In Reply to: Finally watched The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, starring Eli Wallach... posted by clarkjohnsen on December 31, 2007 at 10:27:29:
The thing Leone understood, and had the budget to make, was that these sprawling tales of good and evil needed length. To develop the argument, as the music critic wd say.
So they move along slowly but inexorably - like Olmi in the Tree of Wooden Clogs.
Funny that it took an Italian to fully realise the epic possibilities in the old west.
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- What a cracking bunch of films they are - k-k-k-kenny 15:12:15 01/01/08 (21)
- RE: What a cracking bunch of films they are - Tom Brennan 09:30:55 01/02/08 (2)
- I guess I prefer the euro version - k-k-k-kenny 15:28:44 01/02/08 (1)
- "... Leone brought them something extra." - Agreed. - mpathus 17:24:02 01/02/08 (0)
- Olmi and Leone? Gimme a friggin....' - tinear 16:30:54 01/01/08 (17)
- RE: Olmi and Leone? Gimme a friggin....' - jamesgarvin 09:43:10 01/02/08 (11)
- Get dictionary, look up, "ironic." nt - tinear 14:58:28 01/03/08 (7)
- RE: Get dictionary, look up, "ironic." nt - jamesgarvin 09:15:23 01/04/08 (6)
- I don't know why I bother. - tinear 11:39:17 01/04/08 (4)
- RE: I don't know why I bother. - jamesgarvin 13:30:44 01/04/08 (3)
- You're either thick or drunk. - tinear 16:07:32 01/04/08 (2)
- RE: You're either thick or drunk. - jamesgarvin 17:02:57 01/04/08 (1)
- I was wrong. - tinear 18:16:34 01/04/08 (0)
- Maybe he meant *iconic* vision?... Makes about as much sense... nt - clarkjohnsen 09:29:26 01/04/08 (0)
- RE: Olmi and Leone? Gimme a friggin....' - Tom Brennan 11:39:03 01/02/08 (2)
- RE: Olmi and Leone? Gimme a friggin....' - jamesgarvin 14:29:53 01/02/08 (1)
- Enough, already! You win, and not only do I agree, but always have. Moreover... - clarkjohnsen 09:28:13 01/04/08 (0)
- Homer and Tolstoy both had valid things to say - k-k-k-kenny 04:46:19 01/02/08 (4)
- NO irony in either of them. Leone made farces. Don't you feel - tinear 07:27:07 01/02/08 (3)
- Well - I MIGHT be drawing a bit of a long bow, you know - k-k-k-kenny 14:57:13 01/02/08 (2)
- Okay, good points. But in closing I'd say Leone ain't no Olmi, either. nt - tinear 17:24:31 01/02/08 (1)
- Agreed - k-k-k-kenny 21:17:05 01/02/08 (0)