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Coen brothers to direct Spaghetti Western

http://imdb.com/news/wenn/2007-12-26/#3

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Filmmaking siblings Joel and Ethan Coen are set to make their goriest film ever - a Spaghetti Western featuring scenes of primitive torture methods. The brothers, whose notoriously gory new film No Country for Old Men has been tipped for Oscar glory, are desperate to make a film about the days of cowboys and Indians battling it out in the Wild West of America. But - as Joel warns - it won't be one for the faint-hearted. He says, "We've written a western with a lot of violence in it. There's scalping and hanging ... it's good. Indians torturing people with ants, cutting their eyelids off." Ethan adds, "It's a proper western, a real western, set in the 1870s. It's got a scene that no one will ever forget because of one particular chicken."

I love the Coens and I love Spaghetti Westerns. This could be awesome.

I never understood "Spaghetti Westerns". Aren't they movies filmed in Italy by Italians? Or is that just a term for Westerns in general now?

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Originally Posted by Mr. Snackpants (Post 581150)

I never understood "Spaghetti Westerns". Aren't they movies filmed in Italy by Italians? Or is that just a term for Westerns in general now?

They're Italian produced westerns. They have many characteristics that set them apart from other westerns.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_Westerns