James Coburn is one of the coolest actors ever. He always looks like he's ready to throw down with a mountain lion if he has to, but halfway through he'd probably be like, "Screw this - I'll buyya beer!" And then they become best friends and tear up and down the countryside, stirring up trouble in a drunken cloud of good-natured revelry wherever they go.
If you've never seen Duck, You Sucker (also billed as A Fistful of Dynamite) do yourself a favor. Get a Netflix account and watch it. It's amazing. Plus, it contains 2.5 hours of what is probably the best, funniest, most enjoyable, honestly awful accents ever portrayed in a major motion picture by the dainty Rod Steiger.
He really gets going around the 1:35 mark.
In spite of (and in part Due To) that accent, it's a truly moving and genius movie and one of my favorites.
In my mind, if Chibi met James Coburn, he would instantly fall into a Rod Steiger-ish accent. You know, just to make Coburn feel at home. Like he was back in the American southwest, shooting movies and chumming around with drunken mountain lions.
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