***52 Westerns in 52 Weeks Challenge******
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Week 13: Sergio, Sergio & Sergio**

Compañeros marks the third of Corbucci’s westerns that I’ve seen after Django and The Mercenary and even though the amazing quality of those gave me high expectations for this watch I’m still completely blown away by what this achievement as this will surely end up in the top 15 films I’ve first watched so far this year. Immediately I got vibes similar to Sergio Leone’s Duck, You Sucker! with Corbucci’s unique and wilder directing style in place of Leone’s more intentional one and even though I would say I prefer Leone and his european guy/mexican revolutionary buddy movie more than this it’s still right up there with it in the success of its narrative paired with the brilliant filmmaking on display. Those two movies also share a very pivotal common place beyond the character similarities, and that’s the person who arguably contributed the most to making the films great outside of the directors, and that’s Ennio Morricone. I feel like I say it every time I’m writing a review for a movie he scored but this is genuinely one of my new favorites of his career that I’d put up with For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, the theme song for the movie was perfect and his score throughout perfectly brought out the feeling of the western that I love so much. Alejandro Ulloa and Sergio Corbucci’s vision here for the cinematography was also as awe-inspiring as Morricone’s work, the inventive shot composition had me completely entranced for the whole runtime and the overall production design really impressed me as well, the most shocking technical takeaway for me though was seeing how fantastically this was edited, that can usually be a problem with the spaghetti westerns so it’s nice to see one of these with editing so great that it’d easily pass in modern times. The performances are also all great, Franco Nero is electric in the lead role giving what’s easily my favorite performance of his career, I also though Tomas Milian was right there with him and their chemistry together was a shining part of the film, and I also had a great time with Jack Palance’s villain which isn’t so surprising as he’s been a great western villain every time I’ve seen him pop up in one of these. In the end it’s a phenomenally shot and edited movie every step of the way with one of my new favorite western stories I’ve seen put to screen, some of my new favorite spaghetti western acting performances of all time, and one of Morricone’s all time best scores ringing out over all of that, this watch really opened my eyes to the brilliance that Sergio Corbucci could achieve behind the camera and makes me so much more excited to check out his remaining western classics that I’ve missed like The Great Silence.

***52 Westerns in 52 Weeks Challenge******
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Week 13: Sergio, Sergio & Sergio**

Compañeros marks the third of Corbucci’s westerns that I’ve seen after Django and The Mercenary and even though the amazing quality of those gave me high expectations for this watch I’m still completely blown away by what this achievement as this will surely end up in the top 15 films I’ve first watched so far this year. Immediately I got vibes similar to Sergio Leone’s Duck, You Sucker! with Corbucci’s unique and wilder directing style in place of Leone’s more intentional one and even though I would say I prefer Leone and his european guy/mexican revolutionary buddy movie more than this it’s still right up there with it in the success of its narrative paired with the brilliant filmmaking on display. Those two movies also share a very pivotal common place beyond the character similarities, and that’s the person who arguably contributed the most to making the films great outside of the directors, and that’s Ennio Morricone. I feel like I say it every time I’m writing a review for a movie he scored but this is genuinely one of my new favorites of his career that I’d put up with For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, the theme song for the movie was perfect and his score throughout perfectly brought out the feeling of the western that I love so much. Alejandro Ulloa and Sergio Corbucci’s vision here for the cinematography was also as awe-inspiring as Morricone’s work, the inventive shot composition had me completely entranced for the whole runtime and the overall production design really impressed me as well, the most shocking technical takeaway for me though was seeing how fantastically this was edited, that can usually be a problem with the spaghetti westerns so it’s nice to see one of these with editing so great that it’d easily pass in modern times. The performances are also all great, Franco Nero is electric in the lead role giving what’s easily my favorite performance of his career, I also though Tomas Milian was right there with him and their chemistry together was a shining part of the film, and I also had a great time with Jack Palance’s villain which isn’t so surprising as he’s been a great western villain every time I’ve seen him pop up in one of these. In the end it’s a phenomenally shot and edited movie every step of the way with one of my new favorite western stories I’ve seen put to screen, some of my new favorite spaghetti western acting performances of all time, and one of Morricone’s all time best scores ringing out over all of that, this watch really opened my eyes to the brilliance that Sergio Corbucci could achieve behind the camera and makes me so much more excited to check out his remaining western classics that I’ve missed like The Great Silence.

Una coproducción italiana-española-alemana sobre la revolución mexicana en la frontera Mexico-USA con un protagonista sueco. Mamen.

Una coproducción italiana-española-alemana sobre la revolución mexicana en la frontera Mexico-USA con un protagonista sueco. Mamen.

Western buddy(companeros) komedija

Franco Nero je sarmantan i hladan kao led, Tomas Milian je anarhija i smeh. Ovaj film je sve što sam ranije zamišljao kad neko kaže “špageti vestern”.A muzika u filmu kida em ritam, em tajming, em dodaje još intenziteta i šarma, bilo da je eksplozija, borba ili smešan trenutak

Sergio Corbucci je tata svih westerna, nije ni čudo što je bio inspiracija i uzor tarantinu

Nzm jednostavno nisam mogao dati nižu ocenu jer sam previše uživao… 

Ee i da:¡Viva la revolución!

Western buddy(companeros) komedija

Franco Nero je sarmantan i hladan kao led, Tomas Milian je anarhija i smeh. Ovaj film je sve što sam ranije zamišljao kad neko kaže “špageti vestern”.A muzika u filmu kida em ritam, em tajming, em dodaje još intenziteta i šarma, bilo da je eksplozija, borba ili smešan trenutak

Sergio Corbucci je tata svih westerna, nije ni čudo što je bio inspiracija i uzor tarantinu

Nzm jednostavno nisam mogao dati nižu ocenu jer sam previše uživao… 

Ee i da:¡Viva la revolución!

Closest i’ve seen a western come to passing the bechdel test

Closest i’ve seen a western come to passing the bechdel test

The professor finds killing “revolting”. My brother in Christ you’re leading a revolution. Def my favorite western I’ve seen so far. Corbucci might be the goat.

The professor finds killing “revolting”. My brother in Christ you’re leading a revolution. Def my favorite western I’ve seen so far. Corbucci might be the goat.