Film: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly aka: Ptitlehluotwyqio1w
"Two hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money. We're gonna have to earn it."
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Italian: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, "The Good, the Ugly, the Bad"), released in 1966, is one of the "Dollars" trilogy of Spaghetti Westerns that served as a Deconstructor Fleet to the entire Western genre. It is the last, and probably the most famous of the trilogy, and is credited with helping to kill the Western genre and inventing a bevy of new tropes (even popularizing the Mexican Standoff). It's had an incredible impact on nearly all films since then, and is generally regarded as one of the best films ever created.During the American Civil War, the bounty hunter "Blondie" (Clint Eastwood) and the bandit Tuco (Eli Wallach) are running a con game until the former decides to terminate their partnership and take the money. Tuco sets out for revenge. A mercenary, Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef), finds out about a stolen cache of Confederate gold, and learns the name of the man who knows where it's hidden. Tuco and Blondie stumble upon this knowledge and the three gunslingers engage in a battle of betrayal across the war-torn landscape.
Arc Words: "There are two kinds of people in this world, my friend..." Alternately said by Tuco and Blondie, and always with a different ending.
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Tuco is charged with (among other things) murder, rape, bigamy, and playing with marked cards and loaded dice. It's possible that Tuco confessed to a number of crimes he didn't commit in order to raise his bounty. Among other charges, he has apparently robbed from both sides of the civil war.
Subverted in that he doesn't actually shoot the store owner.
Beauty Equals Goodness: The most handsome man just happens to be "The Good". Granted, the other two were morally worse than him, but Blondie's not exactly a nice guy.
Beware the Quiet Ones: Blondie is every bit as violent and ruthless as Tuco and Angel-Eyes, but he's much less flamboyant. He barely ever talks above a whisper, and he frequently confronts life-threatening situations without uttering a single word. Even when he's crawling through the desert, half-dead from sun-burns and dehydration, he never once begs Tuco for his life.
The film starts and ends with Blondie saving Tuco from the noose. Of course, the "save" in the last part is debatable.
Also, the beginning and the end have the three main characters being labeled by onscreen text as "The Ugly", "The Bad", "and The Good," both times in that order.
Chekhov's Gunman: The man Tuco shot in his establishing moment loses his arm, spends half the movie learning how to shoot with his off hand and comes after Tuco for revenge.
Determinator: Not even a war can stop these men from going on a treasure hunt.
Deus ex Machina: 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.
Distracted From Death: Bill Carson finally dies of thirst and exposure in the minute it takes Tuco to run to his horse and grab a canteen. In a subversion, while Tuco is distracted Blondie does come over and hears Carson say where he buried the gold.
Whatever you think of Blondie's morality, both he and Tuco are visibly horrified by the carnage of the Civil War at the bridge.
Tuco pulls one quick when Blondie reveals the corpse he dug and genuflects though his guilt turned to anger when he found out Blondie lied about the grave name.
Cute Kitten: Would you believe there is an adorable kitten in this movie?
Eye Scream: Wallace gets Tuco to talk by pushing on his eyes.
Fluffy the Terrible: The names "Blondie" and "Angel Eyes" aren't exactly threatening.
They are less funny in Italian, to be fair. "Biondo" is a neutral word, like "blond one". "Angel Eyes" is called Sentenza, which means judgement, or verdict.
Freudian Trio: Blondie's the Ego, Tuco the Id, and Angel Eyes the Superego.
Hired Guns: Angel Eyes is best described as a mercenary.
His Name Is...: Lampshaded and subverted when Tuco tries and fails to extract information from the dying soldier, only to find Blondie has succeeded in doing so.
Hollywood Density: Averted. It's not a plot point, but look how heavy those bags of gold apparently are.
Tuco's torture scene at the Union prison camp. Immediately preceded by a nice dinner.
Later on in the film, Tuco delivers a shorter but arguably more brutal one to his torturer by throwing him from a moving train and repeatedly slamming his head against a rock until he dies.
No Name Given: "Blondie", the eponymous Good, is a nickname, used only by Tuco; his real name is never mentioned, and the character is known as the Man With No Name. Also, "Angel Eyes", the eponymous Bad. The latter is also referred to as Sentenza, which may or may not be his true name.
It isn't. "Sentenza" is his original italian name, which means "Sentence", or "Judgement".
Blondie gets two; petting a kitten, and comforting a dying soldier.
Tuco gets one, when he meets with his brother and gives a shockingly eloquent defense for the life he's lived and the choices he's made.
Immediately after that, when riding away from his brother's monastery with Blondie, he begins to gush about how close he and his brother are in spite of how they'd just had a loud fight. It's unclear if he's trying to save face or if it's his way of expressing affection, but it's rather sweet nonetheless. Blondie even seems to play along, despite having heard everything.
Angel Eyes gets one in the extended version, where he appears to show sadness at the sight of several wounded soldiers at a fort, before allowing the sergeant he has questioned to keep the alcohol he used to bribe him with.
Popcultural Osmosis: The music, the last 15 minutes, hell, even the title have all permeated pop culture.
Prequel: Possibly, for the earlier Dollars movies. Blondie doesn't begin this movie wearing the trademark poncho he wears by film's end, which carries over to A Fistful of Dollars.
A Fistful of Dollars also has a tombstone with the Date of Death as 1873, as the American Civil War was fought ten years before that, in 1861–1865, so it is reasonable to assume that this is actually the Prequel.
Professional Killer: Angel Eyes is equal parts bounty hunter, mercenary, and assassin.
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Oddly enough, Angel Eyes. One man hires him to kill another, and his target tries to pay him to kill the man who sent him. He accepts their money and kills them both, cementing him as an utter bastard. Because when he's paid, he always follows his job through. Which makes this a subversion, since he takes everybody's money while still refusing to go back on his word. And he later decides to go for the treasure himself.
Thanatos Gambit: Blondie pretends to write a name of the grave where the gold is buried on the bottom of a rock. After the climatic showdown, Blondie tells Tuco that there was no name on the rock because the grave where the gold was has no name. Had Angel Eyes succeeded in killing Blondie and Tuco, he would have no leads to search for the gold. Then again, they were at Arch Stanton's grave a few minutes earlier, which was right next to the unmarked grave, so unless Angel Eyes is a complete idiot and fails to put two and two together, it's unlikely this backup plan would've succeeded.
Villainy Discretion Shot: Again, if you believe the list of crimes associated with Tuco read by the executioners.
War Is Hell: The American Civil War is integral to the fabric of the film, and Leone is here to serve it up raw. This is remarkable in a film known primarily as a classic Western. Tattered armies in retreat. Exhausted, demoralized drunken commanders, chaos, dirt and unregarded bodies in the sun. Corn cobs to eat, scabrous prison camps, and summary justice meted out on the streets. The trope is perhaps most strongly in play during the futile fight for a bridge that Blondie and Tuco witness. An unremarked mass of shallow war graves make up the film's final setting.
Would Hit a Girl: In order to show how evil The Bad is, Angel Eyes relentlessly beats up a girl towards the beginning of the film. However, according to an interview with Lee Van Cleef, he refused to actually hit her, so they had to use his stunt man for that scene.
What a Senseless Waste of Human Life: Blondie remarks upon this after seeing a clash between Union and Confederate troops over a contested bridge.
What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: The climax is probably the most epic scene about three guys standing around doing nothing ever filmed.
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