Clint Eastwood reprises the role of opportunist cow-boy hero character ‘the man with no name’. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly was the third and most ambitious part (made on a budge of $1.2 million) of Leone’s ‘Dollars Trilogy’. Ennio Morricone’s iconic soundtrack lifted the visual moments to incredible levels. His popularity among Western genre fans even overshadows the masterful works of John Ford.
Sergio Leone as one of the greatest film-makers. Even those who aren’t big fans of the Western genre continue to champion Mr. It bestowed a fresh set of visual vocabulary. Tarantino calls it ‘the greatest achievement in the history of cinema’). The groundbreaking narrative technique, which was rejected as an empty exercise in style during its release, is referenced by many great film-makers (Mr. Today, this sun-baked western masterpiece with a trio of mystifying drifters happens to be in a countless number of ‘best of cinema’ lists.
Fifty years back, when the film released popular press found it amusing, but also dubbed it as ‘meaningless’. The mention of the word ‘spaghetti western’ immediately makes us think of the name The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) and the visual of complex anti-heroes spreading out around the circular arena of a huge graveyard.
