Secolo d’Italia
By Great Paolucci
October 18, 2019
The Italian western is back. And back in style, with a
tribute to the master of the genre:
Sergio Leone . Yes, because Oro e Piombo, is a film created by the
determination of the director Emiliano Ferrera, a scholar and a great lover of
the genre. Developed and watching it come to light thanks to the passion of an
independent reality that he self-produced the project. Who has been able to
count on the collaboration of great professionals in the technical and artistic
sector, today it is a successful film. A work that follows in the footsteps of
yesterday's great spaghetti westerns relaunched in the name of digital
virtuosity.
Gold and Lead,
spaghetti westerns are back
Long prairies. Heroic figures. Penetrating looks and
dialogues are entrusted to the image even before the script, “Oro e Piombo” was
born as a tribute to the Italian western and its myths. A cinema that was later
re-evaluated by the fundamentalist critics, who often downgraded it to a
second-rate genre. An important trend to which only a belated revaluation of
the entire filmography of Leone has been able to restore dignity and
spectacular strength. It is in this context, and after the success of “Django Unchained”
by Quentin Tarantino, that the film directed by Ferrera was made, while on the
one hand it winks a “The Magnificent 7”,on the other, it looks at all that
serial production that has fed a rich and nourished line of cassette successes
for about fifteen years. A period of time including roughly between 1964 and
1978, the one in which the western experienced a renewed popularity precisely
in the Belpaese, after a period of decline. By identifying with it, it also
influences the themes and conventions of the non-European western genre.
The artistic and
technical cast
The genus, after the incredible explosion of the 60s and
70s, suddenly disappeared almost completely. Giving birth to very few films in
the 80s and 90s of no notable success. Except only for Bud Spencer and Terence
Hill, with whom, starting from the seventies, a kind of funny parody of Spaghetti
westerns was inaugurated . So, welcome back to “Oro and Piombo”. Whose script
is based on a true story of pain and revenge. Of guilt and atonement. To which
he wanted to add the emotional impact of a female protagonist on a scene
famously known to gringos. The heroin is indeed a woman (Yassmin Pucci), a sort
of Clint Easwood with a skirt. The rest is the result of the love and
commitment of high level artisans. From the cinematography of Armando Barberi, to
the support of an expert master arms like Marco Fanciulli, (known for being the
right arm of the great Giuliano Gemma ). And again, a stunt coordinator like
Tiziano Carnevale and two horse-trainers like Antonio Di Santo and Angelo
Allegretti , known internationally.
The soundtrack
The original period costumes were chosen by the costume
designer Rosanna Grassia, while the soundtrack was able to count on the
collaboration of the "I Dollars of Honor" which dealt with the
soundtrack . Their typically western music perfectly punctuates the splendid
atmospheres of the film, typical of a genre that has always focused very much
on the sound commentary. Shot in an open-air set, entirely rebuilt on the
outskirts of Rome and a location made available by Cinecittà World park to
create some exteriors, “Oro & Piombo”, on September 28th, it won the award
for Best First Work 2019, at the Terra di Siena Film Festival.
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