Amazing observation, I always watch this scene with very heavy heart as it shows ugliness of war so perfectly and the helplessness of a man "still to play and forcibly enjoy the music". This scene resonates the innocence of common and beautiful people of this world who are nothing to do with war which is promoted by Lockheed Martin and Rolls Royce of this world to profit from human sufferings. Corporate Media, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Bankers all have their share in this. The Good , The Bad and The Ugly is a deeply sad movie from a war standpoint.
Look at Angel Eyes facial expression at 4:49, thats what I call brilliant acting. At first he's smirking a bit, because being a sadist he enjoys seeing tuco in pain, but then when he proceeds to ask Tuco "what did he tell you about the money" he's dead serious again.
Also, in the scene in the beginning when Angel Eyes shoots the old man in his bed areal evil sadistic look, when he takes a job he always sees it through.
When Angel Eyes says ‘It’s been a long time’ and Tuco says ‘He never forgets a friend’ hints that these 2 characters have some history together......but that doesn’t prevent Angel Eyes from beating him senseless till he gets his information from him. You can see the atmosphere change when Angel Eyes asks why he’s going under the name of Bill Carson, making Tuco uncomfortable and Angel Eyes knows he’s hit a nerve
@HatesoLowliesNotasDelichousasPastries Angel Eyes must have killed a lot more people "off screen". St Betterville prison camp, he and his gang must have loved torturing, robbing and murdering unfortunate inmates.
@Limited Infinity he wasnt paid to do anything of what he did besides the two murders at the start of the film. Its pure greed driving him to the 200000 dollars
What's interesting to note is that the Bad only kills 3 people throughout the movie and two of those were technically self defence, whereas the Good kills like 20. I guess its because the Bad takes pleasure in what he does whereas the other two simply see killing as a grim necessity.
This scene and the one with the Alcoholic Captain from the North, just before the battle across the river are a tribute to the fallen in the North American Civil War. Filmed just over one hundred years after the conflict some veterans were stil alive. Both scenes are very emotional.
If I had heard the soundtrack on its own without having seen the movie which it is the soundtrack of, I would have never guessed that the music had been synched with a torture scene… The music on it's own does sound nothing like a horror music on it's own, but this way it makes this scene even more cruel to watch… Isn't that brilliant? The music is not simply re-telling the same story that is portrayed by the picture, but it's adding a complete new point of view … I Like that!
The actor beating tuco is an italian actor taken from the street and discovered by leone....a very tough man called Mario Brega, he was really hard on the set he beat for real gordon scott in another movie.
@@HopliteWarlord no is not him!! As Ales said he was an Italian's actor named Mario Brega and he played different characthers in the whole dollar's trilogy and in many others spaghetti westerns!! Bud Spencer's real name was Carlo Perdesoli
Always fun to see that Leone used most of the same actors for all three "Man With No Name" films, the big torturer in this sequence was one of Indio's banditos in the previous film... and Lee was a different character altogether!
When I first watched the trilogy - all 3 movies back to back - I was very confused by Lee van Cleef's characters in For A Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, cause only by the end I realized he is not the same character lol. I was thinking the whole time: Wow, what has happened to the Colonel, why did he become so evil? lol Well, to my defense, I was about 10 years old, so the concept of the same actor playing completely different roles in a trilogy was a bit hard for me to grasp at first.
The Dollars Trilogy has some of the very best "eating" scenes of movie history. The attention to detail. The pacing. Hyperactive modern audiences couldn't stomach it (pun intended). Just rewatching this 0:13 makes me hungry and I feel like going to the kitchen to cook something.
Have you seen Soylent Green ? If not, watch the scene where Charlton Heston and Edward G Robinson are eating. I think it's really one of the best movie scenes in history. Not a single word, all acting.
Torture scene with music playing in the background, hmmm ... Wonder if that inspired Tarantino for the razor-torture scene in RESERVOIR DOGS ? (Of course it did ;)
Lee van Cleef is **awesome!** I don't think he has really been given the appreciation that he deserved. Some of that may be due to being alongside Clint Eastwood in a few movies (who would "outshine" pretty much anyone). Anyway, Lee was a **true star** in his own right.
Lee's acting career had pratically ended when Leone remembered about him, and offered him the part of Colonel Mortimer in For a few dollars more. After a car accident and problems with alchool he worked as a house painter to pay the bills. The two movies he made with Leone and Eastwood made him a star, and "the best of the bad".
@@neutronalchemist3241 He could be "the best of the good" as well. He played as good guy in a lot of western too. I could list at least a dozen movies he played as the good guy.
The trademark of Spaghetti Western was: brutality, cynicism, nihilism, agony. It's not that those people there had no moral. Their moral was just that hunger for money and gold.
In what way is hunger for money and gold a "moral"? I think you are confusing goals and intentions with morality. The fact that they value money over human suffering does not make it moral. It's just an expression of their cynicism and greed that's all. In a brutal world perhaps you can understand it. Still doesn't make it moral, unless you can come up with some VERY spaceous definition that still makes any sense, granted the more common connotations of the word ...
@@juliusraben3526 Of course not. And the "good" that you introduce (and which I never mentioned), remains to be defined. Your statement as it is is not yet elaborate enough to really add much, honestly. My point was that the phrase "Their moral was just that hunger for money and gold" presumes that their drives were more organised, thought out and systemic than say just fairly basic impulses without much thought. That there is some idea behind it, that could potentially transcend the interests of the individual that holds the belief. It has not at all been established that spaghetti western villains consider themselves to have this proposed notion of morality coating their actions. Morals can be many things, and they can be justified or argued for in many different ways. but they tend to be derived from assumptions about the world that go beyond immediate basic self-gratification. Lions do not have a moral code about zebras. They just eat them. When someone says: "Their moral was just that hunger for money and gold" I have to ask "in what way is that an expression of morality, rather than simply individual subjective opinion? What makes this hunger moral and not just hunger?" I am not injecting a morality of my own by asking that question. It's a simple one at a basic level of language. I am not a great proponent of moral systems myself. But I mostly understand when there is a system to something and when there is not. I don't know what you were really hoping to achieve with what you said.
This scene and dialogue raises inquisitiveness Direction of the full movie is par excellence. Unforgettable till I die. Loved Sad Hill.i know the cemetery you know the grave. What a script and dialogue. Most Excellent. We are going for a ride. Unique words Deserves credit and Awards.
Believe it or not, Lee Van Cleef is only 40 or 41 here. You know, he's the only actor that ever acted a part older than his age. For A Few Dollars More. Most actors seem to play folk younger than their age. Example, De Niro, Taxi Driver.
I think Lee Van Cleef was the best in all these type of western films, but Eli Wallach and Clint Eastwood were great aswell, but once upon a time in the west was best of all yet none of these guys were in it
Eli, Lee, Cliff, the most extraordinary characters in this Greatest movie,,,,every scene in this Epic movie is a story full of Tale, Tragedy, and Triumphs,with morals of life.
