As a teenager I saw Trinity and Trinity is Still My Name at the movies. Comedy and Western fusion via Italy. I still quote the parable about the baby bird in the nest.
"Spaghetti Westerns"
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My dad loved spaghetti westerns! Sometime within the last few years he was alive we managed to find a box set of a bunch of them on amazon or something and bought all of them for him to watch.
“Leon” is actually “Leone.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Leone
“His film A Fistful of Dollars (Per un pugno di dollari, 1964) was based upon Akira Kurosawa's Edo-era samurai adventure Yojimbo (1961).
Leone's film elicited a legal challenge from the Japanese director, though Kurosawa's film was, in turn, probably based on the 1929 Dashiell Hammett novel, Red Harvest. ”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Leone
“His film A Fistful of Dollars (Per un pugno di dollari, 1964) was based upon Akira Kurosawa's Edo-era samurai adventure Yojimbo (1961).
Leone's film elicited a legal challenge from the Japanese director, though Kurosawa's film was, in turn, probably based on the 1929 Dashiell Hammett novel, Red Harvest. ”
Same. I have great memories of watching these with my Dad. When Clint would kick someone's a$$, my dad's laugh was epic. He loved that stuff.
Not strictly on topic, just some trivia. The holster/belt gun rig worn by Eastwood in the trilogy movies as well as Hang-M-High, is an Andy Anderson Walk and Draw, also worn by Jack Elam, Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson in Once Upon A Time In The West. Steve McQueen also wears one in The Magnificent Seven. Lee Van Cleef wears one as a cross-draw in the GBU. It's a on-the-belt muzzle forward cant designed for fast-draw competition vs the drop-loop buscadaro rigs worn in most Hollywood Westerns.
Tuco (Eli Wallach) had the best line ever. "When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."
At that point, a corpse. A previous enemy who was crippled by Tuco in earlier gunfight...
Based upon the question, was the corpse played by the director?
I'm usually follow Bing, Duck Duck Go, and the Ugly.
We had a Home Health Nurse named Marisol, who was coming in to see my dad. I asked her if she had ever seen "A Fistful of Dollars", she laughed, and said her parents were fans.
Most were filmed in a desert portion of Spain, in a region that was similar enough to the US Southwest and Mexico.
I think he was the first person that appears on the screen in a close up as the movie opens.
"The Man With No Name", actually had 3 names in all 3 of the trilogy movies.... "Joe", in "Fistfull Of Dollars". "Manco", in "For A Few Dollars More"... And "Blondie", in "The Good The Bad & The Ugly".
I saw Clint in an interview some years back, say that when he was filming "Fistfull Of Dollars", he took the pancho back to his hotel after filming every day, because he didn't trust the wardrobe people with it, and there was only one.
He said he still has it, and would never sell it. I can't imagine what that thing would bring at a celebrity memorabilia auction.
He said he still has it, and would never sell it. I can't imagine what that thing would bring at a celebrity memorabilia auction.
LoL spell check got me again
I have coined the word "autoincorrect" for this phenomenon. Hopefully it catches on.
This ^^^^^^^. Best line by Steve McQueen to Eli Wallach. "We deal in lead, friend."
