My sister: "Who do you want to marry?"
Me: (innocently) "Nobody."
My sister: "Ooh, Nobody is so handsome!!"
Me: "Rats... I forgot..."
Nobody:
Yes, there is literally a movie with a main character named Nobody. And the movie is called My Name Is Nobody. I'm not kidding. It's an old western with Terrence Hill and Henry Fonda. Hilarious film and one of my faves. The only problem is I'm always forgetting that there literally is a guy named Nobody and my siblings get no end of fun out of making jokes about it... I'm trying to learn alternatives. As in "not anybody" and things like that, LOL!
I'm not gonna do a full post on this, since I've got about fifty other posts in the works and I'd better get around to finishing them, but the basic idea of this story is about an old gunfighter, Beauregard, who wants to retire and move to England. Mostly because a band of 150 outlaws called the Wild Bunch are after him. (I don't blame him. I'd want to retire too. Far, faaaaar awaaaaay.) He meets a random down-and-out who claims that Beauregard is his hero. He's basically idolized the gunfighter all his life, wanting to be just like him. When Beauregard asks him who he is, he just says "Nobody". Throughout the film, he tries to encourage Beauregard to fight the Wild Bunch and go out in style, rather than disappear like a coward. A bunch of crazy stuff happens, Beauregard tries to sneak away to get away from this Nobody, and then Nobody literally steals a train and practically forces Beauregard to fight the Wild Bunch. Aaaand... I'm not gonna say what happens in the end. One really neat thing about this Nobody though, is that he's the most amazing crack-shot ever. The fastest draw and deadest shot. He sort of freaks everyone out with how fast he is. The best scene is when this guy wants to fight him and Nobody slaps him in the face, then grabs the man's pistols from his belt, twirls them around, sticks them back in his belt and slaps his face again, over and over, going so fast that the poor guy can't reach his guns. You have to see it for it to make sense...
Watch the full movie (free) here: My Name is Nobody
Note: While I do recommend this film, there is some language in it and also a mild bar scene where the main character pretends to get drunk. Some violence. After all, it is a western. Discretion advised!!
Just wanted to say THANK YOU!! This was exactly what I needed yesterday (:
ReplyDeleteAnd naturally, everyone else wanted to see it too then, so it was the perfect finish to the day (:
Nobody really IS handsome😉 and oh-so hilarious! Your post kept making me laugh at the oddest times as I remembered what you wrote😂 ahhh sisters! Is it just me, or do his eyes keep changing colour?
Oh, awesome!! You watched it!! 😄 Yep, this is one of the best. Nobody is so hilariously awkward and cringey at times... I love the part when he waves the fish.
DeleteDefinitely. I got another Nobody joke yesterday... I just can't seem to remember. My sisters keep poking fun at me about who I should marry and I can't seem to get the word "nobody" out of my vocabulary. LOL! I need to watch this again.
You know, I think they do change color. I have a friend whose eyes are sometimes blue and sometimes green, so it is a possible thing. Nobody's eyes are gorgeous, aren't they?? 😜
Yesss.... that’ll forever be stuck in my head as the “fish blaster” scene🤣
ReplyDeleteOoh, isn’t that just so annoying?! I can’t stand when that happens. I’m going to have to watch myself now, or mine will definitely be starting that too🥴 is there another word for Nobody, I wonder?
Aren’t they just! Umm, don’t tell anyone I said that, eh? I’d never hear the last of it.... he reminds me SO much of Shiloh Irons from the Cheney Duvall MD. books/ Jethro from the Beverly Hillbillies!
I won't tell if you won't, LOL!! 😆 It's so fun to have someone to be "fangirly" with though!
ReplyDeleteHm... I don't know who Shiloh Irons is, but Jethro... well, I didn't think of it, but he kinda does act the same way! Same expressions, sometimes!
I rewatched the movie and wow, there are so many scenes I forgot about!! Like the story about the wolf and the little bird, and the time he shot the stilts down, and the whole fight sequence with the hall of mirrors and all that, LOL!! Man, that's a good movie!! It's too bad about the profanity though... at least it's not horribly prominent.
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Ooh, those parts are hysterical! The part where he comes peeking up from under the pool table pretending to be the bird had me laughing uncontrollably…. I’m still trying to figure out where I’ve seen the old man before, he looks so familiar.
I know,right…. Sometimes I wish editing was a little easier!
But as Westerns go, they did a mostly “clean” job of it, which I really appreciated.