** as per Skinnbag’s late father, a WW2 veteran involved with the Italian Campaign that involved some very nasty fighting. Not all his scars were visible, and some never healed.
“So God took a great, big slice a pizza in one hand, and a handful a spaghetti in the other…and mightily slapped them together!!!!
HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR!!!!!
😂😂😂👍
I suspect that something similar happened when the spaghetti westerns came out in the 60’s. Plains opera… timeless themes… and the music. The most ridiculous scripts and the worst acting can be redeemed by good music and good stage play.
In this piece, Once Upon A Time In The West, I swear I can feel the life at the edge of the world, with big blue skies, wind, and only the elementary forces of good and evil.
The emotion packed music of Jill’s Theme
by Ennio Morocone.
If you take the mythology of the old American west, slap it
into a big pile of Italian opera…
Ya’ll probly get something that sounds (and looks) like this.
Some years ago, I asked myself the rather rude question "How is it that Romans turned into Italians?" After a good deal of study, I came to the conclusion that ...... they always were Italians. That what we think of as the nobility of the Roman Empire was the mere 'tip-o-the-spear' as heralded in the Centurions, analogous to our special forces troops. That the average poor, working schmuck like you and me, just wanted to be left alone to farm enough to feed his family. It was the pompous, smug, bureaucratic elite that thought that unchecked foreign immigration could solve their need for more compliant slave labor, and as long as they threw out enough bread and circuses to keep the rabble entertained, they'd get away with it. Sound familiar?
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OK, I know I am an asshole.
ReplyDeleteNobody in 1880 had such beautiful teeth or hair. Nobody in the west work eye-makeup. None of them men had such close shaves. Plunging bodices were probably not "a thing". Aladdin Lamps like the one on the table were not patented until 1908.
Beautiful music, though. Stunning music!
Hollywood and history are old enemies, Joe…
DeleteBeautiful music. Even more beautiful singer. That was Patricia Janečková who died untimely young at age 25, of cancer. Here is Janečková singing a comedic piece where she plays a clockwork girl (wind up doll).
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The big guy who carries her onto stage can sing himself. Here they are singing Verdi together:
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And here’s Janečková singing as Papagena from The Magic Flute:
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Once Upon A Time in the West is one of my all time favorites. Another is The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly where Eli Wallach does a superb job as Tuco. That street scene is great!
ReplyDeleteTuco: Ah, it's good to be working with you again. You wait here, I'll kill 'em all, be right back.
Blondie: There's five of 'em.
Tuco: Five... it don' matter. I'll kill 'em all.
There's just nothing like a good Western.
WOP - With Out Papers - from Ellis Island
ReplyDeleteSpaghetti Westerns, the pinnacle of American culture and films.
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