My recent Facebook (FB) posts related to 1970s Trinity movies starring Terrence Hill and Bud Spencer
Given below are contents of my recent Facebook (FB) posts related to 1970s Trinity movies starring Terrence Hill and Bud Spencer:
FB post: https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2641956069354287, 2nd Nov. 19
The Trinity Western spaghetti movies of 1970s were very famous in Bombay of my childhood (school days) among English movie watchers.
Terrence Hill and Bud Spencer were famous names. I recall them very well but I am not able to recall exactly which films of them I saw.
I have been watching a few clips of their Trinity movies over the past few days. I just came to know that both Terrence Hill and (Late) Bud Spencer are/were Italian! I thought they were American guys! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Hill, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Spencer.
Here's a clip from Trinity is Still My Name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTmVLHXn3H4, 3 min. 12 secs.
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FB post: https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2642126632670564, 2nd Nov. 19
"They call me Trinity" - My name is Trinity (1970) - The beans were not much good anyway... (HD), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOZH57odl_k, 7 min. 16 secs.
At around 5 min. 55 secs into the video, one of the two bounty hunters says, "Hey Trinity, they say you got the fastest gun around".
Trinity: "Is that what they say?"
The other bounty hunter: "Yeah".
Trinity: "Jeez".
This is followed a few seconds later, by a fantasy-land shootout where Trinity kills the two bounty hunters by firing nonchalantly behind him without looking behind, as the bounty hunters try to shoot Trinity in the back.
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FB post: https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2642164126000148, 2nd Nov. 19
Trinity (Terrence Hill) and Bambino (Bud Spencer) are visiting a Mormon settlement and have sat down to eat with them. [Readers who don't know about Mormons may read up their wiki page here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormons. Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee for President of USA, is a Mormon.]
Meanwhile bandits arrive with these bandits habitually taking advantage of this Mormon settlement and their practice of not fighting. The bandit leader wants wine and when he doesn't get it, wants to slap the Mormons. He starts with a few and while slapping one of the Mormons, says, "Turn the other cheek". Trinity & Bambino are also lined up to be slapped by the bandit leader but Trinity moves out and gets pulled in but after Bambino. The bandit leader slapping Bambino is a scene, which I am sure I would have enjoyed as a schoolkid but can't recall me seeing it then (even though I am quite sure I would have seen it). Nothing happens to Bambino and then he slaps the bandit leader around.
As the bandit leader is being helped to get to his feet, the Mormon leader tells him: "Brother, I tried to warn you that my two guests here (pointing to Bambino and Trinity) belong to another belief. They rigidly observe the law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. I'd say that you forgive them (and) return some other time."
My name is Trinity (1970) - This one is new to me, I've never beaten him before... (HD), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeURt5VTJJY, 5 min. 6 secs.
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FB post: https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2642188449331049, 3rd Nov. 2019
Toward the end of the movie, They call me Trinity (My name is Trinity), Bambino (Bud Spencer) and Trinity (Terrence Hill) have trained the Mormons to fight (I think it is only bodily combat not gunfights).
In the initial part of this clip, Bambino is talking to the (polished) villain leader as the villain seems to be cornered, and there is prospect of peace, at least a temporary one. The Mormon leader walks up to them, and says to Bambino, "Have you seen what faith can do?" (seemingly in a reference to the temporary peace prospect with the villain leader being cornered). Bambino says, "It will work (slight pause) if you put it in a rifle barrel."
A little later, the Mormon leader reads aloud his holy book (the Bible though Mormons do have scripture related to Joseph Smith, their prophet and founder, besides the Bible), "In the words of Koheleth, son of David, king of Jerusalem - your hat (reference to leader of villains to remove his hat which he does) - there is a time to be born and a time to die, to love. There is a time to - (the Mormon leader gets excited) brothers, it says here there is a time to fight and a time to win. To win, brothers". [The Biblical quotes seem to be from Ecclesiastes, Old Testament.]
That starts the fistfights and other bodily combat (no guns) between the Mormons along with Bambino and Trinity on one side and the villains on the other.
They Call Me Trinity final fight scene, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkZoTHV5bJA, 6 min. 55 secs.
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FB post: https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2660417134174847, 20 Nov. 19
Enjoyed watching movie: Trinity is Still My Name; Particularly enjoyed the San Jose part
Trinity Is Still My Name | Bud Spencer | Full Length | WESTERN | Spaghetti Western | Full Movie, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVw1WMJFdlQ, around 2 hours [Don't know how long the link will remain valid. It was put up on 18th Nov. i.e. 2 to 3 days back. Many times the video is taken down after a few days.]
Given below is some info. about the movie from its wiki page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Is_Still_My_Name,
Trinity Is Still My Name (Italian: ...continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità , lit. "...they kept calling him Trinity") is a 1971 Italian Spaghetti Western comedy film directed by Enzo Barboni. Starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, it is a sequel to They Call Me Trinity (1970). It was shot extensively in Campo Imperatore, Abruzzo.[3 - Donato, Rosanna (27 April 2017). "Lo chiamavano Trinità , ecco dove è stato girato il film tanto amato dal pubblico". Funweek (in Italian). Retrieved 9 December 2018.] The film was the top-grossing Italian film of its time.
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These Trinity movies were a rage among English movie watchers in my boyhood in Bombay/Mumbai (I was 9 years old in 1971). While I don't recall seeing this whole movie then, I sure recall these movies being talked about a lot in the 70s in English movie watching groups in Bombay. [BTW I have put up a post earlier on the first of the Trinity movies - They Call Me Trinity.]
I was intrigued with the San Jose part of the movie as I have visited San Jose, California in the second half of the 1980s. Of course, in the movie, San Jose may be a reference to San Jose, California of the Wild West days or some completely fictional San Jose town. Note that there are references to 'Frisco and Los Angeles in the movie.
Anyway the town San Jose in the movie, even if it was meant to be San Jose, California, may be picturized in a way that may be very unlike what San Jose really looked like in the past. Note that these Trinity movies are comedy movies but along with the fun stuff they do show some aspects of the Wild West where gunfighters were bosses (feared & respected) even if lawmen and bounty hunters were a problem for outlaws (Bud Spencer/Bambino is a horse thief/horse rustler who is wanted by the law - and so an outlaw - besides being a big hulk of a physical combat fighter as well as a fast draw, sharp shooting gunslinger). This movie, like the first in the series, has (Christian) religion as part of the plot, though it is also from a comedy angle.
In 1971 when the movie was made/released, San Jose, California was not yet a Silicon Valley hub. When I visited it in the second half of the 1980s, it had become a noted place for software guys but it was not yet a very big name in software. [One of my Bombay company - Datamatics - seniors had quit our Bombay company and taken up a software job in San Jose; I and another friend visited his home then.]
Today I think quite a few of my old software colleagues and, of course, later generations of Indian software guys are in San Jose and nearby places, working in software companies there. So it was of particular entertainment interest to me to see how this movie (comedy one) portrayed San Jose of the Wild West days :-). As expected, the movie shows a lot of Latino (Mexican, I guess) people there. In the past California was part of Mexico. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California: "What is now California was first settled by various Native Californian tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries. The Spanish Empire then claimed and conquered it. In 1804 it was included in Alta California province, within Spanish New Spain Viceroyalty. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its successful war for independence but was ceded to the United States in 1848 after the Mexican–American War. The western portion of Alta California was then organized and admitted as the 31st state on September 9, 1850. The California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom."
I have given below two screenshot pics of the entry of Trinity (Terrence Hill) and Bambino (Bud Spencer) to San Jose town of the past [as picturized in the movie; the movie seems to have been mostly shot in Italy].
[To open pic in larger resolution, right-click on pic followed by open link (NOT image) in new tab/window. In new tab/window you may have to click on pic to zoom in.]
FB post: https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2641956069354287, 2nd Nov. 19
The Trinity Western spaghetti movies of 1970s were very famous in Bombay of my childhood (school days) among English movie watchers.
Terrence Hill and Bud Spencer were famous names. I recall them very well but I am not able to recall exactly which films of them I saw.
I have been watching a few clips of their Trinity movies over the past few days. I just came to know that both Terrence Hill and (Late) Bud Spencer are/were Italian! I thought they were American guys! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Hill, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Spencer.
Here's a clip from Trinity is Still My Name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTmVLHXn3H4, 3 min. 12 secs.
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FB post: https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2642126632670564, 2nd Nov. 19
"They call me Trinity" - My name is Trinity (1970) - The beans were not much good anyway... (HD), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOZH57odl_k, 7 min. 16 secs.
At around 5 min. 55 secs into the video, one of the two bounty hunters says, "Hey Trinity, they say you got the fastest gun around".
Trinity: "Is that what they say?"
The other bounty hunter: "Yeah".
Trinity: "Jeez".
This is followed a few seconds later, by a fantasy-land shootout where Trinity kills the two bounty hunters by firing nonchalantly behind him without looking behind, as the bounty hunters try to shoot Trinity in the back.
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FB post: https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2642164126000148, 2nd Nov. 19
Trinity (Terrence Hill) and Bambino (Bud Spencer) are visiting a Mormon settlement and have sat down to eat with them. [Readers who don't know about Mormons may read up their wiki page here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormons. Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee for President of USA, is a Mormon.]
Meanwhile bandits arrive with these bandits habitually taking advantage of this Mormon settlement and their practice of not fighting. The bandit leader wants wine and when he doesn't get it, wants to slap the Mormons. He starts with a few and while slapping one of the Mormons, says, "Turn the other cheek". Trinity & Bambino are also lined up to be slapped by the bandit leader but Trinity moves out and gets pulled in but after Bambino. The bandit leader slapping Bambino is a scene, which I am sure I would have enjoyed as a schoolkid but can't recall me seeing it then (even though I am quite sure I would have seen it). Nothing happens to Bambino and then he slaps the bandit leader around.
As the bandit leader is being helped to get to his feet, the Mormon leader tells him: "Brother, I tried to warn you that my two guests here (pointing to Bambino and Trinity) belong to another belief. They rigidly observe the law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. I'd say that you forgive them (and) return some other time."
My name is Trinity (1970) - This one is new to me, I've never beaten him before... (HD), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeURt5VTJJY, 5 min. 6 secs.
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FB post: https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2642188449331049, 3rd Nov. 2019
Toward the end of the movie, They call me Trinity (My name is Trinity), Bambino (Bud Spencer) and Trinity (Terrence Hill) have trained the Mormons to fight (I think it is only bodily combat not gunfights).
In the initial part of this clip, Bambino is talking to the (polished) villain leader as the villain seems to be cornered, and there is prospect of peace, at least a temporary one. The Mormon leader walks up to them, and says to Bambino, "Have you seen what faith can do?" (seemingly in a reference to the temporary peace prospect with the villain leader being cornered). Bambino says, "It will work (slight pause) if you put it in a rifle barrel."
A little later, the Mormon leader reads aloud his holy book (the Bible though Mormons do have scripture related to Joseph Smith, their prophet and founder, besides the Bible), "In the words of Koheleth, son of David, king of Jerusalem - your hat (reference to leader of villains to remove his hat which he does) - there is a time to be born and a time to die, to love. There is a time to - (the Mormon leader gets excited) brothers, it says here there is a time to fight and a time to win. To win, brothers". [The Biblical quotes seem to be from Ecclesiastes, Old Testament.]
That starts the fistfights and other bodily combat (no guns) between the Mormons along with Bambino and Trinity on one side and the villains on the other.
They Call Me Trinity final fight scene, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkZoTHV5bJA, 6 min. 55 secs.
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FB post: https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2660417134174847, 20 Nov. 19
Enjoyed watching movie: Trinity is Still My Name; Particularly enjoyed the San Jose part
Trinity Is Still My Name | Bud Spencer | Full Length | WESTERN | Spaghetti Western | Full Movie, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVw1WMJFdlQ, around 2 hours [Don't know how long the link will remain valid. It was put up on 18th Nov. i.e. 2 to 3 days back. Many times the video is taken down after a few days.]
Given below is some info. about the movie from its wiki page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Is_Still_My_Name,
Trinity Is Still My Name (Italian: ...continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità , lit. "...they kept calling him Trinity") is a 1971 Italian Spaghetti Western comedy film directed by Enzo Barboni. Starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, it is a sequel to They Call Me Trinity (1970). It was shot extensively in Campo Imperatore, Abruzzo.[3 - Donato, Rosanna (27 April 2017). "Lo chiamavano Trinità , ecco dove è stato girato il film tanto amato dal pubblico". Funweek (in Italian). Retrieved 9 December 2018.] The film was the top-grossing Italian film of its time.
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These Trinity movies were a rage among English movie watchers in my boyhood in Bombay/Mumbai (I was 9 years old in 1971). While I don't recall seeing this whole movie then, I sure recall these movies being talked about a lot in the 70s in English movie watching groups in Bombay. [BTW I have put up a post earlier on the first of the Trinity movies - They Call Me Trinity.]
I was intrigued with the San Jose part of the movie as I have visited San Jose, California in the second half of the 1980s. Of course, in the movie, San Jose may be a reference to San Jose, California of the Wild West days or some completely fictional San Jose town. Note that there are references to 'Frisco and Los Angeles in the movie.
Anyway the town San Jose in the movie, even if it was meant to be San Jose, California, may be picturized in a way that may be very unlike what San Jose really looked like in the past. Note that these Trinity movies are comedy movies but along with the fun stuff they do show some aspects of the Wild West where gunfighters were bosses (feared & respected) even if lawmen and bounty hunters were a problem for outlaws (Bud Spencer/Bambino is a horse thief/horse rustler who is wanted by the law - and so an outlaw - besides being a big hulk of a physical combat fighter as well as a fast draw, sharp shooting gunslinger). This movie, like the first in the series, has (Christian) religion as part of the plot, though it is also from a comedy angle.
In 1971 when the movie was made/released, San Jose, California was not yet a Silicon Valley hub. When I visited it in the second half of the 1980s, it had become a noted place for software guys but it was not yet a very big name in software. [One of my Bombay company - Datamatics - seniors had quit our Bombay company and taken up a software job in San Jose; I and another friend visited his home then.]
Today I think quite a few of my old software colleagues and, of course, later generations of Indian software guys are in San Jose and nearby places, working in software companies there. So it was of particular entertainment interest to me to see how this movie (comedy one) portrayed San Jose of the Wild West days :-). As expected, the movie shows a lot of Latino (Mexican, I guess) people there. In the past California was part of Mexico. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California: "What is now California was first settled by various Native Californian tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries. The Spanish Empire then claimed and conquered it. In 1804 it was included in Alta California province, within Spanish New Spain Viceroyalty. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its successful war for independence but was ceded to the United States in 1848 after the Mexican–American War. The western portion of Alta California was then organized and admitted as the 31st state on September 9, 1850. The California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom."
I have given below two screenshot pics of the entry of Trinity (Terrence Hill) and Bambino (Bud Spencer) to San Jose town of the past [as picturized in the movie; the movie seems to have been mostly shot in Italy].
[To open pic in larger resolution, right-click on pic followed by open link (NOT image) in new tab/window. In new tab/window you may have to click on pic to zoom in.]
[I thank wikipedia and have presumed that they will not have any objections to me sharing the above extract(s) from their website on this post which is freely viewable by all, and does not have any financial profit motive whatsoever.]
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