Italian filmmakers of the 60s and 70s fascinated with the Old West.
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There were westerns being made in Italy over 100 years ago:
Sergio Leone may have been drawn to the genre because his father had directed westerns, too. The fact that his westerns became hugely popular helps explain the popularity of the spaghetti western in the 60s/70s
European Westerns are as old as filmmaking itself. The Lumière brothers had their first public screening of films in 1895, and already, in 1896, Gabriel Veyre shot Repas d'Indien ("Indian Banquet") for them. Joe Hamman starred as Arizona Bill in films made in the French horse country of Camargue (1911–1912).
In Italy, the American West as a dramatic setting for spectacles goes back at least as far as Giacomo Puccini's 1910 opera La fanciulla del West ("The Girl of the West"), which is sometimes considered to be the first spaghetti Western.
The first Western movie made in Italy was La voce del sangue, produced by the Turin film studio Itala Film.[18] In 1913, La vampira Indiana was released; a combination of Western and vampire film. It was directed by Vincenzo Leone, father of Sergio Leone, and starred his mother, Bice Valerian, in the title role as the Indian princess Fatale. The Italians also made Wild Bill Hickok films, while the Germans released backwoods Westerns featuring Bela Lugosi as Uncas.
Of the Western-related European films before 1964, the one that attracted the most attention is arguably Luis Trenker's Der Kaiser von Kalifornien about John Sutter. Another Italian Western is Girl of the Golden West. The film's title alludes to the opera The Girl of the Golden West, by Giacomo Puccini, but is not an adaptation of it. It was one of a handful of Westerns to be made during the silent film and Fascist Italy eras. Forerunners of the genre were also Giorgio Ferroni's Il fanciullo del West (The Boy in the West) and Fernando Cerchio's Il bandolero stanco, starring Erminio Macario and Renato Rascel, respectively.
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In Italy, the American West as a dramatic setting for spectacles goes back at least as far as Giacomo Puccini's 1910 opera La fanciulla del West ("The Girl of the West"), which is sometimes considered to be the first spaghetti Western.
The first Western movie made in Italy was La voce del sangue, produced by the Turin film studio Itala Film.[18] In 1913, La vampira Indiana was released; a combination of Western and vampire film. It was directed by Vincenzo Leone, father of Sergio Leone, and starred his mother, Bice Valerian, in the title role as the Indian princess Fatale. The Italians also made Wild Bill Hickok films, while the Germans released backwoods Westerns featuring Bela Lugosi as Uncas.
Of the Western-related European films before 1964, the one that attracted the most attention is arguably Luis Trenker's Der Kaiser von Kalifornien about John Sutter. Another Italian Western is Girl of the Golden West. The film's title alludes to the opera The Girl of the Golden West, by Giacomo Puccini, but is not an adaptation of it. It was one of a handful of Westerns to be made during the silent film and Fascist Italy eras. Forerunners of the genre were also Giorgio Ferroni's Il fanciullo del West (The Boy in the West) and Fernando Cerchio's Il bandolero stanco, starring Erminio Macario and Renato Rascel, respectively.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_Western
There were westerns being made in Italy over 100 years ago:
Sergio Leone may have been drawn to the genre because his father had directed westerns, too. The fact that his westerns became hugely popular helps explain the popularity of the spaghetti western in the 60s/70s
Sergio Leone may have been drawn to the genre because his father had directed westerns, too. The fact that his westerns became hugely popular helps explain the popularity of the spaghetti western in the 60s/70s
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Why? I never got the connection.
The filmmaking industry established variety of stylized sceneries based on historic periods and the western is one of them. It is just a good product for all audiences.
You can also ask: Why Hollywood makes movies about Roman empire or Egypt or European Baroque era? Simple answer - very beneficial period scenery to be stylized for movies and after all, very good for business.
As a whole, the general audience even don't make a difference whose production is the film. I'd like to add another of the big filmmaking studios specialized in westerns. It was East Germany. They've released many productions in this genre during the late 60's and the entire 70's. All of these been boxoffice super hits.
To mention some major names - from Italian side Giuliano Gemma was next to Steve McQueen as the kings of westerns. Gojko Mitić and Dean Reed been the biggest stars in the genre from the German side. (the later was an American refugee who has emigrated in DDR)
Isn't the western genre actually been created in Europe? It was the literature that established it decades before the cinema. I can't think of a bigger author than the German Karl May who created the western stylized characters and turn them into super stars world wide via his numerous novels in the late 19th century.
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It's very simple. It is business.
The filmmaking industry established variety of stylized sceneries based on historic periods and the western is one of them. It is just a good product for all audiences.
You can also ask: Why Hollywood makes movies about Roman empire or Egypt or European Baroque era? Simple answer - very beneficial period scenery to be stylized for movies and after all, very good for business.
As a whole, the general audience even don't make a difference whose production is the film. I'd like to add another of the big filmmaking studios specialized in westerns. It was East Germany. They've released many productions in this genre during the late 60's and the entire 70's. All of these been boxoffice super hits.
To mention some major names - from Italian side Giuliano Gemma was next to Steve McQueen as the kings of westerns. Gojko Mitić and Dean Reed been the biggest stars in the genre from the German side. (the later was an American refugee who has emigrated in DDR)
Isn't the western genre actually been created in Europe? It was the literature that established it decades before the cinema. I can't think of a bigger author than the German Karl May who created the western stylized characters and turn them into super stars world wide via his numerous novels in the late 19th century.
The filmmaking industry established variety of stylized sceneries based on historic periods and the western is one of them. It is just a good product for all audiences.
You can also ask: Why Hollywood makes movies about Roman empire or Egypt or European Baroque era? Simple answer - very beneficial period scenery to be stylized for movies and after all, very good for business.
As a whole, the general audience even don't make a difference whose production is the film. I'd like to add another of the big filmmaking studios specialized in westerns. It was East Germany. They've released many productions in this genre during the late 60's and the entire 70's. All of these been boxoffice super hits.
To mention some major names - from Italian side Giuliano Gemma was next to Steve McQueen as the kings of westerns. Gojko Mitić and Dean Reed been the biggest stars in the genre from the German side. (the later was an American refugee who has emigrated in DDR)
Isn't the western genre actually been created in Europe? It was the literature that established it decades before the cinema. I can't think of a bigger author than the German Karl May who created the western stylized characters and turn them into super stars world wide via his numerous novels in the late 19th century.
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Why? I never got the connection.
Yeah, I think Italians were best at neo-realism.
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