Happy birthday Bud Spencer - 80 years of asskicking.

Started by Syt, October 31, 2009, 05:49:06 AM

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Syt

October 31, 2009, 05:49:06 AM
This probably only means something to Europeans:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Spencer


Olympic swimmer, graduated jurist, textile manufacturer, songwriter, pilot ...

... though he's best known as actor. In the 70s and 80s he worked in a plethora of comedy action movies where he played the gentle giant who beats up the bad guys in hillarious ways.

I grew up with those movies endlessly on tv, and the best are still hillarious today. The plots are interchangeable, but who cares?

Personally, I prefer the spaghetti western parodies he did with Terence Hill:


Though Buddy as Italian knight wannabe organizing resistance against arrogant French knights in the Middle Ages was also fantastic. :D


And there was of course him and Hill as Missionaries against evil Jesuits:


He's also partially responsible for my interest in American Football due to his movie where he organizes a local team against the arrogant American G.I team (their leader portrayed by German Raimund Harmstorff).


Happy birthday, big guy! :cheers:
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Zanza

#1
October 31, 2009, 05:51:18 AM
:cheers: I loved those films as a kid.

CountDeMoney

#2
October 31, 2009, 06:30:17 AM
The only man who could give Joe Don Baker a run for his money.

Lucidor

#3
October 31, 2009, 07:25:52 AM
Happy Birthday, Flatfoot!

Alatriste

#4
October 31, 2009, 07:40:40 AM
Bud Spencer is starring in a TV ad these days (beating up guys hilariously when ATMs don't work and he can't access his bank account). He seems old and fat (well, as fat as always) but I would sign this instant to be in his shape if I live to hit 80.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evTqG5W_uX8&feature=player_embedded

Lucidor

#5
October 31, 2009, 08:02:45 AM
Quote from: Alatriste on October 31, 2009, 07:40:40 AM
Bud Spencer is starring in a TV ad these days (beating up guys hilariously when ATMs don't work and he can't access his bank account). He seems old and fat (well, as fat as always) but I would sign this instant to be in his shape if I live to hit 80.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evTqG5W_uX8&feature=player_embedded
The stunts seem to be of the same level as before.

I remember one film where he jumped down a well, and 7 guys jumped in after him, only to have 8 guys getting punched coming flying out of there.

syk

#6
October 31, 2009, 09:57:10 AM
Quote from: Zanza on October 31, 2009, 05:51:18 AM
:cheers: I loved those films as a kid.
seconded- Everybody did.  :cheers:

The Larch

#7
October 31, 2009, 10:44:57 AM
Quote from: Alatriste on October 31, 2009, 07:40:40 AM
Bud Spencer is starring in a TV ad these days (beating up guys hilariously when ATMs don't work and he can't access his bank account). He seems old and fat (well, as fat as always) but I would sign this instant to be in his shape if I live to hit 80.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evTqG5W_uX8&feature=player_embedded

I was going to post the same ad!  :lol:

A whole generation grew up with their films, everybody that was a kid at that time loved those guys and "fought" like them in the school playground.  :bash:

Syt

#8
October 31, 2009, 11:13:05 AM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

HVC

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October 31, 2009, 11:24:27 AM
Quote from: Alatriste on October 31, 2009, 07:40:40 AM
Bud Spencer is starring in a TV ad these days (beating up guys hilariously when ATMs don't work and he can't access his bank account). He seems old and fat (well, as fat as always) but I would sign this instant to be in his shape if I live to hit 80.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evTqG5W_uX8&feature=player_embedded
the mime part is awesome :lol:
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

The Larch

#10
October 31, 2009, 11:40:03 AM

Syt

#11
October 31, 2009, 12:14:33 PM
Best Terence Hill scene has to be this, though (ca. 1:30 in).
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Duque de Bragança

#12
October 31, 2009, 01:45:35 PM
Parabéns Bud!
His movies had a factual basis, at least once: A Friend is a Treasure .imdb.com/title/tt0085327/
about a Japanese soldier fighting long after then end of WWII :lol:

Lucidor

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October 31, 2009, 02:18:16 PM
Quote from: Syt on October 31, 2009, 12:14:33 PM
Best Terence Hill scene has to be this, though (ca. 1:30 in).
hehe... that one was pretty good.

Winkelried

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October 31, 2009, 02:57:49 PM
Quote from: Zanza on October 31, 2009, 05:51:18 AM
:cheers: I loved those films as a kid.

Me too.

:punk:
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