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spaghetti Western
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spaghetti Western
n.
A low-budget Western film made by a European, especially an Italian, film company.
spaghetti western
n
(Performing Arts) a cowboy film about the American West made, esp by an Italian director, in Europe
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Noun1.spaghetti Western - a low-budget Western movie produced by a European (especially an Italian) film company
horse opera, Western - a film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development
Italia, Italian Republic, Italy - a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD
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spaghetti western n (Cine) → western m inv all'italiana
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Byline: Glenn Whipp Film Writer Italian composer Ennio Morricone, recipient of this year's Honorary Academy Award, has written more than 400 film scores, but the work everyone knows -- immediately identifiable after hearing only a couple of notes -- comes from his collaborations on Sergio Leone's classic spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s.
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Another admirable element in My Name is Nobody is how the two main characters have a theme music that plays each time they appear on screen--a cinematic sound technique heavily used in spaghetti westerns.
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It will be his homage to the spaghetti Westerns he grew up watching,he tells the Hollywood Reporter.
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