.....:))
Posted on 01/16/2006 7:28:11 AM PST by mcvey
"some of the patrons definately weren't "upper crust"(myself possibly included)."
I don't do "upper crust" anyway.
I like real people....:)
Sometimes the Encore Western channel will run Eastwood 24/7 for a couple days and I sit through the movies even though I've got them all on DVD.
[I suspect I'm an idiot]....;D
I grew up on that stuff.
We'd go to the drive-in loaded up with steak subs, pizza burgers and milkshakes.
My dad and I were in paradise while my mom was sitting there, probably silently pondering the best way to hang herself with the car speaker cable.....:))
When they ran 'Billy The Kid Vs Dracula' before 'Joe Kidd' one night, I thought sure she was gonna start crying.
Did you pay attention to the pocket watch in that?
It shows up again in TGTB&TU as a strange bit of backstory.
The Van Cleef/Eastwood movies had a surrealistic time warp sort of thing going on.
Even though they played different characters in each movie, they frequently referenced 'in jokes' of a sort that tied them all together.
I never understood why Van Cleef was "the bad" in that flick.
He was merely an efficient realist.
Tuco was a lot badder, IMO.
[or that was the only choice left since Lee was anything *but* "ugly"]....;]
Next time a Twilight Zone marathon runs watch out for this episode;
Wow, Strother Martin, Lee Marvin and Lee Van Cleef all in one. Impressive. All real guys.
.....:))
Yeah, and I loved that jewsharp "Boing" sound they played when he opened it.
Leone's movies always had great sound.
Lee Marvin, I read somewhere, was considered for the badass role in TG,TB,ATU, but he either refused it, or had prior commitments. I know it confused a lot of people who went to see it when they saw Van Cleef as the bad guy again (or efficient realist, if you prefer), after he'd been a 'good' guy in FAFDM. But they didn't get he was playing a completely different character. They even mention his last name a few times, and it's not Mortimer. The one bad guy -the fat one Tuco kills-was in all three movies, and died in all 3. The Actor who played Indio was the main heavy in FOF, and died there, too. The guy who played Tuco's priest brother was a heavy in the others. Leone had a penchant for using the same actors in his movies, since he knew they were good-I was surprised at how many of my friends didn't get that.
Angel Eyes, talking to the man who hired him: He gave me some money just before I shot him. I think the idea was that I kill you. But...you know me...whenever I'm paid to do a job....I always carry it out. BLAM!!
I just saw that Twilight Zone episode a few months ago, BTW. Man, it floors me now to see all the great actors that were in those. Anybody remember Robert J. Wilke or Eliza(ap?) Cook?
I don`t have an opportunity to visit Free Republic everyday...........so i apologize in advance if this question has been asked already.....but..................... i\where can i purchase the sound track to the movie
I understand that Tim McGraw`s "the Cowboy IN me"
and Sawyer Brown`s "I`ll Take the Dirt Road" are featured in the soundtrack.
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