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The Great Silence or Il grande silenzio is a 1968 Italian spaghetti western directed by Sergio Corbucci. It is considered Corbucci's greatest film and has a reputation for being one of the bleakest westerns ever. It plays with a lot of western tropes, such as the usual protagonist of few words actually being a mute, and intentionally provoking ...
Mar 14, 2024 · How 'The Great Silence' Flips the Script on Westerns From the very opening of The Great Silence, Sergio Corbucci flips the script.In an era when bounty killers became the only conceivable way of ...
Hailed as Corbucci's masterpiece THE GREAT SILENCE follows a mute gunfighter defending a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty hunters in the winter of 1898, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds.
Dec 28, 2018 · “The Great Silence,” according to the filmmaker Alex Cox, an equally enthusiastic partisan of Italian westerns, was meant as a statement reflecting the despair Corbucci felt following the ...
Oct 12, 2016 · The Great Silence. A s any long-time reader of science fiction can tell you, “The Great Silence” is another name for the Fermi Paradox, and the Fermi Paradox is a meditation on two contradictory truths: 1) the idea that we represent the only intelligence in the universe is preposterous and 2) despite the increasing range of our ...
Silence joins with local hillfolk in fighting the corrupt and tyrannical authorities in the town of Snow Mill. Corbucci's sympathies are clearly with his bandit heroes, who are only doing what they must to survive, while the law is represented by a corrupt sheriff, who lets his wealthy patrons run wild, and sadistic scum like Klaus Kinski, who kills the poor because he enjoys it.
Nov 22, 2021 · The Great Silence, or to give it its Italian title, Il Grande Silenzio, is far from your average western. Set in the frontier town of Snow Hill in Utah in the very late nineteenth century, the harsh climate reflects the equally harsh lives of most of the town’s inhabitants, as well as the pessimistic tone of the movie.
