History Awesome / TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6tR78d0cmA The three-way Mexican Standoff at the end, set to the downright glorious 'The Ecstasy of Gold'.]] [[SincerityMode Three guys eyeballing one another for five minutes straight has never been so breathtaking.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6tR78d0cmA The three-way Mexican Standoff at the end.]] [[SincerityMode Three guys eyeballing one another for five minutes straight has never been so breathtaking.]]

** Even more awesome in hindsight, for Blondie: Angel Eyes ''had'' to shoot Tuco first, as he couldn't risk Blondie having bluffed the name on the rock, and Tuco was already disarmed, so all Blondie had to do was wait for Angel Eyes to pick up his gun to shoot him in the distraction. He had already won, the other two just didn't know it yet. Makes you think that he's not "the good" simply by default, on virtue of Tuco and Angel Eyes being worse people than him, but he's "the good" because he's just ''that good''.

* The very fact that Creator/EliWallach came out of filming alive after all the dangers and misfortunes he faced filming. He survived accidental poisoning and strangulation for this one role and he made it out in more or less one piece.
* And the fact that when Wallach died in 2014, he's ''98'' years old, nearly reaching 100. What a awesome badass he is.

* In a meta sense, think about this for a second: the scene with Tuco and his brother, considered one of the most {{TearJerker}} moments and the one where Tuco and the film itself become something deeper the originally expected, was brilliantly acted by two actors who ''couldn't understand what the other one was saying''. [[note]] Luigi Pistilli, who played Father Pablo Ramirez, spoke Italian. Eli Wallach spoke English [[/note]]. The fact it worked '''so well''' says a lot about both the production, the direction, and the cast.
* Meta: Lee Van Cleef's [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e7/49/9b/e7499bb8796c43d70dd82866509f2b88.jpg grave said]] "Best of the Bad". Indeed, he is.

* Tuco's EstablishingCharacterMoment, where he is accosted by a trio of {{Bounty Hunter}}s. The bounty hunters kick down the door of the saloon where he's dining. We hear gunshots and [[ThereWasADoor see Tuco dive out the window]] with a pistol in one hand and a turkey leg in the other. As Tuco flees, the camera pans to the tavern's entrance where we see two dead bounty hunters and the third seriously wounded.

* Tuco's EstablishingCharacterMoment, where he is accosted by a trio of {{Bounty Hunter}}s. The bounty hunters kick down the door of the saloon where he's dining. We hear gunshots and [[ThereWasADoor see Tuco dive out the window]] with a pistol in one hand and a chicken leg in the other. As Tuco flees, the camera pans to the tavern's entrance where we see two dead bounty hunters and the third seriously wounded.

** The beating is also a CMOA, if only because Tuco absolutely [[MadeOfIron ''tanks'']] Wallace's blows, with enough gumption still left over to utter threats and at one point [[TheDogBitesBack grab Wallace's throat and squeeze apparently hard enough to make Wallace visibly uncomfortable.]]

* In a meta sense, think about this for a second: the scene with Tuco and his brother, considered one of the most {{TearJerker}} moments and the one where Tuco and the film itself becomes something deeper the originally expected, was brilliantly acted by two actors who ''couldn't understand what the other one was saying''. [[note]] Luigi Pistilli, who played Father Pablo Ramirez, spoke Italian. Elli Wallach spoke English [[/note]]. The fact it worked '''so well''' says a lot about both the production, the direction, and the cast.

* Every time the words (''You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people my friend...'') and whatever follows next [[spoiler:but especially after the finale:]]
-->'''Blondie''':[[spoiler: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. ''You dig.'']].

* One of Tuco's [[OneLiner One Liners]], following him subverting a JustBetweenYouAndMe moment by shooting his would-be assailant:

* During Tuco's first two near-hangings, Blondie has managed to ShootTheRope with two bullets. At the end of the film, from three times the distance, he cuts the rope around Tuco's neck with just ''one''. Moreover, there was some serious artistic license: Blondie flips up the long-range leaf sight on his rifle but the cross member is so loose it falls down to the very bottom. This would have given him no elevation of the gun barrel to allow for bullet drop to make the shot, so he did it [[ImproperlyPlacedFirearms with an improperly placed firearm]] under [[ImprobableAimingSkills impossible odds]].
* In a meta sense, think about this for a second: the scene with Tuco and his brother, considered one of the most {{TearJerker}} moments and the one where Tuco and the film itself becomes something deeper the originally expected, was brilliantly acted by two acters who ''couldn't understand what the other one was saying''. [[note]] Luigi Pistilli, who played Father Pable Ramirez, spoke italian. Elli Wallach spoke english [[/note]]. The fact it worked '''so well''' says a lot about both the production, the direction, and the cast.

* In a meta sense, think about this for a second: the scene with Tuco and his brother, considered one of the most [[TearJerker]] moments and the one where Tuco and the film itself becomes something deeper the originally expected, was brilliantly acted by two acters who ''couldn't understand what the other one was saying''. [[note]] Luigi Pistilli, who played Father Pable Ramirez, spoke italian. Elli Wallach spoke english [[/note]]. The fact it worked '''so well''' says a lot about both the production, the direction, and the cast.

* During Tuco's first two near-hangings, Blondie has managed to ShootTheRope with two bullets. At the end of the film, from three times the distance, he cuts the rope around Tuco's neck with just ''one''. Moreover, there was some serious artistic license: Blondie flips up the long-range leaf sight on his rifle but the cross member is so loose it falls down to the very bottom. This would have given him no elevation of the gun barrel to allow for bullet drop to make the shot, so he did it under [[ImprobableAimingSkills impossible odds]].

* During Tuco's first two near-hangings, Blondie has managed to ShootTheRope with two bullets. At the end of the film, from three times the distance, he cuts the rope around Tuco's neck with just ''one''. Moreover, there was some serious artistic license: Blondie flips up the long-range leaf sight on his rifle but the cross member is so loose it falls down to the very bottom. This would give him no elevation of the gun barrel to allow for bullet drop to make the shot, so he did it under [[RidiculousAimingSkills impossible odds]].

* During Tuco's first two near-hangings, Blondie has managed to ShootTheRope with two bullets. At the end of the film, from three times the distance, he cuts the rope around Tuco's neck with just ''one''.

* Clint Eastwood proving why he's the first one.

* The very fact that Eli Wallach came out of filming alive after all the dangers and misfortunes he faced filming. He survived accidental poisoning and strangulation for this one role and he made it out in more or less one piece.

* Every time the words (''You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people my friend...'') and whatever follows next.