News culture A cult film can go wrong: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly available on Amazon with Clint Eastwood missed a huge mistake

Culture news A cult film can go wrong: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly available on Amazon with Clint Eastwood missed a huge mistake

When we talk about cinema and westerns, it’s hard not to immediately think of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Released in 1968, the last film in Sergio Leone’s “Dollar Trilogy” tells the story of three gunslingers who, during the Civil War, are in search of a missing crate of dollars. If we find Eli Wallach in the role of the Brute and Lee Van Cleef in that of the Ugly, the general public especially remembered Clint Eastwood who plays the Good guy of the title. While the 94-year-old American actor has a career spanning more than 70 years, this film remains one of the best known in his filmography even though it was released almost 60 years ago. And yet, despite all its qualities, the feature film is not free of flaws, at least from a technical point of view.

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A film not free from false connections

In the world of cinema, when an element that has nothing to do there is in the image, we call it a false connection. Whether it is a reflection of the technical team, extras looking at the camera or even an element that is not in the right place from one shot to another, all these kinds of small details are the subject of a series of programs called Faux Raccords from our colleagues at Allociné. No film escapes the gaze of Michel and Michel and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was also entitled to its episode. If we find small errors like a wanted poster taken from another film, a shadow that moves when it shouldn’t or the firing pin of a revolver that goes up twice, it’s nothing compared to this error there.

A beautiful anachronism!

If you are watching France 3 this Wednesday, you may have taken the opportunity to rewatch The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. But if you are particularly observant, you may have noticed a strange detail at 2 hours, 28 minutes and 6 seconds of the film. During this sequence during which Blondin and Tuco have explosives on a suspension bridge, you notice that Clint Eastwood is looking towards a car. And yes, a beautiful anachronism which has nothing to do there, in the middle of the Civil War we recall it, between 1861 and 1865. A false connection funnier than anything else and which is far from spoiling the appreciation of the film .