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Controversial for its bleak and dark tone, the film's reputation grew, and it gained a cult following in the wake of its release. Subtitled versions were created for foreign markets outside of the dubbed versions. The Elios Film town set in Rome, which had previously been used by Corbucci in Django, was used for several Snow Hill scenes (including the final duel). Upon being asked what his favorite Western films where, he responded with "I do love The Great Silence, because Quentin turned me on to it and I love the cinematic nature of that, in the snow. . Some humans theorize that intelligent species go extinct before they can expand into outer space. Praise has gone to the acting, the utilization of snowbound landscapes, Ennio Morricone's score, and the film's subversion of several conventions of the Western film genre. Much of the dialogue concerning the outlaws, such as a remark made by Walter, the leader of the bandits, about their forthcoming amnesty, as well as Loco's conversation with Burnett about the morality of the thieves, were rewritten to imply that most of the outlaws were being persecuted not simply because of their poverty, but for also practising Mormonism. 2018 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, "Le Grand Silence – Box Office Jean Louis Trintignant 1969", "Alex Cox intro for Corbucci's THE GREAT SILENCE", "The Great Silence (Grande silenzio, Il) (1968)", "Turning the Western on its head: Simple subversion in Sergio Corbucci's The Great Silence (1968)", "The Great Silence: Guns, Morality and Death", "Il grande silenzio / Un bellissimo novembre", "Il grande silenzio - Limited Edition of 500 Copies", "THE SPAGHETTI EPIC (DIVERS) Volume Three – The Great Silence (Musea Compilation)", "Cani Arrabbiati – Opening Themes ... 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The Great Silence works beautifully as a mosaic of a country at a particular time, artfully constructed from all these extraordinary details plucked from far and wide . As any long-time reader of science fiction can tell you, “The Great Silence” is another name for the Fermi Paradox, and the Fermi Paradox is a meditation on two contradictory truths: 1) the idea that we represent the only intelligence in the universe is preposterous and 2) despite the increasing range of our extraterrestrial search, we have found only silence. The Great Silence (1968) (Il Grande silenzio) (Le Grand silence) A Swedish arms dealer and a Mexican peon team up to rescue the intellectual leader of the Revolutionary cause, while taking part in numerous misadventures along the way. James is subsequently killed by Loco when he takes Pauline hostage. [66] Film critic Leonard Maltin praised the film, awarding it 3 1/2 out of a possible 4 stars. There are many possible explanations for “the Great Silence.” It could be that civilizations are so far advanced that we don’t recognize them. and Slant Magazine, whose reviewers singled out the video, Italian audio and extras for praise, while deeming the English dub to have been handled with less attention. A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a half-breed prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a Klan of Southern racists and a band of Mexican Revolutionaries. This was the only love scene I ever included in a film of this genre, where the women are generally bizarre. The New York Times' A. O. Scott felt that the film's "brazen mixing of incompatible elements that defies categorization, imitation or even sober critical assessment. As the price on each head is collected one-by-one, only a mute gunslinger named Silence stands between the innocent refugees and the greed and corruption that the bounty hunters represent. That makes me want to carry on. [72] Eric Monder of Film Journal International praised the film in its entirety, particularly its political themes and cinematography, as well as the chemistry between Trintignant and McGee and the 2K restoration, which he felt was "so crisp, the production looks like it was finished yesterday". A mute gunfighter defends a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers in the winter of 1898, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds. [15][25], In his analysis of the film, Donato Totaro compares Silence to other Spaghetti Western protagonists, and analyses him in Freudian terms – he is dressed in black (like Corbucci's previous creation, Django), is extremely fast and accurate with his gun, and is anti-heroic, sharing some of his characteristics with Loco (both will kill other people on the grounds that they will receive payment). [11][26], A key aspect of the film that differentiates its stylistic choices from other Westerns is its setting – a snow-bound Utah that contrasts with the desert plains seen in most Western films, American or Italian. A young gunfighter forms a tenuous alliance with an aging ex-outlaw to track down and eliminate the bandits who killed his family, till the surprising end. [16][43] A German-dubbed, English-subtitled print was also screened from November 14 to 25 that same year at the Brisbane International Film Festival. Cox also felt that Kinski's Loco was the actor's finest appearance in a Western, and that Trintignant's performance, which might have seemed doll-like in the hands of actors such as Franco Nero, John Phillip Law and Terence Hill, was pulled off "flawlessly. Pollicut, seeking to make a profit, places prices on the thieves' heads, attracting the attention of a bounty killer gang led by "Loco". 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