“Frayling Chases Spaghetti Westerns”

Notes that I took while listening:

Leones Films in 1960's were referred to as spaghetti westerns

Why westerns in Italy
*First saw Hollywood westerns in 1930's
*Represented freedom
*Made westerns b/c Hollywood stopped
*Liked and made westerns with a lot of action and less talking

didn't like some traditional ideologies of westerns
*John Wayne/ Crusading element
*Took visuals and concepts and put them with different ideologies

Modern heroes started with Fist Full of Dollars character played my Clint Eastwood
*Identify with hero because of his personality and style not because of his morals

Characters are realistic and scenes are dusty and grimy(lived in)

Once Upon a Time in the West
*Showed casting against type
*Unlike other westerns
*An American actor shot child in clod blood(Henry F.)
*Shows really bad guys by the morality of them

Some actors are dubbed because they are international people playing the characters
*Americans do hear Clint Eastwood's voice
*Dubbing was done really poorly
*Sound is at least 40% of the movie

Music
*Western movies are really about movies
*Choosing right composers is essential
*Italian folk instruments/rock
*Youthful not looked into classical or traditional
*Concrete sounds
* Experimenting with sound (silence)
* All sounds are music