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"I'm your huckleberry"

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Manics said:
Once upon a time in the west would have been better had Clint played the lead role as opposed to Charles Bronson.

Oh boy do I disagree with that. Clint would not have been right for that role at all. It just wasn't Clint's type of badassness. Bronson owns that role. Still I perfer The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, even though I think OUATITW is a better film.
 

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VistraNorrez said:
Oh boy do I disagree with that. Clint would not have been right for that role at all. It just wasn't Clint's type of badassness. Bronson owns that role. Still I perfer The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, even though I think OUATITW is a better film.


The only role I see Bronson in is Death Wish. I couldn't get my head around seeing him in a western.
 

nitewulf

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unforgiven is my favortie, used to be the good, the bad, and the ugly though. clint eastwood just rocks, i never got the fascination with john wayne westerns.
 

Dujour

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Hate to bump, but thought this was cool:

"Huckleberry" was commonly used in the 1800's in conjunction with "persimmon" as a small unit of measure. "I'm a huckleberry over your persimmon" meant "I'm just a bit better than you." As a result, "huckleberry" came to denote idiomatically two things. First, it denoted a small unit of measure, a "tad," as it were, and a person who was a huckleberry could be a small, unimportant person--usually expressed ironically in mock self-depreciation. The second and more common usage came to mean, in the words of the "Dictionary of American Slang: Second Supplemented Edition" (Crowell, 1975):


"A man; specif., the exact kind of man needed for a particular purpose. 1936: "Well, I'm your huckleberry, Mr. Haney." Tully, "Bruiser," 37. Since 1880, archaic.


The "Historical Dictionary of American Slang" which is a multivolume work, has about a third of a column of citations documenting this meaning all through the latter 19th century.


So "I'm your huckleberry" means "I'm just the man you're looking for!"


Now ain't that a daisy!


The "Daisy" comment is easier. In the late 19th century "daisy" was a common slang term for "the best in it's class." So for "daisy" just substitute "the best" and you'll have it. It was a short-lived idiom and doesn't seem to be popular much after 1890.

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~knuthco1/Itemsofinterest1/huckleberrysource.htm

I always thought it meant that "I'm gonna be the one to free you" as in kill you. Now, this thread can die.
 
What about "The Quick and the Dead? Probably the best western ever and Sam Raimi's finest.

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Okay, so the movie wasn't all that great but it had a couple of classic scenes, some pretty cool characters, and a repeating flashback scene reminiscent of the one found in "Once Upon a Time in the West". Atleast I vaguely remember it being that way; haven't seen it a long time. :)
 

Dujour

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Funny you mention Once Upon a Time In the West because I think it takes a lot from it. It's basically a recreation of it but in that it only focuses on Harmonica. I used to love the movie a lot, but after seeing Sergio Leone's original, why bother? :/ I love Gene Hackman in it, though.
 
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