Author Topic: a stop motion animation spaghetti western multimedia light & magic
posted 01-18-2001 11:09 AM
hey guys!

i am in the process of revising...well, REWRITING my stop motion movie. some of the figures i had didn't want to work, so i am just dumping my last idea.

i want to make a toystory spaghetti western! (i learned that one from dinner and a movie, god bless tbs. )

in case anyone wants to know, spaghetti westerns are movie's the clint eastwoo'd s fistfull of dollars, or the quick and the dead. i think it could be funny, and a lot of fun to make.

can anyone help me devleop a sort of story? i'm all out of ideas!!

thanks guys.

matt.

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Malloy
posted 01-18-2001 08:41 PM
I've never seen those movies, can you sort of give me more of an idea about what a spaghetti western is. Does it involve spaghetti's migrating west?

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Skinned Fox
posted 01-18-2001 11:32 PM
If I'm not mistaken (which I probably am dammit) the term spaghetti western come from the fact that most of those westerns were directed and produced by Italians. I'm sure "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" was. Not sure about Fistful of Dollars and The Quick and The Dead.

multimedia light & magic
posted 01-18-2001 11:39 PM
i'm not sure myself fox, i just heard it on dinner and a movie when i was watching the quick and the dead. that movie might not actually be one, but suposedly its the same style. i think a lot of eastwood's westerns were.

ok guys, ideas for a toystory-western..? (with action figures.)

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HBK
posted 01-19-2001 10:54 AM
Naw Quick and the Dead wasn't - Sam Raimi....anyways back to the topic.....

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dogcow
posted 01-19-2001 10:31 PM
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Originally posted by Skinned Fox:
If I'm not mistaken (which I probably am dammit) the term spaghetti western come from the fact that most of those westerns were directed and produced by Italians.

That is correct, sir!

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I'm sure "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" was. Not sure about Fistful of Dollars

Fistful of Dollars was another Sergio Leoni classic.

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and The Quick and The Dead.

Not a spaghetti western, unless sam raimi is part italian.

-nick

E. Flask
posted 01-21-2001 11:54 AM

The best spaghetti western, in my opinion, is "Once Upon A Time In The West." It had Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, and Henry Fonda, among others, and it rocked!

I suggest you rent it. For one thing, it could give you the starting point for your spoof. Charles Bronson takes over for Clint Eastwood as the nameless, tortured gunslinger, and his trademark is a harmonica. I can just imagine a nameless, tortured Woody doll, whose trademark is a... kazoo?

I think the plot can be anything, as long as you include the spaghetti western "elements," like the anti-hero, the blaring soundtrack, the explosive gunshots, the drawn-out showdown sequences, etc.

Good luck!

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