You Just Don't Know
Oct. 12th, 2022 02:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI watched a clip of the Dick Cavett Show in which Cavett asks Henry Fonda if he's ever played a villain and Fonda says, well, there was this Spaghetti Western I made once which was a success abroad but not in the States- and goes on to describe- with gusto- an opening sequence in which he and a band of owl hoots massacre a lovable settler family.
"And did this movie ever get made?" asks Cavett.
"Oh yeah," say Fonda.
And now, I guess, fifty years later or whatever it is, Frank in Once Upon A Time in The West is probably Fonda's best known role.
Fonda clearly enjoyed making the movie- and getting away from the image of righteous dude that his career had locked him into- but all the same regarded it as a bit of a curio.
Some people (I'm not one of them but they've got a good case) say OUATITW is the greatest movie ever made....
Just shows you never know what your legacy is going to be...
"And did this movie ever get made?" asks Cavett.
"Oh yeah," say Fonda.
And now, I guess, fifty years later or whatever it is, Frank in Once Upon A Time in The West is probably Fonda's best known role.
Fonda clearly enjoyed making the movie- and getting away from the image of righteous dude that his career had locked him into- but all the same regarded it as a bit of a curio.
Some people (I'm not one of them but they've got a good case) say OUATITW is the greatest movie ever made....
Just shows you never know what your legacy is going to be...
