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Don't drink water straight after being severely dehydrated/heat stroke/almost dying.

Find workshop to teach me how to clean and reassemble guns.

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Joe Lazarus

$200,000 in 1862, which is when this movie place, is equivalent in purchasing power to about $5,957,227.72 today!

Michael Hartsell

Dawn this was the war between the states known as the "American Civil War".

Darrell Palmer

Dawn, the standard issue rifle used by the soldiers in the Civil War fired a .57 caliber soft lead bullet that translates to approximately 14mm in diameter. When that bullet strikes an arm or a leg, it destroys it. That is why you see so many soldiers with missing limbs in this movie. It was very realistic.

Darrell Palmer

This is absolutely my favorite of the three films. The amount of detail is incredible. The first two films were all about the central conflict. This film brings in the rest of the country. So here we have these three characters tied to a central story while all around them the country is at war with itself and while our three characters have no interest in the outcome of the war, they are constantly interacting with it while trying to maintain an advantage over the other two characters.

Bartleby

Did you recognize the boy riding the mule around in a circle at the beginning of the movie on rewatching and editing Dawn? He was the same little boy from “For a Few Dollars More” who was giving Eastwood tips on strangers in the town. A couple years and a bit of a growth spurt, but it was the same boy.

Bartleby

And if you wanted to think of the three films as a trilogy in chronological order, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly takes place earliest in the timeline. The civil war was still active. With then Fistful of Dollars, and For a Few Dollars More than following chronologically. Lee Van Cleef’s character in Dollars More was a Civil War veteran. And even though everyone jumped down your throat about the films not being a trilogy, by the end of shooting “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” the director Sergio Leone pretty much conceded the films as being a trilogy. Which was why he included a scene where you see The Man With No Name acquiring his poncho. That this film takes place earliest in the timeline because we can see the civil war is still active. The poncho he’s sporting would be the one he adorns in the following two films.

Bartleby

That timeline of events isn’t completely accurate. When Clint made A Fistful of Dollars, he was still under contract with the TV studio making Rawhide. The contract stipulated he couldn’t make any movie in America while under contract with the show. As the spaghetti westerns were being made in Europe and European productions, his making Fistful did not violate his contract.

Dean J

Now that you know who Eli Wallach is, if you want to see more of him, you might try Baby Doll (1956), The Misfits (1961) or How the West Was Won (1962)

Darrell Palmer

The music is so iconic and has come to define what a spaghetti western should sound like, but it is even better performed live. The Danish National Symphony Orchestra is famous for performing this music live and you can enjoy that on YouTube. If you search YouTube for “The Good the Bad and the Ugly Orchestra” you will find several videos including many reaction videos. I would love to see you react to their performance.

Lee Pitman

Awesome reaction, Dawn. Sometimes Called The Man With No Name Trilogy, it has always been marketed as The Dollars Trilogy (at least here in the UK) on all home media packaging (VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray etc). Although not Leone's intention, the three films came to be considered a trilogy following the exploits of the same so-called "Man with No Name" (portrayed by Clint Eastwood, wearing the same clothes and acting with the same mannerisms). The "Man with No Name" concept was invented by the American distributor United Artists, looking for a strong angle to sell the films as a trilogy. 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 1874. Clint Eastwood wore the same poncho through all three "Man with No Name" movies without replacement or cleaning. When Tuco is having his handcuffs cut off on the train rail, writer and director Sergio Leone insisted that Eli Wallach perform the stunt, assuring him that while it would be loud and scary, it would be totally safe. Wallach was unaware of the low-hanging step rails, which missed his head by a few inches. In the wide shot, the step that would have hit his head is visible. When the bridge is blown up, and Tuco and Blondie are hunkered down behind sandbags waiting for the explosion, Clint Eastwood's career came within two feet of ending prematurely. A fist-sized piece of rock shrapnel from the explosion slams into the sandbag right next to Eastwood's head (watch it in slow motion to see the rock flying in). According to Eli Wallach's autobiography "The Good, the Bad and Me", Sergio Leone picked him for the role of Tuco not because of his role as Calvera in The Magnificent Seven (1960) as most people assumed, but rather because of his brief role as a Tuco-like bandit in How the West Was Won (1962), in particular the railroad scene.

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tried to watch along gave up dont know what version your watching you should say at start also good idea if you do a 5 sec countdown or timer