They Call Me Trinity, backstage stories of a very famous film that has just turned fifty. Cult movie in the wake of the spaghetti westerns that were so fashionable in the sixties and seventies of the last century. The half-century milestone has already been celebrated in Naples with a multimedia exhibition dedicated to Bud Spencer, the popular Neapolitan actor who passed away in 2016 and who was one of the protagonists of the film. From the exhibition to an almost familiar chat - hosted at the Hotel Ca 'Sagredo in Venice - which had the children as protagonists: Bud Spencer in fact (who was actually called Carlo Pedersoli) and director Enzo Barboni, stage name EB Clucher. The journalist Lisa Bernardini, president of the APS Eye of Art, talks with her two children. A narrative-testimony of the deep friendship that bound the actor and the director. Like the two sons, in turn friends and both engaged in the world of cinema.
The background of the film told by the sons of Bud Spencer and director Enzo Barboni
Accompanied by videos and images, the backstory narratives of the film run completely unpublished. Like the image of father Carlo Pedersoli - his son Giuseppe, screenwriter and director tells it - who suddenly returns home dressed as cowboy and no one in the family knew about the film yet. Or when - this time the story is by Marco Tullio Barboni, screenwriter, director and writer son of Enzo - Terence Hill, another protagonist of the film, was forced to fast for three days. “He had to be super hungry - he explained - to make believable the scene in which he was stuffing himself in front of a pan of beans.
How can we forget - adds Barboni son - the many football matches that served as a relaxing break between one scene and another. Carlo Pedersoli / Bud Spencer participated in these you leave with machinists and electricians. Many of the lines that have become historic were created there, on the spot, by the actors themselves and in particular by Bud. They came out spontaneously in Roman or Neapolitan. For the film they were then translated into English and Italian. That was the spirit. The pleasure of being all part of this adventure. Today I am amazed when I hear them repeated not only by people of my generation but also by many young boys. They entered the common language. One above all, the one mentioned by millions of fans: Emiliano does not betray. Emiliano says it all. My father would like to know that his film has made more than a generation of viewers laugh ».
The great friendship, not only professional, with Terence Hill
“On the set there was a good atmosphere - echoes Bud Spencer's son - a strong and I would say unique cohesion. The success of the film was also the result of this synergy. My father in normal life could not ride a horse, did not speak English, used a jacket, had never grown a beard, had never acted. His debut in the cinema I would say was a sudden magic. The birth and success of this film is almost an astral conjunction ».
Then devote a hint particular to his father's friendship with Terence Hill: “They were linked by a particular friendship that lasted a lifetime. They were two very different people: Terence arrived on set early, he prepared himself like American actors. My father instead improvised, to help him was his Neapolitan nature. However, two different timid ones. Actors out of stardom, very shy. Unlike others, they never had a contact agenda, they never called anyone. Two lucky people who have been able to put their skills at the director's service. AND the director Enzo Barboni has been able to bring out the founding elements of this extraordinary couple".
They called him Trinity overturns the clicé of the violent western film
Tramps in fact. “My father - says his son Marco Tullio - had experienced the Russian campaign. He had returned to Italy on foot… After this dramatic experience he faced every day as a found day. An uncontrollable man who did not see obstacles and who lived his whole life lightly. I think this also contributed to the success of the film which, like the sequels, were never blocked by censorship because they didn't offend anyone. His idea was to overturn the cliché of the violent western film ”. And the children of Bud Spencer speak of lightness, all present in the room: "Our father had a very light-hearted way of living life and a great passion forLatin america".
Probably the same as Claudio Scarpa, director of the Venetian Hoteliers Association, consul of theUruguay and delegate for the Veneto of the Grupo Consular de America Latina who promoted and sponsored the initiative together with Ava. “I must confess - he said - that I have a great passion for Bud Spencer and the couple's films. They give a vision of the world in which there is good and there is also evil, which however is never so evil and four slaps are enough to defeat it ».
