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Holistic Guidance - The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
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List Price: $19.98
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Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Eli Wallach, Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè, Luigi Pistilli
Directed By: Sergio Leone
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: LEONE,SERGIO
EAN: 9786301971270
Format: AC-3
ISBN: 6301971272
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-06-05
Running Time: 179
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1967-12-29
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During the American Civil War, three men search for a buried fortune.
Genre: Westerns
Rating: NR
Release Date: 5-JUN-2007
Media Type: DVD
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Summary: A Perfect Western
Comment: This film is like a perfect picture,a legendary director,three great actors made for their roles,the well written screenplay,the distinctive music score,the bold scenery,and the cinematography,rounding it off to an Italian western like no other,here is,The Good,the Bad,and the Ugly.
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Summary: the good
Comment: love this western have seen it so many times never get tired of wacthing this
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Summary: As it was meant to be seen
Comment: Four decades after it's release the FULL version of Sergio Leone's epic THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY is finally being seen in North America. Because the film was cut before it's U.S. release none of the footage was ever dubbed into English. MGM/UA was able to secure the services of Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and someone to dub the late Lee Van Cleef so this saga is seen as it was meant to be seen. Missing scenes include Tucco's meeting the three bandits, Blondie and Angel Eyes when the latter's gang appear, and several others. Many of these scenes make up for gaps in the edited version. A once terrific film is now truly great!Extra features include documentaries on Leone, the film and have interviews with Eastwood, Wallach and others.
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Summary: " Sorry, Tuco."
Comment: WOW! I've always loved this flick & this Special Edition made me appreciate it all the more. Sergio Leone took all of our American, safe, comforting & familiar Western conventions, blew them all to hell & then thrust a jarring, jagged, grotesque epic in our faces. Even the landscape itself is alien-looking to us: sun-blasted & disturbingly weird, as though its from another world. The sets are all weathered, battered & awful-looking. Most of the people are striking in the strangeness of their appearance. Characters are unshaven, filthy, wear dirty clothes & look like they smell terrible. That's all just part of the foundation of this film, the characterizations are the biggest shock. Clint's Blondie is The Good (!!!???). What the hell? He could only possibly be considered as even remotely good in comparison to the other two & even then his "goodness" is strictly a matter of degree. Towards the end, he briefly comforts two dying soldiers & those are the only acts of human kindness in the whole movie. Also, he pets a small kitten instead of making a meal out of it or something. But its hard to imagine a story where a character like Tuco is comic relief. Also, Angel Eyes is truly an all-time great villain. Clint, Eli Wallach & Lee Van Cleef are uniformly fantastic in their parts. Imagine a Brooklyn Jew making the best cinematic bandito ever!
Now for the script - almost every scene is the height of absurdity & impossible events & unbelievable coincidences are strictly routine. There's an extremely fine-tuned, bizarre, subtle sense of humor at work here & the viewer gets a constant feeling of disbelief & unreality throughout the entire film. Leone perfectly balances the sublime with the ridiculous every step of the way & creates a unique moviegoing experience. The vast themes of war & all its tragedies are mixed in with some utter craziness as he goes along.
The extras are very enjoyable. First is the added footage. It felt like a new experience to me & I've seen this flick I don't know how many times. Kudos to Eastwood & Wallach for dubbing their parts so these extra scenes could be added. I was unaware that both Lee Van Cleef & Sergio Leone had died in 1989. It'd be interesting to have their participation & hear their observations. The interviews are quite good as well. Most telling to me was Clint's observation that Leone was so extravagant & meandering while he, Clint, was more economical & direct & that this was the major difference between the two of them.
I was careful not to include any spoilers for those lucky people who haven't seen GBU yet. To see it for the first time is a wonderful experience. I can't recommend it highly enough - even those who are sure that they'll despise it just may be pleasantly surprised. Like I said, all the machismo is offset by a truly wild, intelligent & unusual sense of humor. Buy this Special Edition - its well worth it!
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Summary: Great title for a great western
Comment: Sergio Leone once said that he knew more about the old west than any American. I'm not sure he was right, but he might have been right about Hollywood westerns. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is so good that it's title has become a part of the English language lexicon. The movie is, in it's own way, a comedy but there are moments of stark realism and pathos. The movie is not particularly logical or consistent but more than makes up for it with gritty characters and austere symbollism.
I hate it when people summarize films and books. Why should a reviewer want to give the story away to people who haven't seen it? I will hit some high points, however. The movie starts with a very dangerous scam. Eli Wallach--Tuco, The Ugly--is wanted for a long list of crimes. Eastwood turns him in and collects the reward money. Tuco is convicted to hang. Just as the door door is fixing to drop, Eastwood from some distance away, shoots the rope in two. Both Eastwood and Wallach ride off to rip-off another town.
The Civil War is raging in New Mexico and Blondy finds a wagon loaded with dead Confederate soldiers and houseflies. One man, dying, mentions Confederate gold buried...somewhere. Tuco and Blondy, dressed as Confederate troopers, are captured by Yankees. When in the prison camp they encounter Lee Van Cleef, the very, very Bad. While soldiers sing sweetly outside, Van Cleef and his henchmen beat our boys for information about the gold.
There is escape and treachery. Eastwood drags Wallach through the desert heat on the end of a rope. He releases him and Tuco, in a wonderful scene, barges in to a gun store, looking for the right weapon. Not satisfied with any, he starts taking them apart and putting parts together again. Satisfied with his new weapon, he terrorizes the shop keeper and steals the revolver.
In another scene Wallach encounters his Catholic Priest brother who curses him for being an outlaw. Wallach smacks him down and disgustedly tells him that after his brother went to the seminary, the family starved. Banditry was the way he fed the family.
In another scene, the comical Wallach is taking a bath in a Civil War battle under fire from Yankee field guns. A man who hates Wallach for some previous wrong, sneaks in to shoot him. Wallach shoots him, instead, because, as it turns out, Wallach always bathes with his revolver on his waist.
Another fabulous scene involves a battle. After the fighting is over and the soldiers have left, Eastwood finds a dying Southern soldier. Without a word being spoken, they exchange a cigarette back and forth until the soldier dies...one small act of humanity.
The last scene is truly amazing...even spectacular. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly face off in a three way duel in a cemetary. Nobody knows who to shoot at first. The camera pans up and you can see that the cemetary is an ampitheatre with the dead as the silent spectators. Dead people viewing an act of death. Wow.
Ron Braithwaite author of novels--"Skull Rack" and "Hummingbird God"--on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico
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