63 films - Ennio Morricone et Sergio Leone (photo Louis Monier*) Ennio Morricone, compositeur majeur de musiques de films, a rejoint Sergio Leone, disparu en 1989. Composed by Morricone, it is one of his most established works within the film's score. [107], In 1975, Willie Colón with Yomo Toro and Hector Lavoe, released an album titled The Good, the Bad, the Ugly. "[85] Roger Ebert, who later included the film in his list of Great Movies,[86] retrospectively noted that in his original review he had "described a four-star movie, but only gave it three stars, perhaps because it was a 'Spaghetti Western' and so could not be art. '"[27] An avid history buff, Leone said, "I had read somewhere that 120,000 people died in Southern camps such as Andersonville. Disc 2 contains two documentaries, "Leone's West" and "The Man Who Lost The Civil War", followed by the featurette "Restoring 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly'"; an animated gallery of missing sequences titled "The Socorro Sequence: A Reconstruction"; an extended Tuco torture scene; a featurette called "Il Maestro"; an audio featurette named "Il Maestro, Part 2"; a French trailer; and a poster gallery. [12] The film's climax, a three-way Mexican standoff, begins with the melody of "The Ecstasy of Gold" and is followed by "The Trio" (which contains a musical allusion to Morricone's previous work on For a Few Dollars More). '"The good, the ugly, the bad"') is a 1966 Italian epic Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood as "the Good", Lee Van Cleef as "the Bad", and Eli Wallach as "the Ugly". [39], Wallach and Eastwood flew to Madrid together and, between shooting scenes, Eastwood would relax and practice his golf swing. [88] At least one scene that was re-inserted had been cut by Leone prior to the film's release in Italy, but had been shown once at the Italian premiere. Son père réalise le premier western italien, La Vampire indienne en 1913, dans lequel sa mère tient le rôle de l'Indienne. 34 vues, 10 films - [87], This DVD was generally well received, though some purists complained about the re-mixed stereo soundtrack with many completely new sound effects (notably, the gunshots were replaced), with no option for the original soundtrack. The total budget was eventually $1.2 million. On 12 May 2009, the extended version of the film was released on Blu-ray. Behind his cold and stony stare is a cynical mind powered by a dubious morality. [87], Disc 1 contains an audio commentary with writer and critic Richard Schickel. [113][114][115], The genre expanded and became an international sensation with the success of Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars, an adaptation of a Japanese Samurai movie called Yojimbo. Cet Espagnol installé aujourdhui à Béziers a accompagné les westerns les plus fameux de Sergio Leone et joué les plus grandes partitions d'Ennio Morricone. The American punk rock band The Vandals' song "Urban Struggle" begins with the main theme. Le compositeur de Sergio Leone, Ennio Morricone, est décédé Ses musiques de western, du «Bon, la brute et le truand» à «Il était une fois dans l'Ouest», resteront dans les mémoires. [70] This all culminates in the film's final set-piece which takes place in the cemetery. 1 472 vues, Haut et court !! [110] The genre is unmistakably a Catholic genre, with a visual style strongly influenced by the Catholic iconography of, for instance, the crucifixion or the last supper. Russ Hunter writes that the film will “stress the formation of homosocial relationships as being functional only in the pursuit of wealth”. [102] In 2014, Time Out polled several film critics, directors, actors and stunt actors to list their top action films. "The Ecstasy of Gold" is the title of a song used within The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. It is shown in Angel Eyes through his attitudes in the film and his tendency for committing violent acts throughout the film. Sergio Leone est le fils de Vincenzo Leone dit Roberto Roberti, pionnier du cinéma italien réduit au chômage du fait de son opposition au fascisme1, et de l'actrice Bice Waleran (Edwige Valcarenghi de son vrai nom). Also, in the documentary "Reconstructing The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", what looks to be footage of Tuco lighting cannons before the Ecstasy of Gold sequence appears briefly. 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Les musiques des films de Sergio Leone. 31 841 vues, 56 films - This page was last edited on 15 February 2021, at 16:41. [37] Eastwood banished Marsh from having any further influence in his career, and he was forced to sack her as his business manager via a letter sent by Frank Wells. [117], With a greater sense of operatic violence than their American cousins, the cycle of Spaghetti Westerns lasted just a few short years, but before "hanging up its spurs" in the late 1970s, it completely rewrote the genre. Unlike earlier cowboy heroes, Eastwood's character constantly smokes a small cigar and hardly ever shaves. He can be touching with all that tenderness and all that wounded humanity. Son père Mario, trompettiste de jazz, l’initie à plusieurs instruments et lui apprend le solfège. The plot revolves around three gunslingers competing to find a fortune in a buried cache of Confederate gold amid the violent chaos of the American Civil War (specifically the New Mexico Campaign in 1862), while participating in many battles and duels along the way. 32 224 vues, 28 films - Lost footage of the missing Socorro Sequence where Tuco continues his search for Blondie in a Texican pueblo while Blondie is in a hotel room with a Mexican woman (Silvana Bacci) is reconstructed with photos and unfinished snippets from the French trailer. The jumping part went as planned, but Wallach's life was endangered when his character attempts to sever the chain binding him to the (now dead) henchman. ”, “ Ceci n'est pas un film, c'est un opéra, plein de sable, de sang, de bruits et de fureur. [21], Filming began at the Cinecittà studio in Rome again in mid-May 1966, including the opening scene between Eastwood and Wallach when Blondie captures Tuco for the first time and sends him to jail. ”, “ Pas de trois sur une scène à la démesure du far-west. Even the character considered by the film as 'The Good' can still be considered as not living up to that title in a moral sense. "[82] To this day, Leone's effort to reinvigorate the timeworn Western is widely acknowledged. The distinct sound of guitarist Bruno Battisti D’Amorio can be heard on the compositions 'The Sundown' and 'Padre Ramirez'. Tuco, transporting a dehydrated Blondie, finds a Confederate camp whose occupants tell him that Father Ramirez's monastery is nearby. I was not ignorant of the fact that there were camps in the North. Eastwood, Van Cleef and Wallach spoke English, and were dubbed into Italian for the debut release in Rome. For example, when he kills Stevens he also kills his son. [78], In 2002, the film was restored with the 14 minutes of scenes cut for US release re-inserted into the film. Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach were brought back in to dub their characters' lines more than 35 years after the film's original release. This was Leone's signature technique, using long drawn shots interspersed with extreme close-ups that build tension, as well as develop characters. They need to clear a way to the cemetery and succeed in doing so. The main theme, resembling the howling of a coyote (which blends in with an actual coyote howl in the first shot after the opening credits), is a two-pitch melody that is a frequent motif, and is used for the three main characters. [55] Although the score for the film is regarded as among Ennio Morricone's greatest achievements, he utilized other artists to help give the score the characteristic essence in which resonates throughout. [105], Quentin Tarantino paid homage to the film's climactic standoff scene in his 1992 film Reservoir Dogs. [63], The main theme, also titled "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", was a hit in 1968 with the soundtrack album on the charts for more than a year,[61] reaching No. Richard T. Jameson writes “Leone narrates the search for a cache of gold by three grotesquely unprincipled men sardonically classified by the movie’s title (Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach, respectively)”.[68]. [65], In popular culture, the American new wave group Wall of Voodoo performed a medley of Ennio Morricone's movie themes, including the theme for this movie. The films were so realistic, which had always seemed to be missing in the westerns of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, in the brutality and the different shades of grey and black. [14], Eastwood was not initially pleased with the script and was concerned he might be upstaged by Wallach. [62] The song is played in the film when the character Tuco is ecstatically searching for gold, hence the song's name, "The Ecstasy of Gold". [53] All three characters can be seen as anti-heroes, killing for their personal gain. Commissaire de l’exposition et grand spécialiste du réalisateur italien, Gian Luca Farinelli souligne l’importance du silence et des bruitages dans ses réalisations : « le silence lui permet de transformer le temps. [90], The following scenes were originally deleted by distributors from the British and American theatrical versions of the film, but were restored after the release of the 2004 Special Edition DVD. Il est décédé à l’âge de 91 ans l’été dernier et son œuvre est un continent. (Des déjà grands, d'autres en devenir), 209 films - Cruelty is shown in the character of Blondie in how he treats Tuco throughout the film. The trio stares each other down. The South Korean western movie The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008) is inspired by the film, with much of its plot and character elements borrowed from Leone's film. The only known recording of it is a live performance on The Index Masters. The film deconstructs Old West Romanticism by portraying the characters as antiheroes. Tuco places the body on the railroad tracks, waiting for the train to roll over the chain and sever it. They repeat the process in other towns until Blondie grows weary of Tuco's complaints and strands him in the desert. ANTARES60 Bon voilà moi c est Jimmy jeune juriste de 18 ans mais surtout mordu de final FANTASY et Kingdom HEARTS et de musique japonaises. 1 721 vues, 31 films - Upon returning to Baker he kills him too (fulfilling his title as 'The Bad'). «Ennio Morricone est immortel!» FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE - Compositeur de musiques de film souvent associé à Sergio Leone, Ennio Morricone est décédé ce lundi à … [45] Leone said that this scene was, in part, inspired by Buster Keaton's silent film The General. Leone, often forcefully, insisted on shooting scenes from many different angles, paying attention to the most minute of details, which often exhausted the actors. In 1862, during the American Civil War, a mercenary known as "Angel Eyes" interrogates former Confederate soldier Stevens, whom Angel Eyes is contracted to kill, about Jackson, a fugitive who stole a cache of Confederate gold. Tuco is initially elated to find bags of gold, but Blondie holds him at gunpoint and orders him into a hangman's noose beneath a tree. They travel toward Sad Hill, but their way is blocked by Union troops on one side of a strategic bridge, with Confederates on the other. The original Italian domestic version was 177 minutes long,[77] but the international version was shown at various lengths. [11], As an international cast was employed, actors performed in their native languages. In a negative review in The New York Times, critic Renata Adler said that the film "must be the most expensive, pious and repellent movie in the history of its peculiar genre. Blondie finds Tuco and the pair kill Angel Eyes' men, though Angel Eyes escapes. [89] MGM re-released the 2004 DVD edition in their "Sergio Leone Anthology" box set in 2007. At the same time, Grimaldi was trying to broker his own deal, but Vincenzoni's idea was more lucrative. Il était une fois dans l'Ouest est un film dont l'action se p… 4 on the Billboard pop album chart and No. He is seen to sometimes be friendly with him and in other scenes double-cross him and throw him to the side. If Wallach had stood up from his prone position at the wrong time, one of the jutting steps could have decapitated him. Auteur prolifique de plus de 450 musiques de films et productions télévisées de 1961 à 2018, il compose un record de 23 musiques de films rien que sur l’année 1968, record qu’il renouvellera en 1971 et aussi en 1972. Once there, after witnessing the wretched conditions of the survivors, he bribes a Confederate soldier (. They only wrote the first part. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly placed 52nd on their list. In these violent and troubled times, Spaghetti Westerns, with their antiheroes, ambiguous morals, brutality, and anti-Establishment themes, resonated with audiences. Vous, défricheur-euses iconoclastes ! Everyone draws, and Blondie shoots and kills Angel Eyes, while Tuco discovers that his own gun was unloaded by Blondie the night before. Bent on revenge, Tuco catches up with Blondie and force-marches him across the desert until Blondie collapses from dehydration. [67], Like many of his films, director Sergio Leone noted that the film is a satire of the western genre. [52] This builds up the tension and suspense by allowing the viewers to savor the performances and character reactions, creating a feeling of excitement, as well as giving Leone the freedom to film beautiful landscapes. [11] An example of this is how Tuco and Blondie blow up a bridge in order to disperse two sides of the battle. [49] Years later, Leone exacted his revenge upon Eastwood during the filming of Once Upon a Time in America (1984) when he described Eastwood's abilities as an actor as being like a block of marble or wax and inferior to the acting abilities of Robert De Niro, saying, "Eastwood moves like a sleepwalker between explosions and hails of bullets, and he is always the same—a block of marble. [9] Thus, all three of Leone's Dollars Trilogy films were released in the United States during the same year. It is this new approach to the genre that defined the revisionist western of the late ’70s and early ’80s; a movement started by this moral ambiguity of the Spaghetti Westerns, as well as a westerns placement in the context of historical events; both attributes defined and set by The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly.[116]. 7 090 vues, Seul-e à adorer un film. Par la suite, président des réalisateurs italiens, il réalise de nombreux fi… DISPARITION - Le chef d’orchestre est décédé à 91 ans. [33] Throughout filming, Eastwood regularly socialized with actor Franco Nero, who was filming Texas, Adios at the time. Wallach mentioned this in his autobiography[41] and complained that while Leone was a brilliant director, he was very lax about ensuring the safety of his actors during dangerous scenes. Wallach, and presumably the entire film crew, were not aware of the heavy iron steps that jutted one foot out of every box car. Alongside vocals, the song features musical instruments such as the piano, drums and clarinets. Heureusement Fonda traîne sa classe et Hill son charme ”, “ Par moments franchement désagréable, ce western mal fait n'a vu le jour que grâce à des financements multinationaux sur le seul nom de Leone ”, “ La grosse déception est que Leone n'applique pas à ce qui aurait pu être un western urbain les ficelles efficaces de ses opéras du far west ”, 3 films - ”, “ Rencontre fugace d'Eastwood et Kinski devant la caméra d'un génial italien. After getting the information he needs from Stevens he is given money to kill Baker (his employer). [74], In the United States, A Fistful of Dollars was released 18 January 1967;[75] For a Few Dollars More was released 10 May 1967 (17 months);[76] and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was released 29 December 1967 (12 months). All … [99] Mr. Showbiz ranked the film #81 on its 100 Best Movies of All Time list. [109] Most of the films were made with low budgets, but several still managed to be innovative and artistic, although at the time they did not get much recognition, even in Europe. [56] The only song to feature lyrics is 'The Story of a Soldier'; the lyrics were written by Tommie Connor. À suivre. Nobody was injured in the erroneous mistiming. Whatever the actual reason, all dialogue in the film was recorded in post-production. [104], The film was novelized in 1967 by Joe Millard as part of the "Dollars Western" series based on the "Man with No Name". As Blondie disappears over the horizon, Tuco furiously curses him. Sa musique, créée par Ennio Morricone, reste aujourd'hui célèbre. He, producer Alberto Grimaldi and Sergio Leone had no plans, but with their blessing, Vincenzoni pitched an idea about "a film about three rogues who are looking for some treasure at the time of the American Civil War". None of these scenes or sequences appear in the 2004 re-release, but are featured in the supplementary features. Réagissez en laissant un commentaire... “ Aucun doute, un ticket pour aller voir ce film vaut plus qu'une poignée de dollars. [83][92] The Good, the Bad and the Ugly has been described as European cinema's best representation of the Western genre film,[93] and Quentin Tarantino has called it "the best-directed film of all time" and "the greatest achievement in the history of cinema". The website's critical consensus reads, "Arguably the greatest of the spaghetti westerns, this epic features a compelling story, memorable performances, breathtaking landscapes, and a haunting score. A different instrument was used for each: flute for Blondie, ocarina for Angel Eyes, and human voices for Tuco. Bobby first of all is an actor, Clint first of all is a star. [46] The result is noticeable in the bad synchronization of voices to lip movements on screen; none of the dialogue is completely in sync because Leone rarely shot his scenes with synchronized sound. Blondie decides to destroy the bridge to disperse the two armies to allow access to the cemetery. As Tuco screams for mercy, Blondie returns into sight. Richard Aquila writes “The violent antiheroes of Italian westerns also fit into a folk tradition in southern Italy that honoured mafioso and vigilante who used any means to combat corrupt government of church officials who threatened the peasants of the Mezzogiorno”.[69].