The fist top-down like a hammer on the head of the extras, the big hand that flares open on the face to complain about the misdeeds of Terence Hill , the “ bo bobobo ” sung in the ranks of a choir crowds. Everyone will remember Bud Spencer , Carlo Pedersoli , who died at 86 years, for a gesture or an expression recited in his films, even for a moment, a rapid sequence, in which Swift justice of bad gracefully using the fearful power of hands. Good-natured and quiet, the Italian actor among the most popular in the world explodes when in 1970, now the tenth film, with They Call Me Trinity , directed by E.B. Clucher , inaugurates the “comic” couple with Hill / Mario Girotti .
“We were not comedians, but did laugh “, He has always explained the secret of his, or rather their Pedersoli success. Terence smart, Bud strong. Hill the troublemaker with a smile and blue eyes that the young ladies BLOW, Spencer puts things affixed to the sound of slaps . Do not mess with those two. Even if they joke a lot with everybody and then fill them with beatings. Pedersoli began in solitary when in 1951 he put on helmets and armor , and as a centurion appeared in two poses alongside Peter Ustinov in Quo Vadis ; then one of the sailors chosen Human Torpedoes (1955) trained as in An Officer and a Gentleman; and again: is the guy pretty pissed the woman loved by Deaf A Hero of Our Times (1956). shaving anything, so physical. What allowed him during the 50′s to become breaststroke swimming champion , records under the minute in free style, and water polo. But also ordinary worker while in America shoveled hot asphalt to build the Panamericana .
The film is not the first choice, indeed. It appears because it’s a living. And just to get by, with different promissory notes payable , appears in 1967 the opportunity to God forgives … I do not!. The story of the deal directly with the director Giuseppe Colizzi has never been fully verified, but so Bud becomes the star of a spaghetti western full of blood and some violence. Nothing to do with the gold-bearing vein of the seventies / eighties that, just to name one, made him absolute star among Germans still separated by Berlin Wall . Bud Spencer, like Terence Hill, chewed several languages. Pedersoli at least seven, including German , as the Neapolitan. So on the set of Colizzi works with Girotti for the first time and soon will form the triptych with Ace High (1968) and Boot Hill (1969) . Few squabbles with his companion of a lifetime, far more staid and a little light-hearted roles of the first three Colizzi movie.
EBClucher, aka Enzo Barboni , with the plot of Trinity and Bambino de They Call Me Trinity is however already the parody of a subgenre after less than five years of Sergio Leone , Sergio Corbucci, and Duccio Tessari . Italians, then to follow the German and Spanish, they run in droves to see Bud and Terence to the movies. The sequel … Trinity Is Still My Name (1971) is the blockbuster of that year and in the top 15 films that have grossed more in Italy. Pedersoli e Girotti are a golden couple that makes you smile adults and children. Trivial to write it, but this makes them not only popular, but literally archetypal figures of an entertainment film that does not brutalizing the form in favor of the box office. Bud continues with solo Montaldo for Gott mit uns , in Four Flies on Grey Velvet Dario Argento , Lizzani black Torino, paired with Giuliano Gemma instead of Terence Hill in Even angels eat bean. But alchemy is only together with the future companion Don Matteo . Here, then, between 1972 and 1974 the three films that consecrate the duo fracassone: Martial Law, We’re Mad , and Turn the other cheek. Without taking anything away from the other two, the film directed by Marcello founded, We’re Mad , is the cornerstone of buddie movie FSpencer / Hill, Spencer is a name invented in homage to Spencer Tracy , remember.
this is where the two actors will play the Dune Buggy to beer and sausages placing colored toothpicks on the table to count those who accumulates more . Can not take my eyes off the film so popular, how well written and always contextualized in different scenarios, maybe exotic, stopped a step before the baracconata become pure kitsch. Bud Spencer meanwhile gives way even to the saga, just as successful in terms of box office but not in popularity as a solo films with Hill, the Big Foot cop , where he plays the commissioner Rizzo (three more sequels in a few years produced by Titanus). Between ’77 and ’79 is looking forward to another three memorable successes together with Girotti: Crime Busters, Even and odd , and I am with the hippos. Still Clucher that shuffles the cards between orbi barrel and gambling dens; and then Italo Zingarelli, the historic manufacturer who invented and staked everything on the gold torque at the time the Trinity, became a director for an ecological fable that has a happy ending as the liberation of the animals of the savannah from the hold a poaching ship. Bud the gentle giant saved everything and everyone: from companion endured in spite of himself, the little boy extraterrestrial Cary Guffey Who knows why … Captain all to me and One extraterrestrial sheriff … little extra and very Earth ; or even in fun diptych directed by Michele Lupo, when it becomes idol and protector of the local Italian community of the Tyrrhenian threatened by bullies marines: They called him Bulldozer and Bomber.
Nothing but Terence Hill some good comedic actor like Jerry Cala and Bud Spencer becomes the role of undisputed star happens while he plays a sports ace – Bulldozer rugby, boxing in Bomber – who retired to a life of isolation and away from the spotlight. We are in the early eighties. The career of Bud Spencer could end here with forty titles in the safe. Two more flashes along with Hill. The first is Born with the shirt is a hilarious parody of a spy story to the James Bond ; the second, between Puffin jam, pan-fried beans after Trinity, and an inexhaustible comic vis a story as old as Stevenson, it is He who finds a friend, finds a treasure. At the sound of punches then signals the disastrous reunion with Girotti for Troublemakers in 1994 after nine years away from the two of them together on set. Only that the formula is changed, it seems suddenly aged in rhythm and found, moreover constantly repeated on TV with their “old” film. Bud Spencer makes an appearance in fireworks Pieraccioni, is starring in Singing Behind Screens Olmi (2003), and even manages to devote himself to politics in 2005 supporting not without pride Francesco Storace candidate for president of the Lazio region in the list of Forza Italy . Venial sin in the brilliant career and human dell’omone, 1 meter and 95, 123 pounds, with slits for eyes and that funny snout with his lips in a circle as if to ask “What the hell is going on?”.
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