@@aaronkenna3502 Hell, the movie starts with 10 minutes of not a word spoken It's like: This is where Conan te Barbarian with Schwarzenegger got it's inspiration from
Ha....I've thought that so many times about a movie. Decades after HIgh Noon, I mentioned I just watched it for the first time and a friend said something like "I wish I could see it for the first time again".
I still remember the first time I saw this. I was 10 years old and hated westerns. But my dad made me see this. At first I was like this is boring" then halfway I was like this is pretty good. and by the time this scene came on I was nail biting wondering who is gonna survive this.
Fun fact: The reason why Clint Eastwood got that famous stare is because he actually hated smoking - 'it always made his eyes tear up, so he squinted'😁
Here is another one: Sergio Leone famously said about Clint: “I like him, because he has only two facial expressions: one with the cigar, one without the cigar”.
Also that famous poncho was Clint's own poncho he brought on set, he wears it throughout all these movies and never washed it to add the effect of it being old and dusty, you can watch them in release order and it starts as a green colour and turns into a brown faded colour.
One of the greatest movies of all time One of the greatest endings of all time One of the greatest soundtracks of all time One of the greatest characters of all time Thank you Sergio leone rest in peace Thank you Ennio Morricone rest in peace Thank you Clint Eastwood rise and shine
*One of the greatest movies of all time...Anybody else notice that Lee Van Cleef was missing part of a finger? He lost it building a playhouse for his daughter. This movie is an absolute Masterpiece of 1960's Filmography*
Blondie outsmarted them.. He knew Tuco's gun was empty so he only had to think about shooting Angel Eyes.. But Angle Eyes and Tuco had to think about shooting two targets.. What a movie..
The fact that three guys staring at each other for six minutes has more tension, meaning, and is a far more intense climax than million dollar CGI fests is both a testament to Sergio Leone's directing abilities and the slow decline of cinema as an art form.
Man I hate this unnecessary diss of cgi, it only opened the possibilities to many greater stories, cinema can still be an art and use cgi to accomplish things that weren’t possible before, it’s always up to the director to deliver
@@Deather2012 Yeah, comparing a CGI adventure/action/superhero/sci-fi film to a spaghetti western is like comparing a Rembrandt painting to a Tchaikovsky ballet...they have nothing to do with one another.
@@rikk319 I'm failling to see in which exact part did I ever compared The Good, The Bad and the Ugly with a CGI adventure/action/superhero/sci-fi film like at all.... I'm saying that just because a movie uses CGI it doesn't means that it can't be better than "cult" film with practical effects from 50 years ago, what makes a movie good is the plot and direction, and CGI opened many possibilities for storytelling that weren't possible before
Every other film director: "For the grand finale we are spending millions in a massive exotic scenario with hundred of extras, expensive CGI, explosions and lasers!!" Sergio Leone: "I will put three guys staring at each other in silence"
Will be weird to think in the future we will have had movies for CENTURIES. (1890s isn't that long ago, a CENTURY ago isn't as incredible as thinking this would someday be like Mona Lisa in terms of regard and age.)
I saw it at the theater with my father in mid 90's at some dusty old cinema which played classic films sometimes. I was a kid and it blew my mind, the movie made me love the western genre.
5th of July 2020: Italian composer Ennio Morricone dies at age 91. RIP. His music helped to turn this into one of the most epic scenes ever. Wouldn't be the same without it.
Can everyone just take a second to wrap their heads around the fact that this movie is over 50 years old. It’s actually crazy how well this movie holds up.
I don't understand these kind of comments....why wouldn't the movie hold up?? Just why? You can find movies made 100 years ago that hold up. And you can find movies released last year that suck...the age of a movie has nothing to do with its quality
@@sparrow56able Yes it kinda does, the technology during the age contributes to the special effects of the movies, the cgi of some movies, the directing styles, and even the ability to create even the smallest realistic details were all learned over time.
This will always be one of the greatest scenes in film, in my opinion. The amount of information that's being conveyed without a single word, and with almost no movement, is amazing.
thats actually something i never really think about, ofcourse the music and cinematography is perfect but I never tend to think about the lack of dialogue
@@wooarc And that's the brilliance of it. So much of the characters' thoughts are being communicated to each other (and the audience) through small eye movements and slight hand movements that you don't even notice that there's been no dialogue for several minutes.
I love at around 4:25 when the horns peak, the shot zooms out to show the three of them standing in that circle. It's like they're three gladiators in an old coliseum about to fight to the death, surrounded by a audience of dead men in their graves, just watching.
"It's like they're three gladiators in an old coliseum about to fight to the death, surrounded by a audience of dead men in their graves, just watching" Beautiful words. I wonder if that is just what Sergio Leone had in his mind.
This video confirms to me that 40% of the success of this film is due to the music, not only because of how it is composed, but because they knew where to place it, every time there is a shocking scene or that captures attention there is a piece of music or sound effect that makes you feel even more excited, this in the ephemeral moments, but in the moments of longer duration, there are complete songs that make you feel more immersed in the movie, since you are not only interested in what you see, If not, these scenes and audios are so well combined that it is impossible to miss the musical setting, simply very ingenious, Sergio and Ennio were geniuses, and Clint knew how to embody their ideas
Interesting Fact: The skeleton found by Tuco inside the wrong coffin at Sad Hill Cemetery, was a real human skeleton. A deceased Spanish actress who wrote in her will she wanted to act even after her death. Edit: Rip Ennio Morricone 1928-2020 Thank you for creating some of the greatest soundtracks in history.
Absolutely magnificent…no one can make a movie with such intensity as Sergio Leone..Eli Wallach should have received an Oscar for his performance, scene stealer every time. To put these three great actors together in one movie was pure genius.
First time I saw this was in a film class. The other students in front of me were bitching about how long this scene was, which only made me love it even more.
@@kingaditya-pubgmandmore3644 That's why modern action films execute action scenes poorly. Because there is no build up or tension before. It's just people walking around then all of a sudden a fkn huge ass gorilla jumps out if the ground and throws truck into anskyskraper.
Hundreds of films are made a year but realistically you will only get 2 or 3 films a year that will still hold up after 10 years. What adds to the greatness of this is that the older it gets the more appreciation it receives. If your younger than 57 you never knew this film on release but your here and you recognize true cinema when you see it.
There was an incredible amount of talent before and behind the camera to create this magical masterpiece of a scene: Sergio Leone (Director), Ennio Morricone (Composer), Michele Lacerenza (Trumpet Player), Carlo Simi (Set Designer), Nino Baragli (Cutter) and, of course, the holy trinity Eastwood / Wallach / Van Cleef.
Great western movie. Rip Lee Van Cleef and Rip Eli Wallach. Clint Eastwood over 90 years old and still active. Don't mess with Clint Eastwood. Thanks for posting this.
tbf the other 2 could have deduced it was a grave near near the arch stanton grave and would eventually find the gold, so the real trick was making the other 2 think they won't find the gold without the name
Blondie was also moves ahead from Angel Eyes and Tuco though - He not only knew where the gold was buried but he also eliminated Tuco from the equation when it came to the shootout removing his bullets which was GOOD on Tuco's part for not going for Blondie otherwise Tuco would have been left hanging.
The part where Tuco’s hand is slowly coming down towards his gun is the greatest 3 seconds in film history. I don’t know why but that tiny fraction of the scene is so amazing.
Not long ago I read that, the reason Angel Eyes 4:02 walked facing ALWAYS Tuco was because he knew that he would shoot him in the back at the first chance. He turned his back to Clint Eastwood because he KNEW Eastwood would never shoot him from behind on a duel. Just... Masterpiece
It is such minute details that makes this movie an absolute masterpiece. Another observation I made was Angel Eyes walked to the left as the Sun would be behind him.
Carlo Salvi I feel for you. I wouldn’t wish the death of a parent on my worst enemy. If you believe in heaven or something like that, hopefully you two will be together again and watch this movie over and over again until the end of time.
Someone posted in an earlier comment that this is cinema gold. It certainly is. The wide shot that's established at around 4:28 is held for :34 (seconds). I can't recall seeing shots that long and building tension like that in today's film making. This is classic and probably the best tension building scene in the history of cinema. The direction, editing and acting is perfectly timed and executed. LOVE IT!
I watched this movie for the first time yesterday. I'm not sure if or how my opinion on it will change, but after watching it once, I can safely say this is one of the best movies I have ever seen.
Still the greatest ending to any western and possibly any movie ever made. I seen this about a million times and still get goosebumps!!! For a Few Dollars more is also up there!
I love the symbols in this scene! The "heavenly" trumpet in the music. The "battle arena" surrounded by the dead "spectators" watching. And the duel itself is about life and dead, so the cemetery is the perfect place for that!
The dead and the ravens as witnesses to the final battle between the forces of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory. The raven sounds at the music break were real by the way.
This scene is so beautiful that after more than 40 years (I saw it for the first time when I was a boy) of watching it countless times it still manages to choke me up. It makes me choke up, not because it’s somehow sad, no. It chokes me up because it’s sheer perfection of storytelling. It’s like sitting around a campfire at night and having a master storyteller weave an intricate web of a story that ensnares you and makes you wish you could listen to the story forever.
Over 5 Minutes of closups of eyes, hands, fingers, faces, guns, eyes again establishing shot, hands moving closer to guns, faces getting freaked, eyes looking left and right quicker and quicker. The tension building up to infinity because we all know all three of them are outstanding at shooting. And all that is being carried by the genious music of one Ennio Morricone. What is there not to love about this piece of art.
@@bulldogsbob What has Marvel to do with this? This is a western, Marvel movies ain't. It's like saying "Matrix" fans won't like "Sophie's Choice". Apples n oranges, pal.
Hands-down greatest movie ever made especially the bridge scene, then the dying soldier scene, the ecstasy of gold scene, then the final standoff absolutely EPIC. Moves me every time.
Blondie always knew he couldn't work with Angel Eyes, or dare turn his back on him. Tuco, he could outwit. When Blondie taunts Tuco during the standoff with a wink - That's the moment when Angel Eyes really starts to sweat. If he moves on Tuco, Blondie has him. If he moves on Blondie, Tuco has him. If he throws his hands up and backs out - They'll both move on him. Can't have a snake tracking and ambushing them later
basically no words and no action in the 10 minutes long finale of a 3h long movie. And yet you can watch this over and over again and never tire of it. How many could pull that off?
Sergio, Kubrick and Coppola blow me away with how much they communicated in any given scene. The slow shots, the quick pans and the perfect music here make for some amazing "action" despite no shots being fired for most of the scene. You're really made to feel everything these characters are feeling. Its an epic conclusion to an epic film.
I cut school to see it in the eighties. -What I saw was worth every second of my time away from school. -And I get high from the scene and the music more today than I did yesterday. ---Absolute mastery in film history. -When some cut out of life at times, it may not have proven to be worth it, but God Damn, it was worth the try.
"You see, in this world there are two kinds of people, my friend. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig...". One of the best lines in film history.
You could watch this scene a hundred times and still see something new. Truly is a one of a kind masterpiece. I wonder if the cast and crew knew at the time they were making pure gold!?
Apparently Clint didn’t like a lot of Sergio’s style of directing. Said he dragged scenes out for too long. Respect to Clint, but he never came close to making a masterpiece like this on his own. I love High Plains Drifter and Unforgiven, and they work well, but yeah…nothing touched this.
No they really didn't This movie was bashed and disliked by audiences and critics alike upon release They called it derivative, a collection of overplayed western cliches and a movie that showed how foreigners didn't understand what American old West culture was about It took a very long time before public perception swung back around the other way and praise finally started to be given and it turned into a masterpiece
As a film editor, I must say: Sergio Leone's movies are masterclass on editing. Well, they're a masterclass in a lot of things, but talking about editing specifically, every editor must know at least The Good The Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West
@@brilandmuja6713 Well, I would say that the main thing is the way he imposes rhythm. The stand-off in the end of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly for instance, he builds tension by cutting through the characters increasing the closeness of the shot while decreasing the time. There's a concept in editing that it seems kind of out of use nowadays that the "image need its time"... mind that this is very subjective and it's kind like poetry in a way (Andrei Tarkovsky wrote a nice book about it), the beginning of Once Upon a Time in the West is a good example of that in my opinion and it's an excellent example of how to build tension with calmness before the action. Also in Once Upon (...) there's a scene I love in which Harmonica meets Cheyenne for the first time. Until then we were presented to both characters' musical motives (leitmotivs) in separate, but when Cheyenne literally throws the light till Harmonica, parts of both of their motives meet together.
Lee Van Cleef dressed exactly like one of his childhood heroes in two movies “Spaghetti Westerns’ Wyatt Earp. Lee’s costume is a perfect copy of the famous outfit worn by Wyatt Earp in 1881 in Tombstone Arizona. Lee provided his own clothes as did Clint Eastwood. Lee even used a 12 inch barrel Colt like the one used by Marshall Earp. The Hat, Coat, Shirt, Vest, Tie with Tie pin, Boots, Guns every detail is a Tribute to the most famous Lawman-Marshall in American history.
@@Dr_Lad All this years and you watched this masterpiece lately? Anyways at least you have watched it. One of my all time favourites have watched since i was a kid until this day it still send shivers down my spine
I’ve watched this favorite film of mine countless times and I always feel the same upon its completion..a masterpiece! Villains and antiheroes, Morricone’s score (The Trio) combined with Leone’s wide and close shots make the Mexican standoff at Sad Hill one of cinema’s finest moments. grazie Sergio! 🇮🇹 💪🏻
Nothing is rushed. It takes exactly as long as it needs to, the music takes you every step of the way, the camera brings you in. When suddenly the music cuts out, you think it'll happen, .... it hasn't even started. You can return to this scene 10 times, a 100 times, and it still remains sheer perfection in every beat.
I love that the music being written before the film was, err, filmed, added to the film. The actors listened to the music on set as they acted, so the pacing with some of the scenes is perfect. Also might be why some scenes are way too drawn out in the beginning. They crafted the film to the music. A unique method of film-crafting.
I did not know this, very cool comment. I need to read more about how they made this movie, especially the languages used. It seems like there's a mix of English and Italian throughout
At 7:06 you can see Lee Van Cleef’s mutilated middle finger. Despite fan theories of him losing it in a bar fight or car crash, he actually lost it building a doll house for his daughter.
also according to Wiki, he refused to have his nose fixed for "High Noon" and was relegated to a non speaking part as a result. Still had a great long run.. and you can see his epitaph online too, "Best of the Bad" !
Brenda Thom, "High Noon" is a classic, one of my favorite movies, yes his grave marker reads "Best of the Bad", once in a while I visit his resting place, I always bring him a gift, I filmed a video there, "GLOCK 19 VISITING LEE VAN CLEEF'S GRAVE" it is on my channel.
RIP Ennio Morricone, the legend :(.... There is no one else like him. His beautiful music will live on forever. He brought so much beauty to the movies, none of these scenes would be so memorable without his music. This will forever be one of the greatest endings to a movie and one reason is Ennio.
This scene in particular works so well because the music was recorded first, then the scene was shot to work in time with the score. Not unheard of, but very uncommon. The music really is what makes such a simple scene one of the best in cinematic history.
6:55 very subtle nod by blondie reassuring Tuco he won’t be shooting at him, Angel Eyes catches this and darts his eyes back and forth and chokes up and gulps realizing either way to his knowledge, he is getting gunned down
Well how about this, when Angel Eyes gets gunned down we see that Tuco has been shooting his duds at his direction also and never at Clint. Probably read the nod as a last collaboration (like the fake hanging scenes at the beginning).
Simply the greatest scene ever filmed in cinema history. This is one of those moments that could only be captured by the medium of film. You couldn't build this tension in a book or other storytelling method, it HAD to be shot on camera and presented this way for the scene to convey every emotion, every minute detail. The music, the wide shots, the closeups, everything comes together to create this binding moment that summarizes what the entire movie is trying to say. It's this moment that captures the full scope of the importance of film and the significance of the way it can be utilized to tell stories like no other medium can. That's why this is the greatest scene ever filmed, because it shows that cinema can do something that no other storytelling method can.
Certain videogames can do the same but they're pretty similar to movies considering cutscenes exist. But yeah I agree, nothing else can really match this.
You absolutely could build this kind of tension in a book, you would just do it in a completely different way. The way in which this movie does it is wholly unique to the film medium though.
Ever read a page turning book? I get what you said. This scene is awesome. However, reading a book is just as tense, and sometimes you have to put the book down, take a breath, pause.. Movies don’t allow that.. But as far as scenes go, you are spot on.
I agree that in such scenes cinema shows its uniqueness, but the words "greatest ever" devalue art. It's not a Guinness book. Don't get me wrong, I adore that standoff, its tension, eyes & hands close-up, everything you listed above, but there are many great movie scenes we can't compare with each other because of the different genres, meanings and emotions. I don't know... from Seven Samurai's flag hoisting to Barry Lyndon's card game seduction, from Potemkin's Odessa steps to Pulp Fiction's dance. Too different to compare.
Eli Wallach and his wife were theater actors. He often said it was never his ambition to be a movie star. He took movie roles to pay the bills so they could continue to act on stage. What a great talent!
Im 27 and this is one of the first movies i remember watching! The fact that it is a 60s movie and has such graphic scenes for not having cgi honestly makes it probably my favorite! Plus one of the most memorable lines, you see there are two types of people! Gets me every time😂
Nope, when he's on the train tracks he (Eli as it was a real train) was millimetres away from being hit on the head by a cast iron step. Then the acid the crew used to make the hessian bags easy to split was kept in a lemonade bottle. Eli took a swig thinking it was lemonade.
Frank Woods He was about to be assassinated in like the first minute of the film and a few minutes later he’s hanging from a rope. Later he gets almost beaten to death in a concetration camp and then jumps out of a moving train. Oh and he had to blow up a bridgd in the middle of a battlefield.
TallishOak its actually way below and i didn’t see it originally, i just thought of it and commented. If anything i did a different format of the joke...Imagine getting so upset over a pizza joke 😂
Sergio Leone took a scene where three men stare at each other and turned it into the most epic showdown in film history.
For two and a half minutes STRAIGHT.
If that isn't good directing, I don't know what is.
Lee van cleef
@@aaronkenna3502
Hell, the movie starts with 10 minutes of not a word spoken
It's like: This is where Conan te Barbarian with Schwarzenegger got it's inspiration from
@Nopadon Stapp this scene was all him
Fistfull of Dollars is the western remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo
The most upsetting thing about this scene is I'm never going to see it for the 1st time again.
Ha....I've thought that so many times about a movie. Decades after HIgh Noon, I mentioned I just watched it for the first time and a friend said something like "I wish I could see it for the first time again".
I just watched it for the first time an hour ago...
I just seen it for the first time
@@cashmoney3599 well done, hope you never forget
I still remember the first time I saw this. I was 10 years old and hated westerns. But my dad made me see this. At first I was like this is boring" then halfway I was like this is pretty good. and by the time this scene came on I was nail biting wondering who is gonna survive this.
Imagine trying to tell someone that there's a scene in this movie
where 3 men stare at each other for 5 minutes and it's awesome.
Well you can say, the music behind makes it 100x better
And it's the most tension filled scene of cinema history..... it's so amazing!!!
Or that there's a scene where a bandit is running in circles in a graveyard for around 4 minutes and that it's just as awesome.
i think only hipster artsy flim students would be the only ones who could appreciate a scene like this today(who was not born when this movie aired.
@@thewewguy8t88 completely untrue
Fun fact: The reason why Clint Eastwood got that famous stare is because he actually hated smoking - 'it always made his eyes tear up, so he squinted'😁
I heard he never blinked when shooting a gun
Here is another one: Sergio Leone famously said about Clint: “I like him, because he has only two facial expressions: one with the cigar, one without the cigar”.
He’s also allergic to horses
Squint Eastwood was his name..
Also that famous poncho was Clint's own poncho he brought on set, he wears it throughout all these movies and never washed it to add the effect of it being old and dusty, you can watch them in release order and it starts as a green colour and turns into a brown faded colour.
Tuco: One of the most scheming, conniving, double-crossing, back-stabbing, untrustworthy; but lovable characters of all time.
Yeah he really was a dirt bag
but in the best possible way
_”if you’re going to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.”_
Blondie betrayed him first. Before that, Tuco trusted him enough to risk getting hanged or shot.
Tuco made this movie what it is. An absolutely wild and over-the-top performance by Eli Wallach (who was Jewish, by the way).
In a straight up 1 one 1 gunfight Tuco woulda killed Blondie ...& Blondie knew this..!!!
Blondie: 😠
Angel Eyes: 😠
Tuco: 😳
The good 😑
The bad 😑
The ugly 😳
The realiest shit ever lmfao
lmao
Sus 😳
@@mewhenthewasyesthenwhy7486 amogus
One of the greatest movies of all time
One of the greatest endings of all time
One of the greatest soundtracks of all time
One of the greatest characters of all time
Thank you Sergio leone rest in peace
Thank you Ennio Morricone rest in peace
Thank you Clint Eastwood rise and shine
Also Eli wallach and Lee van cleef both for doing such a tremendous jobs portraying loveable despicable villains
@@seanchukwuezi3079 yes!!!
I m pretty suprised how you not wrote Lee Van Cleef (The Bad) And Eli Wallach (The Ugly) sadly we lost them too
@@kal-el8402 I haven't forgotten about them.
One of the greatest characters
Now you can say 'Thank you Clint East Wood rest in peace' coz he's dead as a Dodo.
*One of the greatest movies of all time...Anybody else notice that Lee Van Cleef was missing part of a finger? He lost it building a playhouse for his daughter. This movie is an absolute Masterpiece of 1960's Filmography*
Oh wow, thank you i was always curious about that
He actually lost it sawing wood, when he was helping his boss build a house.
@@williamwilliam5066 Nope. Pretty sure it was a shark attack off the coast of Nova Scotia.
@@merlinambrosius2554I've seen somebody being interviewed on the movie's dvd extras saying it was a bar fight lol
I think the only thing we can agree about is he’s missing a finger
Blondie outsmarted them.. He knew Tuco's gun was empty so he only had to think about shooting Angel Eyes.. But Angle Eyes and Tuco had to think about shooting two targets.. What a movie..
Kelvin Austin actually he unloaded his gun the night before this
spiderboy2718 that’s what he’s saying, he knew the gun was empty...because he unloaded the night before.
Notice Tuco fans his gun's hammer in the direction of Angel Eyes. He was never going to shoot Blondie.
Well, he wasn't going to shoot Blondie first at least.
All three parts of this series were epic.
Blondie: -.-
Angel Eyes: -.-
Tuco: O.O
Tuco: o.o
Clint Eastwood in everything -.-
I'd say angle eyes is more -`.´-
Hhhh Tuko stole the show
@@Miguel_morales99 lmao
Take a moment to appreciate that Clint Eastwood is still alive. A living legend
The fact that three guys staring at each other for six minutes has more tension, meaning, and is a far more intense climax than million dollar CGI fests is both a testament to Sergio Leone's directing abilities and the slow decline of cinema as an art form.
I can only agree.
Man I hate this unnecessary diss of cgi, it only opened the possibilities to many greater stories, cinema can still be an art and use cgi to accomplish things that weren’t possible before, it’s always up to the director to deliver
@@Deather2012 Yeah, comparing a CGI adventure/action/superhero/sci-fi film to a spaghetti western is like comparing a Rembrandt painting to a Tchaikovsky ballet...they have nothing to do with one another.
@@rikk319 I'm failling to see in which exact part did I ever compared The Good, The Bad and the Ugly with a CGI adventure/action/superhero/sci-fi film like at all.... I'm saying that just because a movie uses CGI it doesn't means that it can't be better than "cult" film with practical effects from 50 years ago, what makes a movie good is the plot and direction, and CGI opened many possibilities for storytelling that weren't possible before
@@Deather2012 I was agreeing with you.
Every other film director: "For the grand finale we are spending millions in a massive exotic scenario with hundred of extras, expensive CGI, explosions and lasers!!"
Sergio Leone: "I will put three guys staring at each other in silence"
Chad
@@eugeemz6591 a legend
To be fair it has a really epic final music
Not exactly, he had 5000 people build a fake cemetery in 3 days.
That's what had happen to the climax of Pacific Rim: Uprising. Nevertheless, this movie is pretty epic.
In centuries to come this movie will be regarded as a 'Mona Lisa' of motion picture history. The ultimate masterclass.
Will be weird to think in the future we will have had movies for CENTURIES. (1890s isn't that long ago, a CENTURY ago isn't as incredible as thinking this would someday be like Mona Lisa in terms of regard and age.)
Mona Lisa is citizen kane this movie is the old guitarist
Star wars will be regarded as the ‘Starry night’ of film
Tarantino’s fav movie. There is a piece of this movie in everything Tarantino does
@@PK-Radio nah, i dont think it will
57 years have passed since this film's release and the legend is still with us.
Imagine watching this masterpiece in theaters, and suddenly the score kicks in. Knowing you’re witnessing history in the making. Just wow
I saw it at the theater with my father in mid 90's at some dusty old cinema which played classic films sometimes. I was a kid and it blew my mind, the movie made me love the western genre.
Awesome vibes.
5th of July 2020: Italian composer Ennio Morricone dies at age 91. RIP. His music helped to turn this into one of the most epic scenes ever. Wouldn't be the same without it.
2 weeks later and I’m revisiting it, now I’m sad 😞
Wait. So hes older than clint eastwood cuz clint is 90 years old
😥
@@zherean42069 yes
@@FernFolf who
Can everyone just take a second to wrap their heads around the fact that this movie is over 50 years old. It’s actually crazy how well this movie holds up.
Cooooool
It's 53 years old right now.
I don't get your point, movie don't age..
I don't understand these kind of comments....why wouldn't the movie hold up?? Just why? You can find movies made 100 years ago that hold up. And you can find movies released last year that suck...the age of a movie has nothing to do with its quality
@@sparrow56able Yes it kinda does, the technology during the age contributes to the special effects of the movies, the cgi of some movies, the directing styles, and even the ability to create even the smallest realistic details were all learned over time.
This will always be one of the greatest scenes in film, in my opinion. The amount of information that's being conveyed without a single word, and with almost no movement, is amazing.
thats actually something i never really think about, ofcourse the music and cinematography is perfect but I never tend to think about the lack of dialogue
@@wooarc And that's the brilliance of it. So much of the characters' thoughts are being communicated to each other (and the audience) through small eye movements and slight hand movements that you don't even notice that there's been no dialogue for several minutes.
I love at around 4:25 when the horns peak, the shot zooms out to show the three of them standing in that circle.
It's like they're three gladiators in an old coliseum about to fight to the death, surrounded by a audience of dead men in their graves, just watching.
"It's like they're three gladiators in an old coliseum about to fight to the death, surrounded by a audience of dead men in their graves, just watching"
Beautiful words. I wonder if that is just what Sergio Leone had in his mind.
I love the "ptchew" sound effect of every gun in westerns before the late 70's.
@Steve Campbell Well, better late than never, right?
pew
@72 ventura how ain't you dead
Yes
Rdr has the same sound effects it’s so perfect
Ennio Morricone took this scene to a whole new level with his music
The music build this scene perfectly, gold.
Simply incredible. Lacking words to describe actually.
I couldn't agree more! And the trumpet solo was super! Does anyone know who that was?
@@schneeweedchen9220 Same. Some things are frankly beyond words and the collective artistic genius of this climax is one of them.
@@hsh1950 Michele Lacerenza, Francesco Catania - trumpet , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good,_the_Bad_and_the_Ugly_(soundtrack)
My late father introduced this film to me as a kid, words cant describe the feeling it gives me rewatching this scene.
May he R.I.P.
This video confirms to me that 40% of the success of this film is due to the music, not only because of how it is composed, but because they knew where to place it, every time there is a shocking scene or that captures attention there is a piece of music or sound effect that makes you feel even more excited, this in the ephemeral moments, but in the moments of longer duration, there are complete songs that make you feel more immersed in the movie, since you are not only interested in what you see, If not, these scenes and audios are so well combined that it is impossible to miss the musical setting, simply very ingenious, Sergio and Ennio were geniuses, and Clint knew how to embody their ideas
Almost every great film has great music with it,
Interesting Fact: The skeleton found by Tuco inside the wrong coffin at Sad Hill Cemetery, was a real human skeleton. A deceased Spanish actress who wrote in her will she wanted to act even after her death.
Edit: Rip Ennio Morricone 1928-2020 Thank you for creating some of the greatest soundtracks in history.
No kidding
interesting that Tuco is also the name of the character from Breaking Bad.......reference to this film maybe??
@@RichWeigel nah it's just a Spanish name that they decided to choose
UliGon That's neat
Fun fact, dark humor, or both? Any way you say it, at least the skeleton is in a casket, rather than in a closet...
minimum words..maximum impact..
easily one of the coolest scene
the music equals thousands of words
+goodman2050 INDEED!
THE TENSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone wanna dual?
spins the chamber cylinder
This is one of the greatest scenes in cinematic history. I get chills every time
Absolutely magnificent…no one can make a movie with such intensity as Sergio Leone..Eli Wallach should have received an Oscar for his performance, scene stealer every time. To put these three great actors together in one movie was pure genius.
Sergio Leone, an Italian who taught westerns to Americans
In realtà Leone ha descritto il Mezzogiorno attraverso il West. Tutta la trilogia del dollaro è impregnata delle tematiche verghiane.
Dude...You owned America with this comment. And I am an American.
I’ve never been so mad at a comment that I totally agree with.
Greatest gift from Italy. Thank you Sergio Leone.
Kevin Bautsch You think THIS is the greatest gift from Italy?! pizza
First time I saw this was in a film class. The other students in front of me were bitching about how long this scene was, which only made me love it even more.
Probably because there weren't flashy explosions and fkn sky high tsunamis. Modern audiences don't appreciate well crafted films from this time.
@@notablesquid968 lower attention span from social media addiction is the reason for that
@@kingaditya-pubgmandmore3644 That's why modern action films execute action scenes poorly. Because there is no build up or tension before. It's just people walking around then all of a sudden a fkn huge ass gorilla jumps out if the ground and throws truck into anskyskraper.
@@notablesquid968 lmao
@@kingaditya-pubgmandmore3644 Micheal bay style 😎
Hundreds of films are made a year but realistically you will only get 2 or 3 films a year that will still hold up after 10 years. What adds to the greatness of this is that the older it gets the more appreciation it receives. If your younger than 57 you never knew this film on release but your here and you recognize true cinema when you see it.
This is, without a doubt, the greatest scene in cinema
No plot holes, no dialogue, no bad acting, everything here is top-notch.
the tension in the air right before they shot was so well done.
Except how did angel eyes sneak into a union camp and become like a top guard? Otherwise though agree it’s my favorite western of all time.
@@alexsnower5743 because hes fucking angel eyes. he gets what he wants
@@MV-wn6kc lmaooo agreed
@@alexsnower5743 he was already a union soldier i think, he just becomes angel eyes as a side hustle
I am still in awe of this film in 2019, people must have shat their pants when this came out in 1966
Unfortunately, people in the 60s has different kind of opinion about the movie
Nah the critics didn't like it cuz it was an Italian western. Stupid really
Lol. People back then didnt like these type of movies. Scarface when it came out was received horrible. But time heals everything.
Leperd Dion but it made a ton of money didnt it?
@@gabrielc.martel4386 Yeah it made a lot of money but was not very well received by the critics so I guess the audience loved it
There was an incredible amount of talent before and behind the camera to create this magical masterpiece of a scene: Sergio Leone (Director), Ennio Morricone (Composer), Michele Lacerenza (Trumpet Player), Carlo Simi (Set Designer), Nino Baragli (Cutter) and, of course, the holy trinity Eastwood / Wallach / Van Cleef.
Great western movie. Rip Lee Van Cleef and Rip Eli Wallach. Clint Eastwood over 90 years old and still active. Don't mess with Clint Eastwood. Thanks for posting this.
Blondie is a genius. By not writing anything on the stone, he wins if he dies and if he lives.
tbf the other 2 could have deduced it was a grave near near the arch stanton grave and would eventually find the gold, so the real trick was making the other 2 think they won't find the gold without the name
@@MrCrystalm8 at least Angel Eyes would be curious on the Grave named "Unkown". Tuco can't read
But it’s also the answer. He keeps his honor
Blondie was also moves ahead from Angel Eyes and Tuco though -
He not only knew where the gold was buried but he also eliminated Tuco from the equation when it came to the shootout removing his bullets which was GOOD on Tuco's part for not going for Blondie otherwise Tuco would have been left hanging.
Angel Eyes should have shot Blondie as soon as he "wrote" the name on the stone.
When you put together a genius of film director, 3 legendary actors, a music artist, you get this.
One of the greatest films in cinema history.
I agree
Love the film but that is a stretch
@@ShifuCareaga not at all
doin my man dirty by just calling him a "music artist" more like fuckin VISIONARY
legend is legend man u can't get that.
Everything about this film is apsolute perfection. The scenes, the actors, the music, the environment
The part where Tuco’s hand is slowly coming down towards his gun is the greatest 3 seconds in film history. I don’t know why but that tiny fraction of the scene is so amazing.
Lee Van Cleef was just so damn good in these movies. His eyes are phenomenal.
Didn’t he start life as an accountant?
Yes, definitely no over-acting. He acted only with his eyes. Intense!
And was a WW2 vet Apparently. He served in the navy as a radar man 2nd class I believe
Angel eyes !
You could say his eyes were “angelic”
Not long ago I read that, the reason Angel Eyes 4:02 walked facing ALWAYS Tuco was because he knew that he would shoot him in the back at the first chance. He turned his back to Clint Eastwood because he KNEW Eastwood would never shoot him from behind on a duel. Just... Masterpiece
It is such minute details that makes this movie an absolute masterpiece. Another observation I made was Angel Eyes walked to the left as the Sun would be behind him.
@@sandeepsreehari4687 What’s the advantage with that
@@Bon-mr5mf that gives angel eyes the advantage because the other guys have to look into the blinding sun when they look towards his direction
I wondered about that, makes sense
@@sandeepsreehari4687 I also assumed that Angel Eyes saw Tuco has a gun hanging on his right side, so he went to stand on his left...
One of the best scenes in movie history, and not a single word spoken. Just speaking with their eyes. And the music...just wow
u sleept to much on ur daddys ear , haha
The only scene you can watch 3 men staring at eachother for 5 minutes and not get bored
When Clint Eastwood flips over his pancho, u know bodies are gonna drop.
Yeah... You know... Because he shoots first...
thegrandfinale2 he gets that from the dead soldier from the previous scene
Oh yeah.
thegrandfinale2 have you not seen this movie?
Factz
What I would give to watch this movie with my old man one more time.
Agree
I watched this with my dad last night...didnt see the significance in it till i read your comment.
Cherish the moments.
me too man. me too.
Carlo Salvi I feel for you. I wouldn’t wish the death of a parent on my worst enemy. If you believe in heaven or something like that, hopefully you two will be together again and watch this movie over and over again until the end of time.
Couldn't agree more with you...
Someone posted in an earlier comment that this is cinema gold. It certainly is. The wide shot that's established at around 4:28 is held for :34 (seconds). I can't recall seeing shots that long and building tension like that in today's film making. This is classic and probably the best tension building scene in the history of cinema. The direction, editing and acting is perfectly timed and executed. LOVE IT!
From a time when people had attention to pay something.
I watched this movie for the first time yesterday. I'm not sure if or how my opinion on it will change, but after watching it once, I can safely say this is one of the best movies I have ever seen.
💯 bravo.
Best part about this scene is that even if Angel Eyes killed Blondie. He wouldnt know what to do with a blank rock
I'm pretty sure he's smart enough to dig the next grave over named Unknown
I don't know. He wrote nothing for a reason. But me personally, I'd pick it up and be looking for an unmarked grave. Not one that said unknown.
@@TheFirstCurse1 Well that's cause you watched the movie.
Just dig up every grave. It might take a month but you're set for life.
@@a.hollins8691 True
Tuco is so focused, but he is the only one with an unloaded gun 😂
I would call that not focused, but afraid.
it makes sense for him to be known as "the ugly"
But he doesn’t know it’s unloaded.
@@trevertravis8963 But we do 😅
@@s0012823 he’s just… vigilant
Still the greatest ending to any western and possibly any movie ever made. I seen this about a million times and still get goosebumps!!! For a Few Dollars more is also up there!
I love the symbols in this scene! The "heavenly" trumpet in the music. The "battle arena" surrounded by the dead "spectators" watching. And the duel itself is about life and dead, so the cemetery is the perfect place for that!
The dead and the ravens as witnesses to the final battle between the forces of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory. The raven sounds at the music break were real by the way.
@@Kunsoo1024 yes, you are right😉
The music box chimes from A Few Dollars More...
Serio my levas chale batos....... En aerio
6:37
Angel Eyes' fingers inch towards his gun.
Blondie glances his way.
Angel Eyes' fingers inch away from his gun.
Wow the details
its like he knows he's a better shot.
nice catch
That eye of yours 👍🏻
Lee Van Cleef is missing the end of his middle finger @7:05 He lost it in some kind of accident.
This scene is so beautiful that after more than 40 years (I saw it for the first time when I was a boy) of watching it countless times it still manages to choke me up. It makes me choke up, not because it’s somehow sad, no. It chokes me up because it’s sheer perfection of storytelling. It’s like sitting around a campfire at night and having a master storyteller weave an intricate web of a story that ensnares you and makes you wish you could listen to the story forever.
Had to pause "Black Adam" to come and enjoy this masterpiece again.
Yeah same
Yeah
Over 5 Minutes of closups of eyes, hands, fingers, faces, guns, eyes again establishing shot, hands moving closer to guns, faces getting freaked, eyes looking left and right quicker and quicker. The tension building up to infinity because we all know all three of them are outstanding at shooting. And all that is being carried by the genious music of one Ennio Morricone. What is there not to love about this piece of art.
Truth
Marvel fans would never like it
@@bulldogsbob What has Marvel to do with this? This is a western, Marvel movies ain't. It's like saying "Matrix" fans won't like "Sophie's Choice". Apples n oranges, pal.
@@pepsi-mcrib Marvel fans would never like this film because it is not a roller coaster ride.
@@bulldogsbob Of course it is. Just like any roller coaster ride, this movie has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
70% of the move: awesomeness
20% of the move: Tuco looking for the grave
10% of the movie: the final standoff
LOL I forgot how amazingly long the Tuco looking for the grave bit was! It was like a CZcams poop. Someone should make a ten hour loop
Tyler Barton pretty much. Even the longest scenes of not much happening are great because of the amazing music played over them.
No 10% are metallica fans
The other percent are bad parts of the movie.
Tyler Barton exactly
They took 5 minutes of film and made it into the most intense experience of your life. Credit where credit is due, this is masterful.
Hands-down greatest movie ever made especially the bridge scene, then the dying soldier scene, the ecstasy of gold scene, then the final standoff absolutely EPIC. Moves me every time.
It's funny because Blondie had no reason to be concerned about Tuco. Because his gun was empty the whole time. He only had to draw before Angel Eyes.
yes. meanwhile, angel eyes had to worry about drawing on two guys! lol.
It’s nice that Tuco aimed at Angel eyes though
Blondie always knew he couldn't work with Angel Eyes, or dare turn his back on him. Tuco, he could outwit. When Blondie taunts Tuco during the standoff with a wink - That's the moment when Angel Eyes really starts to sweat. If he moves on Tuco, Blondie has him. If he moves on Blondie, Tuco has him. If he throws his hands up and backs out - They'll both move on him. Can't have a snake tracking and ambushing them later
Angel Eyes was starting to suspect that something was wrong, so Blondie looked back at Tuco to appear that he was going against both.
@@adamnugent2137 he didn’t complain though lol
basically no words and no action in the 10 minutes long finale of a 3h long movie. And yet you can watch this over and over again and never tire of it. How many could pull that off?
Musical score takes over the dialog thus no words are necessary. A masterpiece under every aspect. Master Morricone is epic!
@Martin Persson I really want to watch Chernobyl! Hope to get HBO sometime after school's over!
Sergio, Kubrick and Coppola blow me away with how much they communicated in any given scene. The slow shots, the quick pans and the perfect music here make for some amazing "action" despite no shots being fired for most of the scene. You're really made to feel everything these characters are feeling. Its an epic conclusion to an epic film.
it's the genius of Sergio Leone to give so much life to a scene without a single line of dialogues !
The beauty of old movies 6 minutes of just standing in the circle, incredible music, intense moment, no words spoken, long shots
... and the rising tension!
I cut school to see it in the eighties. -What I saw was worth every second of my time away from school. -And I get high from the scene and the music more today than I did yesterday. ---Absolute mastery in film history. -When some cut out of life at times, it may not have proven to be worth it, but God Damn, it was worth the try.
I love it at 5:10 when Ennio’s music stops and you hear the crows who are impatient for their dinner. They know death is imminent.
Yes I love the movie detail such a great movie
"You see, in this world there are two kinds of people, my friend. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig...". One of the best lines in film history.
You could watch this scene a hundred times and still see something new. Truly is a one of a kind masterpiece. I wonder if the cast and crew knew at the time they were making pure gold!?
Apparently Clint didn’t like a lot of Sergio’s style of directing. Said he dragged scenes out for too long. Respect to Clint, but he never came close to making a masterpiece like this on his own. I love High Plains Drifter and Unforgiven, and they work well, but yeah…nothing touched this.
Cast and the crew maybe did not. Interesting question.
Sergio and Ennio sure did.
Appearantly Clint and Eli were just there to collect a paycheck. They couldn't speak italian or spanish and just couldn't wait to get over with it.
No they really didn't
This movie was bashed and disliked by audiences and critics alike upon release
They called it derivative, a collection of overplayed western cliches and a movie that showed how foreigners didn't understand what American old West culture was about
It took a very long time before public perception swung back around the other way and praise finally started to be given and it turned into a masterpiece
As a film editor, I must say: Sergio Leone's movies are masterclass on editing. Well, they're a masterclass in a lot of things, but talking about editing specifically, every editor must know at least The Good The Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West
What does it mean in editing?..thank you
@@brilandmuja6713 Well, I would say that the main thing is the way he imposes rhythm. The stand-off in the end of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly for instance, he builds tension by cutting through the characters increasing the closeness of the shot while decreasing the time.
There's a concept in editing that it seems kind of out of use nowadays that the "image need its time"... mind that this is very subjective and it's kind like poetry in a way (Andrei Tarkovsky wrote a nice book about it), the beginning of Once Upon a Time in the West is a good example of that in my opinion and it's an excellent example of how to build tension with calmness before the action.
Also in Once Upon (...) there's a scene I love in which Harmonica meets Cheyenne for the first time. Until then we were presented to both characters' musical motives (leitmotivs) in separate, but when Cheyenne literally throws the light till Harmonica, parts of both of their motives meet together.
No one slides into a grave like Lee Van Cleef. Epic style points.
Lee van queef 😘😌😏💨
Lê văn clề
Bad guys are good at dying
He gave us 30 years of great movies even though he died young at 64.
He is missed and so are them years.
That's what you call AWESOME acting! He didn't even need a stuntman... 😝
As much as everyone talks about the main theme and Ecstacy of Gold, this song is my favorite from this movie. R.I.P. Ennio Morricone
I’m going to be honest with you, I completely agree
If you guys want to know, the song is called “the trio”
@@thebeansinthebackofyourfri8999 you saved my life
;)
i agree, plus its better (somehow) on the album as there is an additional trumpet solo at the bit when just before they shoot
Lee Van Cleef dressed exactly like one of his childhood heroes in two movies “Spaghetti Westerns’ Wyatt Earp. Lee’s costume is a perfect copy of the famous outfit worn by Wyatt Earp in 1881 in Tombstone Arizona. Lee provided his own clothes as did Clint Eastwood. Lee even used a 12 inch barrel Colt like the one used by Marshall Earp. The Hat, Coat, Shirt, Vest, Tie with Tie pin, Boots, Guns every detail is a Tribute to the most famous Lawman-Marshall in American history.
words cannot express how much I love Eli Wallach. his eyes say absolutely everything
Yes yes yes 100% agree his acting is superior! Tuco is alive, he is a real person
past tense, the guy died a while ago
June 24, 2014 (aged 98)
the best actor in this film tuco 💙
Now they’d cancel him for being a Jew playing a Mexican.
*I only saw this movie today. Oh my god, what a masterpiece!*
Where can I watch it? Netflix, Hulu, or anything else?
@@bingobongo781 i watched it on youtube
@@Dr_Lad All this years and you watched this masterpiece lately? Anyways at least you have watched it. One of my all time favourites have watched since i was a kid until this day it still send shivers down my spine
@@bingobongo781 Netflix in us
Were you born in the 2000s?
2:28 to 8:36 - not a single dialogue ... yet almost everything expressed. Gold! Never get bored of this.
I’ve watched this favorite film of mine countless times and I always feel the same upon its completion..a masterpiece! Villains and antiheroes, Morricone’s score (The Trio) combined with Leone’s wide and close shots make the Mexican standoff at Sad Hill one of cinema’s finest moments.
grazie Sergio! 🇮🇹 💪🏻
Nothing is rushed. It takes exactly as long as it needs to, the music takes you every step of the way, the camera brings you in. When suddenly the music cuts out, you think it'll happen, .... it hasn't even started. You can return to this scene 10 times, a 100 times, and it still remains sheer perfection in every beat.
A musical journey like that in a movie is so underrated. Sometimes the movie just has to chill and let the soundtrack do the work.
I love that the music being written before the film was, err, filmed, added to the film. The actors listened to the music on set as they acted, so the pacing with some of the scenes is perfect.
Also might be why some scenes are way too drawn out in the beginning. They crafted the film to the music. A unique method of film-crafting.
I did not know this, very cool comment. I need to read more about how they made this movie, especially the languages used. It seems like there's a mix of English and Italian throughout
smart ppl heard of multiplayer games not how do norths multiply?
You’re entirely correct. I still want someone to edit the song into a loop, and use the cuts to turn the scene into a loop, and run it for 10 hours.
What a masterpiece
You shouldn't be here Arthur, go help Dutch with his plan.
Darth Vader And you shouldn't be here either.
@@DarthVaderTheSithLord And you need to find the Rebel base and those Death Star plans before the Imperial officers start badmouthing you again.
you’re right oh yeah yeah
Oh boy I've seen you every where.
The best song on the greatest soundtrack of all time. A masterpiece. Long live Mr. Morricone.
You will never EVER make a better ending to a movie. The music is perfect. The scene perfect
At 7:06 you can see Lee Van Cleef’s mutilated middle finger. Despite fan theories of him losing it in a bar fight or car crash, he actually lost it building a doll house for his daughter.
also according to Wiki, he refused to have his nose fixed for "High Noon" and was relegated to a non speaking part as a result. Still had a great long run.. and you can see his epitaph online too,
"Best of the Bad" !
Brenda Thom, "High Noon" is a classic, one of my favorite movies, yes his grave marker reads "Best of the Bad", once in a while I visit his resting place, I always bring him a gift, I filmed a video there, "GLOCK 19 VISITING LEE VAN CLEEF'S GRAVE" it is on my channel.
@@Mike_AR_15 thank you, that's awesome.
Yes, but I'll bet you that's one tough doll house. Winder if his daughter still has it. For sentimental value.
i never realized his finger after watching this movie and video a thousand times wow very intersting
after almost 3 hours of watching them overwhelmingly searching for the gold, it all comes down to this: the ecstasy of gold.
what a masterpiece.
3:15 for the director's cut
The ecstacy of gold is actually the song that plays when tuck runs around all the Graves. This song is called the trio which I much prefer
One of the best Western movies ever made.
Blonde feared angel eyes. That's why he took tuco out of the equation. One less worry
Man that music is a 10/10
RIP Ennio Morricone, the legend :(.... There is no one else like him. His beautiful music will live on forever. He brought so much beauty to the movies, none of these scenes would be so memorable without his music. This will forever be one of the greatest endings to a movie and one reason is Ennio.
Hear Hear!
Grand Master Of The Order as far as I'm concerned.
RIP Great One
Yup. People say jaws is the best movie score ever. I vote for this.
This scene in particular works so well because the music was recorded first, then the scene was shot to work in time with the score. Not unheard of, but very uncommon. The music really is what makes such a simple scene one of the best in cinematic history.
Hi Arthur
Arthur
This is literally the greatest movie ending of all time
2001? Usual Suspects?
Bingham Guevara no I’m pretty sure this is it
Jaws ending was great, obviously not this level of great
But i still think both of them has the same level of suspense
Blade Runner (1982) is the best, this is probably the 2nd best.
Concordo plenamente
This is way better than all those superheroes battles they make nowadays
Watched this movie for the first time last night. It was amazing.
6:55 very subtle nod by blondie reassuring Tuco he won’t be shooting at him, Angel Eyes catches this and darts his eyes back and forth and chokes up and gulps realizing either way to his knowledge, he is getting gunned down
That's fucking amazing
Wow, I did not catch that ! This made the scene EVEN BETTER !!! Thanks
correct, as soon as he gave that nod it was over for angel eyes
Dude. I have watched this scene a hundred times and never noticed that. That is awesome.
Well how about this, when Angel Eyes gets gunned down we see that Tuco has been shooting his duds at his direction also and never at Clint. Probably read the nod as a last collaboration (like the fake hanging scenes at the beginning).
Leone and Morricone do more in 3 minutes than most do in an entire film, let alone in an entire career.
Is just genius work
The way the organ enters at 0:59 chills my bones
Easily one of the greatest movies ever made and this scene is perfection with the music
The rewatchability of this scene tends to infinity
My Dad who is 97, is in a home now. I take my iPad in and he watches and listens to the movies and soundtrack. Absolutely Brilliant!
That's so sweet Alice you are a beautiful person 💕
Eli Wallach should have gotten an Oscar for his role as Tuco
Then ten years later, Blondie met a man who looked and acted exactly like Angel Eyes, but he didn’t question it.
This is not a scene
This is A MASTERPEICE
But this is a scene
Wrong
Master scene
Simply the greatest scene ever filmed in cinema history. This is one of those moments that could only be captured by the medium of film. You couldn't build this tension in a book or other storytelling method, it HAD to be shot on camera and presented this way for the scene to convey every emotion, every minute detail. The music, the wide shots, the closeups, everything comes together to create this binding moment that summarizes what the entire movie is trying to say. It's this moment that captures the full scope of the importance of film and the significance of the way it can be utilized to tell stories like no other medium can. That's why this is the greatest scene ever filmed, because it shows that cinema can do something that no other storytelling method can.
Certain videogames can do the same but they're pretty similar to movies considering cutscenes exist. But yeah I agree, nothing else can really match this.
You absolutely could build this kind of tension in a book, you would just do it in a completely different way. The way in which this movie does it is wholly unique to the film medium though.
Nice essay A+ (Jokes aside your right)
Ever read a page turning book?
I get what you said. This scene is awesome.
However, reading a book is just as tense, and sometimes you have to put the book down, take a breath, pause..
Movies don’t allow that..
But as far as scenes go, you are spot on.
I agree that in such scenes cinema shows its uniqueness, but the words "greatest ever" devalue art. It's not a Guinness book. Don't get me wrong, I adore that standoff, its tension, eyes & hands close-up, everything you listed above, but there are many great movie scenes we can't compare with each other because of the different genres, meanings and emotions. I don't know... from Seven Samurai's flag hoisting to Barry Lyndon's card game seduction, from Potemkin's Odessa steps to Pulp Fiction's dance. Too different to compare.
Eli Wallach and his wife were theater actors. He often said it was never his ambition to be a movie star. He took movie roles to pay the bills so they could continue to act on stage. What a great talent!
Im 27 and this is one of the first movies i remember watching! The fact that it is a 60s movie and has such graphic scenes for not having cgi honestly makes it probably my favorite! Plus one of the most memorable lines, you see there are two types of people! Gets me every time😂
That shovel throw was the closest Tuco came to dying in the movie 😂
It always makes me cringe how close that shovel comes to his hand...
@@grendelum oh yeah no kidding. One right near his head and the other near his fingers!
Nope, when he's on the train tracks he (Eli as it was a real train) was millimetres away from being hit on the head by a cast iron step. Then the acid the crew used to make the hessian bags easy to split was kept in a lemonade bottle. Eli took a swig thinking it was lemonade.
@@Djarra yeah but that isn't "in the movie"
Frank Woods He was about to be assassinated in like the first minute of the film and a few minutes later he’s hanging from a rope. Later he gets almost beaten to death in a concetration camp and then jumps out of a moving train.
Oh and he had to blow up a bridgd in the middle of a battlefield.
Girls: Aw girl you can have the last slice of pizza!
Boys:
how could this joke be used anymore? it's dead stop using it
Vertical someones cranky :(
Seb bruh ur stolen joke is literally right below the original
TallishOak its actually way below and i didn’t see it originally, i just thought of it and commented. If anything i did a different format of the joke...Imagine getting so upset over a pizza joke 😂
Seb I cummed