Sergio Leone on the role that made Eastwood a movie star

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BBC article here (and video interview with CL)

'To me Clint closely resembled a cat'

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Clint Eastwood was catapulted to film stardom when he played a brooding gunslinger in Sergio Leone's first Spaghetti Western, A Fistful of Dollars.
"...As perfect as many would consider Eastwood's casting, Leone initially had James Coburn (The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven) in mind for the part. "I really wanted James Coburn, but he was too expensive," the Italian director told the BBC..

"What struck me most about Clint was his indolent way of moving. It seemed to me Clint closely resembled a cat." ***

As Eastwood put it, the film was: "an Italian-German-Spanish co-production of a remake of a Japanese film in the plains of Spain".

"I knew 'arrivederci' and 'buongiorno' and [Leone] knew 'goodbye' and 'hello' and that was it," Eastwood told the BBC. "Then he learned a little English and I learned a little Italian – and between, a little Spanish – and we kind of just fudged our way along..."

*** My cat's comment:
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ME TOO!

The guy who services my boiler is from Italy and one day when he was here, his phone rang. The ring tone was the theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. "I LOVE those movies!" he said, beaming :)

I have several MP3s on my phone of the GB&U theme, 'The Ecstacy of Gold' when Tuco is searching around the cemetary and final gunfight. Also, I have the theme from 'Once Upon a Time in the West'. I could watch any of those movies over and over, some scenes especially. Like when Henry Fonda and his gang kill the family and then when Charles Bronson kills Henry Fonda. Oh, in the meantime, Charles Bronson also kills several of Henry Fonda's gang.:D

I just realized I need to get the 'Story of a Soldier' from the prison camp. It's pretty sad, though.:(
 
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The Good, the Bad, and the ugly. Perhaps the finest Movie ever made.

I saw the movie At The Theater.
I immediately went and bought the soundtrack. It was an album, of course. :D

I still play the pieces of music performed by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra on my computer. I have surround sound with twin bass speakers. Unbelievable. Still has all the magic. It still sends shivers down my backbone.
I am a trumpeter and I just listen in awe to those compositions.

bdGreen

Clint, you have always been the Good, not the Bad, never the Ugly. Hang 'em High my friend.
 
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The guy who services my boiler is from Italy and one day when he was here, his phone rang. The ring tone was the theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. "I LOVE those movies!" he said, beaming :)

That's the ring tone on my Iphone. I did hear another phone with the same ringtone just once. Most people instantly recognize it and get a kick out of it.
 
I still play the pieces of music performed by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra on my computer. I have surround sound with twin bass speakers. Unbelievable. Still has all the magic. It still sends shivers down my backbone.

I'm another fan of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. I bring it up on you tube and play it every couple of weeks. Great performance!!
 
Trumpet at the final showdown.......

I saw the movie At The Theater.
I immediately went and bought the soundtrack. It was an album, of course. :D

I still play the pieces of music performed by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra on my computer. I have surround sound with twin bass speakers. Unbelievable. Still has all the magic. It still sends shivers down my backbone.
I am a trumpeter and I just listen in awe to those compositions.

bdGreen

Clint, you have always been the Good, not the Bad, never the Ugly. Hang 'em High my friend.

Bullfighting music for 'The Moment of Truth'. I think that the music in the G, the B and the U is even more intense.

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