street in full view and nobody is able to shoot them, maybe because they are not in the same frame with them.”
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Baker: Here, this is for you. You did a good job for me.
[hands over a purse]
Angel Eyes: Oh I almost forgot. He payed me a thousand. I think his idea was that I kill you.
[they both laugh]
Angel Eyes: But you know the pity is when I’m paid, I always follow my job through. You know that.
Baker: Noo! Angel Eyes!
[he is shot through a pillow]
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