Dying soldier scene


Very moving and shows Blondie is the only one out of the three with true compassion.

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Agreed. Sergio picked an actor with a great face to portray the dying soldier.

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He reminded me of a younger Eastwood. Maybe that was intentional and Blondie saw himself in the kid.

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I am formerly known as HillieBoliday....Member since May 2006

Very good point!


"OOhhhooo....I'M GON' TELL MAMA!"

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The kid playing the soldier is the most European-looking Confederate soldier I've ever seen! I sort of lol'd at how he obviously comes from Italy or maybe Spain (the actor's name is Axel Darna.) The scene is very sad and moving anyway.

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hat scene if full of unnamed emotions...no word can describe how brilliant it is

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In that scene, fair one, but like half an hour or so before this was the same bloke who knocked out two medics and rolled a dying/seriously injured soldier off his stretcher. Not quite so compassionate there when it comes to the smell of $$ under his nostrils. (Still a legendary moment though).


Thank you for pointing that out. I kept scratching my head throughout the entire movie on why Blondie was called "the Good" when the best thing I can say about him is that he isn't as bad as some of the others in the movie.

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All he can do for the Young soldier is give him one last cigar puff and he does it, I like him even more after that scene, to me tuco would be going through his pockets before he was already dead and Angel eyes probably wouldn't have even got off his horse just taken one glance and rode on?

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All he can do for the Young soldier is give him one last cigar puff and he does it, I like him even more after that scene, to me tuco would be going through his pockets before he was already dead and Angel eyes probably wouldn't have even got off his horse just taken one glance and rode on?


At least Tuco and Angel Eyes were much more consistent with their descriptions in the movie, whereas everything about Blondie (even the name) seemed to be a walking contradiction.

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It's a beautiful scene, my favourite in a movie chock full of 'em.

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And of course this is where the (nearly new) poncho comes from we see in subsequent films...


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"And of course this is where the (nearly new) poncho comes from we see in subsequent films... "

Hence this is effectively a prequel ??

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Yes, it's a prequel.



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It's true that Blondie becomes our "sympathetic" leading man because he shows the most compassion for those who are near death, like the young soldier in the burned out church or the wounded captain who dreams of blowing up the bridge.

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