Puoi modificare le tue preferenze in qualsiasi momento visitando la pagina sulle Preferenze cookie, come descritto nell'Informativa sui cookie. Clicca su "Personalizza i cookie" per non accettare questi cookie, gestire le tue preferenze ulteriori o saperne di più. I terzi utilizzano i cookie per le loro finalità di mostrare e analizzare la pubblicità personalizzata, generare informazioni sui destinatari e sviluppare e migliorare i prodotti. Questo comprende l'utilizzo di cookie di prima parte e di terze parti che memorizzano o accedono a informazioni standard del dispositivo, come l’identificatore univoco. Se accetti, utilizzeremo i cookie anche per ottimizzare la tua esperienza di acquisto nei negozi Amazon come descritto nella nostra Informativa sui cookie. Utilizziamo questi cookie anche per capire come i clienti utilizzano i nostri servizi per poterli migliorare (ad esempio, analizzando le interazioni con il sito). ![]() Utilizziamo cookie e altre tecnologie simili necessari per consentirti di effettuare acquisti, per migliorare le tue esperienze di acquisto e per fornire i nostri servizi, come descritto in dettaglio nella nostra Informativa sui cookie. Only the eerily silent prairie, a space from which enemies WILL come, but are as yet invisible.Selezione delle preferenze relative ai cookie Leone picks this shot up and carries it forward in time to ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, but here, as the camera orbits Frank Wolff, the movement reveals - nothing. We get a good chunk of the shot at the start of the trailer. As the camera circles Burt, we see them rising slowly from every rooftop, their appearance timed precisely to sync with the camera movement itself. There’s also a “shoot when the music stops” scene directly informing the musical watch duels of FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE…īest of all is the bit I remembered most clearly - Burt and Gary and Cesar and almost everyone else find themselves outgunned by juaristas, who have crept up silently in Red Indian manner and in vast numbers, surrounding them. The Mexican setting suggests DUCK, YOU SUCKER, as does the presence of a stiff-necked Prussian officer. Burt starts to say “Why you dirty son of a b–” and is cut short by a blast of music (diegetic in this case), as Eli Wallach would be at the end of that film. The quest for concealed gold, though far from unique to this film, seems to inform THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY. Besides, I think he saw every western there was to see. Sergio Leone (no women’s director, he) would act as AD for Aldrich on SODOM AND GOMORRAH, and so he must have seen this. When the villain is allowed to get more charismatic and interesting than the villain, a big reversal may be imminent. You could imagine an earlier film where his grinning brute turns round and shows a heart of gold - he could do a Captain Renault. Gary Cooper in the lead, hiring himself out to the wrong side, an early indication of the moral complexity/confusion engulfing the western hero, and Burt Lancaster turning a bad guy role into a star turn. Great support work from Cesar Romero, George MacReady (the Emperor Maximilian!), early supporting villainy from Jack Elam, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson (still going by Buchinsky at this point). Mainly she brings astonishing beauty and glamour to a role that sees her doing a lot of double-crossing too, but on the side of good.īut of course the men do most of the hard riding. She doesn’t win in the end, but she gets away with it.Īlmost as gratifying from the female interest perspective was the presence of Sara Montiel, previously enjoyted in SERENADE. Here she plays a pure noir character, a scheming betrayer. ![]() Darcel (“Why was she always in westerns?” asked Fiona, thinking of WESTWARD THE WOMEN, which she loved) was a French actor burlesque dancer and starlet with a husky frame and stereotypically Gallic delivery. So, the presence of Denise Darcel was my means of persuading Fiona to try this (plus, she was well up for an Aldrich double). ![]() But this logic doesn’t seem to hold up for a lot of female viewers. By getting the female characters well out of the way on the sidelines, it makes it easier to ogle John Wayne or Richard Widmark (her favourite). Scenery, animals, men, activity, travel, justice. Westerns are full of things women often like to see. This is disorienting to me since my mum loves westerns, so I grew up thinking, Yeah, westerns, women’s pictures, right. Fiona’s not big on westerns, generally needs them to have a female element. I wanted to re-see VERA CRUZ, having always enjoyed it and having recently acquired a second-hand copy on DVD. ![]() So, it was a Robert Aldrich double feature, in fact.
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