Tonight, Clint Eastwood returns to television with Fai Come ti Pare (Do what you want) but, when we talk about the San Francisco actor, we can’t help mentioning Sergio Leone and this special relationship born between both of which have led them to be among the most famous and representative figures of international cinema.
The two people who made the spaghetti western genre great did not speak the same language, however, and it is for this reason that on the sets of their films, they had to make an effort to understand each other as well as possible. they could and therefore decided to speak simply with gestures.
“Sergio Leone didn’t speak English and I didn’t speak Italian when we met,” Eastwood revealed in the documentary about him. “So we got by with a sign language where he, being Italian, was doing a lot better than me. I mean, we were talking in gestures. »
Eastwood and Leone didn’t speak to each other for 20 years because of Once Upon a Time in the West, but despite everything, the Italian director has been a real beacon in his career behind the camera.
“What did I take from him?” He was very good with landscapes, he knew how to highlight them, but above all he was extremely daring, courageous, he was never afraid to try something new, something that had never been done in the cinema. He influenced me as a director in many ways and certainly in his look and his irony. It was still a great adventure with him.
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