Film western di sergio leone biography

Leone's film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots. His mother was of Milanese and remote Austrian descent. Working in Italian cinema , he began as an assistant to Vittorio De Sica during the production for the movie Bicycle Thieves in Leone began writing screenplays during the s, primarily for the " sword and sandal " or peplum historical epics, popular at the time.

Cinema must be spectacle, that's what the public wants. And for me the most beautiful spectacle is that of the myth. In the mids, historical epics fell out of favor with audiences, but Leone had shifted his attention to a subgenre which came to be known as the " spaghetti Western ", owing its origin to the American Western.

A Fistful of Dollars is also notable for establishing Clint Eastwood as a star. The look of A Fistful of Dollars was established by its Spanish locations, which presented a violent and morally complex vision of the American Old West. The film paid tribute to traditional American Western films, but significantly departed from them in storyline, plot, characterization, and mood.

Leone gains credit for one great breakthrough in the Western genre still followed today; in traditional Western films, many heroes and villains looked alike as if they had just stepped out of a fashion magazine, with clearly drawn moral opposites, even down to the hero wearing a white hat and the villain wearing a black hat [ 18 ] except for the most successful of the "traditional western cowboys" — Hopalong Cassidy , who wore a black outfit upon a pale horse.

Leone's characters were, in contrast, more "realistic" and complex: usually lone wolves in their behavior; they rarely shaved, looked dirty, and sweated profusely, with a strong suggestion of criminal behavior.

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The characters were also morally ambiguous by appearing generously compassionate, or nakedly and brutally self-serving, as the situation demanded. Relationships revolved around power and retributions were emotion-driven rather than conscience-driven. Some critics have noted the irony of an Italian director who could not speak English, and had never even visited the United States, let alone the American Old West, almost single-handedly redefining the typical vision of the American cowboy.

It fascinated him as a child, which carried into his adulthood and his films. The films featured innovative music scores by Ennio Morricone , who worked closely with Leone in devising the themes.