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The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966)

Directed by Sergio Leone · Cinematography by Tonino Delli Colli

R178 min63 frames

Western

For three men the Civil War wasn't hell. It was practice.

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What is The Good, The Bad And The Ugly about?

While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a 1966 Italian epic spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood as "the Good", Lee Van Cleef as "the Bad", and Eli Wallach as "the Ugly". Its screenplay was written by Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, and Leone, based on a story by Vincenzoni and Leone. Director of photography Tonino Delli Colli was responsible for the film's sweeping Techniscope cinematography, and Ennio Morricone composed the film's score.

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What does the cinematography of The Good, The Bad And The Ugly look like?

Across 63 sampled frames, The Good, The Bad And The Ugly builds its coverage from close-ups (33% of the sample), with medium shots (27%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Tonino Delli Colli keeps 71% of it in hard-edged, naturalistic light. Daylight carries most of the picture. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 56% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1800s.

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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966) are #38322b, #585349, #918975, #8c7b6a, #b0a695, #48392f — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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