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Tolerance Project extra Thank you for the music Part 2 Classic Cowboys to Classical music

Introduction

Hello there Ben Brown here and welcome to the 2nd Chapter of a blog that looks at how we created the soundtrack for the Tolerance film as we join part 2 Robert is trying to get to a Job interview and Julie has an ungrateful boss to deal with

4 minutes 13 seconds Robert has to get to a job interview, but finds it hard work getting there. He misses his taxi, then a bus and he narrowly avoids getting run over. He is saved by a passer-by, played by Dan McTiernan, who was also our first Assistant Director. When Robert is about to be run over you can hear the Jaws theme for the first time. You hear it again when Robert meets the infamous Mr Grosenberg.

Again we went with the John Williams original the famous theme which we all know and love is called main title/first victim.

To learn more about the original Jaws 1975 click here

I always felt a bit sorry for John Williams his record companies always seemed to a bit slow when releasing single versions of his hit themes. He missed out on a sure hit with his Star Wars theme in 1977, when a disco cover version of the main theme by a band called Meco entered the UK charts at number 7 and a number 1 hit in the US

You can find a video about that version by clicking here https://href.li/?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAjuvI6sX2U&list=PL17vqAEJv6CV1syq4_fFKgBwSqGdJzH9z&index=264&t=135s

His original version used in the film spent 2 weeks in the US charts reaching the top ten

To learn more about the original Star Wars click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8_7IAP-biU

Like wise a cover version of his Jaws theme became a UK top 30 hit in 1975 John wouldn’t have a hit under steam till his Superman theme entered the UK top 40 in 1978

As Robert makes his way to the Bus stop we here People are strange a song by the Doors from their 2nd album Strange days The song peaked at number 12 in the BillBoard hot 100 US charts in 1967.

it later featured in the Horror film the lost boys from 1987.

When it was covered by Echo & The Bunnymen reaching #29 in the UK charts. The song was produced by Ray Manzarek, who as part of the Doors played Keyboards on the original track and on the cover version, its this version from the lost boys that we used in the Tolerance film

To learn about the making of The Lost Boys film click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4wGnXH4DOI&t=4s

8 minutes 24 seconds On her way to work Julie is past by a car which parks in a disabled space. Julie is not happy when she realises that the person parked in the space is not disabled, but is in fact her boss, Mrs Jones, played by Kate Faulkner. Julie daydreams about what she would like to do to her boss, leading to a spoof of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. 

The Version used in the Tolerance film is a cover from an an unknown artist  and was not by Ennio Morricone or Hugo Montenegro.

In 1968 Hugo Montenegro released a cover version of the good the bad and the Ugly recorded on a Moog synthesizer it was big hit on both sides of the Atlantic a number 1 in the UK and a top 10 single in the US hitting number 2 in the US hot 100  It was held off from the top spot by another cinematic song: Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson." from the film The Graduate

To listen to the original Good the Bad and ugly main theme by Ennio Morricone click here (6) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly • Main Theme • Ennio Morricone - YouTube to listen to the cover version by Hugo Montenegro click here "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" by Hugo Montenegro and His Orchestra

The film's soundtrack was also a big hit reaching number 4 in the US album charts 

To learn more about the Good the bad and the ugly click here

11 minutes 19 seconds We cut to Julie, who is unhappy in her work. Mrs Jones tells her that she wants five copies of the work action plan and she needs them now. She later tells Julie that she can have the morning off, but first Julie has to tackle the monster photocopier. We chose the classical music, Car O Fortuna - Carmina Burana, by Carl Orff for the background music to this scene. This track is taken from my mums CD collection thanks mum ! 

 Carmina Burana is a cantata composed in 1935 and 1936 by Carl Orff, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection Carmina Burana. Its full Latin title is Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanae cantoribus et choris cantandae comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis ("Songs of Beuern: Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments and magical images"). It was first performed by the Oper Frankfurt on 8 June 1937. It is part of Trionfi, a musical triptych that also includes Catulli Carmina and Trionfo di Afrodite. The first and last sections of the piece are called "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" ("Fortune, Empress of the World") and start with "O Fortuna".

14 minutes 29 seconds Robert goes into town to try and get a birthday card for Julie, but finds some of the shops and cash machines inaccessible. Does anybody know what the drum and bass music is here? Please let me know, so I can add it to the soundtrack playlist

17 minutes 29 seconds

Odeon Cinema sequence and the last of our film spoofs - this time to An Officer and a Gentleman. So it was only right when spoofing that film we use Up where we belong from the 1982 film. The song a duet by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes it plays out in all its glory on its original chart release it was a top ten smash in the UK a number one in the US and it also won a Golden Globe A Grammy Award and an Oscar for best song.

19 mins 12 seconds as Julie and Robert make there way into the Odeon Cinema the instrumental track Green Onions can be heard recorded in 1962 by Booker T. & the M.G.'s. Described as "one of the most popular instrumental rock and soul songs ever, its also  one of "the most popular R&B instrumentals of its era", the tune is a twelve-bar blues with a rippling Hammond M3 organ line by Booker T. Jones that he wrote when he was 17.

It started life as a B side the instrumental will become a soul standard when its first released on the US charts on the 11 August 1962 where it reaches no 3  

It first appeared on the UK Singles Chart on December 15, 1979, following its use in the film Quadrophenia; it peaked at No. 7 on January 26, 1980, and stayed on the chart for 12 weeks

So Robert gets the job at the cinema and we see a montage of shots of him enjoying his new role to the music of The Professionals theme by Laurie Johnson The popular TV show ran on the ITV network for six series between 1977-1983 I like the scene but I would have used the classic Pearl and Dean Cinema Music.

Laurie Johnson passed away recently you can read the obituary by clicking here Laurie Johnson: The Avengers theme composer dies - BBC News

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Notes

This blog has been compiled from various sources including deep breath Ability not Ability a Producers Commentary Part 1 in the Beginning Ability not Ability a Producers Commentary Part 2 Transport Ability not Ability a Producers Commentary Part 3 Employment Ability not Ability a Producers Commentary Part 4 Accessability Tolerance Project goes into Lockdown and Happy Valentines day from the Tolerance project

Thanks to Wikipedia for some of the musical background notes

This new edition also includes new making of documentaries for Star Wars Lost Boys The Good the bad and the ugly thanks to Minty’s comedic arts

Some material has been included from the Justin Lewis book Don’t Stop The Music Thanks to Google images for the pictures and Ian Medley for the Tolerance film screen grabs

Pictures

Jaws poster from 1975

The Meco artwork for the Star Wars theme cover version

Artwork for the Doors album Strange Days

Artwork for People are Strange covered by Echo and the Bunnymen for the lost boys in 1987

Poster for the Good the Bad and the ugly

Artwork for Mrs Robinson by Simon and Garfunkel

Artwork for the Good the Bad and the ugly Soundtrack

Carl Orff

Screengrab Julie (Clare Abbot) about to face the monster photocopier

Artwork for Up where we belong from 1982 from an Officer and a Gentleman

Artwork for the Booker T and the MGs single Green Onions

Quadrophina Poster

Publicity photo for The Professionals  

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 1966, dir. Sergio Leone

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For being the movie I see talked about the least out of the dollars trilogy, a fistful of dollars is a DELIGHT and also the longest 1 hour and 36 minutes ever.

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Tolerance Project Extra

The Good The Bad and the Ugly Part one Creating the Definitive Spaghetti Western

Introduction

Welcome to the first part of an extended edition of a blog I wrote about the good the bad and the ugly. This first chapter covers the making of the film from the casting where the title comes from and did the man with no name really have no name at all Part 2 covers the filming locations and the soundtrack

Part 3 will cover the lost sequel and what links the film to the Tolerance Project

Background

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Italian: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, literally "The good, the ugly, the bad") 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".[9]

Slash film published an article on their website went ranked every film directed by Sergio Leone titled Every Sergio Leone Movie Ranked Worst To Best click here to read it https://www.slashfilm.com/954839/every-sergio-leone-movie-ranked-worst-to-best/ 

 Director of photography Tonino Delli Colli was responsible for the film's sweeping widescreen cinematography, and Ennio Morricone composed the film's score, including its main theme. It was an Italian-led production with co-producers in Spain, West Germany, and the United States. Most of the filming took place in Spain.

The film is known for Leone's use of long shots and close-up cinematography, as well as his distinctive use of violence, tension, and highly stylised gunfights. The plot revolves around three gunslingers competing to find a fortune in a buried cache of Confederate gold amid the violent chaos of the American Civil War (specifically the Battle of Glorieta Pass of the New Mexico Campaign in 1862) while participating in many battles, confrontations, and duels along the way.[11] The film was the third collaboration between Leone and Clint Eastwood, and the second with Lee Van Cleef.

The Perfect Spaghetti Western

The Collider film recently published an article called 25 films that are perfect from start to finish the Good The Good the Bad and the ugly was on this list at number at number 9 this is what they had to say:

An iconic Western that stands as one of the best movies of the 1960s (Western or otherwise), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is riveting, exciting, and ridiculously entertaining for its lengthy runtime of nearly three hours. The three characters referred to in the title are all relatively selfish, albeit differ when it comes to the brutality of their actions, though all three have the same goal: finding a buried stash of gold somewhere in the desert while the American Civil War wages around them.

It's the most popular film directed by Sergio Leone, and might also be his best, functioning as a Western, a war film, a buddy comedy (at times), and an epic adventure movie all at once. With its memorable characters, quotable dialogue, unforgettable music (Ennio Morricone strikes again), and bursts of intense action, it's a rousing success from beginning to end. Even if you don't ordinarily like Westerns, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is the absolute definition of a must-watch.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was marketed as the third and final instalment in the Dollars Trilogy, following A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More.  Click here for trailers for both of those films

firstly a fist full of Dollars

 click here for a trailer for a few Dollars more

Further Watching

To watch a video documentary called 20 things you didnt know about the Good the Bad and the ugly from the Just Westerns Youtube click here

Further reading

An article on why the second film in the Dollars trilogy for a few Dollars more is the underdog masterpeice in the Dollars trilogy to read it click here This 59-Year-Old Sergio Leone Western is Still His Most Underrated Movie (cbr.com) thanks to the CBR film website

The Screen Rant website ranked the Dollars trilogy in order of merit you can read their article All 3 Dollars Trilogy Movies, Ranked Worst To Best  by clicking here : https://screenrant.com/dollars-trilogy-movies-ranked-worst-best/

The film the good the bad and the ugly was a financial success, grossing over $38 million at the worldwide box office, and is credited with having catapulted Eastwood into stardom. Due to general disapproval of the spaghetti Western genre at the time, critical reception of the film following its release was mixed, but it gained critical acclaim in later years, becoming known as the "definitive spaghetti Western".

To learn what the term spaghetti Western" actually means read this rather useful article by the Screenrant website by clicking here

Casting

The trio the Good The Bad and the Ugly of the Title !!

Clint Eastwood as 'Blondie' (the Man with No Name): The Good A taciturn, confident bounty hunter who to find buried gold teams up with Tuco and Angel Eyes temporarily. Blondie and Tuco have an ambivalent partnership. Tuco knows the name of the cemetery where the gold is hidden, but Blondie knows the name of the grave where it is buried, forcing them to work together to find the treasure. Despite this greedy quest, Blondie's pity for the dying soldiers in the chaotic carnage of the war is evident. "I've never seen so many men wasted so badly," he remarks. He also comforts a dying soldier by laying his coat over him and letting him smoke his cigar. Rawhide had ended its run as a series in 1966, and at that point, neither A Fistful of Dollars nor For a Few Dollars More had been released in the United States. When Leone offered Clint Eastwood a role in his next movie, it was the only big film offer he had, but Eastwood still needed to be convinced to do it. Leone and his wife traveled to California to persuade him. Two days later, he agreed to make the film upon being paid $250,000[13] and getting 10% of the profits from the North American markets—a deal with which Leone was not happy. In the original Italian script for the film, he is named "Joe" (his nickname in A Fistful of Dollars), but is referred to as Blondie in the Italian and English dialogue.

Did Clint Eastwoods Man with No name actually have a name Dollars Trilogy Mystery Explained

Clint Eastwood's poncho aficionado gunslinger is known by at least three different names in the Fistful Of Dollars trilogy, so why is he dubbed "The Man with No Name?" Eastwood was far from the first choice for the lead in The Magnificent Stranger - later retitled A Fistful Of Dollars - with bigger names like Henry Fonda and James Coburn passing. The screenplay already subverted the traditional image of the "heroic" cowboy, with Eastwood's character being shown to shoot first and lie and cheat to achieve his goals.

Eastwood himself brought the final touch of trimming his dialogue to the bare minimum, which made his gunslinger more mysterious. Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy was hugely influential on futures Westerns, bringing a more violent, cynical edge with injections of dark humor to the genre. "The Man with No Name" is arguably the most iconic anti-hero in all of Western cinema, but it should be noted that the three films are only loosely connected. This might account for why the "Man With No Name" actually goes by several names throughout the series.

Clint Eastwoods Man with No Name might be called Joe

The screenplay for A Fistful Of Dollars featured a brief opening scene that was later cut. It revealed Eastwood's character was a Confederate sergeant named Ray, and he's shown stealing his signature poncho. This was wisely dropped as having the "Man With No Name" suddenly appear with no backstory only added to his mystique. That said, one of the few friendships he forms in the story is with the local undertaker Piripero (Joseph Egger), who calls Eastwood's protagonist "Joe." Eastwood himself is also credited as "Joe" in a Fistful Of Dollars credits.

On the other hand

That said, Eastwood's gunslinger never actually says his name is "Joe," which is likely a nickname Piripero has given him in lieu of his actual name, as in "Regular Joe." For A Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly further suggest Joe isn't his real name. In the former, he's dubbed "Manco" by other characters. This is definitely a nickname and translates to "one-armed," referring to his shooting style. In The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, Eli Wallach's Tuco refers to him constantly as "Blondie," in reference to his light hair.

Joe" was almost certainly a placeholder for the character and it's worth noting that Fistful Of Dollars blatantly copied Yojimbo by Akira Kurosawa. This Japanese samurai film sees a wandering ronin (Toshiro Mifune) arrive at a village caught between feuding gangs, and he plays both sides against one another for his own gain. A Fistful Of Dollars and Yojimbo share the same plot beats, and in the latter, Mifune's ronin gives his name as "Kuwabatake Sanjuro," which translates to "Mulberry field" and "30 years old"; this in reference to a nearby field and his actual age. Fistful Of Dollars no doubt "borrowed" this conceit from Kurosawa's film too 

While the Dollars trilogy is only tangentially connected, it's clear The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (which almost replaced Eastwood with Charles Bronson) was designed as a prequel. A key moment towards the finale sees Eastwood's "Blondie" discover his trademark poncho, which he takes from a dead soldier. Whether "Joe" was ever intended by the filmmakers as the true name of Eastwood's anti-hero was later retconned by For A Few Dollars More, where he's only ever referred to as "Manco." The concept of the "Man With No Name" was actually a creative piece of marketing by the trilogy's American distributor, United Artists.

As a way to link the three Leone Westerns, the trailers and marketing referred to Eastwood's loner as the "Man With No Name." This gave a mythic quality to him, and even though this descriptor is never used in any of the Dollars films, it soon became the title viewers knew him as. It's an archetype that the actor would revisit in some of his later Westerns too. His titular characters in High Plains Drifter and Pale Rider go by the names "The Stranger" and "The Preacher" respectively, with both projects adding a supernatural edge to the concept.

Eli Wallach as Tuco Benedicto Pacífico Juan María Ramírez (known as "The Rat" according to Blondie): The Ugly,

A fast-talking, comically oafish yet also cunning, cagey, resilient, and resourceful Mexican bandit who is wanted by the authorities for a long list of crimes. The director originally considered Gian Maria Volonté (who portrayed the villains in both the preceding films) for the role of Tuco, but felt that the role required someone with "natural comic talent". In the end, Leone chose Eli Wallach, based on his role in How the West Was Won (1962), in particular, his performance in "The Railroads" scene. In Los Angeles, Leone met Wallach, who was skeptical about playing this type of character again, but after Leone screened the opening credit sequence from For a Few Dollars More, Wallach said: "When do you want me?" The two men got along famously, sharing the same bizarre sense of humor. Leone allowed Wallach to make changes to his character in terms of his outfit and recurring gestures. Both Eastwood and Van Cleef realized that the character of Tuco was close to Leone's heart, and the director and Wallach became good friends. They communicated in French, which Wallach spoke badly and Leone spoke well. Van Cleef observed, "Tuco is the only one of the trio the audience gets to know all about. We meet his brother and find out where he came from and why he became a bandit. But Clint and Lee's characters remain mysteries." In the theatrical trailer, Angel Eyes is referred to as The Ugly and Tuco, The Bad. This is due to a translation error; the original Italian title translates to "The Good [one], the Ugly [one], the Bad [one]"

Lee Van Cleef as 'Angel Eyes': The Bad

A ruthless, confident, borderline-sadistic mercenary who takes pleasure in killing and always finishes a job for which he is paid, usually tracking and assassination. Originally, Leone wanted Enrico Maria Salerno (who had dubbed Eastwood's voice for the Italian versions of the Dollars Trilogy films)[19] or Charles Bronson to play Angel Eyes, but the latter was already committed to playing in The Dirty Dozen (1967). Leone thought about working with Lee Van Cleef again: "I said to myself that Van Cleef had first played a romantic character in For a Few Dollars More. The idea of getting him to play a character who was the opposite of that began to appeal to me." In the original working script, Angel Eyes was named "Banjo," but is referred to as "Sentenza" (meaning "Sentence" or "Judgement") in the Italian version. Eastwood came up with the name Angel Eyes on the set, for his gaunt appearance and expert marksmanship.

Next week The Locations of the Good the Bad the ugly The Music of the good the bad the ugly

Pictures

Poster for the Good the Bad and the ugly

Posters for the other films in the trilogy a fist full of Dollars and a few Dollars more

Clint Eastwood as the man with no name

 Eli Wallach as Tuco Benedicto Pacífico Juan María Ramírez (known as "The Rat"

Lee Van Cleef as Angel eyes

Notes 

Thank you to the following websites for their articles and their content Wikepedia for the background to The Good the Bad the Ugly Collider Screenrant Slash film and You Tube for the video documentaries and Google Images for the pictures

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