Alex's Film Blog

What's a Spaghetti Western? A Spaghetti Western is a term American critics  use because most of these western films where created by Italians.  Why would Tarantino use this genre for a World War II movie? Spaghetti Western used to be used by critics for European Westerns as they were inferior to American Westerns. These films used to be very low budget. Tarantino used this genre  because he is a big fan of Sergio Leone who was one of the best Spaghetti Western filmmakers. Tarantino said he was very influenced by his work. Tarantino said in an interview that he wanted to stay away from all the war movie  clichés.  List three ways Tarantino subverts the audience's expectations?  since the Movie is set in WWII where Nazis where killing Jews Tarantino subverts it by having a group of Jews killing  mass numbers of Nazis and he even has the Jews terrorize the Nazis by scalping them and cutting swastikas on there forehead. T...

I didn't do the right column as I'm not a hundred percent sure what exactly I'm supposed to write in it.   I Just wanted to ask before so I didn't mess it up.

So for our project me Alex and Tariq are almost at the editing stage of our project. We have started to log the footage and edit. We need to go back and shoot the ending but we have to wait for the weather to match up. The footage so far looks great. The intro starts with the Boys in the car headed to the trail with shots of the car pulling into the lot. the Audio behind these clips is going to be a song which we have not picked out yet. Here below is two of the beginning clips. Next we have a scene near the end of the film were one of the main characters die. in this scene we used a shotgun microphone to get audio from both characters as they find the dead body in this dramatic scene.