https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zccD--Jwgk4
I thought you guys might dig it, I do a little side-by-side shot comparison.
He's especially been a huge influence in his last 4 films, he's the Italian Western director that Rick Dalton works with in OUATIH.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zccD--Jwgk4&feature=youtu.be
Hey Guys, I made a video essay on the spaghetti Western movement and the director Sergio Corbucci. I figred you guys might appreciate it,
Also I wanted to discuss the topics tackled in this video with you guys, I personally think The Spaghetti Western movement is one of the most profound in cinematic history but I find it hard to ind other that agree.
I acknowledge that they are both the masters of the western genre, but in my opinion Corbucci was the most successful auteur of the two, and there's a reason why I think so. While Sergio Leone is widely acclaimed as the pioneer of this deconstruction of Traditional Western genre into something bleak, cynical, anti-traditionalist, and lacking of American value, Corbucci was the first one to amplify and resonate it within his films.
Many if not most people nowadays commonly describe Leone's films as "operatic westerns" probably because Leone's extra detailed screenplay and editing, Morricone's unconventional and beautiful orchestral music, and beautiful cinematography served on a wide Anamorphic format, left them a greater impression than the characters and mood of the films on their own. He later directed his magnum opus Once Upon a Time in The West, in which he a kind of indulged in that grand operatic style he developed. To be honest, I think plot-wise and theme-wise this movie was a little bit lacking in novelty compared to some Italo Westerns of it's era which were more obscure yet already made their early attempts to break away from the Dollar trilogy conventions Leone set and others imitated.
Corbucci might have failed to deliver such cinematic beauty and high attention to details Leone offered, but he played his strength in elements that truly mattered. His films were utterly downbeat, gritty, and repugnant. Not only in the extreme and realistic violence and gore they depicted, but also in the powerful mood and message they conveyed through their depressing story, savagely selfish characters, broken civilization, PTSD ridden antihero who must suffer crippling wounds, crushingly bleak post-apocalyptic alike setting, and so on. Some of the protagonists were far more morally grey than Leone's protagonists. Django destroyed a bar and murdered innocents to steal gold. The Hellbenders were straight up criminals. Silence played a role usually reserved for villains. Hud from Gli Specialisti almost looked like he had no passion or motivation to do anything, not even for vengeance, gold, or love like your typical western hero, just a sheer disgust of the world he lives in where everyone is either selfish or naive.
Sure, there are many different styles of spaghetti westerns out there, directors deconstructed the traditional western conventions in their own ways. However, in my opinion the core identity of spaghetti western is how it challenges the moral v
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I knew Mitchell had some roles in a couple TV westerns and a few movies I like myself (How to Marry a Millionaire, Blood and Black Lace), but I never expected this. For those who don't know, Sergio Corbucci was the man behind many spaghetti westerns, including the original Django (1966), and was a big influence on Tarantino. Minnesota Clay is the name of the saloon in Django Unchained that Schultz and Django enter during the beginning of the movie. Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krZHmeIexq0
At least at one point in his career, the man can go down in my book as a certified badass.
Just watching the ear-cutting scene in Django for the first time, thinking ahead to the bounty-hunted frozen corpses atop the stagecoach in The Great Silence... itβs one whole contiguous arc. With an homage in name at minimum to the other Sergio soon upcoming.
