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The good, the bad and the ugly
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Description of this The Good The Bad And The Ugly Poster
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a 1966 film directed by Sergio Leone.
One of the most famous westerns in cinema history, it is considered the epitome of the successful spaghetti western genre and one of the best films of all time. Shot in the wake of the success of A Fistful of Dollars and A Few Dollars More, the film closes Sergio Leone's dollar trilogy. The director, to once again avoid the risk of repeating himself, further increases the number of protagonists, from two to three, and places the plot in the historical context of the American Civil War.
The title, born by chance, reflects Leone's thoughts. In the three protagonists, each for his own autobiographical part, beauty and ugliness, humanity and ferocity coexist: the director demystifies all these concepts and at the same time, in a declared denunciation of the madness of war, he demystifies the he very history of the United States of America, showing its violent and brutal side, tarnished by the mythologizing tradition of the Western epic.
Leone reproduces the cliché of the man with no name, played by Clint Eastwood, but makes him more ambiguous, halfway between the bounty hunter and the executioner. Joining Eastwood in the lead roles are Lee Van Cleef (also a veteran of For a Few Dollars More, but here in a very different role) and Eli Wallach. Also note the participation of Aldo Giuffré in the role of a Union army captain. But it is above all the character of Tuco who stands out, as much for the deepening of his experience and his inner dimension as for the presence of a humorous side masterfully characterized by Wallach's comic talent.
The "triello" scene (a Mexican-style confrontation) in the finale of the film remains exemplary, both for its direction and its editing and for the skillful use of the soundtrack by Ennio Morricone (Il triello track), which underlines it in a unique way, adding tension and evocative power.
The film was initially divided by critics, but was a huge success with audiences. Its popularity has never wavered and has made it a classic of cinema, music and comics. Users and readers of specialized sites and magazines, but also important filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino, consider it one of the best films of all time.
Against the backdrop of the American Civil War, the bandit Tuco Benedicto Pacífico Juan María Ramírez is captured by three bounty hunters. It is then that a fourth mysterious shooter intervenes and saves the bandit, before handing him over to justice, who sentences him to death. At the hanging, the unknown "bounty killer" cuts the noose with a shotgun blast, allowing Tuco to escape, then shares the bounty with him. The two men agree to do the same thing again, but the unnamed man, whom Tuco calls "the Blond", after one last success, breaks off their partnership, abandoning the bandit in the desert, stranded and tied up.
Meanwhile, a ruthless hitman known as Sentenza is hired by Becker, a Southern war invalid, to track down Jackson, a former comrade-in-arms. During his research, Sentenza learned that Jackson had changed his name to Bill Carson and was possibly involved in the disappearance of a briefcase containing $200,000 in gold stolen from the Confederate Army. He thus understands the intention of his sponsor. Sentenza does not hesitate to dismiss Becker and resumes the search for Carson, discovering that he has re-enlisted in the army and lost an eye.
Tuco, who survived the desert, pulls himself together and sets off in the footsteps of the Blond to take revenge. After having tried in vain to kill him the first time, he captures him and forces him to cross the desert on foot, without water or protection from the sun. After a long march, still on the verge of shooting him down, he is distracted by a stagecoach without a coachman, loaded with dead Confederate soldiers. He then rushes to pillage it and discovers a dying survivor, Bill Carson, who promises him $200,000 in exchange for water. Before dying, the soldier reveals the treasure's hiding place partly to Tuco and partly to Blond. The first thus discovers that the money is buried in the Sad Hill cemetery, while the second only knows the grave in which it is found.
Forced to save the Blond to find the loot, Tuco manages to transport him to the Franciscan mission of Saint-Antoine and save him. Before leaving, he argues bitterly with his brother Pablo, prior of the convent, who blames him for his career as a bandit and with whom he comes to blows.
Sentenza, to find Carson, enlisted in the Northern army, obtaining the rank of sergeant and leadership of a prison camp. By chance, Tuco and the Blond are captured by the Unionists and taken to this same camp, where Tuco has the bad idea of giving Bill Carson's false coordinates. Tortured by the harsh and brutal Corporal Wallace, he reveals to Sentenza the name of the cemetery, and that only Blond knows the exact grave. He is then handed over to Wallace himself to be taken to the gallows. Sentenza, convinced that the Blond is too smart to reveal the name on the grave, offers the latter to join him in the search for the money.
But Tuco, traveling on a train, although handcuffed, manages to kill Wallace and escape, taking refuge in a bombed city. In the same town, Blond and Sentenza also arrive, in the company of five armed men in the latter's pay. Tuco, for his part, encounters an old enemy by chance, whom he manages to kill with several shots. The Blond recognizes "the voice" of Tuco's gun, joins him and allies with him against the Sentenza gang, which is exterminated. Only Sentenza survives by losing his own tracks.
Back on the road, the former partners come up against the insurmountable obstacle of Langstone Bridge, around which the war rages. Discovered by Northerners nearby, they pretend to want to enlist. Captain Clinton, who welcomes them in a drunken state, reveals to them that the bridge is strategic and that to seize it, the armies face each other in a long series of merciless battles, at the cost of many lives. The officer, driven by a great sense of humanity, would like to put an end to the massacre, but the only possible way would be to blow up the bridge, under penalty of being tried for treason.
The idea is taken up by the two men, who only think of leaving the battlefield to continue their journey. During the truce which follows a new bloody confrontation, they undermine the bridge. Faced with the high risk of being killed in the adventure, Tuco and Blond reveal to each other their part of the secret concerning the location of the chest containing the money: Blond thus learns the name of the cemetery, and reveals to Tuco that the name inscribed at the grave is Arch Stanton. The mined bridge explodes, just in time to satisfy the captain, mortally wounded during the last battle.
The day after the bridge was destroyed, soldiers from both camps abandoned the site. Tuco betrays the alliance at the first opportunity: he seizes a Confederate horse and rushes towards the cemetery. The Blond catches him while he is digging Stanton's grave with his bare hands, and orders him with a pistol to continue with a shovel. But both came under fire from Sentenza, who also arrived on the scene. Blond then demonstrates that there are only human remains in Stanton's grave and states that it would not take a year to find the money without his contribution. He then suggests that the two rivals challenge each other to a triel, after having written Carson's real name on a stone.
In the trial, after a tense wait, the Blond kills Sentenza, while Tuco, whose pistol was discharged at night by his companion, finds himself disarmed and at his mercy. But the Blond spares him, reveals to him that no name is indicated on the stone, and forces him to dig the stranger's grave next to Stanton's. The two men thus come into possession of the dollars, but the Blond plays one last atrocious trick on Tuco: while the latter is digging, he has prepared a noose hanging from a tree, and forces the bandit to pass his neck through it while balancing precariously on a wooden cross. He then ties her hands and, before her incredulous eyes, loads half of the loot onto Sentenza's horse and rides off. He saves him in the usual way, by pulling the rope from afar, amid the bandit's pleas, tears and finally insults.
