Daily Dialogue — April 15, 2020

Tuco is in a bubble bath. The One Armed Man enters the room.

One Armed Man: I’ve been looking for you for 8 months. Whenever I should have had a gun in my right hand, I thought of you. Now I find you in exactly the position that suits me. I had lots of time to learn to shoot with my left.

Tuco kills him with the gun he has hidden in the foam.

Tuco: When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.

— The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), screenplay by Agenore Incrocci & Furio Scarpelli & Luciano Vincenzoni & Sergio Leone, story by Luciano Vincenzoni & Sergio Leone

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Bath.

Trivia: The three main characters all contain autobiographical elements of Sergio Leone. In an interview he said, “(Sentenza/Angel Eyes) has no spirit, he’s a professional in the most banal sense of the term. Like a robot. This isn’t the case with the other two. On the methodical and careful side of my character, I’d be nearer il Biondo (Blondie): but my most profound sympathy always goes towards the Tuco side. He can be touching with all that tenderness and all that wounded humanity.”

Dialogue On Dialogue: Great punch line at the end of this scene.