Terrible lip synch on The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!??

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many european nations, but especially the italians, routinely dubbed all of their films - even the ones meant for their own people, never intended to export - up even through the mid-80s as a cost-cutting measure. it was familiar and considered normal there, part of their aesthetic. leone's film weren't necessarily being originally recorded in italian - they really are speaking english, but they never intended to record sound on location. it's part of what makes those films so different, coming out of traditional hollywood westerns. all the sound was added artificially later, wind, footsteps, guns cocking, shots fired. if they didn't cook it up and add it, it's not there. it gives the films an other-worldy aspect you wouldn't have exactly otherwise.

strangely, in the middle of typing that, my computer coughed up the piece of music played over the scene where clint is stumbling through the desert... there is about 30 gigs of music on my computer, and the tracks comes up randomly. weird!