Comments on: Top Five – Bad Ass Eastwood Roles

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:36:08 +0000

Re-watched Gran Torino and if you don't list that performance in an Eastwood Top Five, you sir or madam, are a ~~racist~~ age-ist.

By: Jake Taylor

Jake Taylor — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:04:44 +0000

You’re right, “Bill Carson” is the dying guy in the runaway wagon, who knows the location of the gold.

I’ve always read that “Joe” and “Manco,” the two names Eastwood’s character is called in For a Few Dollars More, are just nicknames. “Joe” as just a standard nickname for an unknown man (ie “GI Joe”) and Manco, loosely translated Italian for “the one-handed,” because Eastwood does everything with his left hand, as to always leave his right hand free for gunplay.

It’s particularly evident in his opening scene, dealing cards and judo choppin’ with just his left.

By: Jake Taylor

Jake Taylor — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:57:09 +0000

Hey, I’ve got no problem with that – cold, calculating and unemotional is pretty bad ass in my book. And just for the record, I’d put “punks” at about 1.85. Generally less irritating than hippies, less destructive than lawyers, but still a nuisance that should be eradicated. With extreme prejudice, or something.

By: carthaginean

carthaginean — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:39:14 +0000

Yeah, your right. Maybe Carson clued them to the gold. I gotta watch them again.

By: Lars Walker

Lars Walker — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:00:32 +0000

“Carson” was somebody else in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. But he was called Joe Manco in (I think) For a Few Dollars More. The “Man With No Name” thing was something the promotional people came up with, but it’s the Official Designation (TM) for the hero of the Sergio Leone trilogy.

By: carthaginean

carthaginean — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:44:00 +0000

He was called “Blondie” by “the Ugly” Eli Wallach in The Good the Bad and… And I think he went by the name Carson as an alias in one of the earlier films. But that is the ultimate trilogy for a rainy Saturday.

By: Lars Walker

Lars Walker — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:49:21 +0000

You may be right, Outlaw, but I’m not sure. He calls him The Man With No Name, which is the character from those movies, in #1, but he applies it to “High Plains Drifter,” which was just *a* man with no name.

Confusing.

By: Tink in Cali

Tink in Cali — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:05:04 +0000

Aargh! Philistines! I hope you made that up, Mr. Sideous. I think I am going to be ill. One more thing – I think there is not near enough Lee Van Cleef mentions in pop culture these days.

By: Outlaw13

Outlaw13 — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:57:07 +0000

Surprised nobody has mentioned, his character in “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” as well as “Fist Full of Dollars” and “For a Few Dollars More”…some pretty badass stuff in those movies. In “Hang Em High” his character survives a lynch mob and then recovers to hunt them down and kill them one by one.

By: Lars Walker

Lars Walker — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:09:58 +0000

Not an Eastwood movie, Rufus. That’s from “Once Upon a Time in the West.” Bronson and Fonda.