History Film / THEGOODTHEBADANDTHEUGLY

''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' (Italian: ''Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo'', literally "The Good One, the Ugly One, the Bad One"), directed by Creator/SergioLeone and released in 1966, is one of the Film/DollarsTrilogy of {{Spaghetti Western}}s that served as a DeconstructorFleet to the entire [[TheWestern Western genre]]. It is the last, and probably the most famous of the trilogy, and is credited with helping to kill the Western genre (due to how thoroughly it disassembles said genre) and inventing a bevy of new tropes (even popularizing the MexicanStandoff). It's had an incredible impact on the ''entirety of film-making'' since then, and is generally regarded as one of the greatest films ever created. The soundtrack was composed by Music/EnnioMorricone, and remains perhaps his most memorable work (or at least on par with ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest'').

-->'''Tuco:''' When you gotta shoot, shoot. Don't talk.

!!''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' provides examples of :

* IronicNickname: Angel Eyes sports a perpetual narrow-eyed sneer.

* GoldTooth: Tuco has a prominent silver tooth.

** The American flags flown by the Union army have 50 stars, 98 years too early for the film's setting.

* {{Fanservice}}: Eli Wallach gets to show off his great body, nude, in a couple of scenes. We even see his naked behind as he's getting out of the bath!

* ExactWords: Utilized by Blondie in the movie's climax. All three main characters have reached Sad Hill cemetery, and they know that the treasure is buried in one of the graves... but only Blondie knows which one. With a standoff appearing inevitable, Blondie places a flat stone on the ground and promises the other men that they'll find the name on the grave on the underside of the stone, and that whoever survives the standoff can have it. [[spoiler: The stone is blank, because there is ''no'' name on the grave. Blondie only knew where to look because Carson told him which grave the treasure was buried ''next to''.]]

* PlayingGertrude: Luigi Pistilli plays Tuco's AloofBigBrother, but Pistilli was 14 years younger than Creator/EliWallach.

* NotSoDifferent: Confronted with the abuses of Confederate prisoners at the Union camp, Angel Eyes comments that the Confederates do the same to Union prisoners in their own.

* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** Many of the varying scenes of depravity are actually Sergio Leone showing his work, much to the confusion of most of his prop builders, cinematographers and actors who were confused by everything from the long coat Leone chose to dress Blondie in to the train cannon with the spy tied to the front of it and the scene where the soldiers grimly shoot a criminal after standing him next to a coffin.
** Tuco piecing together parts from multiple guns in the gun shop to create a custom weapon is typically seen as unlikely at best. This may surprise as TruthInTelevision, as Samuel Colt (inventor and founder of the Colt Manufacturing Company) would often piece together parts of as many as ''10'' of his revolvers in front of audiences to demonstrate that they were interchangable for easy replacement and upkeep. (Interchangable machined parts still being a relatively new concept at the time.)

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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Many of the varying scenes of depravity are actually Sergio Leone showing his work, much to the confusion of most of his prop builders, cinematographers and actors who were confused by everything from the long coat Leone chose to dress Blondie in to the train cannon with the spy tied to the front of it and the scene where the soldiers grimly shoot a criminal after standing him next to a coffin.

* NiceHat: Blondie and Angel Eyes both sport very nice cowboy hats.

!!This film provides examples of :

** In the store scene with Tuco, he and the owner pass by several crates of black powder marked "ACME." ACME was a generic name for companies that came into use in the 1920s to enable them to appear on the first page of most phone books. It would not have been in use in 1862.

* AnArmAndALeg: The sole BountyHunter who survives his initial encounter with Tuco in the opening scene lost his right arm as a result of his wounds. We also see some of the wounded Confederate soldiers at the monastery where Tuco's brother resides have had limbs amputated due to their battle wounds and Tuco later quips to a Union soldier who has lost an arm about his own bounty "Three thousand dollars. That's a lot of money for a head. I'll bet they didn't pay you a penny for your arm."
* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: Tuco to Bill Carson: "Glad to meet you, Carson, I'm Lincoln's grandfather."

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Tuco's rap sheet goes from murder and rape down to transporting a minor across state lines for immoral purposes, and "contrary to the laws of this state, the accused has been found guilty of using marked cards and loaded dice!"

* AtomicFBomb: When Blondie dumps Tuco in the desert, Tuco belts out in Spanish:
-->HIJO DE UNA GRAN PUTAAAAAAAAA! (YOU SON OF A BIG WHOOOOOORE!)
** Then at the end, he delivers it in English.
-->YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE?! JUST A DIRTY SON OF A BIIIIIIIIITCH! (The last word is audibly a CurseCutShort but many subtitles leave it in).
* AuthorAvatar: The three main characters all contain autobiographical elements of Sergio Leone. In an interview he said, "[Sentenza] has no spirit, he's a professional in the most banal sense of the term. Like a robot. This isn't the case with the other two. On the methodical and careful side of my character, I'd be nearer il Biondo (Blondie): but my most profound sympathy always goes towards the Tuco side ... He can be touching with all that tenderness and all that wounded humanity."

--> "But if you miss, you had better miss very well. Whoever double-crosses me and leaves me ''alive''...he understands nothing about Tuco." ''(Chuckles)'' "Nothing."

-->'''Tuco:''' When you gotta shoot, shoot, don't talk.

* BestServedCold: Played for laughs when a one-armed man trains himself for months to shoot left-handed and get revenge against Tuco, who caused his mutilation. When he finally tracks him down, he goes on to give him the [[EvilGloating obligatory monologue]], until an unimpressed Tuco kills him with his concealed pistol, annoyingly quipping "When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk".

-->'''Tuco:''' When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.
* BookEnds:

* BootstrappedTheme: The theme is arguably one of the most well known Western themes, and is the subject of a great many shout outs in other media. However, it is frequently used to parody, or evoke, the tension of the climactic final shootout scene, which has its own theme, which doesn't use the "wah wah wah" riff.

* BountyHunter: Blondie engages in a con involving turning in Tuco for the bounty on his head, freeing him from the noose by shooting off the rope, and then splitting the take between them. Angel Eyes is a much darker version. His very first scene involves his target trying to pay him to kill his employer by offering more than what he was paid. Angel Eyes takes the money but simply tells him "When they pay me, I always see the job through" and shoots him. In the very next scene, he collects his money from his employer and says the exact same line before brutally murdering him.

* CallBack: [[spoiler: It is revealed after Blondie kills Angel Eyes that he unloaded Tuco's weapon the night before the final showdown between the three. Blondie (As "Manco") in Film/ForAFewDollarsMore did something similar before the final showdown between Morimer and El Indio in that film, stealing the watch off of Mortimer's watch chain the night before so he could later extend the musical countdown and allow Manco to arm Mortimer for the showdown fairly when El Indio, only moments before, was trying to cheat to kill Mortimer more easily.]]

* CentralTheme: Even war won't stop the greedy.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Just as Tuco is about to shoot Blondie in the middle of a god-forsaken, inhospitable desert, a horse-drawn carriage comes rolling down the road. The carriage contains [[spoiler: Bill Carson, whom Angel Eyes had been pursuing throughout the film to this point]], which serves to kick-start the rest of the plot.

* CoversAlwaysLie: And in a confusing way. A number of the original one-sheet posters simply reuse an animated image of Van Cleef from Film/ForAFewDollarsMore on it, in the Colonel's distinctive black costume, tie, and vest. While nowadays, we all know that Creator/LeeVanCleef is playing an entirely different character from Col. Douglas Mortimer, when the film was released, anyone who saw these posters without seeing the trailer would likely assume that Manco was reteaming with Mortimer for this film, and would be in for the shock of their lives when Van Cleef, now playing "Angel Eyes," kills half of a family in his introductory sequence. To make matters worse, this is even lampshaded slightly by Creator/SergioLeone, who was heistant to cast Van Cleef in this film because he was afraid of the audience reaction to the actor who played Col. Mortimer being cast as this film's outright villian. These strange one-sheet posters making it seem Van Cleef was reprising his Col. Mortimer role would have only added to the fire. It should be said that Leone eventually got over his hesitation in having Van Cleef go from hero to villain, and the idea finally became appealing to him, thus he committed to casting Van Cleef.

* CurseCutShort: The very last line of the movie:
-->'''Tuco:''' HEY BLONDIE! YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE?! JUST A DIRTY SON OF A [[AC:[[RecurringRiff aa-AA-aa-AA-ahhhh]]]]

-->'''Tuco''': Why, you son of a-
-->'''Blondie''': You thought I'd trust ''you''?

-->If I ever catch you, Blondie, I'll rip your heart out and eat it! I'll scalp you! I'll skin you alive! I'll hang you up by your thumbs!

* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:Blondie narrowly escapes death thanks to a cannon ball.]] Note that The Man With No Name hints at cannon fire during his conversation with Tuco as he slips the noose around his neck.

* DigYourOwnGrave: A different take occurs. A thief escorted by Union soldiers is carrying a coffin on his back. The soldiers put him against a wall and shoot him, then place him in the coffin.

*** Also included is a 5.1 Surround mix with modernised sound effects that effectively replaces its original Mono presentation, with clumsy new English dubbing for the additional scenes.[[note]]The film was trimmed to 161 minutes before being dubbed into other languages. As such, the new scenes were dubbed to English in 2003 with 70-year-old Clint Eastwood, 80-year-old Eli Wallach, and a Lee Van Cleef soundalike.[[/note]]

** Kino's 2017 Blu-ray was the first to try re-assembling the International Cut in almost 20 years, but unfortunately used the 1998 DVD as an editing guide. It also used the same degraded Mono as the 2014 Blu-ray and overcorrected its yellow tint, now favouring bright blue even in shadows.
*** Kino also didn't encode the framerate of their extras properly, they're all jittery.

-->''"There are two kinds of spurs, my friend. Those that come in by the door; those that come in by the window."''

** The Graveyard from the infamous showdown scene emphasises the finality of the paths of the three principle characters. Sergio Leone had so brilliantly set up a situation where all three men couldn't possibly leave alive.

** Tuco - you know, The Ugly. He gets a bath scene, naked except for his gun, and even a brief but loving ass shot.

* TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil: Obviously (and unsurprisingly) a partial TropeNamer and pretty much the whole point of the film. Interestingly, Tuco's mislabeling in the English-language trailer as "The Bad" actually makes more sense in light of this.

* HellholePrison: The film has an infamous sequence where Blondie and Tuco are captured by Union soldiers and brought to a particularly nasty camp. What follows soon after is the brutal torture of Tuco by Angel Eyes and another soldier- okay, in this case they want information, but he openly admits that "the talking won't save you" (in other words, he tortured Tuco even further ''after he'd told him everything''). To make matters worse, it's heavily implied that this is a normal occurrence in the camp, [[FridgeHorror and most of the prisoners probably didn't even have information worth torturing them for]]. Fortunately, Blondie gets out of there quickly before anything can happen to him.
** To make it even more depressing, they're actually going entirely against regulations- the commandant actually ''does'' want the prisoners treated fairly, but he's powerless to stop them because he's dying from gangrene.

-->'''Tuco''': When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.

-->'''Angel Eyes''': ''(to Baker)'' Oh, I almost forgot -- he paid me a thousand. I think his idea was that I kill you.
-->''(both laugh)''
-->'''Angel Eyes''': …but you know, the pity is when I'm paid, I always follow my job through. You know that.
-->'''Baker''': No! Angel Eyes!
* MysteriousMercenaryPursuer: Angel Eyes. "Trouble is when I'm paid, I always see my job through to the end..."
** It's not the protagonists he pursues, it's poor Bill Carson. But other than that...

* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailer had a narrator with annoying diction continually blurting out, "The Good... The Bad... and the UGLY" over footage of the three title characters. Unfortunately, because the original Italian title (''Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo'') translates literally as 'The Good, The Ugly, The Bad', Angel Eyes and Tuco were swapped in the trailer, making poor Lee Van Cleef appear to be the 'ugly' (indeed, Van Cleef would be called "Mr. Ugly" in advertisements for his future films). Eli Wallach must have been flattered.

-->'''Blondie''': I've never seen so many men wasted so badly.

-->'''Tuco''': And people talk ''bullshit''.

-->'''Tuco''': When that rope starts to pull tight you can feel the devil bite your ass!

* TalkToTheFist: The bounty hunter who tried unsuccessfully to kill Tuco right at the beginning of the movie locates him again much later, in the bath, naked. He's clearly got the jump on him, but can't resist going into a speech about how glad he is to have finally cornered him. Tuco immediately whips out the revolver around his neck and kills him, saying to the corpse, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZXlhSgq7us "When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk."]] A memorable ThrowItIn by Eli Wallach.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Subverted. A bounty hunter who tried unsuccessfully to kill Tuco at the beginning of the movie locates him again much later, in the bath, naked. He's clearly got the jump on him, but [[BondVillainStupidity can't resist]] going into a speech about how glad he is to have finally cornered him. Tuco immediately whips out the revolver around his neck and kills him, [[BondOneliner saying]] to the corpse, "If you have to shoot, shoot! Don't talk!" A memorable case of ThrowItIn.

-->'''Number One (by Tuco)''': There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend: those who have a rope around their neck, and the people who have the job of doing the cutting.\\
'''Number Two (by Tuco)''': There are two kinds of spurs, my friend: those that come in by the door... those that [[EnterStageWindow come in by the window]].\\
'''[[RuleOfThree Number Three (by Tuco, in a deleted scene appearing on very few editions)]]''': The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who have friends and those [[FriendlessBackground who are lonely]] like poor Tuco.\\
'''IronicEcho (by Blondie)''': You see, in this world, there are two kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns, and those who dig. [[spoiler: You dig.]]

* VillainyDiscretionShot: Tuco has a rapsheet that indicates he's a rapist and mass murderer. He doesn't do anything nearly that bad on camera and is presented as a humorous character- and the Long List of his crimes is itself somewhat Played for Laughs. It's possible some of the crimes were made up because he had reason to increase the price on his own head.

* CoversAlwaysLie: And in a confusing way. A number of the original one-sheet posters simply reuse an animated image of Van Cleef from Film/ForAFewDollarsMore on it, in the Colonel's distinctive black costume, tie, and vest. While nowadays, we all know that Creator/LeeVanCleef is playing an entirely different character from Col. Douglas Mortimer, when the film was released, anyone who saw these posters without seeing the trailer would likely assume that Manco was reteaming with Mortimer for this film, and would be in for the shock of their lives when Van Cleef, now playing "Angel Eyes," kills half of a family in his introductory sequence. To make matters worse, this is even lampshaded slightly by Creator/SergioLeone, who was heistant to cast Van Cleef in this film because he was afraid of the audience reaction to the actor who played Col. Mortimer being cast as this film's outright villian. These strange one-sheet posters making it seem Van Cleef was reprising his Col. Mortimer role would have only added to the fire.

* AllThereInTheScript: The Bad is referred by other characters as "Angel Eyes", but his real name is Sentenza (which is used instead of Angel Eyes in the Italian dub). This also covers otherwise unnamed characters such as Captain Clinton (the drunken Union Captain), Captain Harper (the Commandant) and Pardue (the Hotel Owner.)

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Angel Eyes.

* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Subverted. A bounty hunter who tried unsuccessfully to kill Tuco at the beginning of the movie locates him again much later, in the bath, naked. He's clearly got the jump on him, but [[BondVillainStupity can't resist]] going into a speech about how glad he is to have finally cornered him. Tuco immediately whips out the revolver around his neck and kills him, [[BondOneliner saying]] to the corpse, "If you have to shoot, shoot! Don't talk!" A memorable case of ThrowItIn.

* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Subverted. A bounty hunter who tried unsuccessfully to kill Tuco at the beginning of the movie locates him again much later, in the bath, naked. He's clearly got the jump on him, but can't resist going into a speech about how glad he is to have finally cornered him. Tuco immediately whips out the revolver around his neck and kills him, saying to the corpse, "If you have to shoot, shoot! Don't talk!" A memorable case of ThrowItIn.

** When Tuco sees troops in gray coming towards him and Blondie and decides to greet them, he yells, "God is with us because he hates the Yanks, too!" Turns out, the uniforms are gray ''from the dust''. Before the revelation, and after Tuco's proclamation, Blondie proceeds to lampshade this by saying, "God is not on our side 'cause he hates idiots also."

''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' (Italian: ''Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo'', literally "The Good One, the Ugly One, the Bad One"), directed by Creator/SergioLeone and released in 1966, is one of the Film/DollarsTrilogy of {{Spaghetti Western}}s that served as a DeconstructorFleet to the entire [[TheWestern Western genre]]. It is the last, and probably the most famous of the trilogy, and is credited with helping to kill the Western genre (due to how thoroughly it disassembles said genre) and inventing a bevy of new tropes (even popularizing the MexicanStandoff). It's had an incredible impact on the ''entirety of film-making'' since then, and is generally regarded as one of the greatest films ever created. The soundtrack was composed by Music/EnnioMorricone, and remains perhaps his most memorable work.

* MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness: It rates a 5. There's some blood, but it's the brutality of the violence that puts it on this level. [[spoiler:Tuco's (Eli Wallach) savage beating, complete with attempted eye-gouging, at the hands of Corporal Wallace (Mario Brega), Wallace's head being repeatedly bashed against a jagged rock by Tuco (and later his corpse being dragged for a while by a train that drives over it), and Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef) shooting Baker (Livio Lorenzon) in the face through a pillow rank as the movie's most cruel moments]]. Other than that, the gun violence is pretty clean and bloodless, and there's no gore at all.
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''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' (Italian: ''Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo'', literally "The Good One, the Ugly One, the Bad One"), directed by Creator/SergioLeon and released in 1966, is one of the Film/DollarsTrilogy of {{Spaghetti Western}}s that served as a DeconstructorFleet to the entire [[TheWestern Western genre]]. It is the last, and probably the most famous of the trilogy, and is credited with helping to kill the Western genre (due to how thoroughly it disassembles said genre) and inventing a bevy of new tropes (even popularizing the MexicanStandoff). It's had an incredible impact on the ''entirety of film-making'' since then, and is generally regarded as one of the greatest films ever created. The soundtrack was composed by Music/EnnioMorricone, and remains perhaps his most memorable work.

''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' (Italian: ''Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo'', literally "The Good One, the Ugly One, the Bad One"), released in 1966, is one of the Film/DollarsTrilogy of {{Spaghetti Western}}s that served as a DeconstructorFleet to the entire [[TheWestern Western genre]]. It is the last, and probably the most famous of the trilogy, and is credited with helping to kill the Western genre (due to how thoroughly it disassembles said genre) and inventing a bevy of new tropes (even popularizing the MexicanStandoff). It's had an incredible impact on the ''entirety of film-making'' since then, and is generally regarded as one of the greatest films ever created.

Directed by Creator/SergioLeone and with a soundtrack composed by AwesomeMusic/EnnioMorricone in one of his most memorable works.

* TheThreeFacesOfAdam: Tuco is The Hunter (desperate, but unlucky), Angel Eyes is The Lord (devious and resourceful) and Blondie is The Prophet (driven, yet compassionate).

* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: Blondie and Tuco are captured by Union soldiers and brought to a harsh prison camp (they were both wearing Confederate uniforms at the time and Tuco had foolishly shouted some pro-Confederate remarks just before being captured). There are three soldiers shown to be running the camp, and the two most prominently shown are the extremely brutal Corporal Wallace and Sergeant Angel Eyes. The commandant is actually a decent guy who tries to get the two brutal [=NCOs=] to treat the prisoners fairly. Unfortunately, he's dying from an infected wound, and unable to stop the two officers from taking prisoners inside a building just so they can beat the crap out of them while a coerced orchestra of Confederate POWs is forced to play music to drown out the sounds of the torture.