6/30/2007 - 933444555

I just bought The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly on DVD and man, is that a great movie! It's probably the only Western I like watching (unless you consider Back to the Future Part III a Western). The director Sergio Leone was well ahead of his time in his deliberate pacing of action sequences. You can tell he inspired modern directors like Tarantino. Clint Eastwood was supremely cool in this movie that predates the "realistic" Westerns that he heralded in later years. But Eli Wallach as Tuco The Ugly definitely stole the show. Even though he's quite a nefarious character, you can't help rooting for him to get some of the gold.

Today's video parodies the famous duel of the triad at the end of the movie where Blondie, Angel Eyes, and Tuco have a showdown to see who gets the buried treasure in the cemetery. I just loved how drawn out this scene was... it comes at the end of a three-hour movie, so if it was just a quick shootout, it would never have been so satisfying. This video, however, is set in modern times, and instead of gold coins, the reward in this case is a girl's phone number. It has the same great music by Enio Morricone as the original, and it's pretty much a shot-for-shot remake of the scene.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhd1jNm9ZIs