Immediately any actor could be glad to take the dangerous man position in a film starring Eastwood. Nonetheless, within the early phases of his profession, solely completely determined actors consented to play villains in his films. The rationale for that is that Eastwood needed his pistol with actual ammunition. There was no level surreptitiously substituting the bullets for clean cartridges: Eastwood might inform by the burden of the gun. After we see the villain flee with a terrified look, sweating and trembling like jelly, in these first movies equivalent to “A Fistful of {Dollars}”, “The Good, the Dangerous and the Ugly” and “Soiled Harry”, we aren’t in presence of a masterful interpretation however of the genuine terror of a poor man who is aware of that the bullets whistling over his head are stay ammunition whose purpose is to hit the mark. What number of takes needed to be redone as a result of the villain pretended to drop useless prematurely! -just after listening to the primary gunshot and even earlier than. That was Russian roulette with 5 bullets within the chamber. Eastwood’s short-sightedness alone prevented anybody from leaving the set feet-first.
