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Matthew Jackson<\/b> and Mental Floss<\/a><\/strong> present 12 Great Facts About The Good, the Bad and the Ugly<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.<\/b>\u00a0Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 9. IT\u2019S TECHNICALLY A PREQUEL.<\/span><\/strong> 11. EASTWOOD TURNED DOWN A FOURTH FILM.<\/span><\/strong> 12. JOHN WAYNE WAS NOT A FAN OF EASTWOOD.<\/span><\/strong> Matthew Jackson and Mental Floss present 12 Great Facts About The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.\u00a0Here are three of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15056,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054\/revisions\/15056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nCareful viewers of the \u201cDollars Trilogy\u201d will note that, though it\u2019s the final film,\u00a0The Good, The Bad and The Ugly<\/em> actually takes place prior to the other two films. Among the clues: Eastwood\u00a0acquires his iconic poncho, worn in both A Fistful of Dollars<\/em> and For a Few Dollars More<\/em>, in the final minutes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nBy the end of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly<\/em>, Eastwood was done working with Leone\u2014a famous perfectionist\u2014and had resolved that he would form his own company and start making his own movies. Leone, on the other hand, wasn\u2019t necessarily done with Eastwood. He even flew to Los Angeles to pitch him the role of \u201cHarmonica\u201d (ultimately played by Charles Bronson) in Once Upon a Time in the West<\/em>. Eastwood wasn\u2019t interested.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nBefore Leone\u2019s Westerns hit America, heroic gunfighters were almost always portrayed as men who waited for the villain to draw their guns first, the idea being that these were men who wouldn\u2019t kill unless they had to. Among these heroes was John Wayne, whose career was winding down just as Eastwood\u2019s was heating up. According to Eastwood, director Don Siegel (who made several films with Eastwood, including Dirty Harry<\/em>) once tried to get Wayne to be more like the \u201cDollars Trilogy\u201d star during the filming of Wayne\u2019s final film, The Shootist<\/em>. Wayne, it turns out, was not a fan of Eastwood\u2019s more ruthless Western style.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"