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Films of Sergio Leone => A Fistful of Dollars => Topic started by: titoli on August 10, 2007, 10:22:30 AM
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Do not throw stones at me, but I am persuaded that one of the few actors (yes, I believe Elvis was a good actor in spite of the crap he was involved in) who could have substituded Eastwood was him. By watching Charro (a crap of a movie, granted), expecially the first moments when he still has his beard on, I had the definite impression that he could have been absolutely credible as SW first badass.
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Do not throw stones at me
I won't because I was thinking the same exact thought last night while listening to Return to sender ???
Freaky.
"Everybody" else was offered the job, why not Elvis (who had been in a few westerns already)?
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A good poster for the film would be...
(http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/lg/1/3/Andy-Warhol-Elvis--1963--triple-Elvis--133884.jpg)
Just add the titles...
(http://i10.ebayimg.com/07/i/000/ae/ba/0ce4_1.JPG)
see the similarity?
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Lot's of Elvis topics as of late.
I just finished making a thread on a movie that Michele Carey sheds all in...
http://www.fistful-of-leone.com/forums/index.php?topic=6193.0
Let's not forget that she was also in a film called "Live a little, love a little" with the King himself.
(http://elviswomen.greggers.net/images/epmc003.jpg)
(http://elviswomen.greggers.net/images/mc002.jpg)
(http://elviswomen.greggers.net/images/lal07.jpg)
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Long live "The King!" :)
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"Everybody" else was offered the job, why not Elvis
Ask the Colonel (not Mortimer).
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Ask the Colonel (not Mortimer).
To hell with the Colonel. He did Elvis a diservice. Elvis had the chance to work with John Wayne a couple times, most famously in "Rio Bravo." The Colonel wanted Elvis to get FIRT BILL, ahead of Wayne, and whey the studio refused he declined. The part as you all know went to Ricky Nelson. It would have been great to see Elvis alongside THE DUKE! That SOB Colonel. He's also the reason why Elvis died in my opinion.
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With $15.000 Leone couldn't have landed a talk with a Memphis Mafia member.
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The Colonel wanted Elvis to get FIRT BILL, ahead of Wayne, and whey the studio refused he declined.
At the time it was a wise move, I think, commercially speaking: you can't have Elvis second billed, even behind Wayne. You end up cheapening your merchandise. The problem is that Parker should have involved his boy in more decent projects in the 60's, but we know how things went. Which is a pity bcause he was a very good actor (surely better than Sinatra) and he always manages to come off well even in theworst of his many '60s quickies.
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I dunno if he was a better actor than Sinatra but I don't think Elvis's full potential as an actor ever came out. I think a reason for this is he never worked with Hollywood's best director's. It's a shame. I also don't think you can bill Elvis ahead of Wayne. Wayne was the biggest star in Hollywood. Elvis was a singer first, not actor. It would have been the right move putting Wayne first, no doubt.
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I also don't think you can bill Elvis ahead of Wayne.
I agree. But you couldn't allow at the time either to have Elvis second billed to none.
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I agree. But you couldn't allow at the time either to have Elvis second billed to none.
Oh yeah, I agree with you. Two big ego's right there probably. But, I dunno if the Colonel's decisions were Elvis Presley's fault. It makes you wonder.
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Do not throw stones at me, but I am persuaded that one of the few actors (yes, I believe Elvis was a good actor in spite of the crap he was involved in) who could have substituded Eastwood was him. By watching Charro (a crap of a movie, granted), expecially the first moments when he still has his beard on, I had the definite impression that he could have been absolutely credible as SW first badass.
One thing is for sure: with Elvis instead of Clint in FOD, we would have a lot more female members on this board.... ;)
P.S. ... and Clint would probably still be cleaning swimming pools in California!
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Not to be a dick, but ...is this a joke?
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Not to be a dick, but ...is this a joke?
hahahaha I think it is.
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We just saw the 2022 film Elvis, really strong on the power and influence "Col." Tom Parker had on Elvis career, life, and demise.
Elvis was first choice for lead in "A Star is Born" remake by Streisand, but apparently negotiations fell through, Parker wanted too much $$$. That could've been the type of picture never offered up to Elvis previously.
Film was good, and actor does a great job, as does Hanks in a fat suit (once one gets over that it's
Tom Hanks).
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Apparently similar for "Bye, Bye Birdie" film. Birdie was a parody of Elvis anyway, and Parker nixed that.
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The documentary "Elvis: That?s the Way it Is" is available for pretty cheap right now on the french iTunes and is a most watch. That's the special edition, which means incredibly remastered sound and pictures but also a few scenes/songs have been cut (dont can?t help believin, are you lonesome tonight and bridge over troubled water).
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James Coburn, Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Steve Reeves, and Eric Fleming (Eastwood?s costar on Rawhide) were among the actors who were offered the part ? but passed because of Leone?s lowball salary offer of $15,000.
Biographer Marc Eliot credits Claudia Sartori, a Rome-based agent with the William Morris Agency, with suggesting Eastwood to Leone and his producers. To make her case, she showed them ?Incident of the Black Sheep,? a 1961 episode of Rawhide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF15lJFsd58&list=PLwUOPoE7wpXxIqQWqzixn4mg9Emr7DhiC&index=90