Spaghetti Western - Lee Van Cleef
by Antonios Valamontes
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Spaghetti Western - Lee Van Cleef
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Antonios Valamontes
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Digital Art - Digital Art
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So it’s the Spaghetti Western…. I cannot speak objectively here. Here’s the Wikipedia-type stuff: It’s less a genre than a cycle of films made by Italian producers, shot in Spain, crewed by Spaniards and Italians, and featuring a cast from Italy, America, Germany, and/or Spain. These films lacked the romanticization of the myth of Westward expansion and tended to have morally ambiguous protagonists and sent up the shady dealings of America’s past. The style was visually ambitious, with crazed zooms, long landscape shots, fecund production design in the interiors, and the most frequent uses of closeups since Carl Theodore Dryer. The cycle lasted roughly from 1960 to the mid 1980s.
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November 22nd, 2020
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