Have you ever wondered what was your favorite West? If so, did you find the answer easily? When you are a knowledgeable genre, one of the most emblematic of the Hollywood Cinema Golden Age, the answer is not as obvious as you think, as it covers so many times to move the movies equally.
Along with John Ford, there is also a seminar with a fantastic bearing that immediately named John Wayne, a frustrated desert inmate who puts the codes that he himself has helped, or the promised person who killed the Valans of the Valans that contradicts the legend and reality. But we can also prefer a mix of genres and Howard Hocks Rio Bravo, or Clint Eastwood’s ruthless nest.
And then there is Italy and its spaghetti Westerners, an expression that is still used for pure and mocking purposes, when we pay a gender summit on these European performances. Specifically, Sergio Leone’s side. After starting at Peplum, he changed his registry with a handful of dollars (Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo remake), the first part of the trilogy that reaches the culmination of kindness, rough and ugly, and his iconic musical theme. A good candidate for the best West of all time, as well as his next Opus, came out in our rooms this Wednesday, February 12.
Beyond their perfection and its director, it is also difficult to compare kindness, rude and ugly, and once in the West. The first shines thanks to his cheated characters and their low strikes, on his replicas that blew up as well as footage and his epic treasure hunting in the wake of the American Civil War, when the second brand of more visual minds, some of the most emblem plans in the history of cinema or his story. Among other things.
Because of its very long opening scene, mythical that is time and plays the concept of waiting, it once goes through the West to the movement of its predecessor compared to real behavior. That does not mean that nothing happens for almost three hours: a little and great news again crashed into envy and bloody.
The action is generally described on the same side, and the viewer travels more time than the space, thanks to the flashbacks that tells the real motivations of the characters, starting from the mysterious man to the harmonica, played by Charles Bronson, one of the twelve onions of a homonic It came out earlier. No matter how coincidental, as Sergio Leone opposes one of the new hearts of the time Henry Fund, who was accustomed to the roles of the heroes in Hollywood West.
In the West of Spaghetti and more specifically in Sergio Leone, it is not really bad and kind, and the characters are as dirty as their costumes are impregnated with sweat and dust. When they are not soaked in this blood that the director regretted not seeing Hollywood performances, regardless of the number of ball wounds. Its protagonists’ violent fate in America, the filmmaker offers a more raw, realistic, and mac vision of Western conquest (despite the important role of Claudia Cardinal), and the last plan showing that it will not be able to avoid the arrival of the railway.
This explains the last side of this film that can be described as “MAGNUM OPUS” Its author, if he was not at once in America. It remains monumental and personal. Perhaps for many neophytes, with whom we do not recommend that this film is robbed by the West, lacking a classic narrative framework, and which tells more than words, even if it is more than its previous feature films).
Monumental and operational
Anti-West, which is in the time of envy and whose strength is even greater, when we know the cliches in which he returns his neck as his characters. This may also explain its failure in the United States (not in France, where it unites 14.9 million spectators), fortunately, will be reimbursed by the place that now occupies the 7th Art Pantheon.
The cowo boys point with white teeth or Indians who are zealous here, no. But the filmmakers’ realistic view of the time who do not try to carry out American history in the studio. Thus, it is necessary to get to know itself a little to the west, before it landed in front of it, to better appreciate its greatness and its operating side. Because we should not forget one of the great names of Western spaghetti: composer Enio Morikoni. There is no theme of the song of my name, that’s it. It’s kindness, rude and ugly. Once there he was in the West, he goes even further and created the character: Harmonica, Frank and Jill.
Music emphasizes the greatness of integrity and participates in its identity, in addition to remembering how much the film can raise when it satisfies itself. What is the case here, when the past and the present, one of the signatures of the Harmonic and the Bed Sergio Leone, whose quality of mastery is only related to the opening. The challenge, for those who saw a feature film, is a Harmonic to see if not looking at the Enio Moricon (spoiler: it’s almost impossible).
We can spend hours on details of what makes it great, once in the West, but it’s best to see (again). And what could be better than watches in theaters to appreciate the sink offered by Sergio Leone? If you just determine whether this is the best Western cinema history. According to your notes, this is its average figure, which is 5 to 4.5. Depending on the criteria on which we are based on ourselves, the debate is slightly open.
But one thing is convinced: it is undoubtedly the most massive and grand. It is located at a very high level of the basket and is one of the largest films of all time, all kinds of combinations, and its soundtrack is the most iconic and immediately recognizable.
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