@@jackbauer4186 That's just what I was going to say. But the trilogy movies may be a necessary introduction. OUTW can be a bit much for modern viewers.
@@jackbauer4186 I am only 29 but I was quoting Josey Wales as early as 5 years old. "You gonna pull them pissels or wissey dissey." I didn't see OUTW until earlier this year and have watched it about 30 times now. By far my favorite western, if not my favorite movie. I think it is better than Unforgiven, the dollars trilogy, Josey Wales.
I first saw this on my little 14" bedroom black and white TV in 1988 when I was 13 - it was the Sunday matinee on a local TV station, and it's been in my top 10 ever since. I had it playing in the background on a projector at my bachelor party in 2006 and everyone stopped drinking and talking and sat down to watch the whole thing & we had to get the sound going. My boys are 14 and 12 now, wondering if I show it to them, will they just be bored, or will it capture them like it did me?
“Go full boomer, watch a western” I watched Fistful of Dollars earlier this year and the plot was so tight and simple yet atmospheric and entertaining, it was better than anything I’d seen that past year I swear
The thing is you don't have to go full boomer to watch any of these old classics, all people have to do is just put them on they're really that good. especially if people are still wowed by them 40-70 years after they drop.
I have not seen that movie but from seeing the clips in this video it looks like the story might be the copy of the Japanese film made by kurosawa, the name I think is yojimbo I'm not sure.
@@amitmeena2961 The first movie of the "trilogy", A Fistful of Dollars, is a remake of Yojimbo. A Few Dollars More and GBU aren't remakes. You should definitely watch them, they are all amazing, especially GBU.
Tuco has one of the greatest character introduction scenes in cinema. Literally bursting onto the scene (through a glass) after killing three bad looking men with a turkey leg in one hand (and half in his mouth), and a gun in the other. And then that freeze frame lmao. Just great filmmaking
Also did wonders for showing that as scruffy and goofy as he is compared to the other two, he is sharper than is given credit for. Has some real madcap ideas when he gets the drop on someone like getting some guys together just to see them all get killed while he came from the window or how he had a gun good and ready while he was bathing hiding under some bubbles. Takes the most punishment out of the 3 and still ends up in better shape than....well, bad.
See, I was gonna say Clint Eastwood's introduction where it shows him talking shit to a guy before sending him to his death (or so he thinks) once he's no longer profitable, and then having the entire movie freeze to label him "the good" is perfect for setting the tone for the world this movie exists in
@@motherplayer pretty sure that's exactly the point Leone was making with the whole movie-"it may not be pretty, but it gets the job done". Tuco is unrefined and clueless, but he pulls through every single time because he's got no illusions of being above shit. He'll cheat, he'll fight, he'll grovel, he'll beg-but he won't accept defeat. He's not good, he's not bad, and he certainly isn't handsome-but in the end, he's alive and no worse-off than he started.
When I was 10, my grandfather found out that I hadn't seen this movie... he literally drove to buy it and brought me home to make me watch it. My grandfather was awesome!
My aunt did me the same why when It came to Star Wars back in 99…. She lost her shit and ran straight to blockbuster and got all the OT… I was only 6 ma’am calm down 😂…. But because of her I love movies
That is what you call great acting, if anybody can play as anybody e.g. Robert Downey Jr. as Kirk Lazarus: An Australian method actor and five-time Academy Award winner, Lazarus had a controversial "pigmentation alteration" surgery to temporarily darken his skin for his portrayal of the black character, Staff Sergeant Lincoln Osiris, in Tropic Thunder a really funny movie.
@@jedi_drifter2988 that movie sucks! It's not funny at all! I kind of laughed ONE TIME at Tom Cruise telling the kidnappers to "go fuck yourself"! Stupid bullshit for the braindead masses!... kind of like Star Wars now
The number of times Jay says, "I loved it," throughout this re:View is awesome. It's a film everyone has heard of and is widely praised, but it still managed to exceed his expectations. You can tell how genuinely happy he is to sit down and talk about it with Rich. And now I'm looking forward to watching it myself thanks to this video.
Weird how you take pop culture references of a classic film for surface value of the whole film your whole life, but when you actually watch the movie you realize it's meme holds up so long because the movie itself is amazing and more than the reference you took for granted. I'm just as guilty, but I was surprised to find out Jay, a well known picky film snob that enjoys good and bad Italian knock offs, NEVER SAW The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. Everyone has their flaws, he just corrected one of his on (UA-cam) camera.
It's as good as they say. The other ones (Fistful of Dollars & A Few Dollars More) are great too. The recent HD versions look fantastic too, including MGM's 2014 restoration made from the original camera negative. Can't go wrong with these suckers!
@@jamesgreenwood5185 I should've said it in my original comment - but I'm actually excited to see this whole trilogy. Had to catch up on some other films before I could jump in so I still haven't - top of my list though.
For Tuco's revolver: it's plausible, but takes to explaining. He picked a bunch of era appropriate revolvers to start with and all of the ones he took apart and swapped around were manufactured by Colt. And the specific parts he swapped around were ones that were either designed to be taken apart and changed (such as cylinders) or ones that could work well if you didn't think too hard about it. But the real point of the scene is to show that Tuco actually knows what he's doing, he essentially picks the best parts from all of the Colts on offer. It's a very impressive scene.
Similar concept with a lot of modern firearms, ie the AR-15. There are many forms of it with different interchangable parts, ie barrels, receivers, grips, stocks, etc. Take ten of them that all look different, and you can make one amalgamation of them because they're the same underlying system.
Fun fact: Wallach didn't know anything about guns. Leone just told him to improvise and they'd edit whatever they got. Assembling Tuco's pistol was a complete accident - thankfully because the prop guy had selected a bunch of Colt knockoffs. If you look, the worried looks on his face were 100% genuine - he thought he was messing up a bunch of props and they wouldn't even be able to use it.
Jay missed the point of the bridge scene. Yeah they blow it up cos it's in thier way out it's also a small favour to the dying union captain, who has seen thousands of men die for nothing. He gets a little bit of hope just before he dies. So it was a small heroic moment.
It also allows the two armies to disperse, as there's nothing left to fight for. Which means there won't be anyone else going to the cemetery when they go to look for the gold.
Oh yeah. It's character building for Blondie. After he almost dies from thirst and exposure, he starts doing little nice things, here and there, the first of which is sharing his cigar with Tuco as they leave the mission.
It's almost like this movie was ...well written? All the characters have layers and even growth(well..maybe aside from Angel Eyes, he is pretty much an horrible pos the entire movie, but he also has a couple of interesting moments). Another scene is the one between Tuco and his brother. While it's true that the brother is disappointed in Tuco, what Tuco says is the truth: the only way to escape poverty for them was either being a bandit or donning the cloth. It just so happens Tuco was the tougher and meanest of their family, so he left to be a bandit and not burden the others. He made difficult choices, at a very young age. The brother had the easiest path. It's also the moment Tuco discovers his mother died, now he is TRULY alone. There's no home to go back, no one will be waiting for him. We see under his tough skin a little glimpse of what was a little mexican boy from a poor village, still ashamed to tell Blondie his brother wasn't pleased to meet him. Still sad about what happened. Tuco is a terrible man, but also has an heart. It's a scene that grounds him and makes him " real". He isn't just a "cigar smoking bandito" that is convenient to the plot, he actually has a place in the world. Like i said, good writing.
I also think it's a very ironic scene, that these two lowlife bandits end up saving the lives of thousands of men. For me, it's all part of the epic character of this film. Vast landscapes cut with extreme close-ups, soaring operatic music interjected by long silences, a sweeping civil war punctuated by the petty rivalry and squabbling of the characters... This movie isn't just pure cinema, it's the entire human condition, grand and yet trivial, tragic and absurd.
Lee van Cleef was indeed a very sweet man. He lost part of his middle finger building a doll house for his daughter. You can see it in the close up of his hand in the duel scene.
That is the most wholesome story.... until you realize that somehow a dollhouse set was dangerous enough to take a man's finger off during assembly. They don't make children's toys like they used to I guess.
@@The0spetsnaz0 It wasn't a plastic kit from WalMart. He was building it from raw material, which means hammers, saws and lathes were involved. This is the standard practice (and danger) of building any object that requires skill and craft, and not just assembling some shit you got from Amazon.
He was also one of those bygone-era gentlemen, who couldn't even feign hitting a woman...so they had to put a man in a dress for him to finish the scene where Angel Eyes roughs up a prostitute.
Fun fact! All the revolvers Tuco disassembled were different versions of the same Colt revolver. The parts he exchanged, the cylinder and barrel, would have been more or less interchangeable, and were only held together with removable pins. Overall not too inaccurate!
It was totally inaccurate though. It 100% wouldn’t work. That scene is fantastic as a piece of cinema, but not realistic at all, and absolutely would not work. Tuco supposedly loads brass cartridges in a cap-and-ball (Colt Navy) Pistol that he swaps cylinders with a Smith & Wesson. You can’t do that. A Colt Navy, being cap-and-ball, loads from the front. The movie is set in 1862-64. Colt pistols wouldn’t fire metallic cartridges until Smith & Wesson’s patent expired in 1869, and they didn’t sell a conversion of the Navy revolver until 1871, and those were factory guns, not just cylinder swaps.
@@PristineTX so there were actual conversion navy revolvers that would fire cartridges, so is the issue that the movie was set before those were in circulation? i totally get the whole ball n cap issue, it wouldnt work like that
Besides, if you want to point out the glaring issue with the pistols in this movie, the most egregious issue is in the final showdown, where the closeup reveals Van Cleef to be carrying a full belt of metallic cartridges... for his 1858 Remington cap-and-ball pistol, primers clearly visible.
3:01 goddamn did I feel the joy in rich's heart when jay said "one of the best things I have ever seen" I felt the joy in my heart as well because this film really is beautiful!!
Lol, same here. I remember thinking that westerns were lame, but when I watched this at the age of 16 or so, it really kicked off my love of westerns. I went on a HUGE western binge after watching this.
I never appreciated westerns until I played through the 1st red dead redemption. After that I fell in love with the genre. Good bad ugly is in my top 3 fave movies.
@@TrempBoy2It’s a film that WILL convert the haters. Also UNFORGIVEN (another Eastwood masterpiece)… I know nothing about the early westerns other than the fact that they seemed boring as sh*t when I caught them on late night television as a child. I had no interest in westerns until I saw Once Upon A Time In The West in my early 20s. I was instantly drawn in and I’ve become a Leone fan ever since. Every film I watched blew me away, and the ones I didn’t immediately connect with became some of my favorites upon a second viewing (Once Upon A Time In America!!!)….
It's pretty much top 3 films of all time if you understand the art of film making and the scope and talent. Maybe number 2. Possibly #1. It's potentially the greatest film art ever made but their are films with better scores so it loses an infinitesimal point. To top 2 or 3.
This is why I follow Red Letter Media. Rich is a great actor but when it comes to talk film, he's very knowledgeable and charming, not to mention humble. He brings about the best in Jay. The dynamic of these two is so different than, say, Mike and Jay, or Mike and Rich for that matter. That's probably why my favorite videos are Rich and Jay teaming up.
What impresses me about Rich recently is his genuine humility. He came across as a pure narcissist early-on (to me), he'd always blatantly steal Jack's ideas (after having already stolen Mike's long ago), but his reactions in quiet moments belie this first impression. He basks in attention towards himself, but he enjoys when others have their moments too.
@JamesMacPherson I am not surprised, there is a ton of movies that considered a classic, and it's hard to watch even half of them, despite how big of a cinephile you are
I was so happy when Jay finished his story about never getting around to seeing the movie, and said that it was one of the greatest things he'd ever seen in his life. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is my vote for the best movie ever made. From an art snob standpoint, looking at the cinematography, the direction, the score, etc it is absolutely phenomenal. From a dumb action movie standpoint, looking at the stunts and the clever one-liners, it is absolutely phenomenal. And when your movie is both Citizen Kane and Die Hard, your movie is the best movie ever made.
That union/reb dust gag scene is still one of my all-time favorite jokes in any movie, I remember watching it for the first time when I was twelve and laughing my ass off.
Tuco: Hurrah! Hurrah for the Confederacy! HURRAH! Down with General Grant! Hurrah for General... What's his name? Lee! LEE! Ha ha. God is with us because he hates the Yanks too. HURRAH! Blondie: God is not on our side because he hates idiots also.
All these people who watched these movies as kids, it makes you wonder why George Lucas tried to water the OT down, seeing that the original take of the Han vs. Greedo scene was based on these movies, but for some reason Lucas thinks that kids only watch babies' movies.
@@white-dragon4424 It has nothing to do with movies, remember George own the rights to the toys, until a point where the toys profit probably exceeded his box office profits. In the original trilogy he collaborated with many talented because he's making a movie, but for the prequels he's making toys. It's probably the reason he started to call Star Wars a kids movie.
I loved the fact that Jay just watched this movie and was blown away by it. Truly great films never get old. EDIT: Man I'm so glad they talked a little about the "Ecstasy of Gold" Sequence. I have always thought that's the purest 15 minutes of cinema ever filmed.
That's such an intelligently edited sequence. Trying to capture the concept of being overwhelmed by all sides? I don't think I've ever seen it done as well in a film before this.
It's actually feels more like an anti-war movie dressed up like a western than a western with the war as a backdrop. I love the movie. The bridge scene is one of my favorite moments
What’s funny is Rich saying he doesn’t feel movie literate and intellectual enough for these discussions; the man has some of the greatest insights on Re:View. As an Everyman Rich Evans see what Jay and Mike miss quite often. You keep at it dude!
Yeah that caught me off guard. He has always come off to me a very bright and almost to the point that he may be smug about it in real life. Again just speculation based on people I have known. And surprise he’s a good person who constantly doubts himself as an over correction lol. You’re smart Rich!
yeah, NEVER DOUBT YOURSELF Rich. We don't call you 'The epitome of humanity' only to dig at you. There is sincere truth in that statement! And give it a few other more years, and just like in your teens, you will be the best looking between you and Mike. I cannot explain Jay, must be dark magic.
I met Eli Wallach while I was in grad school. He was a lovely human being. He said that for the longest time he thought that he was the "bad" of the trio.
When I first saw this film I honestly believed that Eli was in fact a Mexican actor. I don't know how he does it but he was a lovable bandit in this film. He's a total degenerate but for some reason you love him.
It could've been because the original Italian title was The Good, The Ugly, and The Bad. So the promotional materials like trailers followed this order. They never changed it when doing the English dub for American audiences. If you watch the American versions of the films trailers, the English narrator says: "The Good" with Clint Eastwood on screen "The Bad" with Eli Walach on screen And finally, "And The Ugly" with Lee Van Cleef on screen. So that's why he probably got it mixed up. He probably saw the English trailers with order jumbled up.
Actually, my grandfather was managing a concession stand, during a showtime for this movie, back in 1967 when a middle-aged Rich Evans approached him for a tub of popcorn.
Rich, you're selling yourself short, buddy. I always find your participation in re:views to be insightful and endearing. Imposter syndrome is certainly a real thing, but you needn't lose sleep over this.
Well this video's already over 300k views, so I get the hesitation. It's interesting thinking about his re:view appearances with that in mind, because he does usually take a support role on these, and they're always movies he's watched many times before (and has probably researched a bit), so he can speak with some authority about some aspects. As someone with a similar "don't talk or they'll know you don't know things" problem, I don't mind him admitting this.
Honestly he kind of impresses me about how much he knows and even when held against Rich and Mike. He seems like someone who watches as many movies as I do. Just maybe not always the same ones.
I am not interested in a re view unless it has at least Mike and Rich together , Jay and Mike together or Jay and Rich together .... No offense to the guest reviewers
Rich has more knowledge than these guys in so many areas. I still remember him pulling out the fact about Soviets experimenting with gorilla human hybrids, and because I already knew that one it was great watching the others on the table reacting with such incredulity.
Greetings from Spain. I didn´t know much about this channel since I got homesick for a week. I hated Rich´s laugh at first but now I´m only looking forward to it. I think i´ve seen 9 years compressed in one month... twice. Thanks for helping me this deep dark moment of my life.
@@themoviedealers Yes, you are right. I usually make that kind of mistakes. But I won´t edit it. This would be my 'best of the worst homage' in a written way.
Morricone's score still to this day feels so edgy and fresh. I love how the main theme keeps popping up throughout the film with different instrumental arrangements. Electric guitars, flutes, men hollering and shouting, and towards the final act when they're in the war it's played on just marching drum. It's so playful and creative.
Leitmotivs popping in and out at different times with odd instruments is one of my favourite things in movies and videogames. Another movie with an oft-repeated leitmotiv is the fantastic "THE LONG GOODBYE" by Robert Altman. Gould is so good in this movie, as well as every other actors.
@@DrummerDucky I think the best and clearest use of leitmotif by Morricone during that period was in Once Upon a Time in the West, where each major character has their own very different and distinctive them. Harmonica's and Frank's (both used in the same piece during the finale) are super-famous, but for me it's Jill's theme that stands above the others - it's lovely, grand and looks towards the later, more refined and lyrical, themes that Morricone would use in the 1980s.
I'm going to go against the grain and be earnest here: Rich you're really good at what you do. There's a reason you can spin out 80s plots at will, and it's because you approach material like a writer, which is a valuable perspective. You're insightful and smart and I'm glad your job is this rather than delivering telephone books or whatever the weird shit you used to do is. So enjoy the compliments you'll never read from a person you'll never meet.
@@jayjaydeth , yep, went to high school with Mike, then Mike went to film school and Rich entered a trade. But Rich was the one out of the job when the recession hit, so he went to Mike in desperation.
As far as the gun assembly scene goes, fitting different parts together by hand was an important process in early mass-produced firearms. This fitting would be done at the factory, but of course quality control wasn't the highest priority, especially during wartime. Tuco is taking Colt model 1851s that have parts that fit together well enough but not great, and he's taking the best parts from these and sticking them together into 1 well fitted gun.
Important to note that due to location and the fact that it's during the civil war, a lot of the parts he was going through probably weren't colt (due to them being on the Union side geographically) and were more likely a huge variation of handmade confederate parts patterned off the colt navy that would be way out of spec. if assembled together with other confederate and colt parts.
The classic westerns don’t get enough love these days. The Leone westerns and post-westerns like Unforgiven have been deservedly remembered and showered with praise, but the John Ford westerns like The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Searchers, and My Darling Clementine, and others from the same era like The Gunfighter all dealt with much more interesting and complex themes than your basic white hat vs. black hat westerns. TLDR: There’s a lot of great classic westerns, I hope more people give them a chance.
You are spot on. People who don’t watch westerns have very strong opinions and incorrect information on them. Most no B-movie westerns have morally complex and are far from cliche driven crap that people think it is. Even the westerns of the silent era we’re doing everything the spaghetti westerns did in the 1910s-20s. The good the bad and the ugly is close to a remake of 3 Bad Men
I hated westerns when I was first getting into movies (even though I hadn’t seen basically any), then I watched fistful of dollars, the searchers and Johnny Guitar and my whole opinion changed. I mean I’m 21 so clearly young people can enjoy them, it just takes the right one.
High Noon, Shane and Pursued are also excellent, although despite the setting I don't know if one could put Pursued in the western category at least it is not a "pure" example of the genre.
The Searchers is my favorite film of all time. Made Godard cry from his review, influenced Scorsese and Schrader in Taxi Driver. John Wayne’s character of Ethan really set up a lot of those dark characters!
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly has it all. When it tries to be funny, it’s hilarious. When it’s sad, it’s heartbreaking. When dramatic, it’s epic. The film is both gritty, but feels like myth. The story is wonderfully written. The direction, cinematography, and mise en scene are excellent. Morricone’s score is only (maybe) surpassed by a handful of other films… that he also scored.
I'm genuinely glad to see how Jay felt about this film, as like with Rich this has been a favourite movie of mine for years. But I had the same impression going in as Jay: THINKING I understood what the movie was, or would be, and being so amazingly surprised and blown-away by what it actually was. I really want to track down that new 4K release, the last time I viewed this film was on the old Special Edition DVD set!
Fun fact about the civil war battle scene: The bridge explosion was incredibly expensive, and a crew member yelled at some actors to get in position. The pyrotechnics guy thought that was his queue, so he detonated the bridge when the cameras weren't filming. They had to build it and destroy it again from scratch.
my understanding is the Spanish military was involved and were apparently apologetic enough to rebuild and re-explode it...or they just wanted to play with the explosives
I came to the comments before finishing the review to see if someone commented that they didn’t bring it up. I was sad to see it wasn’t mentioned by the guys but happy to see someone mentioned it in the comments
It was the dawn of replaceable parts, most of the designs were heavily based off one set of parts that could be replaced and repurposed on-demand. We didn't have pipelines for stupid shit like we do now.
Due to industrialisation during the Indian wars (pre civil war) the us army began weaponry with stanardizind weaponry parts so guns could be broken down and repaired in the field.
Gun manufacturers would also sell proprietary ammo to makeup the loss e.g in Red Dead Redemption 2 each gun used its own custom made cartridge you couldn't swap between brands. Gun catalogs from the Old West had a wide variety of ammo loads and sizes fragmented even further by gun company. There was no effort for standardization until after WW1 with so much surplus.
Eli Whitney came up with the concept and mass produced muskets for the army. Samuel Colt cheated to get the government contract for revolvers. He didn't have the machinery accurate enough to make interchangeable parts. He went through his guns until he found several guns with parts that could be swapped out. He then took those guns as an example of his workmanship and won the government contract. He used the money from that contract to then build a new factory that had the accurate machinery necessary for interchangeable parts.
The funny thing about the cynical Civil War take is that kind of stuff really was happening. I was looking at a Time Life photo book of the Civil War a long time and one of the stories they tell (and show) is that the most famous (and one of the most prolific) CW photographers was exposed after people started to notice that a lot of his photos had the same corpses in them. He was dragging and posing bodies on the battlefield.
@@illseeyaonthedarksideofthemoon - Well yeah but in the case of the civil war one side went out of their way to start the war specifically to uphold the institution of slavery so like fuck em
@@851852093114208513no, the Corwin Amendment was meant to stop that. It wasn’t solely to preserve the institution. The north still had 5 slave states during the war and even after the emancipation proclamation. The largest hanging event was in New York when the people of NYC heard that the war was about freeing blacks… it was a war of grievances than actual humanitarian cause. Look up Charles Adams’s book “When in the Course of Human Events: Making the Case for Southern Succession”. The book discusses tax history coming from the author who majors in the topic and shows the US aggression via tariffs. The only thing the North did was further create a divide in the south. Because of Sherman hatred was brewed, because of the removal of citizenship from everyone in the south the statues were built, carpetbaggers stole land, and even the kkk came about as militia groups in protest of the north later turned into a racially focused white supremacist group that even Nathan Bedford Forest protest and left. I have no skin in the Civil War game as I have no ancestors here, but to treat the war like a football match, dehumanizing the opposite side to fit one’s own narrative is quite bizarre. If the 3% were the only people in the CSA to hold slaves then they must’ve had the dumbest civilians to convince them that preservation of slavery is a valid war. Robert E Lee even freed his own at the start of the war… you know the guy whose 5 family members signed the Declaration of Independence and whose father was Virginia’s governor? I don’t like erecting false idols but the statues are reminders of the hatred and yet it is seen as offensive… History will repeat itself with the current divide of the modern peoples as you hear the new anti-Semite, anti-Ukraine, anti-black rhetoric being talked about on controlled opposition media. It’s clear we are seen as sheep to be herded off of cliffs of party affiliations and social political opinions. First world problems that have no relevance to the famine, wars, and tensions of quarreling nations. Goodbye
At age 19, I got my first book deal -- to write Lee Van Cleef's biography (still in print from McFarland & Company). Now that I'm a filmmaker, I keep meeting old Van Cleef co-stars and hearing stories about Lee that I wish I could've included in the book. Ah well. Sometimes I get them on camera, though, to preserve for posterity...
I honestly didn't believe you when you said you wrote his biography, but having looked it up, I'm really impressed you managed to write an entire biography on Lee Fucking Van Cleef at 19. Props to you dude. Thinking of nabbing a copy.
@@Book_Of_Essence -- Grazie, fella. And I eventually went on to co-write the official DJANGO sequel for Franco Nero (only to be eventually replaced by John Sayles). I have amazing interview content from my archives that I'll put up on YT if you b*stards ever want to push me past 1K subs.
Document, document, document the Lee stories brother. Writing a bio at 19 is fairly damned cool too. Maybe we should send Jay a copy of your book to help him confirm or deny whether Mr. Van Cleef was indeed 'The Devil'.
i remember reading years ago that Leone elevated cinema violence to a new "standard" of sorts. in the 40s and 50s, whenever a gun was fired, it was done shot-reaction shot, i.e. the shooter would be in one frame and fire, then there'd be a cut to the victim in a different frame, who'd fall over. what Leone did differently was have the shooter in the extreme foreground with the victim in the background, and the sequence would all play out in a single frame. that little nugget of film history and filmmaking is what got me really excited about movies, and the western genre in general. the Dollars trilogy is way up there in my top favourite flicks of all time.
That’s not actually true. You can see the shooter and victim in the same frame in numerous films that predated Leone. John Huston’s version of The Maltese Falcon, for one.
Since Jay appreciates the epic feel of this one and its cinematic craft, he shouldn't cheat himself out of watching Leone's other opus and masterpiece, Once Upon A Time In The West, in the best quality possible.
I used to think The Good The Bad The Ugly was peerless until I watched Once Upon a Time in the West. It’d be difficult for me to decide which is better.
Regarding 17:53 - I don't know how realistic it is, but neither did Tuco's actor. He knew next to nothing about guns but they wanted the scene to show him as being an expert, so Sergio Leone just told him 'fuck around with the gun parts and pretend you know what you're doing'. It's hilarious to think about, but he did a damn good job of making it look like he was on the ball with it and really DID know how to assemble a gun like that. Everything he did was just made up nonsense, but it worked.
that same scene was replicated in John Wick number 2 (or 3... I've only seen parts or 1, but know of this scene), and it actually is grounded in reality, he's in a museum and has to interchange the cylinder and did it as an homage to the classic scene.
He was basically taking the best parts from different revolvers to make Best Revolver ™️ say like a revolver has a good trigger but the cylinder might lock up sometimes or doesn't have very good sights, stuff like that.
I remember watching this movie at a friend's house when i was 12, we were watching it at 2am, on his shitty Panasonic, children-torso-sized tv with faulty exposed wiring, and it always stuck with me, not only because of the amazing cinematography, but also because i got electrocuted launched back against a wall when i touched the cable by accident.
Similar experience for me - sans electrocution - I first saw this on my little 14" bedroom black and white TV in 1988 on a local station Sunday afternoon movie slot when I was 13. It was a National Electronics TV, which is what Panasonic called themselves before they became Panasonic. My boys are 14 and 12 now, wondering if I show it to them, will they just be bored, or will it capture them like it did me?
I was genuinly so happy when Jay said he loved the movie. After watching so many films (as I’m sure he has) there’s still gold out there to be found. And the passion displayed here is just great to watch.
I love the story that Eastwood returned back to the states. And he heard about this amazing western playing in theaters. He had to check it out. Quickly found out it was his own movie he made in Italy.
Fun Fact: The gun shop scene was mostly improvised. Eli Wallach knew next to nothing about guns or how they worked. Sergio Leone liked this and instructed him to simply play around and do what he wanted. Even though Eli Wallach wasn’t actually knowledgeable about what he was tinkering with, it does seem very convincing that Tuco has a keen understanding of firearms, which is a testament to how great of an actor Eli Wallach was and how superb Sergio Leone was as a director.
@@Tunkkis I thought he was trying to see which pieces were the best crafted cause back in the day factory perfect guns didn't exist. Like him looking down the barrel was meant to see how straight they were, how narrow the barrel is, etc. Or him checking the cylinder to make sure it turns well and has no problems in it. IDK that's my guess.
Was that the one with the barrel scene (huge gigantic mega barrel he somehow supposedly set up a trap with whilst barely alive after being beaten by the baddies over and over?) And where he had the metal chestplate he somehow cut out of a boiler with no tools? 😅 I might be mistaking it for A Fistful of Dollars, but it was still excellent despite those niggles and was the inspiration for Marty McFly's chest plate in back to the future.
Eli Wallach wasn't in brown face. It was a natural suntan having spent several months in very hot Spain filming the movie. A lot of the Spanish and Italian actors, who were mainly from the south of Italy and Spain, also had natural olive-skin / brownish complexions. You can clearly see that both Confederate and Union soldiers in the movie were Mediterranean looking, which I found mildly amusing as Confederate soldiers were of British descent and most of the Union soldiers too. However, it didn't detract from this classic movie.
Imma let you finish, but they cast a Jewish guy instead of a Mexican. And Mexicans (or at least Spaniards) weren't hard to find. So there's a reason people complain. He was still amazing.
I think Jay brought up a good point that all the extras in this are weird looking and I think the variety of actor genetics muddled together by suntans, sweat, and grime really contributes to that and enhances the look of the movie overall. Looking at all the characters together with their wildly contrasting builds, facial structures, ect. gives the film this sort of fantasy quality you that normally you only see in animation or effects heavy live action.
Confederates were all over the place ethnically, and Union conscripts were even worse. Look at some of the pictures from the period. Most of these folks weren't pretty. They looked like the dregs of humanity.
Yes. This movie is technically more perfected, but I think the story in FAFDM is more emotionally captivating, and as such the finale is more satisfactory.
This "trilogy" plus Once Upon a Time in the Wrst, in my opinion, make up a great work of art. In 100 years time people will still watch these movies and enjoy them.
@@CordellPotts A Fistful Of Dynamite is so underrated, the characters and message behind it, and plus it has the most depressing Leone movie ending (Once Upon a Time in America beats it but that's another story) .
As an Italian, on the dub thing, you have to understand, while we make a lot of movies everything that comes from outside is dubbed, Asian, European, American, EVERYTHING. And we're really really good at it, there is a whole tradition, we have actors what work exclusively dubbing movies, being the official voices of some actors (because yes, big a list actors always have the same voice actor doing them). Sylvester Stallone had one of the best voice actors in Italy dubbing him and if you watch him in Italian he seems amazing all the time, even in bad movies. The problem is all this gets lost when you don't have all the tradition, care and love for dubbing movies that many non English speaking countries have.
I love movie dubbing. It reminds me of those old Godzilla flicks. From what I've seen, Italians indeed do it better because the aforementioned are comical where as every spaghetti western I've seen it's seamless enough that I only know it because I know of that practice itself. Edit: the reason in particular I enjoy it is because typically things are dubbed to fix an audio error, maybe somebody flobbed a line and it's easier to dub than reshoot _everything_ , either way it's better to dub than it is to just leave mistakes and say fuck it.
There is a much bigger reason. These "italian" movies were actually "european" movies, the money usually came from West Germany and France. They dubbed them because Italian, German , French, etc. actors spoke their language and upon release everything else was dubbed.
If I remember correctly, A Fist Full of Dollars was inspired by the Japanese film Yojimbo. The director of Yojimbo, Akira Kurosawa, was inspired by American westerns and made his film center around a lone ronin cleaning up a town of two rival gangs. If I remember correctly, there was a lawsuit over how similar the two films were and Kurosawa won. It’s so strange that much of the Spaghetti Western’s most successful and popular films were inspired by Japanese film.
its even more complicated, to cite wikipedia: The film was effectively an unofficial and unlicensed remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1961 film Yojimbo (written by Kurosawa and Ryūzō Kikushima); Kurosawa insisted that Leone had made "a fine movie, but it was my movie." This led to a lawsuit from Toho, Yojimbo's production company. Leone ignored the resulting lawsuit, but eventually settled out of court, reportedly for 15% of the worldwide receipts of A Fistful of Dollars and over $100,000.
Sergio Leone did most certainly later show that his success was not purely due to using strong source material when it came to "For A Few Dollars More" being great on it's own terms and worth it entirely to see Clint and Lee team up, and, well "The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly", which you could argue which is better between this and Few Dollars in content, but he did not have to go as hard as he did to make one of the most grandiose westerns ever, and all in the service of a simple story of 3 people looking for gold.
@@motherplayer Oh absolutely, I didn't mean to imply that Leone was somehow deficient in putting his own stamp on things. "Once Upon a Time in the West" is proof of that.
His score is a big reason why I love movies as much as I do. I listened to The Trio over and over after the movie ended and just got completely absorbed in how you don't even need visuals to see and feel exactly what's happening, it's the perfect climax. And that song comes *after* the song that many consider his greatest piece, just unbelievable how perfect the score is that supports this movie (and how unbelievably well the cinematography supports the score)
I love the scene where Tuco runs through the graveyard with the camera spinning around faster in excitement, accompanied by the ecstacy of gold which is just perfect.
A friend lent me this movie on vhs when I was like 14. I had heard of it, but did not know what to expect. Thankfully it was a letterbox version. And that made me realize for the first time how much you could miss watching movies on 4:3. That's the only time I have watched it and I can recall some scenes that were imprinted on my brain since then.
Granted Angel Eyes disappears for a good chunk of the first act, however, every time you see him, he gains a piece of information about Bill Carson. When he disappears, you don't see him again until after Tuco and Blondie learn about Bill Carson. The Bad seems inconsequential at first, but he is essential to the overall story narrative.
I'm shocked but also jealous that Jay could experience this masterpiece for the first time in his life just now. Boy is he in for a treat with the Dollar films and I would also recommend Once upon a time in the west.
This is one of my favourite movies. I remember in 1966 I was 9 and my cousin told my father about it. We had to wait until it came to the drive-in theatre so my brother and I could get smuggled in, due to the age restriction. I am so glad I had the parents I did. Within weeks we had the sound-track and now it is one of the favourite movies that I share with my own very adult children. The absolute most cinematic movie ever made. Those last two scenes, running around the graveyard and the three-way shoot-out, are, I think, the best scenes in any movie - the music, the camerawork, the editing, the storytelling; sheer perfection. It is the ultimate dark comedy - there are so many funny scenes, but you know you shouldn't be laughing.
This was a lovely surprise. They don’t typically review the “classics” lots of obscure cult classics (which is absolutely fine one of the reasons I love RLM) however this now makes me want more of this. Let’s go back and look at some more! Like say the French Connection. Which is still one of my all time favorites. One the best cat and mouse movies ever!
I took Italian in college and my professor basically turned one of the courses into an Italian film course. We watched a ton of old Spaghetti Westerns and other Italian Movies like "Gomorrah", "Terraferma", and others that I have to look up. It was one of the best classes I ever took.
@@lawton6123 , I can't tell if this is a joke or genuine misunderstanding, but in case it's the latter: the term "spaghetti western" refers to movies in the western genre made in Europe from the 1960s to 1970s. Many were Italian movies trying to recreate the style and success of Hollywood westerns. So you have the real Hollywood western vs. the Italian "spaghetti" western.
I would love to see a re:View of Fistful of Dollars alongside Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo. Fistful of Dollars is basically a remake of Kurosawa's film with some minor deviations. I think it would fascinating to see Rich and Jay's individual takes on the differences/similarities in addition to their thoughts on both films in general.
In the extras on my dvd copy there's a great anecdote about the overdubbing. During the Tuco torture scene, at one point it cuts to the henchman commanding the musicians, who says "piu forte" (louder). They tried overdubbing it with "play louder" but it didn't look right, so the ADR director came up with "more feeling". It matched the actor's mouth movements better and added a layer of ironic pathos unanticipated by Leone. This is one of the reasons I love the soundtracks of these films. The uncanny, partly-matched dubbing; the pop-operatic scores; the over the top foley... it's all so heightened, so exaggerated. It's like the aural equivalent of Argento's gaudy, saturated colours.
You actually can do that with Colts because they had so many copies made of them from other companies that bought their license or just copied them with varying quality. This was just as replaceable parts started to become commonplace instead of hand fitted parts. So using a bunch of Colts copy parts to make the perfect one is feasible.
They did a bad job on the historical accuracy regarding the revolvers though....our three protagonist carry cap & ball percussion revolvers, but have cartridge belts...and if you look closely, they haven't been converted to handle centerfire cartridges (they still have percussion cap nipples on them). Centerfire cartridge revolvers didn't become common until a few years after the US Civil War anyways.
This was also an accident! Wallach had no clue about guns, and if you look he's terrified the whole scene that he's messing up the props. Leone had just told him to improvise. The fact that the prop guy was using a bunch of Colts with interchangeable parts was a total accident. The fact that the gun works means Wallach literally acted a gun into being.
Keep in mind we're discussing a movie prop that exists in a fictional movie where the actions and events of all things are dictated by the screenwriter. People constantly comparing movies to reality is always a disappointing assertion on the purpose of art.
@@mellusk9194 If you look closely they have cap and ball revolvers in scenes where they don't have to shoot, and cartridge conversions when they have to fire blanks.
The first movie has the exact same plot as Kurosawa’s yojimbo, although yojimbo feels a little less morally grey (even though it absolutely is). You probably have, but definitely watch it if you haven’t yet.
What's interesting is Westerns were influenced by Samurai films like Seven Samurai or Yoijmbo, those same Westerns also ended up influencing Japanese film makers and animators. As far as film goes there is a lot in common between Cowboys and Ronins. Hell they have a whole subculture in Japan of Western fans that dress up like cowboys for conventions.
My favorite movie of all time, and to be honest, it's not close. Every single shot, beautiful. The acting, perfect, on a knife's edge of seriousness and parody.
It is the most perfect movie ever... even if you don't like it (it was slated by American reviewers at the time) or Westerns you can't deny it's a work of cinematic mastery. It has a holy trinity of score, cinematography and cast that perfectly come together.
@@FightCollective once upon a time in the west is more structurely perfect, gbu feels more thrown together which i have come around to appreciate, great movie
Remember...''When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.'' I've lost count how many times I've watched this masterpiece...well over sixty times! Greatest movie ever made.
The bridge scene was my favorite part of the movie, it had action, humor and drama all rolled into one. They didn't blow up the bridge just because, after drinking with that Union Army captain he tells Clint Eastwood's character that if he could, he would blow up the bridge in order to keep his troops alive, but can't because the brass want to capture it instead. A very humanizing scene for the captain, who didn't want to see anymore of his boys die, and the man with no name, who granted the captain his dying wish.
I never really read it as them blowing up the bridge to 'help'. Their goal was to stop the fighting because the armies were in the way. But I think, yes, you can argue it was intended still to suggest a humanising moral moment for Eastwood's character too. Layered characters, they can fit more than one motivation or goal in their head. Whodathunkit.
@Blisterdude123 absolutely! I agree that The Man With No Name saw the opportunity to advance his agenda, but I believe that he had at least a sliver of decency to blow up the bridge to prevent more unnecessary deaths.
With so many shitty movies/tv shows being made over the last few years and watching so many (non-shill) online reviewers tearing them apart, it's so refreshing to hear "this is one of the best fucking things I've ever seen in my life."
So about three weeks ago, I finally watched The Godfather, and I felt like Jay watching The Good The Bad and The Ugly, like I would say to my friends and family eh I’ll get to it, thinking I knew what happened, but my gosh, after watching that I was blown away! One of the greatest things I’ve ever seen
@@anthonytrani1066 that happened to an old girlfriend, we were just sitting at home chilling I’m like wanna watch The Godfather? She was glued to the screen completely, it’s such a great movie.
@@MyMusicSosa the slow buildup of Michael taking over the family, thinking he would be some type of side character, but, turns out it’s his movie was wonderful. Still need to watch Part II, I will get it to it eventually
I'd love to see them cover Yojimbo or Seven Samurai someday. They're so legendary and so influential, and also Toshiro Mifune is the coolest cat to grace the silver screen. The music is incredible, the shots are incredible, and the action, while minimal, is great. I think my favorite part of the film is how it uses blood to highlight certain fights. Most of the time there isn't blood until the shots of the aftermath, but certain sword slashes bring forth geysers of blood. I am incredibly biased, because I've seen Yojimbo more than any other movie. Not even an exaggeration, I've easily watched it 15-20 times in my 24 years on this earth. Edit: honestly it's probably way more than 15-20 but I don't keep track of these things. At least once a year for the past 18 years.
I was so excited to see you guys do this one. In addition to "Westerns can be cool" and "Be like your Grandpa", these movies can definitely bridge the Generation Gap. My son (28 years younger than I am) and I bond regularly over the "Dollars Trilogy". The ultimate expression of this was when he and I went to the British Film Institute on the South Bank in London a few years ago and watched them all, one after the other in sequence on the big screen in a one day special showing. It took commitment but, we loved every minute of it. Thanks, Rich and Jay!
One of the all time most satisfying movies ever. When they slowly move into position at the climax and it dawns on you they're going to have a three way stand-off...holy crap, so many chills.
There’s so many great nuisances and emotional scenes to this film with the music and cinematography… Specially the lesser scenes and plots, like the Tuco and brother tension, the confederate general dying of gangrene, the alcoholic Union general who dies, and the dying confederate soldier Eastwood finds and without any dialogue comfort’s him in his final breaths by letting him take some puffs off his cigarillo and covers him with his jacket. All nice detail to a story.
If I recall, in his youth, Lee Van Cleef was advised to get plastic surgery to downplay his features being so... that... but he declined to do so. Also, Metal Gear Solid fans who might find him sort of familiar, facially: he is the primary visual inspiration for Revolver Ocelot.
Even if he hasn't seen Fist Full of Dollars, there's still a chance he's seen Fist Full of Dollars. That movie's been made, shot for shot, a half-dozen times. It's the exact same film as Yojimbo, Buchanan Rides Alone, Last Man Standing, Lucky Number Sleven, etc.
It is not the exact same film as Lucky Number Slevin sure there's a playing both sides against each other angle but the variations are so great and there's so much different about it, it can't be considered a remake of fistful at all.
I’m 32. I watched The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly for the first time about two weeks ago, not realizing it was the third in a not-really-a-Trilogy. I could not believe how good it was. I thought many of the shots were paintings until Sergio Leone proves they aren’t by having someone ride out into the distance, or charge across a bridge, or switches the camera angle to prove it. Fantastic movie. Holy cow.
The shoot out and the end of this movie is one of the best pieces of film ever made. Even removed from the story, the dramatic tension of the scene is carried my the music and cinematography in such a way that you can get invested without any knowledge of who's who and what's going on.
Italian Westerns, in general, are perhaps my favorite genre of film and this movie and "Once Upon a Time in the West" are both on my top 10 list. I've followed this channel for years, but I NEVER thought I would see anything even remotely spaghetti show up in a discussion here. So when I heard Jay say "this is one of the best f***ing things I've ever seen", my jaw dropped. I love hearing you guys talk about this! Thank you!
Minor correction: it’s a myth that Leone brought interesting morality to westerns. John Wayne is basically Achilles in The Searchers,, and stuff like High Noon and even Stagecoach is already morally complex. The idea that American Westerns are flat and boring comes from the fact that there were just so many of them, the median quality was shit. The classics are absolutely classic still. Now the Morricone score, that you’ll miss in American Westerns. That twang is so heavily associated with the genre now, it feels strange when it’s gone.
Rich: “I know John Wayne is the good guy who shoots the bad guys.” John Wayne in The Searchers: “I shot the eyes out of this Comanche corpse so that his spirit will wander the afterlife blind.”
I too was about to write something similar, to me John Wayne is straight up the villain in The Searchers until the end of the film. Also in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (possibly my favourite western) John Wayne plays a very morally ambiguous character.
I remember my father sitting me down to watch this movie when I was a little kid, and I was immediately hooked. This is still one of the best movies that I’ve ever seen to this day.
I watched The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly for the first time on Christmas Eve, along with Mean Girls. Somehow I watched both of them again on that same night.
I'm surprised they didn't mention "the pan". The shot where Clint and Eli are riding across the landscape, totally alone, and then the camera slowly pans and they're in the middle of a huge civil war battle.
You owe it to yourselves to watch some classic westerns, like “Liberty Valance” or “Treasure of Sierra Madre”. You might be surprised to see that the “heroic ideal” of the western hero was questioned and/or subverted very early on, not just in the 60s.
I just watched Treasure of Sierra Madre, I wouldn't call it a western. It is a great movie, it is a very unique and slow movie, feels almost like it is directed by the author, also I loved the old man prospector, But this is not a western. More like good ole psychological drama.
Or the Searchers. It's a bit subtle perhaps, it's easy to think that John Wayne character is the good guy and just a hard stoic soldier, but really he is also a man unable to settle to peacetime - and I agree treasure of Sierra Madre is not a western; it's really sort of a film noir - many of those took forays to these seedy "exotic" locations in South America.
This is one of the best re:View's I've seen. I am a Western fan, with John Ford (John Wayne), Anthony Mann (James Stewart), Sam Peckinpah (Joel McCrae/Randolph Scott, William Holden, Jason Robards), Sergio Leone (Clint Eastwood) and Eastwood himself being a few of my favorite Director (Actor) combos. I really admire Serio Leone's "Spaghetti" Westerns. The "Dollars Trilogy" and "Once Upon a Time in the West" are all classic, must-see films. I actually prefer the last which starred Charles Bronson (as the mystery man with a score to settle), Jason Robards (the outlaw with a good heart), the amazingly stunning Claudia Cardinale (as the widowed mail-order bride), and Henry Fonda (as the EVIL villain!!!). As you said, Leone's films established or popularized tropes that became part of the Western lexicon ever since. I agree, Tarantino borrowed a lot of them for his films. The enjoyable Sam Raimi-directed "The Quick and the Dead", starring Sharon Stone, Russell Crowe, Gene Hackman & Leonardo DiCaprio, practically uses EVERY one of Leone's tropes and borrows a scene or two here (like Crowe's Preacher character's visit to the gun shop). Maestro Ennio Morricone created the most unique, stirring, and memorable scores. His scores do much to complete the picture with their sometimes operatic passion or sometimes gritty rock-infused classical music. Jerome Moross wrote a magnificent film score for excellent "The Big Country" starring Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Burl Ives (Oscar winner for BSA), Charlton Heston, & Chuck Connors (to name a few). It's one of the few classic Hollywood scores that matches up with Morricone's works. Of course John Ford used a lot of traditional old west, folk song melodies in his film's scores to make them seem more authentic. I had a friend who was my best friend's stepdad. He and I used to watch & talk about Westerns all the time when we got together. As he got older, he suffered from a debilitating illness which eventually took his life. I truly miss my talks with Tom whenever I go back to Indiana for the holidays/vacations.
This was the last film I watched with my dad before he passed. I knew he loved this film, and I wanted to impress him with the DVD I just got from eBay. This movie is everything that is great about cinema. Genius is an overused term, but this film is genius.
Just watched this “trilogy” for the first time a few weeks ago per RLM’s recommendation! Was moving out of Arizona and watching some classic westerns felt like an appropriate sendoff. 🤠
“…and it’s the best fucking thing I’ve ever seen.”
My heart soars like a hawk.
There's nothing better than showing your buddy a movie and having him freak out.
Wait till he watched Once Upon A Time in the West.
@@jackbauer4186 That's just what I was going to say. But the trilogy movies may be a necessary introduction. OUTW can be a bit much for modern viewers.
then id say he should watch the related Kurosawa films also - yojimbo, sanjuro...
@@jackbauer4186 I am only 29 but I was quoting Josey Wales as early as 5 years old. "You gonna pull them pissels or wissey dissey." I didn't see OUTW until earlier this year and have watched it about 30 times now. By far my favorite western, if not my favorite movie. I think it is better than Unforgiven, the dollars trilogy, Josey Wales.
its cool to see them discuss a movie that takes place during mike's childhood.
Ha! Mike, Rich and I are roughly the same age...1967 really isn't that long ago in the grand scheme of things.
Well Man Childhood he was over 20 at the time.
@@xp7575 nah Mike is ancient
@@Null94 he also justified
@@keefriff99 No, he meant the civil war part
Seeing Jay genuinely enjoy this classic really brightened my day.
Hearing Jay say that he’d never seen it until recently and then hearing he loved it… Might be my single favourite RLM moment
I first saw this on my little 14" bedroom black and white TV in 1988 when I was 13 - it was the Sunday matinee on a local TV station, and it's been in my top 10 ever since. I had it playing in the background on a projector at my bachelor party in 2006 and everyone stopped drinking and talking and sat down to watch the whole thing & we had to get the sound going. My boys are 14 and 12 now, wondering if I show it to them, will they just be bored, or will it capture them like it did me?
@@DoctorDewgong Agreed. TGBU is actually my least favorite of the three, mainly because it's so much less focused
Yeah that was really awesome! Basically how i felt
@@Beer_Dad1975 don’t spoil it or build it up, let them watch it fresh.
They only get that once.
“Go full boomer, watch a western” I watched Fistful of Dollars earlier this year and the plot was so tight and simple yet atmospheric and entertaining, it was better than anything I’d seen that past year I swear
The thing is you don't have to go full boomer to watch any of these old classics, all people have to do is just put them on they're really that good. especially if people are still wowed by them 40-70 years after they drop.
I have not seen that movie but from seeing the clips in this video it looks like the story might be the copy of the Japanese film made by kurosawa, the name I think is yojimbo I'm not sure.
@@amitmeena2961 yeah I'm pretty sure it is, that happened with a lot of kurosawa movies
@@amitmeena2961 The first movie of the "trilogy", A Fistful of Dollars, is a remake of Yojimbo. A Few Dollars More and GBU aren't remakes. You should definitely watch them, they are all amazing, especially GBU.
@@beam5655 I have seen those two but I have seen yojimbo so I'm not watching the western remake anymore
Tuco has one of the greatest character introduction scenes in cinema. Literally bursting onto the scene (through a glass) after killing three bad looking men with a turkey leg in one hand (and half in his mouth), and a gun in the other. And then that freeze frame lmao. Just great filmmaking
Also did wonders for showing that as scruffy and goofy as he is compared to the other two, he is sharper than is given credit for. Has some real madcap ideas when he gets the drop on someone like getting some guys together just to see them all get killed while he came from the window or how he had a gun good and ready while he was bathing hiding under some bubbles. Takes the most punishment out of the 3 and still ends up in better shape than....well, bad.
@@motherplayer There's a word for that type of person: ..."ornery."
See, I was gonna say Clint Eastwood's introduction where it shows him talking shit to a guy before sending him to his death (or so he thinks) once he's no longer profitable, and then having the entire movie freeze to label him "the good" is perfect for setting the tone for the world this movie exists in
I hold Tuco as the greatest movie character of all time!
@@motherplayer pretty sure that's exactly the point Leone was making with the whole movie-"it may not be pretty, but it gets the job done".
Tuco is unrefined and clueless, but he pulls through every single time because he's got no illusions of being above shit. He'll cheat, he'll fight, he'll grovel, he'll beg-but he won't accept defeat.
He's not good, he's not bad, and he certainly isn't handsome-but in the end, he's alive and no worse-off than he started.
When I was 10, my grandfather found out that I hadn't seen this movie... he literally drove to buy it and brought me home to make me watch it. My grandfather was awesome!
My grandfather gave me a dress and made me sit on his lap
@@reek4062 no I didn't!
My aunt did me the same why when It came to Star Wars back in 99…. She lost her shit and ran straight to blockbuster and got all the OT… I was only 6 ma’am calm down 😂…. But because of her I love movies
@@BrentWalker999 I wish you did
You had an awesome grandfather.
As a mexican, i give Elli Wallach a honorary mexican card. He killed that part.
I am from Mexican decent and many of my family members that i have are Mexicans, also agree Elli Wallach gets a pass
That is what you call great acting, if anybody can play as anybody e.g. Robert Downey Jr. as Kirk Lazarus: An Australian method actor and five-time Academy Award winner, Lazarus had a controversial "pigmentation alteration" surgery to temporarily darken his skin for his portrayal of the black character, Staff Sergeant Lincoln Osiris, in Tropic Thunder a really funny movie.
@@jedi_drifter2988 that movie sucks! It's not funny at all! I kind of laughed ONE TIME at Tom Cruise telling the kidnappers to "go fuck yourself"!
Stupid bullshit for the braindead masses!... kind of like Star Wars now
Tuco gets a pass. El es un hombre muy chingon.
Yo también le doy el mexican pass. Se lleva la película. Saludos de Puebla.
The number of times Jay says, "I loved it," throughout this re:View is awesome. It's a film everyone has heard of and is widely praised, but it still managed to exceed his expectations. You can tell how genuinely happy he is to sit down and talk about it with Rich. And now I'm looking forward to watching it myself thanks to this video.
That is how it do be. You kinda just need someone to tell you it's a deconstruction of something to realize it is worth watching.
Weird how you take pop culture references of a classic film for surface value of the whole film your whole life, but when you actually watch the movie you realize it's meme holds up so long because the movie itself is amazing and more than the reference you took for granted. I'm just as guilty, but I was surprised to find out Jay, a well known picky film snob that enjoys good and bad Italian knock offs, NEVER SAW The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. Everyone has their flaws, he just corrected one of his on (UA-cam) camera.
It's as good as they say. The other ones (Fistful of Dollars & A Few Dollars More) are great too. The recent HD versions look fantastic too, including MGM's 2014 restoration made from the original camera negative. Can't go wrong with these suckers!
@@jamesgreenwood5185 I should've said it in my original comment - but I'm actually excited to see this whole trilogy. Had to catch up on some other films before I could jump in so I still haven't - top of my list though.
@@GdotHost let us know what you think
For Tuco's revolver: it's plausible, but takes to explaining.
He picked a bunch of era appropriate revolvers to start with and all of the ones he took apart and swapped around were manufactured by Colt. And the specific parts he swapped around were ones that were either designed to be taken apart and changed (such as cylinders) or ones that could work well if you didn't think too hard about it. But the real point of the scene is to show that Tuco actually knows what he's doing, he essentially picks the best parts from all of the Colts on offer. It's a very impressive scene.
Similar concept with a lot of modern firearms, ie the AR-15. There are many forms of it with different interchangable parts, ie barrels, receivers, grips, stocks, etc. Take ten of them that all look different, and you can make one amalgamation of them because they're the same underlying system.
Fun fact: Wallach didn't know anything about guns. Leone just told him to improvise and they'd edit whatever they got. Assembling Tuco's pistol was a complete accident - thankfully because the prop guy had selected a bunch of Colt knockoffs. If you look, the worried looks on his face were 100% genuine - he thought he was messing up a bunch of props and they wouldn't even be able to use it.
Love the awesome homage to it in John Wick 3 as well!
Did I see correctly that the final 'FrankenColt' is a ball and cap revolver converted to handle cartridges?
Paused right after they mentioned the comments section cause I knew someone MUST have answered the question.
Not to be outdone by a table, Rich has taken it upon himself to hold the movie case for the entire review.
Folding chables are overrated
Mike crushed their table with a chair, Rich had no choice!
chable*
It makes his penis cry. Its special to him.
Jay missed the point of the bridge scene. Yeah they blow it up cos it's in thier way out it's also a small favour to the dying union captain, who has seen thousands of men die for nothing. He gets a little bit of hope just before he dies. So it was a small heroic moment.
It also allows the two armies to disperse, as there's nothing left to fight for. Which means there won't be anyone else going to the cemetery when they go to look for the gold.
Oh yeah. It's character building for Blondie. After he almost dies from thirst and exposure, he starts doing little nice things, here and there, the first of which is sharing his cigar with Tuco as they leave the mission.
It's almost like this movie was ...well written? All the characters have layers and even growth(well..maybe aside from Angel Eyes, he is pretty much an horrible pos the entire movie, but he also has a couple of interesting moments). Another scene is the one between Tuco and his brother. While it's true that the brother is disappointed in Tuco, what Tuco says is the truth: the only way to escape poverty for them was either being a bandit or donning the cloth. It just so happens Tuco was the tougher and meanest of their family, so he left to be a bandit and not burden the others. He made difficult choices, at a very young age. The brother had the easiest path. It's also the moment Tuco discovers his mother died, now he is TRULY alone. There's no home to go back, no one will be waiting for him. We see under his tough skin a little glimpse of what was a little mexican boy from a poor village, still ashamed to tell Blondie his brother wasn't pleased to meet him. Still sad about what happened. Tuco is a terrible man, but also has an heart. It's a scene that grounds him and makes him " real". He isn't just a "cigar smoking bandito" that is convenient to the plot, he actually has a place in the world. Like i said, good writing.
I also think it's a very ironic scene, that these two lowlife bandits end up saving the lives of thousands of men. For me, it's all part of the epic character of this film. Vast landscapes cut with extreme close-ups, soaring operatic music interjected by long silences, a sweeping civil war punctuated by the petty rivalry and squabbling of the characters... This movie isn't just pure cinema, it's the entire human condition, grand and yet trivial, tragic and absurd.
@@ravecrab brilliantly said
Lee van Cleef was indeed a very sweet man. He lost part of his middle finger building a doll house for his daughter. You can see it in the close up of his hand in the duel scene.
That is the most wholesome story.... until you realize that somehow a dollhouse set was dangerous enough to take a man's finger off during assembly. They don't make children's toys like they used to I guess.
@@The0spetsnaz0 be probably built it from scratch with hardware lol I don't think it was from an assembly kit
@@The0spetsnaz0 It wasn't a plastic kit from WalMart. He was building it from raw material, which means hammers, saws and lathes were involved.
This is the standard practice (and danger) of building any object that requires skill and craft, and not just assembling some shit you got from Amazon.
He was also one of those bygone-era gentlemen, who couldn't even feign hitting a woman...so they had to put a man in a dress for him to finish the scene where Angel Eyes roughs up a prostitute.
@@TheGoodChap classic
Fun fact! All the revolvers Tuco disassembled were different versions of the same Colt revolver. The parts he exchanged, the cylinder and barrel, would have been more or less interchangeable, and were only held together with removable pins. Overall not too inaccurate!
I would also like to add he was given no direction or education on the weapons. He was just told to do some stuff and he made it all up.
It was totally inaccurate though. It 100% wouldn’t work. That scene is fantastic as a piece of cinema, but not realistic at all, and absolutely would not work. Tuco supposedly loads brass cartridges in a cap-and-ball (Colt Navy) Pistol that he swaps cylinders with a Smith & Wesson. You can’t do that. A Colt Navy, being cap-and-ball, loads from the front.
The movie is set in 1862-64. Colt pistols wouldn’t fire metallic cartridges until Smith & Wesson’s patent expired in 1869, and they didn’t sell a conversion of the Navy revolver until 1871, and those were factory guns, not just cylinder swaps.
@@PristineTX so there were actual conversion navy revolvers that would fire cartridges, so is the issue that the movie was set before those were in circulation? i totally get the whole ball n cap issue, it wouldnt work like that
Yup, and guns were often offered with customization from the manufacturer for an extra fee. Barrel length, finishes, and grips were all customizable.
Besides, if you want to point out the glaring issue with the pistols in this movie, the most egregious issue is in the final showdown, where the closeup reveals Van Cleef to be carrying a full belt of metallic cartridges... for his 1858 Remington cap-and-ball pistol, primers clearly visible.
3:01 goddamn did I feel the joy in rich's heart when jay said "one of the best things I have ever seen" I felt the joy in my heart as well because this film really is beautiful!!
Lol, same here. I remember thinking that westerns were lame, but when I watched this at the age of 16 or so, it really kicked off my love of westerns. I went on a HUGE western binge after watching this.
I never appreciated westerns until I played through the 1st red dead redemption. After that I fell in love with the genre. Good bad ugly is in my top 3 fave movies.
@@TrempBoy2It’s a film that WILL convert the haters. Also UNFORGIVEN (another Eastwood masterpiece)… I know nothing about the early westerns other than the fact that they seemed boring as sh*t when I caught them on late night television as a child. I had no interest in westerns until I saw Once Upon A Time In The West in my early 20s. I was instantly drawn in and I’ve become a Leone fan ever since. Every film I watched blew me away, and the ones I didn’t immediately connect with became some of my favorites upon a second viewing (Once Upon A Time In America!!!)….
If you had this movie in your life and then you were lucky enough to play LucasArts FPS Outlaws.. yeaaa
It's pretty much top 3 films of all time if you understand the art of film making and the scope and talent. Maybe number 2. Possibly #1. It's potentially the greatest film art ever made but their are films with better scores so it loses an infinitesimal point. To top 2 or 3.
The scene with Tuco finding the graveyard is one of the most iconic scenes in film, period.
This is why I follow Red Letter Media. Rich is a great actor but when it comes to talk film, he's very knowledgeable and charming, not to mention humble. He brings about the best in Jay. The dynamic of these two is so different than, say, Mike and Jay, or Mike and Rich for that matter. That's probably why my favorite videos are Rich and Jay teaming up.
What impresses me about Rich recently is his genuine humility. He came across as a pure narcissist early-on (to me), he'd always blatantly steal Jack's ideas (after having already stolen Mike's long ago), but his reactions in quiet moments belie this first impression. He basks in attention towards himself, but he enjoys when others have their moments too.
The Rich/Jay dyad is by far the most wholesome, except for maybe Jay and his Canadian dad
Jay's reaction is the best and I love Rich's joy in hearing that his friend likes one of his favorite movies.
@JamesMacPherson I am not surprised, there is a ton of movies that considered a classic, and it's hard to watch even half of them, despite how big of a cinephile you are
Having Jay say he absolutely adores something is the most fulfilling thing possible
The background low boil of hatred this channel has for Cinema Sins gives me life
I'm sad Rich feels insecure about having to be "intellectual" on re:View. On alot of videos he has some really insightful and profound takes.
That is unfortunate
Not sure why all of them are so afraid of analytical engagement with media
I love their dynamic. Rich is philosophical, Jay is technical, Mike is cynical
He is our every-man, carpenter philosopher & we love him for that.
AAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDSSSSSSS!!!!!!!
This was the fastest I’ve ever clicked on a RLM notification! My favorite movie of all time!
It's the third of the Dollars Trilogy ri8?
You sure it isnt the thing!? Haha
For a few dollars more is my preferred of the three
I was faster
mine too this i a fucking dream
I was so happy when Jay finished his story about never getting around to seeing the movie, and said that it was one of the greatest things he'd ever seen in his life.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is my vote for the best movie ever made. From an art snob standpoint, looking at the cinematography, the direction, the score, etc it is absolutely phenomenal. From a dumb action movie standpoint, looking at the stunts and the clever one-liners, it is absolutely phenomenal. And when your movie is both Citizen Kane and Die Hard, your movie is the best movie ever made.
Great analysis, really. I'd dare say it's my fave, too. I knew it would be in Jay's wheelhouse.
sorry but that'd be "Once upon a time in the West": that's basically the opus magnum of all his Western works. Even by his own saying.
Fax.
My vote goes to A Serbian Film
Don't get carried away.
That union/reb dust gag scene is still one of my all-time favorite jokes in any movie, I remember watching it for the first time when I was twelve and laughing my ass off.
Tuco: Hurrah! Hurrah for the Confederacy! HURRAH! Down with General Grant! Hurrah for General... What's his name? Lee! LEE! Ha ha. God is with us because he hates the Yanks too. HURRAH!
Blondie: God is not on our side because he hates idiots also.
All these people who watched these movies as kids, it makes you wonder why George Lucas tried to water the OT down, seeing that the original take of the Han vs. Greedo scene was based on these movies, but for some reason Lucas thinks that kids only watch babies' movies.
@@white-dragon4424 It has nothing to do with movies, remember George own the rights to the toys, until a point where the toys profit probably exceeded his box office profits. In the original trilogy he collaborated with many talented because he's making a movie, but for the prequels he's making toys. It's probably the reason he started to call Star Wars a kids movie.
I loved the fact that Jay just watched this movie and was blown away by it. Truly great films never get old.
EDIT: Man I'm so glad they talked a little about the "Ecstasy of Gold" Sequence. I have always thought that's the purest 15 minutes of cinema ever filmed.
I want to see Metallica live because I love their music, but even more so to see their intro with that scene live.
And the song for a soldier i get goosebumps just hearing it again
That's such an intelligently edited sequence. Trying to capture the concept of being overwhelmed by all sides? I don't think I've ever seen it done as well in a film before this.
Not to mention the musical piece of the same name is like an orgasm in musical form.
It's actually feels more like an anti-war movie dressed up like a western than a western with the war as a backdrop. I love the movie. The bridge scene is one of my favorite moments
What’s funny is Rich saying he doesn’t feel movie literate and intellectual enough for these discussions; the man has some of the greatest insights on Re:View. As an Everyman Rich Evans see what Jay and Mike miss quite often. You keep at it dude!
He fuels his mighty intellect by gorging on the brains of murdered children
Chable
Yea Rich is very intelligent.
Yeah that caught me off guard. He has always come off to me a very bright and almost to the point that he may be smug about it in real life. Again just speculation based on people I have known.
And surprise he’s a good person who constantly doubts himself as an over correction lol.
You’re smart Rich!
yeah, NEVER DOUBT YOURSELF Rich. We don't call you 'The epitome of humanity' only to dig at you. There is sincere truth in that statement!
And give it a few other more years, and just like in your teens, you will be the best looking between you and Mike. I cannot explain Jay, must be dark magic.
I met Eli Wallach while I was in grad school. He was a lovely human being. He said that for the longest time he thought that he was the "bad" of the trio.
When I first saw this film I honestly believed that Eli was in fact a Mexican actor. I don't know how he does it but he was a lovable bandit in this film. He's a total degenerate but for some reason you love him.
Phenomenal actor. 😊
It could've been because the original Italian title was The Good, The Ugly, and The Bad. So the promotional materials like trailers followed this order. They never changed it when doing the English dub for American audiences.
If you watch the American versions of the films trailers, the English narrator says:
"The Good" with Clint Eastwood on screen
"The Bad" with Eli Walach on screen
And finally,
"And The Ugly" with Lee Van Cleef on screen.
So that's why he probably got it mixed up. He probably saw the English trailers with order jumbled up.
Actually, my grandfather was managing a concession stand, during a showtime for this movie, back in 1967 when a middle-aged Rich Evans approached him for a tub of popcorn.
No way !
Rich doesn't look a day over 90, tops.
Was one of your parents conceived that night? I don’t think it’s possible to resist rich
Rich, you're selling yourself short, buddy. I always find your participation in re:views to be insightful and endearing. Imposter syndrome is certainly a real thing, but you needn't lose sleep over this.
Richard Evans is the person we all aspire to be.
Well this video's already over 300k views, so I get the hesitation. It's interesting thinking about his re:view appearances with that in mind, because he does usually take a support role on these, and they're always movies he's watched many times before (and has probably researched a bit), so he can speak with some authority about some aspects. As someone with a similar "don't talk or they'll know you don't know things" problem, I don't mind him admitting this.
Honestly he kind of impresses me about how much he knows and even when held against Rich and Mike. He seems like someone who watches as many movies as I do. Just maybe not always the same ones.
I am not interested in a re view unless it has at least Mike and Rich together , Jay and Mike together or Jay and Rich together .... No offense to the guest reviewers
Rich has more knowledge than these guys in so many areas. I still remember him pulling out the fact about Soviets experimenting with gorilla human hybrids, and because I already knew that one it was great watching the others on the table reacting with such incredulity.
Greetings from Spain. I didn´t know much about this channel since I got homesick for a week. I hated Rich´s laugh at first but now I´m only looking forward to it. I think i´ve seen 9 years compressed in one month... twice.
Thanks for helping me this deep dark moment of my life.
Bienvenido a la secta y preparate para sentir el terror cuando te hayas fumado todos los videos de RLM y tengas que esperar semanas a uno nuevo.
@@themoviedealers oh here I was thinking he was talking about missing Spain and wanting to watch videos about movies made there.
@@themoviedealers Yes, you are right. I usually make that kind of mistakes. But I won´t edit it. This would be my 'best of the worst homage' in a written way.
@@DistractedGlobeGuy Too convoluted. I meant sick at home, but my brain made a Rich Evans mix.
@@Nifava Ya me he visto el mismo 7 veces... Es raro verlos envejecer tan rápido. :D
I started watching this, paused it after a few minutes, went and watched this movie, and then came back. Do not regret it, it was fantastic
Morricone's score still to this day feels so edgy and fresh. I love how the main theme keeps popping up throughout the film with different instrumental arrangements. Electric guitars, flutes, men hollering and shouting, and towards the final act when they're in the war it's played on just marching drum. It's so playful and creative.
Each of the characters gets their own variant of the theme to represent them. Particularly like Tuco's. Just *chef's kiss*.
Leitmotivs popping in and out at different times with odd instruments is one of my favourite things in movies and videogames.
Another movie with an oft-repeated leitmotiv is the fantastic "THE LONG GOODBYE" by Robert Altman.
Gould is so good in this movie, as well as every other actors.
@@DrummerDucky I think the best and clearest use of leitmotif by Morricone during that period was in Once Upon a Time in the West, where each major character has their own very different and distinctive them. Harmonica's and Frank's (both used in the same piece during the finale) are super-famous, but for me it's Jill's theme that stands above the others - it's lovely, grand and looks towards the later, more refined and lyrical, themes that Morricone would use in the 1980s.
One of its best uses was in Kelly's Heroes.
I heard Metallica starts their show (while they're walking out on stage) to this film's theme, at every concert they play.
I'm going to go against the grain and be earnest here: Rich you're really good at what you do. There's a reason you can spin out 80s plots at will, and it's because you approach material like a writer, which is a valuable perspective. You're insightful and smart and I'm glad your job is this rather than delivering telephone books or whatever the weird shit you used to do is. So enjoy the compliments you'll never read from a person you'll never meet.
I believe he mentioned in a Best of the Worst that he use to instal fire sprinkler systems.
@@jayjaydeth No wonder he's so cool about fire safety.
That was really nice and I agree.
Can even go a step further and say, all of the RLM cast can bring different stuff into a re:View, that's why they're fun. It's a different format.
@@jayjaydeth , yep, went to high school with Mike, then Mike went to film school and Rich entered a trade.
But Rich was the one out of the job when the recession hit, so he went to Mike in desperation.
As far as the gun assembly scene goes, fitting different parts together by hand was an important process in early mass-produced firearms. This fitting would be done at the factory, but of course quality control wasn't the highest priority, especially during wartime. Tuco is taking Colt model 1851s that have parts that fit together well enough but not great, and he's taking the best parts from these and sticking them together into 1 well fitted gun.
Important to note that due to location and the fact that it's during the civil war, a lot of the parts he was going through probably weren't colt (due to them being on the Union side geographically) and were more likely a huge variation of handmade confederate parts patterned off the colt navy that would be way out of spec. if assembled together with other confederate and colt parts.
I was looking for this comment.
IIRC, Eli Wallach said that he improvised the the gun assembly and that he had no knowledge of guns.
I knew the answer to Rich's question was "yes" but had no real knowledge further than that so thank you for the comment!
Scrolled down specifically to find someone pointing this out. Thanks
The classic westerns don’t get enough love these days. The Leone westerns and post-westerns like Unforgiven have been deservedly remembered and showered with praise, but the John Ford westerns like The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Searchers, and My Darling Clementine, and others from the same era like The Gunfighter all dealt with much more interesting and complex themes than your basic white hat vs. black hat westerns.
TLDR: There’s a lot of great classic westerns, I hope more people give them a chance.
You are spot on. People who don’t watch westerns have very strong opinions and incorrect information on them. Most no B-movie westerns have morally complex and are far from cliche driven crap that people think it is. Even the westerns of the silent era we’re doing everything the spaghetti westerns did in the 1910s-20s. The good the bad and the ugly is close to a remake of 3 Bad Men
I hated westerns when I was first getting into movies (even though I hadn’t seen basically any), then I watched fistful of dollars, the searchers and Johnny Guitar and my whole opinion changed. I mean I’m 21 so clearly young people can enjoy them, it just takes the right one.
High Noon, Shane and Pursued are also excellent, although despite the setting I don't know if one could put Pursued in the western category at least it is not a "pure" example of the genre.
The Searchers is my favorite film of all time. Made Godard cry from his review, influenced Scorsese and Schrader in Taxi Driver. John Wayne’s character of Ethan really set up a lot of those dark characters!
Best western is Yojimbo though «_«
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly has it all. When it tries to be funny, it’s hilarious. When it’s sad, it’s heartbreaking. When dramatic, it’s epic. The film is both gritty, but feels like myth. The story is wonderfully written. The direction, cinematography, and mise en scene are excellent. Morricone’s score is only (maybe) surpassed by a handful of other films… that he also scored.
I'm genuinely glad to see how Jay felt about this film, as like with Rich this has been a favourite movie of mine for years. But I had the same impression going in as Jay: THINKING I understood what the movie was, or would be, and being so amazingly surprised and blown-away by what it actually was.
I really want to track down that new 4K release, the last time I viewed this film was on the old Special Edition DVD set!
That 4k release looks stunning, and makes it look even more epic.
I came here to say this, but thank you for succinctly saying it before I had a chance to butcher its essence.
Fun fact about the civil war battle scene:
The bridge explosion was incredibly expensive, and a crew member yelled at some actors to get in position. The pyrotechnics guy thought that was his queue, so he detonated the bridge when the cameras weren't filming.
They had to build it and destroy it again from scratch.
my understanding is the Spanish military was involved and were apparently apologetic enough to rebuild and re-explode it...or they just wanted to play with the explosives
I came to the comments before finishing the review to see if someone commented that they didn’t bring it up. I was sad to see it wasn’t mentioned by the guys but happy to see someone mentioned it in the comments
That’s a cool story. Imagine having to explain that to your boss. 😂
Leone must have had an aneurysm.
Lmao 😭😭😭
You can also see a brick almost kill Clint Eastwood when it blows up, it hits a sandbag about a foot away from his head
As a former gun museum guy, all the revolver manufacturers were stealing and copying designs from each other back then (at least more openly than now)
Interesting
It was the dawn of replaceable parts, most of the designs were heavily based off one set of parts that could be replaced and repurposed on-demand. We didn't have pipelines for stupid shit like we do now.
Due to industrialisation during the Indian wars (pre civil war) the us army began weaponry with stanardizind weaponry parts so guns could be broken down and repaired in the field.
Gun manufacturers would also sell proprietary ammo to makeup the loss e.g in Red Dead Redemption 2 each gun used its own custom made cartridge you couldn't swap between brands. Gun catalogs from the Old West had a wide variety of ammo loads and sizes fragmented even further by gun company. There was no effort for standardization until after WW1 with so much surplus.
Eli Whitney came up with the concept and mass produced muskets for the army. Samuel Colt cheated to get the government contract for revolvers. He didn't have the machinery accurate enough to make interchangeable parts. He went through his guns until he found several guns with parts that could be swapped out.
He then took those guns as an example of his workmanship and won the government contract. He used the money from that contract to then build a new factory that had the accurate machinery necessary for interchangeable parts.
The funny thing about the cynical Civil War take is that kind of stuff really was happening. I was looking at a Time Life photo book of the Civil War a long time and one of the stories they tell (and show) is that the most famous (and one of the most prolific) CW photographers was exposed after people started to notice that a lot of his photos had the same corpses in them. He was dragging and posing bodies on the battlefield.
It think it was less cynical and more sad.
Really interesting how it doesn't take sides either, it shows suffering from both sides.
Because war doesnt do much for the people fighting in it. Only those back home, just a reality of war
@@illseeyaonthedarksideofthemoon - Well yeah but in the case of the civil war one side went out of their way to start the war specifically to uphold the institution of slavery so like fuck em
@@851852093114208513no, the Corwin Amendment was meant to stop that. It wasn’t solely to preserve the institution. The north still had 5 slave states during the war and even after the emancipation proclamation. The largest hanging event was in New York when the people of NYC heard that the war was about freeing blacks… it was a war of grievances than actual humanitarian cause. Look up Charles Adams’s book “When in the Course of Human Events: Making the Case for Southern Succession”. The book discusses tax history coming from the author who majors in the topic and shows the US aggression via tariffs.
The only thing the North did was further create a divide in the south. Because of Sherman hatred was brewed, because of the removal of citizenship from everyone in the south the statues were built, carpetbaggers stole land, and even the kkk came about as militia groups in protest of the north later turned into a racially focused white supremacist group that even Nathan Bedford Forest protest and left.
I have no skin in the Civil War game as I have no ancestors here, but to treat the war like a football match, dehumanizing the opposite side to fit one’s own narrative is quite bizarre.
If the 3% were the only people in the CSA to hold slaves then they must’ve had the dumbest civilians to convince them that preservation of slavery is a valid war. Robert E Lee even freed his own at the start of the war… you know the guy whose 5 family members signed the Declaration of Independence and whose father was Virginia’s governor?
I don’t like erecting false idols but the statues are reminders of the hatred and yet it is seen as offensive…
History will repeat itself with the current divide of the modern peoples as you hear the new anti-Semite, anti-Ukraine, anti-black rhetoric being talked about on controlled opposition media. It’s clear we are seen as sheep to be herded off of cliffs of party affiliations and social political opinions. First world problems that have no relevance to the famine, wars, and tensions of quarreling nations.
Goodbye
At age 19, I got my first book deal -- to write Lee Van Cleef's biography (still in print from McFarland & Company). Now that I'm a filmmaker, I keep meeting old Van Cleef co-stars and hearing stories about Lee that I wish I could've included in the book. Ah well. Sometimes I get them on camera, though, to preserve for posterity...
I honestly didn't believe you when you said you wrote his biography, but having looked it up, I'm really impressed you managed to write an entire biography on Lee Fucking Van Cleef at 19. Props to you dude. Thinking of nabbing a copy.
@@Book_Of_Essence -- Grazie, fella. And I eventually went on to co-write the official DJANGO sequel for Franco Nero (only to be eventually replaced by John Sayles). I have amazing interview content from my archives that I'll put up on YT if you b*stards ever want to push me past 1K subs.
Document, document, document the Lee stories brother. Writing a bio at 19 is fairly damned cool too. Maybe we should send Jay a copy of your book to help him confirm or deny whether Mr. Van Cleef was indeed 'The Devil'.
me me me
Release a new edition with the added comments?
i remember reading years ago that Leone elevated cinema violence to a new "standard" of sorts. in the 40s and 50s, whenever a gun was fired, it was done shot-reaction shot, i.e. the shooter would be in one frame and fire, then there'd be a cut to the victim in a different frame, who'd fall over. what Leone did differently was have the shooter in the extreme foreground with the victim in the background, and the sequence would all play out in a single frame.
that little nugget of film history and filmmaking is what got me really excited about movies, and the western genre in general. the Dollars trilogy is way up there in my top favourite flicks of all time.
No one cares
@@lawton6123 “I’m a giant asshole”
@@erderamir6994 There are people who can help you
@@lawton6123 so you can go away on your merry way then
That’s not actually true. You can see the shooter and victim in the same frame in numerous films that predated Leone. John Huston’s version of The Maltese Falcon, for one.
Since Jay appreciates the epic feel of this one and its cinematic craft, he shouldn't cheat himself out of watching Leone's other opus and masterpiece, Once Upon A Time In The West, in the best quality possible.
Used to be my favorite movie. I love it.
I really hope they do a review of once upon a time in the west, such an absolute great film.
I was curious if he saw this as well. I prefer it over The Good, the bad, and the ugly.
I used to think The Good The Bad The Ugly was peerless until I watched Once Upon a Time in the West. It’d be difficult for me to decide which is better.
Claudia Cardinale in 4K its a religious experience
Regarding 17:53 - I don't know how realistic it is, but neither did Tuco's actor. He knew next to nothing about guns but they wanted the scene to show him as being an expert, so Sergio Leone just told him 'fuck around with the gun parts and pretend you know what you're doing'. It's hilarious to think about, but he did a damn good job of making it look like he was on the ball with it and really DID know how to assemble a gun like that. Everything he did was just made up nonsense, but it worked.
that same scene was replicated in John Wick number 2 (or 3... I've only seen parts or 1, but know of this scene), and it actually is grounded in reality, he's in a museum and has to interchange the cylinder and did it as an homage to the classic scene.
He was basically taking the best parts from different revolvers to make Best Revolver ™️ say like a revolver has a good trigger but the cylinder might lock up sometimes or doesn't have very good sights, stuff like that.
I remember watching this movie at a friend's house when i was 12, we were watching it at 2am, on his shitty Panasonic, children-torso-sized tv with faulty exposed wiring, and it always stuck with me, not only because of the amazing cinematography, but also because i got electrocuted launched back against a wall when i touched the cable by accident.
Similar experience for me - sans electrocution - I first saw this on my little 14" bedroom black and white TV in 1988 on a local station Sunday afternoon movie slot when I was 13. It was a National Electronics TV, which is what Panasonic called themselves before they became Panasonic. My boys are 14 and 12 now, wondering if I show it to them, will they just be bored, or will it capture them like it did me?
Child torso is a really weird unit of measurement, but also very accurate
"i got electrocuted launched back against a wall when i touched the cable by accident."
Cable TV at home: XD
It's great to meet the inspiration for Poltergeist. The horror genre salutes you
I was genuinly so happy when Jay said he loved the movie. After watching so many films (as I’m sure he has) there’s still gold out there to be found. And the passion displayed here is just great to watch.
same here, i always tell my niece and nephews to watch it but they just cant find the time
I love the story that Eastwood returned back to the states. And he heard about this amazing western playing in theaters. He had to check it out. Quickly found out it was his own movie he made in Italy.
funny how Eastwood became first a movie star in Europe with Leone's westerns, and later in USA with Dirty Harry.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is not only the best of the Western genre but also one of the best of the Film medium.
I’m Mexican, and I lived in Mexico all my youth, I can assure you, Tucco gets a pass, he is LOVED. I didn’t even know he wasn’t Mexican.
Fun Fact: The gun shop scene was mostly improvised. Eli Wallach knew next to nothing about guns or how they worked. Sergio Leone liked this and instructed him to simply play around and do what he wanted. Even though Eli Wallach wasn’t actually knowledgeable about what he was tinkering with, it does seem very convincing that Tuco has a keen understanding of firearms, which is a testament to how great of an actor Eli Wallach was and how superb Sergio Leone was as a director.
"I don't need to know this, my character does." --Stewie relating the best advice from his acting teacher, Family Guy.
Keanu improvised it in John Wick 3, but he knew everything about the guns
Thanks for mentioning this scene. One of my favorite scenes in a movie full of favorite scenes.
No wonder it what he was doing was always kind of unclear to me.
@@Tunkkis I thought he was trying to see which pieces were the best crafted cause back in the day factory perfect guns didn't exist. Like him looking down the barrel was meant to see how straight they were, how narrow the barrel is, etc. Or him checking the cylinder to make sure it turns well and has no problems in it. IDK that's my guess.
I absolutely love all of Sergio Leones filmography. My favourite has to be Once Upon A Time In The West.
Once Upon A Time In The West is comfortably my favourite Leone too & I do believe it's his best work. All his films are very good though.
@@NoirFan84 all his movies are works of art!
Was that the one with the barrel scene (huge gigantic mega barrel he somehow supposedly set up a trap with whilst barely alive after being beaten by the baddies over and over?) And where he had the metal chestplate he somehow cut out of a boiler with no tools? 😅 I might be mistaking it for A Fistful of Dollars, but it was still excellent despite those niggles and was the inspiration for Marty McFly's chest plate in back to the future.
Never trust a man that doesn't trust his own pants.
I especially love his last masterpiece Once Upon A Time In America.
Eli Wallach wasn't in brown face. It was a natural suntan having spent several months in very hot Spain filming the movie. A lot of the Spanish and Italian actors, who were mainly from the south of Italy and Spain, also had natural olive-skin / brownish complexions. You can clearly see that both Confederate and Union soldiers in the movie were Mediterranean looking, which I found mildly amusing as Confederate soldiers were of British descent and most of the Union soldiers too. However, it didn't detract from this classic movie.
Imma let you finish, but they cast a Jewish guy instead of a Mexican. And Mexicans (or at least Spaniards) weren't hard to find. So there's a reason people complain. He was still amazing.
I think Jay brought up a good point that all the extras in this are weird looking and I think the variety of actor genetics muddled together by suntans, sweat, and grime really contributes to that and enhances the look of the movie overall. Looking at all the characters together with their wildly contrasting builds, facial structures, ect. gives the film this sort of fantasy quality you that normally you only see in animation or effects heavy live action.
Confederates were all over the place ethnically, and Union conscripts were even worse. Look at some of the pictures from the period. Most of these folks weren't pretty. They looked like the dregs of humanity.
any makeup at this point is considered "______face"... Tim Curry was in clownface, etc
There is a reason. That reason is still stupid as shit.
I've always believed that 'For a few dollars more' gets criminally overlooked on account of how great this film is.
Indio is epic bad guy
You can never forget that Chime music.
I also feel it has the most epic climax of the three films. FDM is my favorite of the 'trilogy'.
Yes. This movie is technically more perfected, but I think the story in FAFDM is more emotionally captivating, and as such the finale is more satisfactory.
Its my favorite of the three!
This "trilogy" plus Once Upon a Time in the Wrst, in my opinion, make up a great work of art. In 100 years time people will still watch these movies and enjoy them.
I agree. Once Upon a Time in the West is an unofficial fourth entry of this series.
What about For a Fist Full of Dynamite!?
The opening duel in Once is utterly brilliant, never get a tired of seeing it. "I guess we are shy one horse. No, you brought two too many."
@@CordellPotts A Fistful Of Dynamite is so underrated, the characters and message behind it, and plus it has the most depressing Leone movie ending (Once Upon a Time in America beats it but that's another story) .
@@CordellPotts is that another name for Duck, You Sucker? That is one of the weirdest endings in film history
As an Italian, on the dub thing, you have to understand, while we make a lot of movies everything that comes from outside is dubbed, Asian, European, American, EVERYTHING. And we're really really good at it, there is a whole tradition, we have actors what work exclusively dubbing movies, being the official voices of some actors (because yes, big a list actors always have the same voice actor doing them). Sylvester Stallone had one of the best voice actors in Italy dubbing him and if you watch him in Italian he seems amazing all the time, even in bad movies. The problem is all this gets lost when you don't have all the tradition, care and love for dubbing movies that many non English speaking countries have.
I love movie dubbing. It reminds me of those old Godzilla flicks. From what I've seen, Italians indeed do it better because the aforementioned are comical where as every spaghetti western I've seen it's seamless enough that I only know it because I know of that practice itself.
Edit: the reason in particular I enjoy it is because typically things are dubbed to fix an audio error, maybe somebody flobbed a line and it's easier to dub than reshoot _everything_ , either way it's better to dub than it is to just leave mistakes and say fuck it.
There is a much bigger reason. These "italian" movies were actually "european" movies, the money usually came from West Germany and France. They dubbed them because Italian, German , French, etc. actors spoke their language and upon release everything else was dubbed.
Just tell Jay that Klaus Kinski plays “the Hunchback” in For a Few Dollars More, and I promise he’d watch it.
If I remember correctly, A Fist Full of Dollars was inspired by the Japanese film Yojimbo.
The director of Yojimbo, Akira Kurosawa, was inspired by American westerns and made his film center around a lone ronin cleaning up a town of two rival gangs.
If I remember correctly, there was a lawsuit over how similar the two films were and Kurosawa won.
It’s so strange that much of the Spaghetti Western’s most successful and popular films were inspired by Japanese film.
its even more complicated, to cite wikipedia:
The film was effectively an unofficial and unlicensed remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1961 film Yojimbo (written by Kurosawa and Ryūzō Kikushima); Kurosawa insisted that Leone had made "a fine movie, but it was my movie." This led to a lawsuit from Toho, Yojimbo's production company. Leone ignored the resulting lawsuit, but eventually settled out of court, reportedly for 15% of the worldwide receipts of A Fistful of Dollars and over $100,000.
Which yojimbo’s plot based on the hard boiled novel red harvest
@@caesarpizza1338 Which was set in the late 1920s. So a noir-era book became a samurai film then became a western.
Sergio Leone did most certainly later show that his success was not purely due to using strong source material when it came to "For A Few Dollars More" being great on it's own terms and worth it entirely to see Clint and Lee team up, and, well "The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly", which you could argue which is better between this and Few Dollars in content, but he did not have to go as hard as he did to make one of the most grandiose westerns ever, and all in the service of a simple story of 3 people looking for gold.
@@motherplayer Oh absolutely, I didn't mean to imply that Leone was somehow deficient in putting his own stamp on things. "Once Upon a Time in the West" is proof of that.
The musical score from Ennio Morricone is one of the greatest compositions ever (and not just film scores either). May he rest in peace.
His score is a big reason why I love movies as much as I do. I listened to The Trio over and over after the movie ended and just got completely absorbed in how you don't even need visuals to see and feel exactly what's happening, it's the perfect climax. And that song comes *after* the song that many consider his greatest piece, just unbelievable how perfect the score is that supports this movie (and how unbelievably well the cinematography supports the score)
The score is very much a character in its own right in this movie. Still makes the hair raise on your neck when you hear it today.
@@connor4wilson me too mate, big impact on my life
I saw him love when he was close to his death. He sat the whole consert and was fucking amazing
I love the scene where Tuco runs through the graveyard with the camera spinning around faster in excitement, accompanied by the ecstacy of gold which is just perfect.
A friend lent me this movie on vhs when I was like 14. I had heard of it, but did not know what to expect. Thankfully it was a letterbox version. And that made me realize for the first time how much you could miss watching movies on 4:3. That's the only time I have watched it and I can recall some scenes that were imprinted on my brain since then.
Granted Angel Eyes disappears for a good chunk of the first act, however, every time you see him, he gains a piece of information about Bill Carson. When he disappears, you don't see him again until after Tuco and Blondie learn about Bill Carson. The Bad seems inconsequential at first, but he is essential to the overall story narrative.
I've never been as shocked in my life, or at least in past 10 years, as finding out now Jay has never seen The Good, The Bad and The Ugly before.
I came to the comments section for that exact reason!
I'm shocked but also jealous that Jay could experience this masterpiece for the first time in his life just now. Boy is he in for a treat with the Dollar films and I would also recommend Once upon a time in the west.
He literally only watches shitty horror movies from the 1980s
Jay only watches horror trash for perverts
Better late than never
This is one of my favourite movies. I remember in 1966 I was 9 and my cousin told my father about it. We had to wait until it came to the drive-in theatre so my brother and I could get smuggled in, due to the age restriction. I am so glad I had the parents I did. Within weeks we had the sound-track and now it is one of the favourite movies that I share with my own very adult children. The absolute most cinematic movie ever made. Those last two scenes, running around the graveyard and the three-way shoot-out, are, I think, the best scenes in any movie - the music, the camerawork, the editing, the storytelling; sheer perfection. It is the ultimate dark comedy - there are so many funny scenes, but you know you shouldn't be laughing.
the ecstasy of gold has to be my favorite piece composed for a movie ever. I Also agree it's one of the best scene in cinema history.
John Wick 3's reference to Tuco in the gun store is just a lovely nod to this movie.
Also the actors nearly getting schwacked by debris from the 20:20 explosion o.O
This was a lovely surprise. They don’t typically review the “classics” lots of obscure cult classics (which is absolutely fine one of the reasons I love RLM) however this now makes me want more of this. Let’s go back and look at some more! Like say the French Connection. Which is still one of my all time favorites. One the best cat and mouse movies ever!
Oh man and that car chase!
If they did a Thief (1981) Re:View I would die. Jay was just saying how much the movie ruled on Twitter after James Caan passed.
The French Connection is 99% people following other people and it's a masterpiece
@@thomasnaporano9822 made all the better when you know the lady with the stroller was not part of the plan!
Yeah if they did French Connection or like Across 110th Street, that'd be so great. Id be so hyped
I took Italian in college and my professor basically turned one of the courses into an Italian film course. We watched a ton of old Spaghetti Westerns and other Italian Movies like "Gomorrah", "Terraferma", and others that I have to look up. It was one of the best classes I ever took.
I'm confused. Was it an Italian cooking course? You mentioned spaghetti
@@lawton6123 , I can't tell if this is a joke or genuine misunderstanding, but in case it's the latter:
the term "spaghetti western" refers to movies in the western genre made in Europe from the 1960s to 1970s.
Many were Italian movies trying to recreate the style and success of Hollywood westerns. So you have the real Hollywood western vs. the Italian "spaghetti" western.
as an italian myself, i felt offended at "some weird italian guy".
He was batshit insane
I would love to see a re:View of Fistful of Dollars alongside Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo. Fistful of Dollars is basically a remake of Kurosawa's film with some minor deviations. I think it would fascinating to see Rich and Jay's individual takes on the differences/similarities in addition to their thoughts on both films in general.
same, i was thinking of this the whole time. yojimbo is great
Pretty sure the Sergio got sued by Kurosawa.
@@amircash And Kurosawa ripped of Red Harvest. Circle of life.
Jay has probably never seen any Kurosawa films before either, that fraud.
A fist full of travelers cheques is an amusing parody ;)
I love how they’re able to acknowledge how mean Mike is to them when he’s not involved in the review.
In the extras on my dvd copy there's a great anecdote about the overdubbing. During the Tuco torture scene, at one point it cuts to the henchman commanding the musicians, who says "piu forte" (louder). They tried overdubbing it with "play louder" but it didn't look right, so the ADR director came up with "more feeling". It matched the actor's mouth movements better and added a layer of ironic pathos unanticipated by Leone.
This is one of the reasons I love the soundtracks of these films. The uncanny, partly-matched dubbing; the pop-operatic scores; the over the top foley... it's all so heightened, so exaggerated. It's like the aural equivalent of Argento's gaudy, saturated colours.
What's Foley
@@urgamecshk Mick Foley?
@@urgamecshk sound effects, recorded to mimic or enhance the visuals.
You actually can do that with Colts because they had so many copies made of them from other companies that bought their license or just copied them with varying quality. This was just as replaceable parts started to become commonplace instead of hand fitted parts. So using a bunch of Colts copy parts to make the perfect one is feasible.
They did a bad job on the historical accuracy regarding the revolvers though....our three protagonist carry cap & ball percussion revolvers, but have cartridge belts...and if you look closely, they haven't been converted to handle centerfire cartridges (they still have percussion cap nipples on them). Centerfire cartridge revolvers didn't become common until a few years after the US Civil War anyways.
Once cartridges came around, headspacing became critical. With cap and ball you just have to check timing and basic fit.
This was also an accident! Wallach had no clue about guns, and if you look he's terrified the whole scene that he's messing up the props. Leone had just told him to improvise. The fact that the prop guy was using a bunch of Colts with interchangeable parts was a total accident. The fact that the gun works means Wallach literally acted a gun into being.
Keep in mind we're discussing a movie prop that exists in a fictional movie where the actions and events of all things are dictated by the screenwriter. People constantly comparing movies to reality is always a disappointing assertion on the purpose of art.
@@mellusk9194 If you look closely they have cap and ball revolvers in scenes where they don't have to shoot, and cartridge conversions when they have to fire blanks.
My parents loved this era of western movies when I was growing up, they're so good. Personal fave is The Outlaw Josey Wales.
The first movie has the exact same plot as Kurosawa’s yojimbo, although yojimbo feels a little less morally grey (even though it absolutely is). You probably have, but definitely watch it if you haven’t yet.
Yojimbo got the sickest theme ever
Yeah I think the first film was so close to Yojimbo that they were sued.
I'd love to see Japanese samurai films get talked about on the show.
I was surprised Jay (the film buff) didn't recognize this.
Kurosawas influence is really great on cinema in general
What's interesting is Westerns were influenced by Samurai films like Seven Samurai or Yoijmbo, those same Westerns also ended up influencing Japanese film makers and animators. As far as film goes there is a lot in common between Cowboys and Ronins. Hell they have a whole subculture in Japan of Western fans that dress up like cowboys for conventions.
If Rich is "The Ugly" it would explain why he always steals the show.
My favorite movie of all time, and to be honest, it's not close. Every single shot, beautiful. The acting, perfect, on a knife's edge of seriousness and parody.
It is the most perfect movie ever... even if you don't like it (it was slated by American reviewers at the time) or Westerns you can't deny it's a work of cinematic mastery. It has a holy trinity of score, cinematography and cast that perfectly come together.
@@FightCollective once upon a time in the west is more structurely perfect, gbu feels more thrown together which i have come around to appreciate, great movie
@@hoopz5095 Once Upon a Time in the West is a masterpiece.
@@supertuber3131 indeed it is, the best western in my opinion
Remember...''When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.'' I've lost count how many times I've watched this masterpiece...well over sixty times! Greatest movie ever made.
The bridge scene was my favorite part of the movie, it had action, humor and drama all rolled into one. They didn't blow up the bridge just because, after drinking with that Union Army captain he tells Clint Eastwood's character that if he could, he would blow up the bridge in order to keep his troops alive, but can't because the brass want to capture it instead. A very humanizing scene for the captain, who didn't want to see anymore of his boys die, and the man with no name, who granted the captain his dying wish.
I never really read it as them blowing up the bridge to 'help'. Their goal was to stop the fighting because the armies were in the way. But I think, yes, you can argue it was intended still to suggest a humanising moral moment for Eastwood's character too. Layered characters, they can fit more than one motivation or goal in their head. Whodathunkit.
@Blisterdude123 absolutely! I agree that The Man With No Name saw the opportunity to advance his agenda, but I believe that he had at least a sliver of decency to blow up the bridge to prevent more unnecessary deaths.
With so many shitty movies/tv shows being made over the last few years and watching so many (non-shill) online reviewers tearing them apart, it's so refreshing to hear "this is one of the best fucking things I've ever seen in my life."
Can you name an example of a shitty movie or show made in the last years?
@Reek Good one, lad. Really.
So about three weeks ago, I finally watched The Godfather, and I felt like Jay watching The Good The Bad and The Ugly, like I would say to my friends and family eh I’ll get to it, thinking I knew what happened, but my gosh, after watching that I was blown away! One of the greatest things I’ve ever seen
@@anthonytrani1066 that happened to an old girlfriend, we were just sitting at home chilling I’m like wanna watch The Godfather? She was glued to the screen completely, it’s such a great movie.
@@MyMusicSosa the slow buildup of Michael taking over the family, thinking he would be some type of side character, but, turns out it’s his movie was wonderful. Still need to watch Part II, I will get it to it eventually
I'd love to see them cover Yojimbo or Seven Samurai someday. They're so legendary and so influential, and also Toshiro Mifune is the coolest cat to grace the silver screen. The music is incredible, the shots are incredible, and the action, while minimal, is great. I think my favorite part of the film is how it uses blood to highlight certain fights. Most of the time there isn't blood until the shots of the aftermath, but certain sword slashes bring forth geysers of blood.
I am incredibly biased, because I've seen Yojimbo more than any other movie. Not even an exaggeration, I've easily watched it 15-20 times in my 24 years on this earth.
Edit: honestly it's probably way more than 15-20 but I don't keep track of these things. At least once a year for the past 18 years.
please god please
I agree, although I think there are other Kurosawas I’d love them to review even more, namely High & Low and Ran
What they really need to watch is The Hidden Fortress seeing how massive an influence it was on GBU.
I think I've seen 3 Ninjas and The Benchwarmers that many times, and neither of those are close to my favorite movie
True story - Eastwood did the first Dollar movie cuz he liked Yojimbo ;)
I was so excited to see you guys do this one. In addition to "Westerns can be cool" and "Be like your Grandpa", these movies can definitely bridge the Generation Gap. My son (28 years younger than I am) and I bond regularly over the "Dollars Trilogy". The ultimate expression of this was when he and I went to the British Film Institute on the South Bank in London a few years ago and watched them all, one after the other in sequence on the big screen in a one day special showing. It took commitment but, we loved every minute of it. Thanks, Rich and Jay!
I'd be down for that. Sounds like a good time.
My old Apache grandma watches these movies along with Rawhide non-stop. Never got it until I watched this one
It was really delightful to hear Jay saying he f'ing loved it, because it came from his heart.
One of the all time most satisfying movies ever. When they slowly move into position at the climax and it dawns on you they're going to have a three way stand-off...holy crap, so many chills.
Yeah the musical build & the editing first time I saw that - gob smacked
There’s so many great nuisances and emotional scenes to this film with the music and cinematography…
Specially the lesser scenes and plots, like the Tuco and brother tension, the confederate general dying of gangrene, the alcoholic Union general who dies, and the dying confederate soldier Eastwood finds and without any dialogue comfort’s him in his final breaths by letting him take some puffs off his cigarillo and covers him with his jacket. All nice detail to a story.
Its when the trumpets come in and you get that epic "Bull fight" vibe and its like..... ok here we go!!!
If I recall, in his youth, Lee Van Cleef was advised to get plastic surgery to downplay his features being so... that... but he declined to do so.
Also, Metal Gear Solid fans who might find him sort of familiar, facially: he is the primary visual inspiration for Revolver Ocelot.
And as Kojima wanted to emphasize Liquid Ocelot and Snake's "Brotherhood" Old Snake is also heavily Lee Van Cleef based.
Are you talking about his nose?
I reckon it looks fine, even adds some definition if that makes sense.
Saw an interview where he said he did not do it because people will remember his face and nose. Great actor.
Back in a time when Koji hadn't fully disappeared up his own backside.
If it was good enough for a sidekick of Liberty Valance, it was good enough for Angel Eyes.
Even if he hasn't seen Fist Full of Dollars, there's still a chance he's seen Fist Full of Dollars. That movie's been made, shot for shot, a half-dozen times.
It's the exact same film as Yojimbo, Buchanan Rides Alone, Last Man Standing, Lucky Number Sleven, etc.
It is not the exact same film as Lucky Number Slevin sure there's a playing both sides against each other angle but the variations are so great and there's so much different about it, it can't be considered a remake of fistful at all.
you haven't seen for a fistful of dollars, sergio leone's western trilogy are the three most beautiful western films of all time.
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I’m 32. I watched The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly for the first time about two weeks ago, not realizing it was the third in a not-really-a-Trilogy.
I could not believe how good it was. I thought many of the shots were paintings until Sergio Leone proves they aren’t by having someone ride out into the distance, or charge across a bridge, or switches the camera angle to prove it.
Fantastic movie. Holy cow.
The shoot out and the end of this movie is one of the best pieces of film ever made. Even removed from the story, the dramatic tension of the scene is carried my the music and cinematography in such a way that you can get invested without any knowledge of who's who and what's going on.
Italian Westerns, in general, are perhaps my favorite genre of film and this movie and "Once Upon a Time in the West" are both on my top 10 list. I've followed this channel for years, but I NEVER thought I would see anything even remotely spaghetti show up in a discussion here. So when I heard Jay say "this is one of the best f***ing things I've ever seen", my jaw dropped. I love hearing you guys talk about this! Thank you!
Delighted that Jay loves this, it's a genuine masterpiece
Minor correction: it’s a myth that Leone brought interesting morality to westerns. John Wayne is basically Achilles in The Searchers,, and stuff like High Noon and even Stagecoach is already morally complex. The idea that American Westerns are flat and boring comes from the fact that there were just so many of them, the median quality was shit. The classics are absolutely classic still.
Now the Morricone score, that you’ll miss in American Westerns. That twang is so heavily associated with the genre now, it feels strange when it’s gone.
Thank you. I was about to write a similar comment right before seeing yours.
Rich: “I know John Wayne is the good guy who shoots the bad guys.”
John Wayne in The Searchers: “I shot the eyes out of this Comanche corpse so that his spirit will wander the afterlife blind.”
I too was about to write something similar, to me John Wayne is straight up the villain in The Searchers until the end of the film. Also in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (possibly my favourite western) John Wayne plays a very morally ambiguous character.
@@drkissinger1 I recall he was also an abusive drunk?
No wonder many people compare superhero movies to westerns, mainly the American made ones.
I remember my father sitting me down to watch this movie when I was a little kid, and I was immediately hooked. This is still one of the best movies that I’ve ever seen to this day.
I watched The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly for the first time on Christmas Eve, along with Mean Girls. Somehow I watched both of them again on that same night.
I'm surprised they didn't mention "the pan". The shot where Clint and Eli are riding across the landscape, totally alone, and then the camera slowly pans and they're in the middle of a huge civil war battle.
You owe it to yourselves to watch some classic westerns, like “Liberty Valance” or “Treasure of Sierra Madre”. You might be surprised to see that the “heroic ideal” of the western hero was questioned and/or subverted very early on, not just in the 60s.
I just watched Treasure of Sierra Madre, I wouldn't call it a western.
It is a great movie, it is a very unique and slow movie, feels almost like it is directed by the author, also I loved the old man prospector,
But this is not a western. More like good ole psychological drama.
Or the Searchers. It's a bit subtle perhaps, it's easy to think that John Wayne character is the good guy and just a hard stoic soldier, but really he is also a man unable to settle to peacetime - and I agree treasure of Sierra Madre is not a western; it's really sort of a film noir - many of those took forays to these seedy "exotic" locations in South America.
@@TulilaSalome
John Wayne is a very ambiguous figure in The Searchers.
We're left wondering for a very long time whether he'll murder his niece.
''...I need dough, see...and plenty of it!'' The second best movie ever made...
Bogart's part in The Treasure of Sierra Madre is great!
The scene in the graveyard where The Ecstasy of Gold plays is one of the greatest things ever put to film
A perfect film and absolutely revolutionary for its time. Sergio really knew how to craft a frame and stage a setting.
3:02 paused the video. Went and watched it. Now I can fully appreciate Jay's quote XD
This is one of the best re:View's I've seen. I am a Western fan, with John Ford (John Wayne), Anthony Mann (James Stewart), Sam Peckinpah (Joel McCrae/Randolph Scott, William Holden, Jason Robards), Sergio Leone (Clint Eastwood) and Eastwood himself being a few of my favorite Director (Actor) combos.
I really admire Serio Leone's "Spaghetti" Westerns. The "Dollars Trilogy" and "Once Upon a Time in the West" are all classic, must-see films. I actually prefer the last which starred Charles Bronson (as the mystery man with a score to settle), Jason Robards (the outlaw with a good heart), the amazingly stunning Claudia Cardinale (as the widowed mail-order bride), and Henry Fonda (as the EVIL villain!!!). As you said, Leone's films established or popularized tropes that became part of the Western lexicon ever since. I agree, Tarantino borrowed a lot of them for his films. The enjoyable Sam Raimi-directed "The Quick and the Dead", starring Sharon Stone, Russell Crowe, Gene Hackman & Leonardo DiCaprio, practically uses EVERY one of Leone's tropes and borrows a scene or two here (like Crowe's Preacher character's visit to the gun shop).
Maestro Ennio Morricone created the most unique, stirring, and memorable scores. His scores do much to complete the picture with their sometimes operatic passion or sometimes gritty rock-infused classical music. Jerome Moross wrote a magnificent film score for excellent "The Big Country" starring Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Burl Ives (Oscar winner for BSA), Charlton Heston, & Chuck Connors (to name a few). It's one of the few classic Hollywood scores that matches up with Morricone's works. Of course John Ford used a lot of traditional old west, folk song melodies in his film's scores to make them seem more authentic.
I had a friend who was my best friend's stepdad. He and I used to watch & talk about Westerns all the time when we got together. As he got older, he suffered from a debilitating illness which eventually took his life. I truly miss my talks with Tom whenever I go back to Indiana for the holidays/vacations.
Henry Fonda shooting a child and smiling
This was the last film I watched with my dad before he passed. I knew he loved this film, and I wanted to impress him with the DVD I just got from eBay. This movie is everything that is great about cinema. Genius is an overused term, but this film is genius.
Just watched this “trilogy” for the first time a few weeks ago per RLM’s recommendation! Was moving out of Arizona and watching some classic westerns felt like an appropriate sendoff. 🤠
I strongly recommend you to watch Sergio Corbucci's ones now. Especially The Great Silence.
Where did you move to?
Welcome to the valley of the sun ☀️
Here's some good ones: the OG "Django" and "Death Rides a Horse."
Need to make sure you watch once upon a time in the West too.
I must have watched this movie over 20 times on the TNT channel when staying at my grandma's house