Lady Murasaki wrote:dis wrote:Lady Murasaki wrote:I watched Once Upon A Time in the West the other day, and swooned at Henry Fonda as usual. I remember when I forced my kids to sit down and watch it, they nearly gave up in the first few minutes because nobody said anything for so long, then a wee while they were hooked. It took them a while to notice each character has their own tune.
It's good they stuck with it. Mine won't go near them, they find them odd, maybe when they're older they'll get it.
My older siblings got me onto the spaghetti westerns, I think they came on Monday nights at 9pm at one point. There was nothing like it on tv at the time. The music takes me back to those exciting evenings.
It was my Mum and Dad that made me watch them. Happy days.
The music from them are sampled quite a bit, I think the tune at the start of Once Upon A Time in the West is used in Little Fluffy Clouds, and a Fatboy Slim song.
Oh I didn't know that.
Didn't the American film co. object to Fonda being a baddie in that film because he had blue eyes and they didn't think the audience would want a blue eyed baddie?
Another great, this is the one that started us off, the gorgeous Clint. The three of us used to do the Mexican stand off at home when we were fighting over a Mars bar or something
I do that tune from the graveyard when the cat and the dog are having a standoff, trying to get past each other.
I was reading about Henry Fonda getting that part. I found this interview.
