Final Showdown – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Sergio Leone
The best westerns were created by an Italian.
Unlike the traditional American ("good-against-evil", "cowboys-against-Indians") westerns, Sergio Leone was able the capture the true essence of the American “Far West”: a land of opportunity, yes, but usually one of lawlessness, where even the good guy is not that recommendable and will shoot you without warning if he has the chance - not the traditional "boy-scout" cowboy, as usually portrayed by John Wayne.
Sergio Leone and his spaghetti westerns marked the genre and had an everlasting effect in the movie industry:
- A young, unknown, actor called Clint Eastwood was introduced back then. Clint Eastwood jumped to stardom, after playing a convincing role as the "Man with No Name" - tough, sarcastic and skilled with a gun. (The rest, as we know, is history...)
- The original scores by Enio Morricone are among the greatest musical creations of the 20th century.
After a good response to the first two movies (“For a Fistful of Dollars”, “For a Few Dollars More”), Sergio Leone directed the third part of the trilogy: “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”.
This video shows the final scene of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” - with some of the best directed (and coolest) movie scenes ever filmed (and this is why the movie is ranked #5 in IMDB’s Top 250 movies of all time):
- As the three main characters prepare themselves to face each other for a final showdown in a graveyard (announcing the coming of death), Enio Morricone’s magnificent score plays in the background
- It takes 3 long and suspenseful minutes, from the moment they set themselves in the arena to moment they draw their guns
- And the usual wit and sarcasm with which the scene ends: “You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.”
I hope you enjoy it.
About:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_the_Bad_and_the_Ugly
Clint Eastwood: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Eastwood
Sergio Leone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Leone
Spaghetti Westerns: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_Westerns
Have a nice day.
2 comentários:
Another important movie from Sergio Leone "Once upon a time in the west".
The unholy trinity of Italian cinema--Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Dario Argento--concocted the story about a woman (Claudia Cardinale) hanging onto her land in hopes that the transcontinental railroad would reach her before a steely-eyed, black-hearted killer (Fonda) does. (The film's advertising slogan was: "There were three men in her life. One to take her ... one to love her ... and one to kill her.") Meanwhile, Leone shoots his stars' faces as if they were expansive Western landscapes, and their towering bodies as if they were looming rock formations in John Ford's Monument Valley
The oppening scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHZpO6aNLwE
There are some songs where the music itself was really made for that lyrics. In this case I would say that Morricone scores where intelligently made for that scenes.
http://www.enniomorricone.com/
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