The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (original title: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo) is a 1966 Italian epic Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach in their respective title roles.
Plot[]
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
Relation with Inglourious Basterds[]
- The beginning of the film is similar to that of Chapter One: both Landa and Angel Eyes ("the Bad") are seen arriving from a distance in similarly composed shots
- A farm is the first building seen and the close-up of a sweaty tanned man face is shown
- The farmer's kid announces the father that a suspicious man (Angel Eyes/Hans Landa) has arrived, with the said man joins the table with the farmer
- Both men are looking for someone who's hiding under a different name
- Both men claim to be good at finding people, and are in it for personal gain/money
- The heart in both sequences is also echoed in that both are tense interrogation sequences: Landa talking to LaPadite and Angel Eyes with the Mexican farmer
- A person escapes a shooting by bursting through an opening (Tuco through window, Shosanna through a grate) and run away, while one of the gunmen point a gun at said person, but the runaway escapes alive
- A man laying in bed is killed through a pillow
- Both stories take place during an important war (American Civil War and World War II)
Trivia[]
- Aldo Raine's hanging scar is a reference to the character Tuco, one of the three protagonists of the film, who managed to avoid death by hanging on several occasions.
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