This 100%-Rated Old Western Will Make You Forget Yellowstone & Co
Was cinema better back then?
Love towards westerns is something every person experiences in life at one point or another. And while the younger generation seem to be learning all about them with the help of modern creations, like Yellowstone or Joe Pickett, there is so much more to the gente to explore.
We all know that the golden era of westerns was in the 50s and 60s, with stars like John Wayne creating staples one by one. But there’s a movie that was released in 1968 and can easily be described as one of the best ever created.
The Great Silence is a revisionist spaghetti western directed by Sergio Corbucci. The movie features many great Italian and French actors like Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Vonetta McGee (the movie was her debut), and Frank Wolff. And the most amazing part (for melomanes like us) is that the music for the movie was written by one and only Ennio Morricone.
The movie is set in Utah and follows a mute gunslinger named Gordon, who fights the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow. On the other side of the fight is a group of ruthless bounty killers led by "Loco" and the corrupt banker Henry Pollicut.
What the viewers value the most about the movie is the original premise of it, which is far closer to reality and does not romanticize the time and what was going on back then.
“This film is probably the most well done deconstruction of the western I’ve seen. It’s so critical of the American ideals the most westerns (especially the Hollywood ones of the 50s) seem to promote. There’s no real heroes, just angry people obsessed with violence. The men and women who are wanted are just poor and hungry, and the bounty hunters (who are usually portrayed as the heroes) are no good murderers,” Redditor danny0783 said.
The Great Silence is available to stream on Hoopla, and you can always rent it on Amazon Prime or AppleTV+.