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Carolyn C
Trad climber
the long, long trailer
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And who can forget "Paint Your Wagon" with Clint singing such memorable songs as "I talk to the trees, but they don't listen to me..." and "Gold Fever!" :-)
But, really, I am a big fan. My neice and I met him in Berkeley about 10 years ago and he was really friendly. He was wearing a pair of outstandlingly ugly plaid trousers, however.
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Just watched "Unforgiven"...great movie, interesting it didn't get the credits his other western's got.
Yeah, like 4 acadamy awards including best picture...
Great flick.
Hog's Breath is a fun spot. Good atmosphere and a nice little jazz store (and radio station) on the same property. Cool hang.
Friend of mine used to see him a number of years ago skiing at Sun Valley...
Seems to be holding up pretty well.
-Brian in SLC
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burp
Trad climber
Salt Lake City
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Where Eagles Dare
... is a cool movie ... great scenery, cool suspense plot, and lot's of shooting and blowing things up.
burp
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Festus
Mountain climber
Enron by the Sea
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I take nothin' away from Clint (and he's in the list linked below) but Sergio Leone was the master, with or without Eastwood. If you haven't seen Once Upon a Time in the West, check out what Leone did with Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, and Jason Robards, along with a great supporting cast. The "waiting for Bronson" opening scene, at a train station/platform out in the middle of nowhere, with Jack Elam trying to trap a fly in his gun barrel while water slowly drips on Woody Strode's hat, is as good as it gets. Easily one of the best westerns ever filmed.
http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/0,23220,once_upon_time_in_the_west,00.html
edit: and the soundtrack master was Ennio Morricone
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 9, 2007 - 04:14pm PT
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Festus wrote: "edit: and the soundtrack master was Ennio Morricone"
Nice call, Festus. If you doubt that Morricone was the master, check out The Legend of 1900, another great movie with a totally different kind of soundtrack and some of the greatest piano playing you'll likely hear.
Leone used sound in ways that have been totally forgotten. Now it's wall to wall soundscapes and the subtleties of the old "nat sounds" (natural sounds like a windmill and a creaky door or an approaching train) have been junked in lieu of computer generated "orchestras."
Bollocks!
JL
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Festus
Mountain climber
Enron by the Sea
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That's right on the money! I hadn't really thought about the sound beyond the music, but it's the sound of the fly and the water dripping on the hat that helps make the opener of Once Upon a Time in the West so great.
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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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'Play misty for me'... phew, for the times OMG.
And if you go back and watch 'Dirty Harry'...
The scene where he catches up with 'Scorpio' after shooting him in the shoulder.
Eastwood, with foot on the shoulder wound says, "yah feeling lucky punk?"
Right as the camera shot goes to the view of Scorpio looking up at Eastwood as he stabs him in the leg...
You don't have to look hard to see the old Leeper hanger half way up the giant Christian Cross.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Don't forget Morricone's work on The Mission.
Yeah, even without Eastwood Leone created masterpieces. Casting Fonda against type in OUATITW was genius.
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Festus
Mountain climber
Enron by the Sea
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Couldn't agree more, one of the most compelling bad guys ever.
Also liked how Leone used him in My Name is Nobody.
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DHike
climber
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Nov 30, 2007 - 03:12am PT
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I believe Clint sold the Hog's Breath Inn some years ago after his term as mayor of Carmel.
When I was working at one of the local outdoor/mtneering shops many years ago, between stints in Tahoe, I had a friend, R.Valentine who was a bartender at the HBI.
We used to go there late night to hang, and almost every night, like clockwork, Clint would come in, after close, always sporting a jacket and tie, have a drink and shoot the bull with us. I was barely 21 and probably looked more like 17, but he never asked how old I was.
All I can say is, true to form, Clint is cool. He was/is a regular guy, approachable by anyone, interested in what we were doing, especially climbing and skiing. He was pretty fit too, and hit the weights on a regular basis.
He is also an avid jazz fan, later directing the movie 'Bird' I think, and would occasionally turn us on to some vintage jazz by someone we never heard of before. His friend, wish I could remember his name, black dude, in a few of his first directed, '80's era movies, was actually the local sheriff in Carmel Valley, and had an incredible voice. 'The Singing Sheriff' was his nickname. He used to come in with Clint once and a while and belt out a tune or two for everyone.
Once, Clint invited a few of us back to his little, cottage house a couple of blocks away, for more drinks and to listen to some jazz. It was really similar to the cottage in 'Misty'. Clint was so unpretentious, and was a gracious host. Can play the piano and had amazing art too.
Beyond all the toughguy roles, he is really quite the modern, rennaissance man, kinda like Largo:)
It was good times amidst the touron scene of Carmel.
So many classic films and so many classic lines, the man is a true legend and a gentleman in a world where so many in the industry are so phoney.
Cheers to Clint.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Varied locales along the time and space continuum
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I have to agree that Once Upon a Time In the West is a brilliant film and loving homage to the western. I just saw it recently and then watched it again for the audio commentary. It's like a lesson on the history of the western in one film. It inspired me to go out and watch a few westerns I'd always heard of but never seen (like Shane, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence). Re-watched The Searchers which is also monumental (no pun intended... well maybe!). I've got a bunch more on my list as a result.
Back to Clint: I also saw Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima recently. Extremely subtle, powerful and moving films. I thought Flags was amazing, but Letters was even more powerful. Clint did a fantastic job with both, really demonstrating the insanity and randomness of war very well. He truly is a sophisticated and educated man. I believe he composed much of the music for these as well.
Fletch
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