For a Few Dollars More

November 20th, 2006

Not enough Kinski.

Per qualche dollaro in più. Sergio Leone, 1965. ***

[tags]sergio leone, klaus kinski, clint eastwood, film, 3 stars, italy, western, lee van cleef[/tags]

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3 Responses to “For a Few Dollars More”

  1. jhoffman Says:
    November 20th, 2006 at 9:34 pm

    If you are gonna’ dig deep into the full Kinski resume — let me know when you dig up Billy Wilder’s “Buddy Buddy.” It is a wonderfully awful film.

  2. Jürgen Says:
    November 21st, 2006 at 6:17 pm

    This made me dig out the choice comments Kinski has for Wilder:

    Der Hollywood-Scheiss mit Billy Wilder ist, Gott sei es gedankt, zu Ende. Es ist für einen Aussenseiter unvorstellbar, was sich an Dämlichkeit, Grosskotzigkeit, Hysterie, Diktatur und lähmende Langeweile bei den Dreharbeiten mit Billy Wilder abspielt. […] Aber ich habe einen Haufen Geld bekommen für ein paar Tage.

    “Die ernsthaften Filme wirst du in Zukunft mit herzog drehen und die komischen mit mir,” hatte Billy Wilder bei unserem ersten Zusammentreffen im Restaurant La Scala zu mir gesagt.

    Ich glaube, dass es eher umgekehrt ist: Die sogenannten komischen Filme von Billy Wilder isnd seit langem nicht mehr komisch, sonder stur-verkrampft, und das Lachen gefriert einem in den Mundwinkeln. Während die sogenannten ersten Filme von herzog unfreiwillig komisch wären, würde ich tun, was er will. (Kinski 411)

    In short, Wilder told him that Kinski would make his funny movies with him and the serious ones with Herzog, but Kinski says that the opposite is true: Wilder’s films have gotten painfully unfunny, and Herzog’s are a joke, or they would be, if Kinski followed his direction. He says shooting with Wilder was an unimaginable ordeal of idiocy, megalomania, hysteria, dictatorship, and unbearable boredom, but at least he got paid a heap of money.

    Dan from the Kinski files sent me a promising list of meaty roles in B movies; I’ll be getting a bunch of those if Marcy doesn’t secretly rearrange the queue.

  3. jhoffman Says:
    November 25th, 2006 at 1:34 am

    Well, “Buddy Buddy” isn’t Wilder at his most sterling. . .but there are some interesting moments. It is just a dated film. Released in 81 or 82 but it feels like 61 or 62. Kinski’s small bits are very memorable, though. He has that insane stare and, if I recall, is wearing a shiny red zippy jacket.

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