Western Film “For over forty years, from 1926 to 1967, Hollywood produced more Westerns than any other kind of film” (pg.243). The western film I chose was one of Sergio Leone’s famous trilogies, which included A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. These are known as Spaghetti Westerns. The film The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly takes place during the American Civil War and follows three men on the hunt for Confederate gold. Many westerns focus on themes of revenge, but The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is specifically about human greed and deceit. Each man is willing to do anything for the gold. This is what makes this film really worth watching because of the shoot’em style and the ability
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245). This thesis was not entirely accurate, but it provided a scenario of the role the West played in American history (pg. 245). Western films are the major defining genre of American history. They are the oldest and most flexible genre that includes the most characteristics people attribute to American films in their mythic origins. These films glorified the past values, but now westerns have been remade and expanded their focus. Most westerns films are based upon cowboys, Native American, and Mexicans. While watching The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly you can see the stereotypes and generalizations that are being made by the portrayals of language and people. Spaghetti Westerns are movies where the villains are powerful. Evil capitalists held the power over their workers and had bandits to do their dirty work for them. The hero was solely motivated by greed and usually was punished by it. That is why the film The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is a great example because it shows selfish heroes, acting as a type of anti-hero. A scene that helps describe this is when Blondie and Tuco leave the monastery. They want to fool the troops that are coming to them by shouting, “long live the South” (movie). They are then captured and this just changes their …show more content…
259). The opening scene starts with a few men walking and they get into a gunfight with the Ugly and this foreshadows the ending where the Ugly ends up in gunfight with The Bad and The Good. This film is most exciting which lead to Sergio Leone creating one of the greatest spaghetti westerns in American history. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is packed with showdowns, gunfights, battles, and even taunting between each character. Near the end of the film the showdown between the three men is epic. The faceoff was in a desolate graveyard that tested the men guts, trust, wits, and skills with a gun. This shows the trembling brows to the squinting eyes resulted to bullets going off and graves being
245). This thesis was not entirely accurate, but it provided a scenario of the role the West played in American history (pg. 245). Western films are the major defining genre of American history. They are the oldest and most flexible genre that includes the most characteristics people attribute to American films in their mythic origins. These films glorified the past values, but now westerns have been remade and expanded their focus. Most westerns films are based upon cowboys, Native American, and Mexicans. While watching The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly you can see the stereotypes and generalizations that are being made by the portrayals of language and people. Spaghetti Westerns are movies where the villains are powerful. Evil capitalists held the power over their workers and had bandits to do their dirty work for them. The hero was solely motivated by greed and usually was punished by it. That is why the film The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is a great example because it shows selfish heroes, acting as a type of anti-hero. A scene that helps describe this is when Blondie and Tuco leave the monastery. They want to fool the troops that are coming to them by shouting, “long live the South” (movie). They are then captured and this just changes their …show more content…
259). The opening scene starts with a few men walking and they get into a gunfight with the Ugly and this foreshadows the ending where the Ugly ends up in gunfight with The Bad and The Good. This film is most exciting which lead to Sergio Leone creating one of the greatest spaghetti westerns in American history. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is packed with showdowns, gunfights, battles, and even taunting between each character. Near the end of the film the showdown between the three men is epic. The faceoff was in a desolate graveyard that tested the men guts, trust, wits, and skills with a gun. This shows the trembling brows to the squinting eyes resulted to bullets going off and graves being