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Bolognini seemed willing to do the production, but the affair was bogged down, apparently because some others involved weren’t too happy with the script: there was too much talk and not enough action in it. According to Luigi Montefiori (George Eastman), one of the actors who was asked to appear in the movie, Barboni had first offered his script to Manolo Bolognini, the producer of Django.

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Some early scenes in the movie seem to endorse this view: there’s still some spaghetti western violence in the first Trinity movie, for instance in the scene with Bambino (‘the left hand of the devil’) shooting several opponents from the hip.

According to several people involved, Barboni originally wanted to make a serious or half-serious western, more in line with the things Hill and Spencer had done with Colizzi. There are strong suspicions that it was decided rather late into the process to make a comedy. Some recent inquiries seem to contest Barboni’s claims. Only after Baldi had turned the offer down, he decided to give Barboni a chance. But Zingarelli wanted Ferdinando Baldi to direct the movie.

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Producer Zingarelli had first turned the script down, but thought of it again after he had scheduled a movie with the couple Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, who had become minor stars in a series of films with Giuseppe Colizzi. He wasn’t very fond of the brutality the Italian western had brought into the genre, but then realized that the same over-the-top approach, interpreted with some cock-eyed logic, could also be funny. Barboni had started as a cinematographer for (among others) Corbucci, and according to himself he got the idea for a comedy western on the set of Django (1966). Enzo Barboni has always sustained that he had been soliciting producers with a script for a comedy western for years. The origins and genesis of the Trinity movies are a bit obscure. Fagioli (= beans) referring to the obsession with food, notably beans, both Trinity movies express. In Italy the movie even linguistically marks the ending of an era: whereas the diehard westerns were called spaghetti westerns, the Trinity movies and the numerous imitations it spawned, would be called fagioli westerns. In The Mule, Eastwood directs once more and appears on-screen notably for the first time since Trouble With the Curve.įeelin’ lucky? Pick any movie from Eastwood’s filmograhpy and you just might witness a piece of cinema legend.The first Trinity movie, They call me Trinity, is often described as the film that destroyed the spaghetti western and saved the Italian movie industry. Along the way, he picked up directing, cranking out movies with stunning efficiency, often giving himself the main role for a little career longevity, not to mention Best Picture wins with Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby. Further movies as the Sergio Leone’s Man With No Name made him the spaghetti Western icon, and the Dirty Harry series made him a man for modern times. Eastwood didn’t have any lines in that one, and not many more nine years later in A Fistful of Dollars, but that wasn’t going to stop him from becoming an international star. The Mule, opening Friday, continues an astonishing career that all began with blowing up a giant spider with a jet missile in Tarantula. Go ahead, punks, make your day: Take a look at all his starring movies by Tomatometer!

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