Sergio Corbucci
Sergio Corbucci (December 6, 1927 in Rome, Italy, † December 1, 1990 ) was an Italian film director who turned from 1951 to 1990 more than 60 films and this was followed by the changing currents of the commercial Italian cinema.
Corbucci Sergio Leone was next to one of the most influential directors of the spaghetti Westerns. In this genre he was represented from 1963 to 1975 with a total of 13 works, including the genre classics Django and corpses pave his way. In contrast to the films of Leone those of Corbucci, however, were of very different quality.
Life and work
Sergio Corbucci began his film work in 1948 as an assistant to Aldo Vergano and Enzo Trapani. He debuted in 1951 with Salvate mia figlia as a director and turned first predominantly comedies, among others, then so popular comedians such as Totò, or the duo Franco & Ciccio.
In 1959, he worked as second-unit director on with The Last Days of Pompeii, to which further later Italo - Western directors such as Sergio Leone, Duccio Tessari, Enzo Barboni and Franco Giraldi were involved in different functions. Together they dreamed of turning into the barren, Spanish landscapes instead of Western epics. In the early 1960s wore Corbucci with three Italian sandals films themselves for a wave of success of this genre in and discovered his talent for action emphasized movies.
Corbuccis early westerns were influenced by American models. However, already in Minnesota Clay (1964 ) there were motives of a new genre, spaghetti Westerns, the beginning of which was produced almost simultaneously for A Fistful of Dollars by Sergio Leone heralded by the success of the. Leone and Corbucci should be the most influential directors of this genre. With Django (1966 ) Corbucci managed one of the most influential Spaghetti Western, the ( looped Django walking a coffin behind him ) with its dark atmosphere, its black humor, its bizarre ideas, its earthy photography and its excessive, sometimes sadistic violence countless imitators. The eponymous title character, played by Franco Nero, was a cynical anti-hero, one of the well known characters from spaghetti Westerns. Then many spaghetti westerns ( often inferior quality ) were in Germany marketed under the name Django and synchronized accordingly.
While two -piece produced Western proven rather than step back, realized Corbucci 1968 corpses pave his way ( Il grande silenzio ) and the dreaded Two ( Il Mercenary ), two films that are among the outstanding works of spaghetti Westerns. Corbuccis directorial virtuosity that he had not been shown consistently in Django, in combination with his social criticism (albeit ambivalent ) attitude, and his willingness to play with audience expectations, brought two films both genre fans and film critics high reputation.
With Go to hell, you scoundrels ( Gli Specialisti, 1969) and two compañeros ( Vamos a matar, compañeros, 1970), a variation of motifs from Il mercenario, Corbucci supplied from two other high- above-average Western, but not to the unity their predecessors zoom ranged and lagged behind the possibilities of the director. By increasingly replaced by irony, slapstick and disinterested showed a stringent staging and thoughtful stories, they finally marked the beginning of Corbuccis creative decline, which should take place quite rapidly in the following years. His last Western, Stetson - Three scoundrels First Class (1975 ), was an attempt at a parody of the genre - he was largely negative taken despite an outstanding cast by critics.
After the end of the Spaghetti Western boom in the 1970s, he turned mostly comedies, some of which were huge audience with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill or Adriano Celentano in the lead roles, in Italy, while most of them were internationally known. Klamaukfilme as The Supercop (1980 ) testify to the substantive and formal modesty Corbuccis at that time. His last film was the Italian TV production Dangerous Encounter (1990 ), before he died the same year.
Sergio Leone designated as Corbucci 's most creative Italian director and was of the opinion that if all his ideas would have realized that he would become one of the greats. In his Encyclopedia of Western Hembus Joe wrote: " This director is not ambitious at all costs and know that nothing is as annoying as a true to forming a good reputation. Francesco Rosi once said to him: to make you ashamed not so bad films ' And Corbucci answered. , Yes, I am ashamed, but when I go to the bank to pick up my money, I no longer feel ashamed? "
Pseudonym under which Corbucci worked, were Stanley Corbett and Gordon Wilson Jr.