Il buono,
il brutto, il cattivo - what
?!? How good looking are you
? - and are you fully convinced that
‘looks’ determine one’s character. To
most of us – Parrots are attractive and beautiful !! There is always this Q - “Is
attractiveness “good” or is unattractiveness “bad. There are times, days, phases in life when One feels that they
are not at their best, experience
negative thoughts. That is not being
Ugly – one can always find ways to cope
with these negative thoughts and embrace
positivity. It will lead to finding happiness and fulfillment as one overcomes
negative self-talk.
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Looks
have lot to do with clothing ! – apparels and the style of dressing. Western-style
clothing is a mainstay in menswear. From open-collared shirts and double denim
get-ups to straight-cut leather trousers, top designer brands such as MSGM,
Ralph Lauren and Gucci make regular nods to the mood. The reason is simple:
it’s cool. And that’s in part thanks to the work of one of western style’s key
proponents: Clint Eastwood.
The perception of "good" and "ugly" is subjective and influenced by personal preferences, cultural norms, and societal beauty standards, with no objective measure of beauty or ugliness. Beauty is not an absolute concept; it is subjective !! what one person finds attractive, another might not.
In
1862, in the American Southwest during the American Civil War, three
bounty-hunters ambush Mexican bandit Tuco Ramirez, who shoots them and escapes.
Elsewhere, mercenary "Angel Eyes" interrogates former Confederate
soldier Stevens for the alias of Jackson, a soldier who stole a cache of
Confederate gold. Stevens gives the name "Bill Carson", offers Angel
Eyes a bribe and then draws his pistol. Angel Eyes kills him and, intrigued
about the gold, kills his own employer. Tuco is rescued from more
bounty-hunters by an unnamed drifter whom he nicknames "Blondie".
Blondie delivers Tuco to a sheriff and collects his $2,000 (equivalent to
$60,000 in 2024) bounty. As Tuco is about to be hanged, Blondie severs the
noose by shooting it and sets him free. The two escape and split the bounty.
They repeat the process in other towns until Blondie grows weary of Tuco's
complaints and leaves him stranded in the desert.
Bent on revenge, and after one failed attempt with his gang, Tuco catches up with Blondie and force-marches him across the desert until he collapses from dehydration.
The Good,
the Bad and the Ugly (Italian: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, literally
"The good, the ugly, the bad") is a 1966 Italian epic Western film
directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood as "the Good",
Lee Van Cleef as "the Bad", and Eli Wallach as "the Ugly". Its
screenplay was written by Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, and Leone based
on a story by Vincenzoni and Leone. The
film is known for Leone's use of long shots and close-up cinematography, as
well as his distinctive use of violence, tension, and highly stylised
gunfights. The plot revolves around three gunslingers competing to find a
fortune in a buried cache of Confederate gold amid the violent chaos of the
American Civil War (specifically the Battle of Glorieta Pass of the New Mexico
Campaign in 1862) while participating in many battles, confrontations, and
duels along the way. The Good, the Bad
and the Ugly was marketed as the third and final installment in the Dollars
Trilogy
All
along – it is observed and believed that
attractive people are preferred
over, as there is supposition that they possess more positive traits and
characteristics than, unattractive people. This of
course is a stereotype. However Scientific
researches have revealed why some people
are good looking while others turn out ugly.
A study puts it that some people have less efficient 'repair kits'
in their DNA.
Charles Darwin's theories of evolution say attractive females should select the more attractive males and good genes should spread through the population over time to the point where males all become equally good-looking. The fact that all men aren't hunks is used by opponents of evolution as an argument that Darwin's theories are fundamentally flawed. A research explains why the human race isn't uniformly gorgeous. According to a Professor, : "It's much easier to think of it in terms of peacocks. "You have a system in peacocks where males go around looking attractive and those that have the biggest and best tails get the most attractive females. "Evolution would suggest that over time all peacocks would look the same because those good genes would spread through the population. "But that doesn't happen and instead you get generation after generation with big tails and short tails, the choice doesn't disappear. It could be because mutations can occur anywhere in an animal's genetic make-up, some will affect the DNA repair kit possessed by all cells. As a result, some individuals have less efficient repair kits, resulting in greater variation in their DNA as damage goes unrepaired.
Regards – S Sampathkumar
2.4.2025
