Got round to watching my Blu of this last night and really liked it. Definitely one of the slower euro-westerns but I think it was more interested in telling a good story about a good character who was played well by Quinn. In that regard I think it succeeded. It was great to see Quinn in a euro-western I actually liked as well having seen Deaf Smith… but not caring for it. I also loved seeing Bronson as a villain…just wish he had more screen-time.
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Screens in 70mm (English with swedish Subtitles) at the Arsenal in Berlin on December 6
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Bataille de San Sebastian, La/BluRay - The Spaghetti Western Database (spaghetti-western.net)
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I caught a fair chunk of this on TV yesterday. Quinn gave a real empathetic performance, giving some heavy Tommy Lee Jones vibes from it. I don’t have much of a stomach for narratives that villify indigenous groups (one of the reasons I don’t much care for classic American westerns), and the part I saw seemed rife with it. So, I doubt I’ll seek it back out to catch the rest of it.
I agree, however, the Eurowestern/Spaghetti Western genre generally presented a positive view of Native Americans.
The Europeans revitalised and reinvented the genre, which had become moribund and stale. Both the American and European version of the genre were mythological; however, the classic Hollywood western genre, with its vilification of Native Americans and pure distortion of American frontier history, is, for me, utterly discredited.
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I just watched this movie. I’m sure this has already been discussed here, but why should it be considered a Spaghetti Western? It wasn’t filmed in Spain or Italy, and I don’t think it has the tone or any of the elements that define a Euro-Western either (only the opening credits and Morricone’s score bring it somewhat closer to the European Western tradition).
I’d even say that, out of all the pseudo-Euro-Westerns I’ve seen (including pretty much any Western that wasn’t directed by an Italian or a Spaniard, such as Shalako, Hannie Caulder, Catlow, Red Sun, The taste of violence, The Deserter, as well as the Italian film Man, Pride and Vengeance and the Spanish one Wrath of the Wind), this is by far the one that resembles a European Western the least.
Aside from that, a decent film. Entertaining enough (5 out of 10 for me).
It’s a French-Italian production, that’s all