A Beginner's Guide to Spaghetti Westerns
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- This video is a beginner’s guide to the subgenre of Spaghetti Westerns. These films were made in the 1960s and 70s by directors like Sergio Leone, Sergio Corbucci, and Duccio Tessari.
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Intro 0:00
“Dollars” trilogy 0:57
Once Upon a Time in the West 6:04
Duck You Sucker! 7:06
Sergio Corbucci 8:04
Duccio Tessari 10:40
Sergio Sollima 11:36
Terence Hill and Bud Spencer 12:21
Tonino Valerii 13:00
Giulio Petroni 13:31
A Bullet for the General 14:04
Giorgio Stegani 14:26
Lucio Fulci 14:36
Keoma 14:49
Outro 15:10
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Great Video.
Fun Trivia- Terrence Hill's real name is Mario Girotti. He was hired because of his remarkable resemblance to Franco Nero of Django etc. Terrence Hill was a name he chose from a list of names Producer's had, often done in the Film industry. Anyone else get them confused when seeing clips?! or reading, or just me! Strikingly similar I think..
Also, according to 'Reel Rundown.com', 'Italian productions of the time, the movie was filmed silently and all effects and dialogue were dubbed in later on'. (Fistful of dollars- 'Because the film didn't receive an international release until 1967, Eastwood didn't dub his lines until three years after filming had finished'. That makes sense now, I find the voices do sound over dubbed when I watch some Spaghetti Westerns, especially 'Hate Your Neighbour'.
Despite being Italian, I never watched any spaghetti western for well over 15 years, until one day, thankfully, my father gently forced me to go to the cinema with him because there was a rescreening of The good, the bad and the ugly.
Man, what a ride, it shook me to the bones. To this day I'm still proud and grateful of that decision. Experiencing such a timeless movie on the big screen was eye-opening for sure.
Needless to say, I went on and watched many other westerns, with Once upon a time in the West becoming my favourite, from an artistic point of view. The ending never fails to make me cry like a little baby, it transcends genres, ages, everything. It's a true masterpiece. Just the final stare between Charles Bronson and Claudia Cardinale gives me chills every single time.
It really is one of my favourite endings of all time, alongside a bunch of John Carpenter's movies (mainly Escape from New York and In the mouth of madness) and Isao Takahata's Only yesterday.
I like how they take away the glamour of traditional westerns, making them more real like. The rawness of the music and that there're no actual heroes in the movies.
Gui la testa is such a hidden underappreciated gem, probably the most underrated film of Leone.
This channel is underrated.
The Big Gundown (1966) and The Mercenary (1968) deserve immense praise, both are great revisionist westerns and feature some of Ennio Morricone's best scores
I cannot thank you enough for this, I've ALWAYS have tried to get into westerns and the most I've gotten are the more popular ones and maybe El Topo if you consider that to be one...
El Topo is usually considered an "Acid Western".
@@kubricklynch Never heard of 'Acid Western'. Thanks!
(What is it?)
@@Dreamskater100 From wikipedia: subgenre of the Western film that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s that combines the metaphorical ambitions of critically acclaimed Westerns, such as Shane and The Searchers, with the excesses of the Spaghetti Westerns and the outlook of the counterculture of the 1960s. Acid Westerns subvert many of the conventions of earlier Westerns to "conjure up a crazed version of autodestructive white America at its most solipsistic, hankering after its own lost origins
@@kubricklynch Thank you.
Lee Van Cleef dressed exactly like one of his childhood heroes in two movies “Spaghetti Westerns’ Wyatt Earp. Lee’s costume is a perfect copy of the famous outfit worn by Wyatt Earp in 1881 in Tombstone Arizona. Lee provided his own clothes as did Clint Eastwood. Lee even used a 12 inch barrel Colt like the one used by Marshall Earp. The Hat, Coat, Shirt, Vest, Tie with Tie pin, Boots, Guns every detail is a Tribute to the most famous Lawman-Marshall in American history. John Wayne often said he made all his characters after Wyatt Earp saying every time he walked onto a movie set he pretended to be Wyatt Earp in the way he walked and talked. Clint Eastwood was also influenced by Wyatt and said he fashioned Inspector Harry Callahan “Dirty Harry” after the most famous Lawman Marshall in history… Wyatt Earp.
The Dollar movies are the best Western ever! And i like The great silence a lot, the best Corbucci western!
I actually missed the classic days of Spaghetti westerns.
I've seen all of them you said.. 😀 n you can't imagine the impact it created on my personality..! Western Spaghetti's are to be handled with care!
The only issue with starting with Sergio Leone movies is knowing it ain't gonna get better than this. Don't get me wrong there are alot of entertaining spaghetti westerns out there but Leone is simply in a league of his own
For a few dollars more is the best in the trilogy imo.
Greatest story between Van Cleef and the bad guy!^^
This is probably my the best approach for the new fan. Roughly follows my own path into the genre. I’d like to shout out my favourite western though - not Spaghetti but still revisionist, Eastwood’s ‘High Plains Drifter’. It’s the brutal tale of what happens when you invite the devil in to help you defeat another evil.
Great job! Even as a big spaghetti western fan I've learned something new with this video. I've seen so many spaghetti westerns that I'm not always sure if I saw a particular movie or not, but I think some on this list I have missed so far.
Okay I finally watched The Great Silence. It was dubbed in Italian and I had to use subtitles so I don’t know how great the translation was. But when you said a bleak ending you weren’t lying.
And I I guess both the best and worst part about it is that there is no logical way to dispute the ending. The only dispute you can say is that it doesn’t make an audience feel good with that ending. Yet the bleak ending almost grounds it to the bleakness that is reality.
I am trying to remember the most recent film that has a bleak ending like that and it might be Avengers Infinity War of all things. But the similarity is that the heroes lose badly.
Yet with all the bleakness I can’t deny how much I love the movie. Some people put it as their greatest western ever and I can’t do that but it is definitely one of the most original.
I find Corbucci out of all the spaghetti western directors is the most forward thinking. While many spaghetti westerns would have benefited from bigger budget and more modern technology. I feel Corbucci is the one who would have benefited the most.
And with that I feel The Great Silence would actually work better today than it would have in 1968. In my head I could just see Zoe Saldana playing Pauline if it was made today.
Anyway I went way longer than expected. Maybe I should start doing movie reviews lol. But you were the first place I heard about The Great Silence and can’t thank you enough for that.
The Italian westerns (not spaghetti westerns which was a derogatory term then overwhelmed by the prestige received in the following decades) as rightly said began with the first film by Leone. Leone has directed a few films but had a solid background as a second unit director (an example for all is the famous chariot race scene in Ben Hur).
Beyond what is explained in the video there is to further underline the extraordinary symbiosis between the film and Morricone's music, with Leone himself who came to affirm that Morricone's music was for him a sort of script itself. From the good, the bad and the ugly, the music was written first and filmed synchronizing the action to the music itself and even letting the actors listen to the music before filming or during the filming itself.
The novelty in the characters, the absolute beauty and novelty of the shots and the preponderant part that music plays in the economy of the film itself has created films that have become iconic and entered the history of world cinema. Keep in mind that I am an iron Fordian but I have no difficulty in placing Ford and Leone on the same step, obviously the highest.
Concordo plenamente. Leone pelo que realizou está com certeza no degrau dos maiores gênios do cinema, que é o mais alto.
Thank you for pointing out that spaghetti western was a derogatory term-- created, I believe, by the snobbish New York Times. Variety called them, "Italoaters", which was still pretty bad although intended only as shorthand.
WAS
Now nobody gives a shit
I would love a video that is a guide to classic American Westerns.
Believe me, the pronunciations made by a non-Italian are very funny, ha ha ha.
However "Giù La Testa" (or as you others call it) is one of my favorite films of all time, and together with Carpenter's They Live one of the most important films for my growth and the maturation of my ideas on a political and social level..
However, it is certainly an interesting video.
This is very well done. Well put for brand new film lovers and for those that know westerns well you checked all the boxes. I enjoy your lay out and your critiques that are personal to you as well as you holding the balance of seeming like a neutral film teacher. I wish you luck in your future videos! I'll be watching.
Thank you!!!
In my personal opinion Once Upon A Time in The West has the greatest score ever not just in a western. Now I might be too biased as I think Once Upon A Time in The West is probably my favorite movie and think it has become one of the most underrated movies ever and Leone’s best film in my opinion. I find it interesting how the Zapata western came and went. I feel like that would be a really interesting think for someone to do now maybe?
I feel like the show The Mandalorean has a hint of spaghetti western the way the show is portrayed. Even the music reminds me of it.
Agreed!
Excellent video on spaghetti westerns sir! My favorite genre of all time, some other ones that weren’t mentioned in this video that I highly recommend are:
“A stranger in town” & “The stranger returns”, “The forgotten pistolero”, “His name was king” “Shoot the living and pray for the dead” “A minute to pray and a second to die”, “Bandidos” “And God said to Cain” and the excellent “Blindman” (even though there was footage shown for this one in the video).
Stranger Returns has a glorious score by Stelvio Cipriani.
@@geraldmartin7703 agreed 👍
Good guide to Italian westerns! While I love the American westerns that came before it (I actually saw some of them before I saw the Italian ones, despite being born well after their heyday), I do like the grittiness of the Italian westerns, as well as their potent drama bubbling underneath it all. I especially love Once Upon a time in the West. The score alone is worth watching it imo.
Thanks!
wow delicious spaghetti
I love🍝!
I just watched the great silence and it is really good!
The Red Dead video game series is basically a love letter to the spaghetti western genre. Read Dead Revolver goes whole hog, while Redemption 1 & 2 are more subtle, with many tips of the hat.
This is only good in my book.
I'm actually in the middle of playing RDR2 on PS4 at the moment. Great game.
Great video. My only criticism is that I feel you should mention more of Gian Maria Volonte's involvement in the first two Dollars film
I agree.
My all time favorite western has to be Leone’s “Duck You Sucker!” So many fantastic quotes
I really enjoyed this video, learned alot! ty
ill be calling american westers burger westers from now on
Thanks a lot for this video !
I recently watched Django 1966 and the great silence just to get a feel for what Corbucci was about and i have to say. If Once upon a time (My personal favorite western) is a 10/10 then the great silence was a 9/10 and Django was a 7,5/10.
I was pleasantly suprised by Silence and it quickly got on my top 10 list.
I was really dissapointed with Django. I loved some things about it, but found some other things really wierd and some parts i actually disliked.
Lets start of with the possitives. I really enjoyed the music and the finale. And i think the opening to the movie is very good for setting the tone. I also really liked the final shot of the movie. It was actually a beautiful shot.
The negatives: I really found the romance between Django and Maria to be unnessecary. I feel like if it would have just been a revenge movie it would have been much better. I think romance worked way better in The great Silence. I also noticed that the editing in Django was really wierd. I could tell that it was a prettu cheap movie. And the side characters were really forgetable.
FANTASTIC VIDEO!!!!!!!!❤️
Very interesting. Thanks !
Okay you don’t have to reply if you don’t want to but would be interested to hear your thoughts. Westerns are my favorite movie genre so I have obviously watched a lot of them.
To my point Tombstone is an oddity for me. It clearly took the stylistic notes from both spaghetti and American westerns with the editing and the close ups.
Yet I feel it is weird in that it then tonally is more in line with an American western from the 50s and 60s. Where the good guys are good guys while the bad guys are bad guys. There really isn’t a lot of gray area.
Which I find interesting from a post spaghetti western perspective and even a post Unforgiven western.
I mean the real events are baked in this morally gray area which I feel like a more modern filmmaker would eat up.
If I were more inclined I would maybe do a video essay of some sort but that likely won’t happen but you never know.
Curious on your thoughts though given you clearly know westerns. Any way love this video and just have to comeback and watch it every time I see it.
You know I haven’t seen Tombstone in a very long time, so I can’t really comment. I should give it a rewatch soon.
@@kubricklynch yeah it is definitely worth a rewatch. I feel like it does start strong but entering the final act it just sort of peters out to me.
your channel is severely underrated. keep going dude because you really are making great things
Comments like these keep me going! Thank you!
Brilliant channel
Best spaghetti western I’ve seen is California 1977 great film
Very good film
Very good video, two thumbs up!
Thank you very much!
Well Done, Amigo! ✌
excelente este canal!!
Italian westerns were the immediate successor of the Italian "sword and sandal" movies. The gladiator/Hercules/Maciste genre died so abruptly that scripts were repurposed into westerns.
Avoid 'A Fistful of Dynamite". It's the shortened-- by about forty minutes-- version of "Duck You Sucker".
It was the Peplon genre
It's the best kind of western because it took the grandiloquence and academicism of the american genre and drive them to the hell of its own mythology, recreating in a more faithful way what the Wild West could be: a barbarian desert of blood, flies, sand, sweat, alcohol and rotting corpses.
But Sergio Leone did not create anything, the spaghetti was growing and mutating in Europe since the late 1950s (you have Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent, Sergio Bergonzelli or Marino Girolami before him).
After so many movies and so many years, a Top 10 would be very difficult for me.
Has anyone noticed that Clint doesn't find his puncho until the end of the last movie,
The Good The Bad And The Ugly
I remember liking The Hills Run Red ...
Bravo very well done sir.
Thank you!
Very interesting video.
May I ask you what is your opinion on the Winnetou mo is based on the Karl May books?
Lot of Italian directors named Sergio, huh?
I like Sartana
Me too amigo, i wish there's a modern rendition of Sartana (Quentin Tarantino could make one). The idea of a James Bond in the wild west with his gadgets and suits is brilliant. Gianni Garko is my favorite out of these btw.
Great video btw
I agree. Great video.
I didn’t even watch a fistful of dollars, instead I went right to for a few dollars more but I still knew what was happening which is a great trait for a movie series
thanks for this video
No problem! Are you affiliated with the website?
@@kubricklynch the SWDb? Yes this is the official SWDb RUclips account. Cheers amigos
@@spaghettiwesterndatabase Awesome, your website is great and was very helpful when researching this.
we Italians taught western movie to the Americans, the Americans taught us about ancient Rome movie
I would love to see you review the modern western “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” by Andrew Dominic. It’s my favorite movie but sadly not a lot of people know about it. It would be cool to hear your thoughts about it lol
I will consider that! I haven't seen it since it came out. but I remember liking it a lot.
@@kubricklynch I’m so happy you replied and so fast haha normally I never get a reply from this kind of comments. Yes please do consider it, it’s a beautiful movie with incredible cinematography, acting, and music.
Btw you have an awesome channel and very underrated, I just recently discovered it. I’m looking forward to getting into art house and foreign films, and I’m using your channel as a reference. Your Beginner’s Guide videos are very helpful!
Spaghetti's awesome though. It's not derogatory
You deserve sub
A video on Poliziotteschi films could be interesting. I know you addressed them in your big Italian video and I'm not familiar enough with Poliziotteschi to know if there's enough material to make a separate video, but maybe you could consider it
Yup, I would definitely like to do that at some point.
I love the links.
Spaghetti Westerns.
Hollywood.
The Godfather and the message it contains.
The obvious truth it contains.
As in: Showing who took over power.
Lansky, and the rest of the gang.
I think it is funny if you add all of em movies together, and understand that a director does not just film something because it looks funny but may also film something because it contains a certain message, a hint.
And Tarantino, like Hitchcock, they both know how important every image, every take, can be.
Alfred could convince you that you were looking at a pervert by splicing images together.
Tarantino can convince you that you are actually watching something that happened 90 years ago.
And the only thing i think is funny about all of this is simply the dots.
I always loved them drawings when i was a child. You know, connecting the dots.
The drawing has been completed. The dots have been connected long long time ago.
And so the conclusion is that there are 2 kinds of people.
Those who dont give a sjizzle.
And those who do.
Those who do most of the time do not know much.
And those who dont most of the time know too much.
Hence why most of them end up feeding the maggots.
I love all of em links.
But yeah, Mafia, yeah, sure they were.
Does anyone know a solid list for an introductory to Westerns. As a Texan, I want to try to give the genre a fair shot and looked it up. These Spaghetti Westerns, complicated things.
give spaghetti western a try, no need for a big brain to enjoy them :)
12:59 Who is that? Is it Terence Hill or Franco Nero? Thanks.
Hill... they do look quite similar!
@@kubricklynch Thank you! Oh they SO do!
(Read my comment above on Trivia, about them. Great guys, really good interviews with them on youtube).
waw
For the Algo.
It’s definitely the same character across the dollars trilogy. In fistful he gets his hand crushed by the Rojo brothers and has to modify the way he shoots his gun. you see that in For a few dollars more and The good the bad and the ugly that he still shoots the way adapted to. Also his nickname “Manco” in the second film means “one armed.”
Eastwood wears the same poncho in both, which should be a clue.
Stuka
Whirlwind
The only complaint I have about these films is the yellow tint on them.
When people are shot in Spaghetti Westerns, the fall like spaghetti's.
I think they didn't give Clint Eastwood's character a name because it would never be cooler than Clint Eastwood.
Just how westerns should be shown. Instead of perfectly pressed clothing and brand new shiny boots lol😅🇬🇧
you shouldn't start with the dollars trilogy, you should start with something that's pretty good but isn't the best so that when you get to the dollars trilogy and 1966 Django you can appreciate them. Start with Vera Cruz, the Searchers, or High Noon, and then get into the really good stuff.
Italians teached to Americans how to make western movies. 🤔
Taught*
ist view
QuentinTarantino is an absolute genius
You forgot High Plains Drifter and Unforgiven?!
No, neither of those are Spaghetti Westerns at all.
@@kubricklynch Unforgiven was dedicated to Leone and High Plains Drifter was heavily influenced by the Leone movies, if not identical in style.
@@sue2409 A lot of movies are influenced by Leone, that doesn't make them Spaghetti Westerns. Pretty much every post-1960s western was influenced by them.
Italian and most of them SPANIARDS. Spanish directors. Because they were filmed in ALMERIA. Southern Spain
Filmed in Almeria but the directors they were almost all Italians.
@@Duketributechannel that is not true. But some of the best were italians.
when you drink a coca cola in madrid, it doesn’t become a spaniard brand…
not one of the mentioned directors and main characters are from spain…
@@frankpfau9054 WHAT THE FUCK, IGNORANT. IT IS LIKE WORKING IN HOLLYWOOD AND SAYING IS RUSSIAN CINEMA. BITCH
There weren't actually many Spanish directors at all in the genre, but those few active were quite prolific: Joaquin and Rafael Romero Marchent, Juan Bosch, Alfonso Balcazar and Leon Klimovsky directed more than 50 Westerns amongst them, which is probably more than three quarters of the entire Spanish-produced Westerns output of the 60s-70s.
There where many more Italian directors working with the genre but they usually made 2 to 5 Westerns max (often just one) throughout their whole careers while simultaneously working in many more for other genres (exception made for Leone who became successful enough not to need making other movies between any of his 5 Westerns).
The term spaghetti western is kinda insulting isn’t it
How So?
Alert A snowflake
In Japan they call them "macaroni westerns".
It started out as an insult, but nowadays that name is iconic and not seen as an insult at all. So I don’t think anyone should be offended by it, although it would probably sound weird for Italians. It’d be like calling American westerns “Burger Westerns”
@@impossiblefunky Really?
John Wayne looks like a clown compared to Clint Eastwood
Don't knock The Duke. He kept whole second unit folks working. The Searchers influenced Leone.
Back when left wingers were anti-authoritarian...
That’s what I was thinking lol
Frankly I don't think America has ever experienced such thing as a 'left' politically.
These directors often understood Karl Marx back to front and came from real working class environments, while contemporary US 'left' is a bunch of privileged kids reading too much post-modernist literature and wasting time bickering online over horseshit identity politics issues.
He who fights monsters...
The amount of stereotypes for Mexicans and Natives in spaghetti westerns were overreacted AF
Call excellent westerns "spaghetti westerns"?
Then American westerns are "cartoon westerns"
Why do spaghetti westerns have such unrealistic gunshot sounds? Pshoo..pshoo...
It’s part of the charm
@@Johnnysmithy24 True. It's so majestic in a silly way.
Ever count the bullets fired from a six shooter? I got over a dozen in one movie.
Great video. But I'm not sure if I'm right but should "El Topo" be talked about in this video?