tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post2849153463684440537..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: The Spaghetti WesternCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-43169933340738719512019-08-26T10:22:22.555+01:002019-08-26T10:22:22.555+01:00I know that I am a quite late to this party, Craig...I know that I am a quite late to this party, Craig, but Keoma is quite possibly the best spaghetti western out there. I could praise the old camera angles but the soundtrack needs to be heard to be believed.....and somehow it just works!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-14438320580654850622019-08-13T07:55:17.309+01:002019-08-13T07:55:17.309+01:00What a great film ,although I would have liked to ...What a great film ,although I would have liked to see the opening scene with Woody Strode et al waiting for Charles Bronson's train and the lines-<br />"Looks like we're shy of one horse."<br />"No you brought two too many."Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07644425026203621393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-4861318205598645882019-08-13T00:18:49.685+01:002019-08-13T00:18:49.685+01:00The Good, The Bad and the Ugly theme tune has got ...The Good, The Bad and the Ugly theme tune has got to be in the top 5 all time original pieces of movie music along with Unchained Melody. <br /><br />On that subject, I was amazed to learn a few years back that the Bond theme was originally written for a musical setting of "A House for Mr Biswas" by the overly-serious-but-unfairly-diminished-by-the-BBC- because-he-was-a-Tory VS Naipaul. The musical was abandoned but the theme survived in its new incarnation. Once you hear that Indian lilt to the Bond theme, you will always know it's there! <br /><br />"He who does not love Airplane does not love life!" as someone (Monkey Brains) once said. <br /><br />Again, I was amazed (maybe I have a low amazeability threshold) to learn that it was actually closely based on a 1950s serious air-based drama (the Airplane people actually bought up the rights to the original film!)...once you see the original, you can't unforget that! <br /><br />I would definitely agree that cinema is the art form that most transforms you out of your own body and mind...so you become an ethereal part of what is being presented to you as some kind of simulacrum of life. Not sure that makes it the highest art form but it is definitely the one that reaches parts others can't reach, at least not simultaneously. <br /><br />Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.com