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spaghetti western a cowboy film about the American West made, esp by an Italian director, in Europe www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Spaghetti&%20western www.plume-noire.com/movies/cult/spaghettiwesterns.html How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Italian composer Ennio Morricone, recipient of this year's Honorary Academy Award, has written more than 400 film scores, but the work everyone knows -- immediately identifiable after hearing only a couple of notes -- comes from his collaborations on Sergio Leone's classic spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s. You know those Clint Eastwood spaghetti Westerns where Clint walks into a town and a mule is walking around a pole grinding corn? While Tarantino is a fan of nearly all violent cinema, from mainstream directors like Peckinpah to spaghetti westerns to Hong Kong action films, he claims that the primary influence for Kill Bill was a string of decades-old genre and exploitation films. |
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