Blondie Tuco Cannon Scene Reconstruct (note: large image file!)

[The Ugly]

Why was that scene omitted? does anyone know? cant uynderstand it myself

[Noodles_SlowStir]

Would of been funny to see Blondie shaking his head after the misfire.  "There's two kinds of cannons my friend......."

[iceman]

Am i imagining things   because if you look at the last picture in Sadhills sequence just before the canon ball lands, can you see a figure of a person just to the right of TUCO's horse's face.... its only tiny but....surely not Angel Eyes

Maybe not, might be just seeing things??

ICE

[marmota-b]

because if you look at the last picture in Sadhills sequence just before the canon ball lands, can you see a figure of a person just to the right of TUCO's horse's face.... its only tiny but....surely not Angel Eyes

It really looks like there was someone... dressed in black like AE.

[The Firecracker]

It really looks like there was someone... dressed in black like AE.

Looks like that could be anything not just a person.

[sadhill]

just found these in my files so they must be included in the cannon sequence at the beginning.

[Tucumcari Bound]

Great pictures guy's!

[Tuco the ugly]

Am i imagining things   because if you look at the last picture in Sadhills sequence just before the canon ball lands, can you see a figure of a person just to the right of TUCO's horse's face.... its only tiny but....surely not Angel Eyes

Maybe not, might be just seeing things??

It really looks like there was someone... dressed in black like AE.

Looks like that could be anything not just a person.

It's probably just an optical illusion.
If you look above the saddle of the horse, you'll see something that looks like AE's head (with the hat). But if you look beneath the horse there aren't any legs. The figure that you're talking about also doesn't appear to have any legs, which is strange.

So, it can be only 4 things:
1) optical illusion
2) ghost (of course, what else)
3) the half-soldier!!!!! (dressed as AE, goofing around)

and

4) the ghost of the half-soldier (that is dressed as AE)

[Tuco the ugly]

And I forgot to say; great job Sadhill! 

[Lil Brutto]

Excellent work Sadhill. I wasn't sure until your reconstruction if Tuco fired the Cannon after Blondie's first or second shot. Have you seen the B/W still of Tuco with the ramrod in the Cannon. I had these two stills for many years and it wasn't till the GBU SE came out last year that it all became clear.

Where can I find the B/W still? Is it in a book?

[Lil Brutto]

It hasn't been suggested one way or another in this thread but I just watched this scene frame by frame (Il Buono Il Brutto Il Cattivo MHE BD...my preferred format although not in my first language English) and it appears that the clip of Tuco's cannon misfiring and subsequently collapsing hasn't simply been omitted, as suggested by the OP and others in this thread, due to the presence of smoke after the cannon misfired as Tuco runs away.

Instead, I think the final cut used an alternate shooting of the scene that ultimately SL opted to go with for the final cut of the film. The evidence that supports my conclusion is that the cannon collapses differently in the french trailer than it does in the final cut. This is by no means obvious since you can hardly see the collapsed cannon but if you watch the DVD or BD frame by frame you'll see that this is, in fact, true.

[stanton]

I'm glad that this short cannon piece isn't part of the film. Same goes for the missing "Socorro" scene.

[Le Bon]

It hasn't been suggested one way or another in this thread but I just watched this scene frame by frame (Il Buono Il Brutto Il Cattivo MHE BD...my preferred format although not in my first language English) and it appears that the clip of Tuco's cannon misfiring and subsequently collapsing hasn't simply been omitted, as suggested by the OP and others in this thread, due to the presence of smoke after the cannon misfired as Tuco runs away.

Instead, I think the final cut used an alternate shooting of the scene that ultimately SL opted to go with for the final cut of the film. The evidence that supports my conclusion is that the cannon collapses differently in the french trailer than it does in the final cut. This is by no means obvious since you can hardly see the collapsed cannon but if you watch the DVD or BD frame by frame you'll see that this is, in fact, true.

So the above still with the dead confed on the cannon could be from the alternate scene.

[Lil Brutto]

So the above still with the dead confed on the cannon could be from the alternate scene.

I believe so.

[O'Cangaceiro]

I'm glad that this short cannon piece isn't part of the film. Same goes for the missing "Socorro" scene.

I disagree. I think that not having those scenes included screws-up the continuity.