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Among the deeds of his legendary career, Terence Hill doesn’t seem to have triumphed in the battle of the bluest eyes, as he is no match for the sea blue ones Paul Newman possesses. His gaze is much bluer than Hoppy’s. He also has the leanest face in the West. It is even leaner than John Phillip Law’s face, and that is getting pretty damn lean. In addition, he has the fastest gun and rudest brother in the west, as well as the dirtiest t-shirt and the thinnest lips, so we know we are onto something right away when we go to see “They Call Me Trinity.”
About the man’s title Trinity, I reckon he could defeat Jesus in a battle. In any event, the movie is a spoof of the traditional 1960s spaghetti Western. In fact, it is to spaghetti as spaghetti is to macaroni and cheese, a dish I have particularly disliked ever since the meat rationing days of World War II.
Before delving deeper, it’s worth mentioning that Mario Girotti is Terence Hill’s actual name, while his co-star Bud Spencer’s real name is Carlo Pedersoli. I met Carlo two years ago during a dusty afternoon on the set of a Western film on the outskirts of Rome. He was shooting an Italian Western called “The Five-Man Army” as “Bud Spencer.” However, he left for two hours to devour a plate of spaghetti, a chop, a salad, a bowl of soup, another chop, and a side of spaghetti washed down with a liter or two of wine.
What I would like to do someday (said Carlo) is a good spoof of these Westerns. I mean, we love so many Italian Westerns, surely we have earned the right to make a spoof of ones from Italy. It helps that we love Westerns so much.
Perhaps “They Call Me Trinity” is a product of such a wish two years ago. Easy Rider was made by a lot of people who had previously done a ton of cheapo bike pictures. Just before they made the movie, they Wanted to Make So Much. I hear, for instance, that the first draft of ‘Easy Rider’ was composed during the lunch breaks on Hells Angels films. My hypothesis is that “Trinity” is the film that Girotti Pedersoli and all the other Italians who dubbed Hill and Spencer, etc. made to get back at the genre.
How else to interpret the end of “Trinity” apart from its inexplicable beauty? Hill and Spencer, two outlaws in the role of lawmen, decide to take up arms to protect a band of Mormons who are under threat by the menacing Maj. Harriman (played by Farley Granger, who else?). However, they completely abandon their firearms, which is considered blasphemous in an Italian Western, And proceed to thump the bad guys into submission. The fight is so elaborate and it is so highly choreographed it looks like a blend of the hoedown on “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” when all the lumberjacks leap off the dance floor and the construction gang crossover Laurel and Hardy short. Traditionally, Italian Western audiences find humor in violence. This time it is somehow amusing.
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