Inspiration for Mustache November: Lee Van Cleef. #MondayMotivation #TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly http://apple.co/2lMVnbI

I like him better when he has a shaving obsession (as in Death Rides a Horse)

clinteastwood-blog:

Blondie and his cigar = otp

So true, so true.

Wherever I Go… He Goes

A Magnificent Seven mix for Billy Rocks and Goodnight Robicheaux. Listen to it here.

Bonus confused child:

Live and learn, or, as they say in Italian, learning never ends. Have added the Spanish for “fucker” to the 134 words I already knew.

bleak-nomads:

bleak-nomads:

ave-arianna:

bleak-nomads:

So @ave-arianna is liveblogging me while watching GBU and his reaction to Blondie walking in to the trio scene was ‘hey where did Blondie get the shawl?’

and to be honest there is no better reaction to the arrival of the mysterious poncho I am dead

?????????!?!?!!!!

Actually @chunchomunos solved this, he takes it from the dead soldier he gives his coat to:

Which is a pretty bullshit Blondie thing to do and I love that

Further clarifications on this /character study thoughts:

So the move to switch his coat (probably fits better, more useful) to this poncho of an unnamed solider is an interesting one for Blondie. It’s definitely taking a memento of the experience. Is he reminding himself of the kindness he once offered to someone? Is he trying to move past his relatively criminal life with Tuco?

I feel like this could make the most sense if I understood the chronology of the Dollars Trilogy differently. I always thought of the order as going Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good the Bad and the Ugly. @bloncos pointed out that since the poncho is aquired in this movie, GBU is meant to be chronologically prior to the other two– this fits with the dates shown in the movie (check out this post on it).

This is interesting to me as I think of the Dollars Trilogy as sort of a descent towards lower moral standards, but higher monetary stakes. That is, starting with Fistful, TMWNN has progressively fewer qualms towards what he’s willing to do to get rich. I think that’s because Blondie strikes me as sort of the most numb to the horrible things of all three TMWNN. Certainly the most inconsistent thing about the order swap is…what the hell does Blondie do with the money if he’s off being a bounty hunter or doing dirty work for the Rojos a decade or so later?

But in any case those are neat stories that could be told, and I’d be interested in other headcanons for a different story that connects all three (that said, I also love TMWNN as a standalone character for each film, where Manco/Joe/Blondie are all their own person).

On the other hand, if seen in two other chronological orders,The Dollars Trilogy could also be read as an <i>ascent</i> towards slightly better ethics. I do accept ALL of Bloncos’ objections, but am only looking at possible ethical angles here.

If GBU / FFofD / FFAFDM, then (1) yes, where did all of Blondie’s money go?? (We can make up our own headcanons there) (2) Blondie still amoral as Joe, but does another gratuitous act of kindness to the oppressed Holy Family (3) Blondie opens up to a few human feelings (towards Mortimer, which can be read as friendship, father figure, slash, whatever) in FFADM.

If GBU / FFADM/ FFoD (mirror reverse order), then (1) where did all of Blondie and Manco’s money go?? Headcanons urgently needed.(2) it could be argued that Joe is the most ethically-motivated of the 3 heroes (see previous para).