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The Good the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Leone stretched three men circling a grave into five minutes and Morricone made it sound like an opera.

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[icon:CLOCK] Runtime | 177 minutes
[icon:STAR] Director | Sergio Leone
[icon:CHART] Budget | $1.2 million
[icon:TRENDING_UP] Box office | $38.9 million worldwide
[icon:FIRE] Score | Ennio Morricone

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Faces The Size Of Landscapes
Three men want the same buried Confederate gold and only fragments of the information, so they cannot kill each other and cannot cooperate. Leone runs that deadlock for nearly three hours across a Civil War that the film treats as pure obstruction: prison camps, artillery duels over a pointless bridge, a monastery full of amputees. His method is the opposite of classical Western staging. Instead of medium shots of men in landscapes he cuts between extreme close ups of eyes and extreme wides of empty ground, so geography becomes emotional rather than practical. Ennio Morricone's score does not accompany the action, it conducts it: the final standoff in the cemetery is edited to the music rather than the other way round, which is why it plays as a three way aria.

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Watching The Good the Bad and the Ugly
3 Established
3 Partnered
4 Punished
4 Tortured
4 Demolished
5 Circled

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The Sad Hill cemetery was built in Burgos by around two hundred and fifty Spanish soldiers, and the bridge was blown twice after the first detonation was triggered before the cameras rolled.

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The film was shot without synchronised sound and dubbed in several languages, which is why the English and Italian versions have different rhythms and why the 2003 restoration needed Eastwood and Wallach back at the microphone.

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There are two kinds of people in the world: those with loaded guns, and those who dig.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060196/
The Good the Bad and the Ugly on IMDb: full cast and crew