Poster of the original Django movie.
Ciao. Here is my second little film-festival. It's about Spaghetti Westerns. It's a huge genre that started in the early 60's and going on for more than two decades. It probably had some roots in the 50's with the Zorro and the Zapata characters. With the links and some deep googling you can get a masters-degree in Spaghetti Westerns.
Here I focus on Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained. The relaese was postponed for the Newport "incident". That was a respectful gesture. I'm not going into that, simply because I have no words for this tragedy. In January the movie will be in the cinema's. The press already had a preview and the reviews are good.
The Django character (Franco Nero) was basically created, produced and directed by Sergio Corbucci in 1966.
Clint Eastwood, Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone are probably the best known names for their Dollar Trilogy.
"I think [the Leone films] changed the style, the approach to Westerns [in Hollywood].
They made the violence and the shooting aspect a little more larger than life,
and they had great music and new types of scores.
They were stories that hadn't been used in other Westerns.
They just had a look and a style that was a little different at the time:
I don't think any of them was a classic story, like [John Wayne's 1956] The Searchers or something like that.
(Clint Eastwood, reflecting on the impact of the Dollar Trilogy).
- Eli Wallach was the Good
- Clint Eastwood was the Bad
- Lee Van Cleef was the Ugly
Oh man, how I love Lee Van Cleef.
But there is more. Much more. There were more than 500 spaghetti westerns made. In this little film-festival we want to show you some roots and backgrounds of Spaghetti Westerns. Without further ado, here are some moving pictures;
- The Spaghetti West is a docu about the genre.
- Here is a long interview with Clint Eastwood.
- Here is the original 1966 Django movie.
- (1966) Few Dollars for Django
- (1968) Viva Django
- (1971) W Django
Enjoy.
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