The Movie Would’ve Been Different
Despite the fact that Eastwood had signed on with no possibility of backing out, he wasn’t totally satisfied with the idea. No, Sergio Leone’s most famous Spaghetti Westerns’ iconic star was not a happy bunny. And there was one aspect of Kelly’s Heroes in particular that irritated him.
The Movie Would’ve Been Different
Dissatisfied With The Film
The grumpy Hollywood star despised the studio’s editing of the film. Many of the filmed but cut moments, according to Eastwood, would have added more character and philosophical depth to Kelly’s Heroes, making it a better film than the one that was produced. In 1985, he told the French film magazine Positif: “It was [originally] a very fine anti-militaristic script, one that said some important things about the war, about this propensity that man has to destroy himself.”
Dissatisfied With The Film
