My favorite movie from my favorite director with Clint Eastwood I can't ask for more. The best western ever made. Undisputed masterpiece. And all this, being nothing more than this genius of Italian cinema.
It is very difficult to find fault with the film. It is a summary of virtues that go from the stage to the performance, passing through the and of course the music. All this going through the most basic cinematographic part of Leone: excessive ambition for money. It is the epicenter of a great scenario:
Finding treasure at any cost, no matter who or what to kill.
His characters are the expression of a stereotype of classic western protagonists, only here the line is never clear.
The good kills, the ugly kills and the bad
Like all Leonian characters, these three are guided by the human instinct for survival, whether he or they are. Perhaps by comparison with the other westerns of him, we observe a difference with the character of Tuco.
While Sentencia and Rubio live in the present, we have no past or future, as the film progresses, we realize that there are internal demons that his brother, the monk Pablo awakens.
Tuco is the one who wins the viewer's sympathy for his buffoon character:
"I like big guys like you, because they make a lot more noise when they fall"
The film is also a strong critic. Both the union and the conferration are presented as vulgar aggressors, and it is worth highlighting the role of Sentence.
Something Tarantino says about the duel scene is the best in all of movie history.
For 3 minutes, we only see 3 men watching, nervous, scared or the most cold, all with a perfect montage. Until everything is resolved with a single shot.
Morricone's music is excellent throughout the film, but particularly in the final duel, it takes on an almost hypnotic rhythm.