The golden fever of 1849 has caused thousands of people to escape the eastern part of the United States and head to the west to seek light money dug from the ground. Much of the land that the Americans infiltrated, were not supervised by any kind of widely recognized law, and the lips that formed the kind of species had to make up their infrastructure as they went. A brand new world has been formed: The Wild West.

American writers of fiction have been telling stories of the "Great American Border" since the 1820s (some bibliophiles may be familiar with the works of Jameseshes Fenimore Cooper), but the Western literary genre began exploding in the late 1850s and 1860s. Pulp novels have begun to multiply all over the country, and "Denar terrestrial" have invented many icons and traps we see in the western to this day: guns, sales hunters, lawmakers, etc. Legendary - from these awkward books. Many of the stories of the aforementioned Western, also on stage in the trip with guns.

Some of the earliest films have drawn from payments Western traditions, and the genre has made a happy marriage to the new medium. One of the earliest western, short 90 seconds "Annie Oakley" was released in 1894. For more decades, the Wests have been the Ascernal genre through Hollywood, as filmmakers could translate camera equipment to the California deserts and shoot at cheap. They were mythical and cheap at the same time.

By the end of the 50's of the last century, the western finally began to decline in popularity In the United States, but by then, the new generation of directors has grown from them. In particular, several Italian directors locked themselves in the genre and rethinked them into a new, significant Italian style. The new Italian West since the 1960s were called "Spaghetti West", named after well-known Italian pasta.

So, no, for those who have always been a little confused by the term, "Western Spaghetti" do not contain scenes of characters eating spaghetti. The term was just to take a stereotype for the Italian people - that they have a lot of spaghetti in their diets - and applied it to films made by Italian directors.

The earliest and most famous Spaghetti West was used by Sergio Leone, who in 1964 directed a "fist of dollars". It was a shameless jump of the movie Samurai by Akira Kurosawa "Yodzimbo", And the Japanese director actually took Leone to court on the matter (Kurosawa wins). However, the "fist of dollars" was a worldwide hit, however, and a new wave of the West was born for a better part of a decade. Leone himself would turn into a "fist" into an unofficial trilogy with the monitoring of "Eastwood", "For a few more dollars" in 1965 and "Good, Bad and Ugly" in 1966. Leone also has played the epic "Once once in the West" in 1968, and a fun titled "Duck, You're Drunk! "In 1971.

According to some special features of "Fistful of Dolars" Blu-ray, the term "Spaghetti Western" was invented by a Spanish film critic named Alfonso Sanchez, who played playfully paired the name of Italian cuisine with a trend of film. The term stuck, and we have been using it ever since. It should be noted that many Italian film directors did not want the term, feeling reductive and a little offensive.

Many important Italian West have been made through the Rome -based Cinecittà studio, but films called Spaghetti West have been filmed all over Europe, including in Spain and Greece and were funded by various international study. Many were shot in the Almeria deserts and Tabernass of Spain. So, not everything Americans call spaghetti west is necessarily Italian.

What does it mean to be western spaghetti? As it is dictated by Leone's aesthetic elections with a "dollar fist", Spaghetti is the western, more stylized versions of the US Western 1940. The colors tend to be saturated and the editing faster. The corners of the camera are either expansively wide, or are supplemented with the nose of the gun. The actors are made in cartoons of Western archetypes. As can be seen from Clint Eastwood's performance in Leone's films, the heroes tend to be tacit antiheroes. There are no traditional "white hats" in the Western spaghetti, as protagonists are not completely good people. In terms of their spiritual spirit, the Spaghetti West has more in common with the film Noir than with the traditional American West.

The audience also liked the Spaghetti Western because of their violence. The Chase Code - founded in the 1930s - was becoming more and more Moribund, and European executives, who never looked at the code in the first place, finally began to ignore it seriously. Suddenly, deaths were far more painful, brutal and dramatic.

Spaghetti's traps and aesthetics were widely multiplied during the 1960s and 1970s, effectively disassembling the old tropes of the Western before the 1950s. Other notable films in the genre include Sergio Corbucci's film in 1966 Django starring Franco Nero. "Django" caused many sequels and fish, some of which also starred Nero. Some of the Italian West have entertained titles, such as "today's" forgiveness "of 1966 ....

Spaghetti Western also eventually began to decline in popularity and died in the late 1970s or early 1980s. No trend can last forever.

In case you can't say, some modern directors love Spaghetti Western and repeated their views and aesthetics for modern audiences. Takashi Mike made "Sukyaki West Angoango" in 2007 and Quentin Tarantino made Angoango in 2012. The spirit of violence, we can see, happily live further.