Just looking through the Man With No Name Trilogy on Blu Ray, and found an interesting extra on each movie: As mentioned before, GBU has a commentary by Frayling in addition to the commentary by Richard Shickel that's on the dvd. For FOD and FAFDM, there is a really nice piece with Frayling displaying some his collection of Leone memorabilia -- it's 18 minutes on FOD, 19 minutes on FAFDM. Frayling takes you through the various posters, which are interesting cuz it shows how the film grew and how the marketing changed. Eg. in the very early Italian and Spanish posters, it was a lot of fake American names (Bob Robertson) and no picture of Eastwood. Later, as the film grew, Eastwood began to be featured prominently, and the real names began to be used. I'm sure that the astute fan has seen much of these posters and lobby cards (eg. in Frayling's book "Once Upon a Time in Italy") but it's nice to have Frayling take you through 'em all. There's also original records of the soundtracks, and original shooting scripts (in Italian, of course!) in which Frayling describes some differences with the final movie.It's a really nice bonus material, and I am not sure why they did not do the same piece for GBU.
p.s. in the FAFDM piece, Frayling holds up a poster of Eastwood, and says that it hung in his dorm room in the late 60's next to photos of Bob Dylan and Che Guevara, other heroes of the counterculture. I sure hope that Sir Christopher has re-evaluated his admiration for mass murderers.
I did not know that Dylan is a mass murderer, but Eastwood was no hero of the counter culture. But he played a mass murderer in the Leone films, which some may admire.
I am not talking about Dylan (who, btw, I am a big fan of). I am talking about Che Guevara, the favorite mass murderer of hippies then and now
He was a soldier, he was a revolutionist. If he was a murderer (maybe he was one, but I don't think so), then he at least didn't do it for money. And if he was one, he was surely a lesser one compared to guys like Nixon. And people who were worse than Nixon.
I don't overlook that (you don't know enough about me to make such a statement), and I don't care much for Guevara, and yes some of the biggest mass murderers did it for ideology or for power.But I'm now interested if you think if Nixon is also a mass murderer, or not. Or if only the Commies and the Arabs (and their likes) are mass murderers.
I believe the answer is because those pieces were prepared for the S.E.s of FOD and FAFDM which happened to come out around the time of the 2005 Leone Exhibition at the Gene Autry Museum in L.A. ("Once Upon A Time in Italy" was essentially the catalog for the exhibition). Some info on the Leone Exhibition is here: http://www.fistful-of-leone.com/forums/index.php?topic=2187.0
But whatever emerges from that ridiculous debate over Nixon, that has zero bearing on the fact that Guevara was a murderer and is rotting in hell
I believe the answer is because those pieces were prepared for the S.E.s of FOD and FAFDM which happened to come out around the time of the 2005. . .
Wrong! I just went through the Dollars trilogy set and found that Drink is talking about something different than what I thought he was talking about. I thought he was talking about the piece that was done around the time of the exhibition that showed Frayling in LA with the Gene Autry currator getting ready for the show (which may have only been on the German Tobis Special Editions, I'm not sure it was ever ported over to other releases). Anyway, what Drink was actually talking about are 2 separate but linked pieces that are in 1080p and were done in 2010 (at what looks life Frayling's home). I hadn't even realized they were on those discs (thanks, Drink!). D&D is right, those make great extras. Apparently, they were made so that the 2010 release would have something new for the fans (a nice touch). I'm guessing that since the GBU disc had already come out (and had the new Frayling commentary anyway), they didn't want to go to the trouble of creating a new disc just to add an extra Frayling segment. They essentially just re-used the stand-alone GBU disc for the trilogy.Anyway, Frayling showing off his posters and talking about them makes for a great time. No Leone fan should miss these segments.
Even worse I can't be sure about Che and the others you also named, even if I'm sure you know a lot more than poor me.