#il cattivo

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Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo

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Non è quasi mai banale leggere un saggio: lo è sempre. Il cattivo di Salvatore Patriarca, autore di Elogio della banalità non può sfuggire alla norma. Vorrei spezzare un pennino per diffondere alla gentile utenza un ordinario pensiero, che più banale non si può: ogni saggio è un’opera di narrativa, al pari di un romanzo, di una favola o di una raccolta di racconti.

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Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), 1966.

Dir. Sergio Leone | Writ. Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni & Sergio Leone | DOP Tonino Delli Colli

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eli wallach casually calling clint eastwood delicious 💀

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)

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Okay, we need to deal with this once and for all...

Why in the hell do people seem convinced that Clint Eastwood's character in the Dollars Trilogy are three different people? Like, who put that into their head and why are they listening to such lies?

So, because Gian Maria Volonte, Mario Brega, and Lee Van Cleef are all playing different characters, Clint has to be as well? That's an American mindset… and these are not American movies; that's not how acting and filmmaking are regarded overseas. For example, actor Michael Ripper appears in the Hammer horror films Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, Taste the Blood of Dracula, and Scars of Dracula as three completely separate characters. But that does not mean that Christopher Lee's Dracula are three different Draculas.

They also point to "the Man With No Name was made up by United Artists as a marketing ploy." Yes, they did, but that doesn't mean Clint still isn't the same man in all three films. You know what isn't a marketing ploy? The Italians referred to the character as "Il Straniero/The Stranger." That was their "man with no name" name back then in the 60s. The Italians have since adopted calling him "Uomo Senza Nome/Man Without Name."

And people seem to be convinced somehow that "Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood both said he's three different people." No, they didn't. Never once has Clint made that claim. And Sergio Leone co-wrote all three films (and Once Upon a Time in the West--more there later) and he wrote him as the same man.

But the facts of the matter are there to see in the movies if you watch them. In For a Few Dollars More, the second film, il Straniero is referred to as "Manco." "Manco" in Italian means "mangled" and it refers to his hand being crushed by Chico (Mario Brega) near the end of A Fistful of Dollars. If you pay attention, you'll notice Manco does everything in that movie (play cards, karate chop, drink, etc.) left-handed… except shoot. He still shoots with his right hand. If you pay extra close attention, you'll see that the Man With No Name wears his poncho backwards… to hide the bullet holes shot into it by Ramon Rojo (Gian Maria Volonte) at the end of Fistful.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is an origin story for the character, set during the Civil War before the previous two films. The movie literally has a plot point about how the Man With No Name got his poncho! It chronicles how the character changes from a selfish, dickish drifter to the more altruistic, caring person (as seen in the previous two films) after a near-death experience. Additionally, whilst the dialogue in the screenplay for the film only refers to Clint's character as "Il Biondo/Blondie," the descriptive passages of the script refer to him as "Joe," the nickname given him by Peripero in A Fistful of Dollars.

"But the Man With No Name has $100,000 in gold at the end of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. He has to be a different character because he's poor at the beginning of A Fistful of Dollars!" According to co-writer of For a Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Luciano Vincenzioni, he's poor again at the beginning of Fistful because he gave the $100,000 to Father Ramirez's mission for saving his life. Now, why would he have that answer if they're all different people? Why wouldn't he have said "Oh, they're not the same man," when asked?

On top of that, Once Upon a Time in the West was originally meant to be the final adventure for il Straniero/Joe/Manco/Blondie/the Man With No Name. This gets complicated, so saddle in.

After The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Sergio Leone didn't want to do another western. He wanted to make Once Upon a Time in America, even way back then. But Paramount Pictures told him "We'll make America with you… but you have to give us another western first." So he set about on his fourth western. The script he and his writers (Sergio Donati, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Dario Argento) concocted revealed that everything Il Straniero did in the previous movies was all sort of a training for a revenge duel with Frank (presumably because Frank did to him what he did to Harmonica in the finished film). This is why it would have been such a shocking moment for the audience when Frank asks who the Man With No Name is and he responds "Dave Jenkins." The audience would've gasped, thinking "That's his name?!" before discovering it's just one of Frank's victims. The problem is that on the set of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Eastwood and Leone had a huge fight that nobody seems to talk about often. I've heard that it was Eastwood finally having enough of the lackadaisical manner in which Italians made movies and I've heard it was Leone finally having enough of Eastwood cheating on his wife with his interpreter. Whatever the subject of the fight was, it is what ruined/ended the relationship between Leone and Eastwood. When it came time to make Once Upon a Time in the West, Leone flew to California to personally deliver the script to Eastwood, but Clint would not meet with him (I've also read an interview with Lee Van Cleef where he revealed he was offered the role of Frank when it was set to star Eastwood, but turned it down because he didn't like the script. And he apparently didn't like the finished film when he saw it either). So with his main star gone and still having to deliver the film to Paramount, Leone returned to Italy with his writers and was forced to turn Il Straniero/etc into the new character Harmonica and go from there (and finally managed to cast Charles Bronson in the role). Leone later came up with an idea to have the three gunmen at the beginning of the film be cameos by Eastwood, Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach (though, they were never meant to be the Man With No Name, Angel Eyes, and Tuco--just three randos like in the finished film). It was both a gag and a storytelling device to show the audience, "You thought these guys were bad/cool… Harmonica's even worse/better!" Wallach was in for it. Eastwood was having none of it and Van Cleef turned it down too. For what it's worth, Leone continued to try to work with Clint; he wanted him for the James Coburn character in Duck, You Sucker, but Eastwood wouldn't do it either.

So, whether you call him Joe, Manco, Blondie, the Man With No Name, or The Stranger, they are all the same man in all three films. Unfortunately, the lie that he's not has spread way further than it ever should have.

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The A-Team 2x06 'When You Coming Back, Range Rider?'

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" La sera del 9 luglio 1994, il presidente del Consiglio Silvio Berlusconi è rimasto un sacco di tempo ad ammirare la fontana di Diana e Atteone nella Reggia di Caserta. Non posso dire che quelli che erano insieme a lui fossero i suoi amici, però anche lui era dentro la Reggia chiusa al pubblico, e senza nemmeno aver dovuto scavalcare. Era già buio, ma per la prima volta era stata accesa un'illuminazione notturna sull'intero parco - vuoto. C'erano anche sua moglie Veronica, Bill e Hillary Clinton, Eltsin, Mitterrand, John Major e altri. Quell'anno la riunione tra le grandi potenze del mondo, il G7 (a cui si era aggiunta la Russia di Eltsin, per un giorno), era stato organizzato a Napoli. C'erano stati incontri diplomatici, passeggiate delle first ladies sul lungomare e al Maschio Angioino, una gita in costiera amalfitana, Clinton era andato a mangiare in una pizzeria del centro. Ed era stata fissata una cena di gala, l'ultima sera, nei saloni della Reggia di Caserta. Mi raccontavano che nella nostra città c'era molta eccitazione, e lavori di riqualificazione: era stata progettata un'illuminazione speciale nel parco. Noi avevamo vissuto per tutta la vita con la Reggia che chiudeva prima del tramonto, un buio silenzioso e spaventoso accanto alle nostre case vive, in città. La sera della cena di gala, il presidente della Repubblica Scalfaro ha accolto gli ospiti, incantati dal Palazzo Reale, e le luci si sono accese illuminando l'intero parco, fino a lassù, alla cascata. Dopo cena, le auto hanno portato tutti a fare un lungo giro, infine si sono fermate in alto, alla fontana. Berlusconi e gli altri, insieme alle mogli, sono scesi dalle auto e hanno passeggiato intorno alla fontana. Qualcuno ha anche sfiorato l'acqua con le dita. E mentre la serata era fresca e bellissima, e tutti ammiravano lo sguardo sorpreso di Diana e i cani che sbranavano Atteone, l'acqua della cascata che rompeva con dolcezza il silenzio, e laggiù l'intero parco deserto e splendente, Berlusconi ha constatato che il luogo e la serata fossero molto romantici, ha atteso le traduzioni e poi si è aperto in un sorriso furbo, molto furbo, e ha concluso: «Attenzione che sennò questa notte aumentiamo la prole». Il giorno dopo ha anche detto che una fontana così bella non l'aveva mai vista in vita sua. "

Francesco Piccolo, Il desiderio di essere come tutti, Einaudi (collana Super ET), 2017; pp. 159-160.

[1ª edizione nel 2013 nella collana Supercoralli]

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Girl omg just writing into say that I’ve been listening to pop porno for the last week thanks to you. Absolute banger!!!!!

This is def Melone's song! 🍈 💜

I used to listen to this song when I was like 8??? It was featured in some kind of commercial and HOW I CAN STILL REMEMBER THIS IT'S A BIG MYSTERY.

"Deh bimba, 'o sapevi 'he ci stava anche la versione in francese?"

( Hey babygirl, did you know there's also a french version of this track?)

And of course you' ve got the Vinil, don't you Melone?

"Peffozza." <-Here's the link *wink wink*

(Of course)

-La Principessa della Squadra

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Spaghetti westerns as text posts pt. 4 maybe I'm not sure

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Gayest film in history tonight on Italian national tv

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"Se questi uomini avessero avuto il coraggio di guardare Medusa dritto negli occhi, si sarebbero accorti che non ha nulla di letale, ma anzi è bellissima e ride".

(Le Rire de la Méduse (1975) di Hélène Cixous)

In foto: particolare di "Medusa with the Head of Perseus di Luciano Garbati.