Law of Violence / La legge della violenza (Gianni Crea, 1969)

A spiritual insect maybe, only a see-through soul, no body

So actually because the insect is so out of focus it becomes transparent. Kind of like when you adjust the camera lens so that lights become transparent dots.

I watched a video on Youtube where someobody releases ladybugs, and then a few crawl across the lens of the camera, the person recording remarks that they are indeed bugs crawling across the lens. It appears exactly like in the screenshots you have.

Here’s the video in question,
I gotta warn you the video has some pretty profane language. So just be careful of that.

You can notice it starts on the red shirt and moves its way diagonally across the screen. Sorry for the poor example by the way.

Here’s some other examples of dirt on camera lenses, notice that they’re all transparent even though they’re on the lens itself.

In this movie only 12 shots are fired, some of them are even out of frame

I have a question: Is Lincoln Tate in this?

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The review states “The music might be the film’s strongest element. It’s not remarkable, but it at least sounds like a proper spaghetti western soundtrack and supports the scenes appropriately.”

At least in the beginning of Law Of Violence it is a slightly different version of one of the several different nice themes by Stelvio Cipriani from The Stranger Returns from 1967, (which is a 8/10 SW according to my own rating and of course not only because of the music…)

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After posting the review I read here in the forum that the music probably was reused. Apparently from ‘the bounty killer’. I didn’t checked.

I haven’t been able to check the Bounty Killer but in a short trailer I heard no Cipriano type of music example but it might be although IMD states another composer Ronald Stein.

Cipriani’s music in The Stranger Returns consists of several nice different themes and should be the originals and “especially one of them reused in the beginning of Law Of Violence. https://youtu.be/glfpC7c-zUA?t=22

There is a CD https://www.discogs.com/release/4050803-Stelvio-Cipriani-Un-Uomo-Un-Cavallo-Una-Pistola-The-Stranger-Returns-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtr

Anyhow thanks for the review !

Edit : I just watched the last few minutes (sacrilege ?) on Youtube. Looked interesting. It seemed like a few borrowed story ideas from Day Of Anger and Cemetery Without Crosses :slight_smile: - and short pieces of other Cipriani themes from The Stranger Returns

“Some events appear out of nowhere, and characters suddenly appear without introduction, making it difficult to understand how the scenes connect or what they contribute to the story.”
Now I have watched the 34 first minutes also :slight_smile: I agree with the review. The lead bad/antihero(?) played by Giorgio Cerioni at least has a good face but the different scenes seem amateurish scripted or/and directed. He becomes the boss in the town just too easy etc etc.

The recycling of Cipriani’s music from The Stranger Returns might be a very good choise of music in itself but at least I become suspicious if they do that. And with the review in mind I guess I can skip the lacking 35 minutes or so and put this in my category of unfinished SWs which are around 15-20 or so…

I have listened a few times to the opening of Law of Violence and the link you’ve send. Although they sound the same, I still notice a big difference in quality. In the film, I mostly hear trumpet, and it sounds a bit more monotonous. In your video, it sounds much fuller, like you’re hearing an orchestra. That’s definitely a good SW soundtrack.

Yes I agree. He has a good face, but the movie is amateurish. As a filmmaker you want to tell a story, you would think, but here it was mainly about quantity I think.

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