And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Watched it the other week with commentary on. Chronologically this is the first movie as we see Blonde turn into The Man With No Name. We see him get the shirt, hat and serape in this movie he later shows up in Fistful and Few Dollars.
Yes, they were filmed in that order but...at the start, Blondie has different clothes and then after I think it's the desert scene, gets the famous ones after recovering. This means GB&U chronologically is the first in the trilogy. Mind blown.
Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef, all good actors only 1 left alive,
ReplyDeleteAngel Eyes was the bad and Tuco was the ugly. The granddaddy of the spaghetti western.
ReplyDeleteShot mostly in Spain?
ReplyDeletein all of those movies, with all of the gunplay, no one was shot for real.
ReplyDeletewonder why? no baldwin maybe?
I don't know, but Van Cleef is showing some pretty poor trigger discipline in that photo.
Delete@Malatrope: I don't see Van Cleef with a gun there. Maybe you can see behind his back...
DeleteLoved Tuco's description of Eastwood's character, "he's tall, blonde, he smokes a cigar and he's a pig"
ReplyDeleteWatched it the other week with commentary on. Chronologically this is the first movie as we see Blonde turn into The Man With No Name. We see him get the shirt, hat and serape in this movie he later shows up in Fistful and Few Dollars.
ReplyDeleteYou have that bass ackwards.
DeleteA Fistful of Dollars - 1964
For a Few Dollars More - 1965
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly - 1966
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/
Yes, they were filmed in that order but...at the start, Blondie has different clothes and then after I think it's the desert scene, gets the famous ones after recovering. This means GB&U chronologically is the first in the trilogy. Mind blown.
DeleteIf anyone's interested, the location of Sad HIll cemetery in Spain was refurbished.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40718253
- WDS
One of favorite movies. If you want to hear a new take on the theme, there is a youtube video by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.
ReplyDeleteThank you! It's brilliant!
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