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August 6

Nathan Fillion Civilian Pavilion

It says here that in celebration of an upcoming movie, Edmonton will temporarily rename its city hall to be the Nathan Fillion Civilian Pavilion. Okay, fine, I know Fillion is from Edmonton, but what's with the "civilian pavilion" part of the name? I mean, what's in the movie that this is a reference to? --184.144.99.72 (talk)

Maybe just to be cute, with three rhyming words. But how might anyone here know anything from a movie that has not been released yet? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 21:13, 6 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

For example, the reference could actually be to an earlier appearance of the character in another movie, a comic book, or a video game; or to some other Nathan Fillion character. Or to information already revealed about the upcoming movie. I don't know; that's why I asked. --184.144.99.72 (talk) 02:15, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The answer is self-evident. It's funny, and it rhymes. That's all. --Jayron 32 02:23, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oh. Well, it doesn't seem funny to me. I still think it looks like a reference to something specific. But never mind, thanks. --184.144.99.72 (talk) 05:25, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Civilian comes from the same root as city, and you could use pavilion to mean hall in this context. So "Civilian pavilion" = "city hall". DuncanHill (talk) 02:31, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Once Upon a Time in the West

In the trading house scene, who is the actor who shoots off Cheyenne's chains? Thanks, DuncanHill (talk) 21:39, 6 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Can you find a YouTube clip? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 21:44, 6 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. In the white shirt and black weskit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbA-zCSIRgk DuncanHill (talk) 21:59, 6 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is gonna be tricky. Leone was known for using actors from all over Europe as well as casting people who weren't actors at all but had just the right look that he wanted for the part. This scene is from relatively early in the film (though after the long intro segment of which Woody Strode jokingly said "Leone gave me more closeups than all the rest of my films put together") so I've searched the cast lists that tend to put the names in order of appearance. The one that seems to fit is Livio Andronico, unfortunately this is his only film and google pictures shows an ancient Roman but not this person. I've searched for pictures of other cast members and the one person whose picture looks a bit like the man from the film is Conrado San Martin. His character's name is Vincenzo so you might re-watch that part of the film and see if that name is used. This is all guesswork so hopefully someone will have better luck giving you the right person. MarnetteD|Talk 22:33, 6 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

At 3:31 in this clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lthUxiO_KOM you see his face clearly. He looks rather like Anton Diffring to me, but I'm fairly sure he wasn't in it. DuncanHill (talk) 23:04, 6 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Appears to be Dino Zamboni.[1] The nose veers a little to our left. He's (un)credited in IMDb as Man in the Bar. Clarityfiend (talk) 05:20, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This utterly unreliable site concurs. Clarityfiend (talk) 05:22, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work Clarityfiend! This film does have one of my all time favorite lines. MarnetteD|Talk 06:34, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @Clarityfiend:. It's not just me but he does look like Diffring doesn't he? @MarnetteD: The opening sequence, up to "You brought two too many" and finishing on the squeak of the windpump works as a film in itself. Strode. Jack Elam, and Al Mulock have faces made for Leone close-ups. DuncanHill (talk) 08:29, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]