Just saw this again and had to ask a few questions-
No one noticed the huge explosion?
No one tried to stop the guys with the barrels?
No one was able to use a rifle from the second floor?
There was only one way in & out?
And you gave her a land mine? Really?
Well, it seemed appropriate at the time.
- Ron Swanson
Just watched it tonight for maybe the fourth time and I remember wondering the same thing on previous viewing.
THERE IS NO BACKDOOR?
I think Roger Ebert discusses this aspect of Leone's films in his review of TGTBTU. He talks about how the frame limits how the characters can interact with each other.
In these opening frames, Sergio Leone established a rule that he follows throughout "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." The rule is that the ability to see is limited by the sides of the frame. At important moments in the film, what the camera cannot see, the characters cannot see, and that gives Leone the freedom to surprise us with entrances that cannot be explained by the practical geography of his shots.
There is a moment, for example, when men do not notice a vast encampment of the Union Army until they stumble upon it. And a moment in a cemetery when a man materializes out of thin air even though he should have been visible for a mile. And the way men walk down a street in full view and nobody is able to shoot them, maybe because they are not in the same frame with them.
...Sergio Leone established a rule that he follows throughout "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." The rule is that the ability to see is limited by the sides of the frame. At important moments in the film, what the camera cannot see, the characters cannot see...
Several scenes reminded me very much about a video game. The way Clint arrived at the town, the narrator he met in the opening scenes. The way he got his gun and dynamite as Equipment from an NPC. The sounds of Silvanto being tortured as Clint crawls over the ground.
shareThat scene was dramatically over-acted which knocked my score down a bit. Totally telegraphed what was to come!
shareHey, It's a 60's movie. No one questioned anything on film back then.
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