If Clint Eastwood was 'The Good', Lee Van Cleef 'The Bad',who was 'The Ugly'?
"film's production, including acting as narrator. Joe Dante and Leone were also approached to direct and produce the film respectively. Eventually, however, the project was vetoed by Leone, as he did not want the original film's title or characters to be reused, nor did he want to be involved in another Western film. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (, ) 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. Its screenplay was written"
"the Ugly"". The films catapulted Eastwood and Van Cleef into stardom. Film historian Richard Schickel, in his biography of Clint Eastwood, believed that this was the best film in the trilogy, arguing that it was ""more elegant and complex than ""A Fistful of Dollars"" and more tense and compressed than ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly""."" Director Alex Cox considered the church scene to be one of ""the most horrible deaths"" of any Western, describing Volontè's Indio as the ""most diabolical Western villain of all time."" The man many call Manco (Eastwood) is a bounty killer who makes a"
"Lee Van Cleef Clarence Leroy Van Cleef, Jr. (January 9, 1925 – December 16, 1989), was an American actor best known for his roles in Spaghetti Westerns such as ""For A Few Dollars More"" and ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"". Hatchet-faced with piercing eyes, he had declined to have his nose altered to play a sympathetic character in his film debut, ""High Noon"", and was relegated to a non-speaking outlaw as a result. For a decade he was typecast as a minor villain, his sinister features overshadowing his acting skills. After suffering serious injuries in a car crash,"
"series, as well as inspiring the gunslinger personality of the former. Lee Van Cleef Clarence Leroy Van Cleef, Jr. (January 9, 1925 – December 16, 1989), was an American actor best known for his roles in Spaghetti Westerns such as ""For A Few Dollars More"" and ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"". Hatchet-faced with piercing eyes, he had declined to have his nose altered to play a sympathetic character in his film debut, ""High Noon"", and was relegated to a non-speaking outlaw as a result. For a decade he was typecast as a minor villain, his sinister features overshadowing"
"Cleef. ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" was marketed as the third and final installment in the ""Dollars Trilogy"", following ""A Fistful of Dollars"" and ""For a Few Dollars More"". The film was a financial success, grossing over $25 million at the box office, and is credited with catapulting Eastwood into stardom. Due to general disapproval of the Spaghetti Western genre at the time, critical reception of the film following its release was mixed, but it gained critical acclaim in later years. ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" is now seen as one of the greatest and most"
"Clint Eastwood (song) ""Clint Eastwood"" is a song by British virtual band Gorillaz, released as the first single from their self-titled debut album in March 2001. The song is named after the actor of the same name due to its similarity to the theme music of ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"". The song is a mix of electronic music, dub, hip hop and rock. The verses are rapped by Del the Funky Homosapien, portrayed as a blue phantom in the video, while the chorus is sung by Damon Albarn (2D in the video). It peaked at number 4"
"Clint Eastwood (song) ""Clint Eastwood"" is a song by British virtual band Gorillaz, released as the first single from their self-titled debut album in March 2001. The song is named after the actor of the same name due to its similarity to the theme music of ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"". The song is a mix of electronic music, dub, hip hop and rock. The verses are rapped by Del the Funky Homosapien, portrayed as a blue phantom in the video, while the chorus is sung by Damon Albarn (2D in the video). It peaked at number 4"
"Ford movie ""The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"". In 1963, he appeared on ""Perry Mason"" (episode: ""The Case of the Golden Oranges""). That same year, he appeared in ""The Day of the Misfits"" on ""The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters"". In 1965, Sergio Leone cast Van Cleef, whose career was still in the doldrums, as one of the two protagonists, alongside Clint Eastwood, in ""For a Few Dollars More"". Leone then chose Van Cleef to appear again with Eastwood, this time as the primary antagonist, Angel Eyes, in the now seminal Western ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" (1966). With"
"Clint Eastwood filmography Clint Eastwood is an American film actor, director, producer, and composer. After beginning his acting career exclusively with small uncredited film roles and television appearances, his career has spanned more than 50 years. Eastwood has acted in several television series, most notably ""Rawhide"". His role in the eight-season series led to his leading roles in ""A Fistful of Dollars"", ""For a Few Dollars More"", and ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"". Eastwood has appeared in over 50 films and has starred in 42 films, including ""Hang 'Em High"", ""Play Misty for Me"", ""Dirty Harry"", ""Escape from"
"a cast of Italian, Spanish, German, and American actors, sometimes a fading Hollywood star and sometimes a rising one like the young Clint Eastwood in three of Sergio Leone's films. Over six hundred European Westerns were made between 1960 and 1978. The best-known Spaghetti Westerns were directed by Sergio Leone and scored by Ennio Morricone, notably the three films of the ""Dollars Trilogy"" (starring Clint Eastwood as the main character)—""A Fistful of Dollars"" (1964), ""For a Few Dollars More"" (1965) and ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" (1966)—as well as ""Once Upon a Time in the West"" (1968, starring"
"its plot and character elements borrowed from Leone's film. In his introduction to the 2003 revised edition of his novel """", Stephen King revealed that the film was a primary influence for the Dark Tower series, and that Eastwood's character specifically inspired the creation of King's protagonist, Roland Deschain. ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" is the last film in the Dollars Trilogy, and thus does not have an official sequel. Following the film's release, Leone went on to direct two more Westerns (""Once Upon a Time in the West"" and ""Duck, You Sucker!"") and was involved in the"
"the Bad and the Ugly"" (1966). Aside from Westerns and the science fiction films, three of his early major roles were in noir films, ""Kansas City Confidential"" (1952), ""Vice Squad"" (1953) and ""The Big Combo"" (1955). Van Cleef appeared six times between 1951 and 1955 on the children's syndicated Western series ""The Adventures of Kit Carson"", starring Bill Williams. He was cast three times, including the role of Rocky Hatch in the episode ""Greed Rides the Range"" (1952), of another syndicated Western series, ""The Range Rider"". In 1952, he was cast in the episode ""Formula for Fear"" of the Western"
"which resulted in a successful lawsuit by Toho. ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" is considered a prequel, since it depicts Eastwood's character gradually acquiring the clothing he wears throughout the first two films and because it takes place during the American Civil War (1861–1865), whereas the other two films feature comparatively more modern firearms and other props. For example, Lee Van Cleef's character in ""For a Few Dollars More"" appears to be a Confederate veteran who has come down in the world, and a graveyard scene in ""A Fistful of Dollars"" features a gravestone dated 1873. The only"
"and turned Eastwood into a major film star. All three films received bad reviews, and marked the beginning of a battle for Eastwood to win American film critics' respect. Judith Crist described ""A Fistful of Dollars"" as ""cheapjack,"" while ""Newsweek"" considered ""For a Few Dollars More"" as ""excruciatingly dopey."" Renata Adler of ""The New York Times"" said ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" was ""...the most expensive, pious and repellent movie in the history of its peculiar genre."" ""Time"" magazine drew attention to the film's wooden acting, especially on the part of Eastwood, though a few critics such as"
"""Clint Eastwood"", is named after the famous movie actor. The theme from ""The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly"" can be heard periodically throughout the song; this was one of several Sergio Leone-directed Italian westerns of the late 1960s in which Eastwood plays a character with no name. Years after the release of this album, it was revealed that the track ""Starshine"" has an alternative version, which features Luton-based rap group Phi Life Cypher. This version is not available on any releases, but it is available on the Phi Life Cypher SoundCloud channel and also on the video-sharing website YouTube."
"Director's Cut Awards 2009 Asian Film Awards 2009 Baeksang Arts Awards 2009 Grand Bell Awards The Good, the Bad, the Weird The Good, the Bad, the Weird () is a 2008 South Korean action western film directed by Kim Jee-woon, starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, and Jung Woo-sung. It was inspired by Sergio Leone's ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"". The film premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and had a limited release in the U.S. on April 23, 2010. It received positive reviews with critics praising the action, the cinematography and the direction. The film marks the"
"The Ugly The Ugly is a 1997 New Zealand horror film, the first feature directed and written by Scott Reynolds. The film starred Paolo Rotondo, Rebecca Hobbs, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, and Roy Ward. The film is about a psychiatrist who is meeting with a serial killer to determine whether or not he has been successfully cured. They delve into a journey through his past and his victims, and through this ""The Ugly,"" a distorted allusion to The Ugly Duckling, is revealed. It was nominated for best film awards at festivals in New Zealand, Portugal and the United States. The film takes"
"The Ugly The Ugly is a 1997 New Zealand horror film, the first feature directed and written by Scott Reynolds. The film starred Paolo Rotondo, Rebecca Hobbs, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, and Roy Ward. The film is about a psychiatrist who is meeting with a serial killer to determine whether or not he has been successfully cured. They delve into a journey through his past and his victims, and through this ""The Ugly,"" a distorted allusion to The Ugly Duckling, is revealed. It was nominated for best film awards at festivals in New Zealand, Portugal and the United States. The film takes"
"in the United States until 1967. ""A Fistful of Dollars"" opened in January, ""For a Few Dollars More"" in May and ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" in December 1967. Some twenty minutes were cut from ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"", particularly many scenes involving Lee Van Cleef, although Eastwood's remained intact. The trilogy was publicised as James Bond-type entertainment. All three films were successful in American cinemas, and turned Eastwood into a major film star in 1967, particularly ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"", which eventually collected $8 million in rental earnings. However, upon release,"
"Ugly"", Leone decided to retire from Westerns and desired to produce his film based on ""The Hoods"", which eventually became ""Once Upon a Time in America"". However, Leone accepted an offer from Paramount Pictures to provide access to Henry Fonda and to use a budget to produce another Western film. He recruited Bertolucci and Argento to devise the plot of the film in 1966, researching other Western films in the process. After Clint Eastwood turned down an offer to play the movie's protagonist, Bronson was offered the role. During production, Leone recruited Donati to rewrite the script due to concerns"
"Man with No Name The Man with No Name () is the protagonist portrayed by Clint Eastwood in Sergio Leone's ""Dollars Trilogy"" of Spaghetti Western films: ""A Fistful of Dollars"" (1964), ""For a Few Dollars More"" (1965) and ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" (1966). He is easily recognizable due to his iconic poncho, brown hat, tan cowboy boots, fondness for cigarillos and the fact that he rarely talks. Since he never received an official name in any of the films, he is conventionally known as ""the man with no name"". When Clint Eastwood was honored with the American"
"attack. Throat cancer was listed as a secondary cause of death. Van Cleef's body was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Hollywood Hills, California, with an inscription on his grave marker referring to his many acting performances as a villain: ""BEST OF THE BAD"". Lee Van Cleef's characters in the Sergio Leone movies inspired the creation of the characters Elliot Belt of the Lucky Luke comic album ""The Bounty Hunter"", and Cad Bane of the Star Wars franchise. The band Primus has a song about Lee Van Cleef on their album ""Green Naugahyde"". The ""Warcraft"" universe sports the villain"
"he himself should accept a part offered to him to act in a similar Western, ""Once Upon a Time in the West"" (1968), which would also be directed by Leone. Wallach said ""Yes, you'll enjoy the challenge,"" and Fonda later thanked Wallach for that advice. Wallach and Eastwood became friends during the filming of ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" and he recalled their off-work time together: ""Clint was the tall, silent type. He's the kind where you open up and do all the talking. He smiles and nods and stores it all away in that wonderful calculator of"
"The Ugly American (film) The Ugly American is a 1963 American adventure film directed by George Englund, written by Stewart Stern, and starring Marlon Brando, Sandra Church, Eiji Okada, Pat Hingle, Judson Pratt and Arthur Hill. It is based on the 1958 novel ""The Ugly American"" by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer. The film was released on April 2, 1963, by Universal Pictures. American ambassador Harrison MacWhite (Marlon Brando) travels to a Southeast Asian country beleaguered by rival factions but MacWhite views the political situation only in the simplest terms: as a struggle between communism and democracy. By the time"
"The Bad and the Beautiful The Bad and the Beautiful is a 1952 American melodrama that tells the story of a film producer who alienates all around him. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli and written by George Bradshaw and Charles Schnee. It stars Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame and Gilbert Roland. ""The Bad and the Beautiful"" resulted in five Academy Awards out of six nominations in 1952, a record for the most awards for a movie that was not nominated for Best Picture nor for Best Director. In 2002, the United"
"the 2006 Deauville Asian Film Festival. In 2008, Kim wrote and directed ""The Good, the Bad, the Weird"" (2008), his tribute to spaghetti westerns, westerns and western action films. He would re-team again with Song Kang-ho (who played ""The Weird"") as well as Lee Byung-hun (who played ""The Bad"") in the film. The film takes place in 1930s Manchuria and chronicles the struggles of the three main characters in trying to find a piece of treasure. The film won an Achievement in Cinematography Award from the 2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, won Best Supporting Actor for Jung Woo-sung (the ""Good"")"
"release. Voice actor Simon Prescott substituted for Lee Van Cleef who had died in 1989. Other voice actors filled in for actors who had since died. In 2004, MGM released this version in a two-disc special edition DVD. Disc 1 contains an audio commentary with writer and critic Richard Schickel. 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"
"Clint Eastwood's few ""amigos"" in the town of San Miguel. He later appeared in westerns such as ""I Giorni dell'ira"" (1967) opposite Lee Van Cleef, ""Anda muchacho, spara!"" (1971) and ""Dust in the Sun"" (1973) etc. However, after the Spaghetti western era of the late 1960s, in the 1970s he returned to appearing in primarily Spanish films and in contrast to the roles which dominated much of his career did appear in several Spanish comedy films often with slapstick humor as that genre grew popular in Latin cinema during this period. He died in Gran Canaria on May 16, 1980,"
"Van Cleef). In the end he turns out to also be an avenger. In the following years there was a deluge of Spaghetti Westerns with a pair of heroes with (most often) conflicting motives. Examples include: a lawman and an outlaw (""And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave""), an army officer and an outlaw (""Bury Them Deep""), an avenger and a (covert) army officer (""The Hills Run Red""), an avenger and a (covert) guilty party (""Viva! Django""), an avenger and a con-man (""The Dirty Outlaws""), an outlaw posing as a sheriff and a bounty hunter (""Man With the Golden Pistol"")"
"portrayed by Clint Eastwood. The storyline is set after the events of the sequel ""The Good, The Bad and The Ugly"". Later that year he wrote the creator-owned series ""Absolution"" for Avatar Press, which focuses on a superhero actions after he develops post-traumatic stress disorder. In 2010 Gage wrote the original graphic novel ""Area 10"", a crime thriller about an emotionally disturbed New York police detective who, while on the case of a bizarre serial killer, begins to exhibit psychic abilities after his head is impaled by a screwdriver. In 2011 Gage was approached to write ""Angel & Faith"", the"
"the action film ""The Fate of the Furious"", and starred in ""Overdrive"", a thriller film which was shot in Paris and Marseille. In 2018, he starred as Nate Lambert in the science fiction follow-up ""Pacific Rim Uprising"". In August 2016, Scott opened up to the media about a previous car accident on September 24, 2014, that killed his girlfriend at the time, Jewel Brangman. Scott bears a striking resemblance to his father. This was noted when he dressed up as the character played by Clint Eastwood in ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" for a Halloween charity event in"
"The Good, the Bad, the Weird The Good, the Bad, the Weird () is a 2008 South Korean action western film directed by Kim Jee-woon, starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, and Jung Woo-sung. It was inspired by Sergio Leone's ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"". The film premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and had a limited release in the U.S. on April 23, 2010. It received positive reviews with critics praising the action, the cinematography and the direction. The film marks the second collaboration between actor Lee Byung-hun and director Kim Jee-woon who previously collaborated on the"
"City"" (1950), in gangster films such as ""The Godfather"" (1972), and in Western films, especially the Revisionist Western and Spaghetti Western. Lead figures in these westerns are often morally ambiguous, such as the ""Man with No Name"", portrayed by Clint Eastwood in ""A Fistful of Dollars"" (1964), ""For a Few Dollars More"" (1965) and ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" (1966). Antihero An antihero or antiheroine is a central character in a story who lacks conventional heroic qualities and attributes such as idealism, courage and morality. Although antiheroes may sometimes perform actions that are morally correct, it is not"