FILM 1143 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Spaghetti Western, Antihero
8 Feb 2020
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The good, the bad, and the ugly (1966) Genre: spaghetti western was the term used by american critics to describe new italian subgenre that emerged in mid-1960"s, sergio leone"s trilogy: a fistful of dollars (1964), for a few dollars more (1965), and the good, The bad, and the ugly (1966) fall under the spaghetti western subgenre: rejected the hollywood western aesthetic, and embrace the anti-hero and ultraviolence. Instead of white settler mythology, spaghetti westerns foreground cynicism and capitalist dynamics. The sound of spaghetti western: sound recorded in post-production rather than on set, multiple languages of actors later dubbed into language of distribution, fx sound of pistols, natural sounds amplified. Leone stated sound is 40% of a movie. Later leone films had musical score composed first, then visuals were created to fit the score.
