Frayling Chases Sphaghetti Westerns

I enjoyed listening to the interview with Frayling. I learned a great deal concerning Leone clever ways/choices he made when putting these Italian western films together.

Leone
* He loved western films
*His films got little respect and therefore were given the name "Spaghetti Films."
*Leone made westerns in Italy because Hollywood ceased making them and Europe mainly Italy had a huge interest in western film/knowledge.
*Leone felt like other westerns contained to much talk and not enough action, to sophisticated
*He loved to make his westerns more visual than ideology
*He distrusted the over light image , and more of the live in conditions in his westerns
* The very very bad guys were revealed in his films by killing a child.
* Frayling stated the diff between Leone Italian /American westerns was that Italian westerns focused on a more Catholic genre whereas the American western focused on protestant view.
Music in Leone Films
*It was mixture of Italian folk music and rock music from the mid 1960.
* classic /import element