The Good The Bad and The Ugly

The Good The Bad And The Ugly 1966 by Alice-Bauer


The world's greatest soundtrack. No more words are needed to cover that. Me and my flatmate came up with an idea for a drinking game towards the start of the film where every time the "wah wah waaaah" was on you'd have to take a shot and an hour and a half in the count was fourteen and we decided that was a ridiculous idea because you'd probably have alcohol poisoning by the end of the film.

An incredible film such a strong performance by Clint Eastwood. I originally wanted Tommy to be Clint Eastwood cool, I said that to the voice actor but it just wasn't working, it worked when I said it to the guy who Voiced Verne, but no one can do the Clint thing like Clint does. I also think that Tommy has his own character where he's cool but he has emotions, and he needs to express them and still be the hero at the same time, he's also a bit like me, actually I think I might of subconsciously based the hero on myself, how egotistical, with the one line about being a lean mean grilling machine, I literally laughed by myself for forty minutes after thinking of calling the bad guy Roy Foreman after George Foremans brother and sticking those two lines in.

What amazed me about this film, is when I was watching it I thought there was some really bad voice synchage to footage but it turns out that because it's a sketty western, some of the actors are actually speaking italian so some of the actors are dubbed. I decided I didn't know much about sketty westerns so I researched into them. Thought I'd mention it, to be honest I've tried to look at as many as possible different types of western's because there is so many, so that I can put together a classification of what makes a western. With this being the first one my findings will come later.

http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Introduction

What is a Spaghetti Western?
The spaghetti western was born in the first half of the sixties and lasted until the second half of the seventies. It got its name from the fact that most of them were directed and produced by Italians, often in collaboration with other European countries, especially Spain and Germany. The name ‘spaghetti western’ originally was a depreciative term, given by foreign critics to these films because they thought they were inferior to American westerns. Most of the films were made with low budgets, but several still managed to be innovative and artistic, although at the time they didn’t get much recognition, even in Europe. In the eighties the reputation of the genre grew and today the term is no longer used disparagingly, although some Italians still prefer to call the films western all’italiana (westerns Italian style). In Japan they are called Macaroni westerns, in GermanyItalowestern.

NB: This film inspired the Graveyard Scene, and when animating and designing I will refer back to this film. I also really want to watch more Clint Eastwood films so they will also come along in the Research and Development section.