This probably only means something to Europeans:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Spencer
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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:
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Though Buddy as Italian knight wannabe organizing resistance against arrogant French knights in the Middle Ages was also fantastic. :D
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And there was of course him and Hill as Missionaries against evil Jesuits:
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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).
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Happy birthday, big guy! :cheers:
:cheers: I loved those films as a kid.
The only man who could give Joe Don Baker a run for his money.
Happy Birthday, Flatfoot!
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
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 (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.
Quote from: Zanza on October 31, 2009, 05:51:18 AM
:cheers: I loved those films as a kid.
seconded- Everybody did. :cheers:
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:
Best Football game ever (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_02Z-HK-oY&feature=related)
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:
Quote from: Syt on October 31, 2009, 11:13:05 AM
Best Football game ever (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_02Z-HK-oY&feature=related)
The clip is worth pure gold for the sound effects alone. :lol:
Best fight of their filmography (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tw6ADcUqlQ)
Best Terence Hill scene has to be this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjwUlUv3MX4), though (ca. 1:30 in).
Parabéns Bud!
His movies had a factual basis, at least once: A Friend is a Treasure .imdb.com/title/tt0085327/ (http://.imdb.com/title/tt0085327/)
about a Japanese soldier fighting long after then end of WWII :lol:
Quote from: Syt on October 31, 2009, 12:14:33 PM
Best Terence Hill scene has to be this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjwUlUv3MX4), though (ca. 1:30 in).
hehe... that one was pretty good.
Quote from: Zanza on October 31, 2009, 05:51:18 AM
:cheers: I loved those films as a kid.
Me too.
:punk:
What nationality is this dude?
Italian.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 31, 2009, 03:00:18 PM
What nationality is this dude?
Italian, born in Naples as Carlo Pederzoli. Just like Terence Hill, born in Venice as Mario Girotti. ;)