This got me to thinking about these movies, so I hit the 'net to do some research…I’ve been confusing My Name is Nobody with My Name is Trinity for a really long time. Long ago I watched My Name is Nobody with some friends, and I kept telling them how funny it was. We were all waiting for it to get much funnier. I remembered Terence Hill from the Trinity movie, but couldn’t really recall Henry Fonda being in it…it all makes sense now!
To be clear, My name is Trinity = They call me Trinity? So confusing.
Just saw what is happening in a search.
there were two films made in Italy and for a time were the most highest grossing films ever in Italy.’ They Call me Trinity’ and ‘Trinity is still my Name’. Both films enjoyed a big success in the US too. Bud Spencer and Terrance Hill made a bunch of movies together but only one other film was widely released in the US with the duo. In Italy it was called ‘The left and The Right Hand of the Devil’
To sell it better they gave it the English title of ‘My Name is Trinity’, I think I saw that one? Both to include it with the series of films (even though it is not meant to be) and I guess to make people associate the film with ‘My Name is Nobody’.
A friend of mine used to do reenactments at Ft. Howard - He said that obviously they knew which side won, and what relative percentage of each side’s soldiers were killed, so each individual reenactor just sort of decides when to fall over by taking stock of the battle and waiting for someone to shoot in their general direction.
I don’t really get the attraction to the reenactment hobby, but it’s pretty interesting to see when it’s done well. A few years back, a group did a US military “timeline” portraying military units and encampments from the French & Indian War through the 1st Gulf War. The biggest group was, of course, the Civil War group. They had a guy who was a Civil War physician with all the antique tools of the period. When he described the medical and dental techniques of the Civil War era, and showed us how some of the instruments (knives, extractors, etc.) were used :o, I quickly gained a new level of appreciation for “modern” medicine - and almost lust my lunch. :-[