The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Confederate Soldier Scene

[smartzazi]

see kids smoking kills

[Mirdala]

"and when he gets to heaven,

to saint peter he will tell:

"Just another soldier reporting, sir

I've served my time in hell."

[nycdweller]

This scene still makes me cry.

[FuneralDivine]

can people please stop talking about Chuck Norris

[Transformers2themax]

@FuneralDivine I know right. He's in a cheesy over-the-top action TV series in the '80s and now he's God to all these people. It's a trend, and I hate current trends.

[clubtcb]

all this talk about the lines being edited out :/

In my opinion the whole scene doesn't need much conversation. The look on the soldiers face and the one on blondie says more than words could. It's just one of the best scenes in the movie even without the left out "lines"

[fishordie2]

@clubtcb i never heard anything about lines being edited out of this scene. i'm kind of interested about what they were. however i agree 100% that this scene is best without any lines. just one human being comforting another in his last few minutes. great scene.

[dookeland8]

before there was chuck norris there was clint eastwood

[snakevillefilms]

Smoking Kills...he only took a couple of draws too...

[yaahme]

Did anyone ever notice that the full scene is edited when rerun on TV MSM? The dialog between Clint and the Confederate soldier is cut out completely. Clint did speak with the dying young man in the full version original and proffered that, " dyin' wasn't much of a livin' " ...I guess it's too much anti-war for the war mongering profiteering military complex who control MSM, eh?

[MrSwanley]

@yaahme I don't think so.... "Dyin's not much of a livin' boy" is a line from another Eastwood western called "The Outlaw Josey Wales", not this one.

[yaahme]

@MrSwanley The line of " dyin' aint much of a livin' " was edited out from The Good The Bad and The Ugly film for main stream TV before the Iraq Invasion - which of course was done under false presumptions and lies. Don't believe it, eh? Go and rent the Movie to see it for yourself - better yet it is available for free In the Library. Enjoy!

[yaahme]

@MrSwanley You are half correct in that the line was used in both movies which is what I posted to begin with.

Read.

This is not so unusual with good lines by the same actor in different movies. Even AhhhNoould usessome of the same lines in some of his own movies - wow, the things people have a hard time in understanding...;)

[MrSwanley]

@yaahme No, that line was not used in both movies. I've known both movies for 40+ years, I've seen many versions of this one. The dying soldier has never spoken words, at least not in the English dub (I believe in the Italian or Spanish dub he does thank Blondie). By all means produce a video clip which proves me wrong. Short of that I'm 100% certain of what I just said. In any case "Dyin's not much of a livin" is a pretty horrible and silly thing to say to a young soldier whose already dying.

[nikefootballer09]

@yaahme War mongering?.... sure buddy. Whatever you say.

[raulevich]

la cara de italiano del soldado confederado es increible tiene los ojos de franco nero, baggio, cabrini etc.....

[MrSwanley]

I've always loved the complexity of the emotions in this scene, and all without a word being spoken. Blondie's head feels contempt for a fool who would die in someone else's cause... but his heart can't help but feel compassion for a very young man dying a lonely and painful death. And to finish off the scene he picks up the poncho and transforms into the full Dollars antihero we all know. Just wonderful.

[Youboga]

In the latinamerican version they added voice, at 1:04, to the soldiers saying "gracias", man that was a very nice touch...

my girlfriend just watched it today... and she loved so many details... I

remembered watching it with my dad also.

It seems we want everyone to watch this great movie.

[TheAgwoodliffe]

If only Clint did a movie with Jack Palance

[DuckyBhoy]

Indeed.



[Stender84]

No one makes movies like this anymore...

[1Mafioso4]

LOVE THIS SCENE! i remember watching this movie as a boy with my dad.. still gets me teary eyed..

[imissmyoldpassword]

my favorite scene ever - along with the next two or three of course!

[nath909]

in these films clint really is the coolest man ever to walk the earth

[SirDude456]

@nath909 In these films? how about in all films that he has ever graced with his acting

[Conqueror441]

That is a very emotional scene, well with the music and such.

[VALMARIESASK]

This happens every hour somewhere on this planet!

[swellingsuperman]

Blondie takes off his duster and places it over the soldier for warmth. Toward the end, notice that he grabs the famous poncho! The soldier had his head resting on the poncho throughout the scene. I never knew the poncho had so much meaning...

[DarkeningSkies1]

@swellingsuperman Sometimes easy to forget that the first two films in the series (AFFOD & FAFDM) took place AFTER G,B & U. I always thought it was a cool way to show where the poncho came from as well. If this film were made today, a little scene like this may be cut for time, but it is essential in understanding that despite being a pretty bad dude, Manco is deep inside a good person.

DarkeningSkies1 1 sec ago

[Youboga]

@DarkeningSkies1 you mean like a chrolonolical order? that's interesting... is there a official reference? I haven't seen AFOD more than once, and I haven't finished FAFDM ... I have seen this one more times i can remember... That would be awesome... Sometimes i want to think Unforgiven is like a secuel to this movie...

[DarkeningSkies1]

@Youboga Yes, chronologically the first two films were set after the Civil War, GBAU was set during it.

Blondie/Manco/The Man With No Name was a very different character to Will Munny, but it would be fun to speculate what MWNN would be like in older age, indeed.

Hey... Clint ain't dead yet... :)

[Awolfx]

This show's the futility of war.

[Lamporre]

Always loved this scene. Really showed the Good earning his nickname.

[Conqueror441]

@Lamporre indeed your right, good thing about that part is that it is a scene where he earned his nickname, but at the same time he did it in a way that wasn't TOO "sappy" or in other words it wasn't to "gay"