Sergio Leone

Another post-modern element of The Walking Dead is its intertextuality. It borrows from Romero and ingrains itself in the survivalist genre “given impetus by 9/11” but it also draws inspiration from Westerns. Rick is representative of the ‘Sherriff’ with his dress codes and values. He sports a sheriff hat, hoister and is intent about keeping the law. The series poster emulates the western genre as Rick rides a horse amongst a congestion of cars. Walkers are referred to as herds. Western narratives

Bad, And The Ugly, directed by Sergio Leone, shows the exhilarating tale of three men and their pursuit for two hundred thousand dollars. The film takes place in the wild South West during the deadly and gruesome American Civil War. The characters come in contact with the war, both on purpose and inadvertently numerous times. The film’s three main characters are Blondie, the “Good,” Angel Eyes, the “Bad,” and Tuco, the “Ugly.” Throughout the motion picture, Sergio Leone pays special attention to each

The term Spaghetti Western became popular in the mid 60’s in which A Fistful of Dollars was released as the first film of a trilogy, but this was not Sergio Leone’s first western movie. Leone’s films were not of a typical American western that had been released in previous years, but instead a reaction or his own take of the Western frontier and through many aspects of his films we can see influences from Italian cinematic styles and approaches. This was an interesting time for the western film industry

What could be more quintessentially American than having a national touchstone be reinvented by a foreigner? By the time Sergio Leone began work on A Fistfull of Dollars in 1964, the Western and all of its trappings had been around for nearly a century. Whether it be through literature, film, television, or radio, stories of pitched gun battles and hard-fought backwater living in that peculiar period of the untamed American frontier became one of the United States’ chief cultural exports. Over the

An eerie flute sounds in the distance, smack dab in the center of, let’s call it, “A Staple Town in the Wild West™” are two cowboys; in the midst of a head to head shootout for God knows what- a spilled drink, malicious comments, a poached lover. The piercing mix of sand and wind scathing your skin, eyes blinded by the high noon sun shining from above, and of course, the token roll of tumbleweed to the corner of your eye. “One… two… three… Shoot!” The hero always prevails... quite disparate imagery

Music as the Background: Spaghetti Western and Silent Movies There are types of music that you can use in a movie scene. Some different genres can be used in different ways. However, there are many types that can be used for only one type of scene. For example, if you wanted to intensify a scary scene, it would not make that much sense if you put a happy melody. You could call these types of music as ‘music as the background’. Today, we are going to look at two different types of Music as the

friendship. Some hold that it is a matter of similarity: that our friends are those who are like ourselves others take the contrary view. The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly are a movie that shows a complicated friendship in the storyline. Directed by Sergio Leone, this movie was pioneer of spaghetti’s western movie during 1960’s. Starring Clint Eastwood (Blondie), Eli Wallach (Tuco) and Lee Van clef (Sentenza/Angel Eyes), this movie is one of the best and listed on the top ten ranks in IMDB. Tuco and

Mintian Zhou Jacob Burg University Writing Seminar: The Western: Cowpunchers, Gunslingers, and Beyond Unforgiven: The Contradictory Treatment of Violence Violence has always been a crucial factor in many genres of cinemas and film productions. The Western genre and the film in the genre is a fascinating approach to analyze the treatment of violence. Violence in the Western genre has changed multiple times into completely different but interesting view points over the course of history. The traditional

A NOT-SO-ACCURATE prophet once wrote, "As recently as 1972, there were a tremendous number of quality Westerns being made . . . and since there seems to be a ten-year cycle in Western movie making, I'd say we'll see more in about 1982." 1 In 1982 only two Westerns were released, and neither was exactly a major success. Barbarosa, starring Willie Nelson, drew some respectable reviews–and some very damaging ones–but nobody went to see the film. The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez appeared first

THE FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF THE WESTERN CINEMA The western movies are film genre where the scene generally takes place in North America during the American conquest of the West in the last decades of the nineteenth century. This genre appears since the invention of the cinema in 1985 finding its inspiration from literature and painting arts of the American Wild West. This genre reached its first success in the mid-twentieth century during the golden age of Hollywood studios, before it had being reinvented