Mar 22 2008
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“ Spaghetti Western is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western film that emerged in the mid-1960s, so named because most were produced by Italian studios.
The name led to various other non-U.S. westerns being associated with food and drink.
Sometimes the names chorizo/paella western are used for similar films financed by Spanish capital. Publicity for the Japanese comedy film Tampopo coined the phrase “Noodle Western” to describe the parody made about a noodle restaurant. Robert Rodriguez’s westerns, El Mariachi, Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico, have been called “Burrito Westerns.” Sometimes Hrafn Gunnlaugsson’s Viking movies are called “Cod Westerns.”
The German Westerns of the 1960s, which were successful in Europe before the Italian Westerns, often made after novels by Karl May and mostly filmed in Yugoslavia are often called “Sauerkraut Westerns”. The GDR DEFA Studios made Sauerkraut Westerns in Yugoslavia like their West German counterparts and also had a Native American as hero.
The Red Dwarf episode Gunmen of the Apocalypse has been described as the world’s only “Roast Beef Western”, although the British director Shane Meadows’ film Once Upon a Time in the Midlands has been described as a “tinned-spaghetti Western.”
John Woo’s Western movies were described by Roger Ebert as “Dim Sum Western.” The Thai film Tears of the Black Tiger by director Wisit Sasanatieng has been dubbed both a “stir-fry horse opera” and “a Pad Thai Western” by critics. The “Red Western” or “Ostern” is the Soviet and eastern bloc’s take on the genre.
Monty Python’s Flying Circus provided a “cheese Western” parody as a film critic discussed Sam Peckinpah’s Rogue Cheddar film.
An entire sub-genre of Westerns produced by the Indian film industry, and especially Bollywood based in Mumbai, is whimsically named “curry Western.” Notable as being one of the most successful box-office hits of all time in India is the “curry Western” Sholay.
The name led to various other non-U.S. westerns being associated with food and drink.
Sometimes the names chorizo/paella western are used for similar films financed by Spanish capital. Publicity for the Japanese comedy film Tampopo coined the phrase “Noodle Western” to describe the parody made about a noodle restaurant. Robert Rodriguez’s westerns, El Mariachi, Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico, have been called “Burrito Westerns.” Sometimes Hrafn Gunnlaugsson’s Viking movies are called “Cod Westerns.”
The German Westerns of the 1960s, which were successful in Europe before the Italian Westerns, often made after novels by Karl May and mostly filmed in Yugoslavia are often called “Sauerkraut Westerns”. The GDR DEFA Studios made Sauerkraut Westerns in Yugoslavia like their West German counterparts and also had a Native American as hero.
The Red Dwarf episode Gunmen of the Apocalypse has been described as the world’s only “Roast Beef Western”, although the British director Shane Meadows’ film Once Upon a Time in the Midlands has been described as a “tinned-spaghetti Western.”
John Woo’s Western movies were described by Roger Ebert as “Dim Sum Western.” The Thai film Tears of the Black Tiger by director Wisit Sasanatieng has been dubbed both a “stir-fry horse opera” and “a Pad Thai Western” by critics. The “Red Western” or “Ostern” is the Soviet and eastern bloc’s take on the genre.
Monty Python’s Flying Circus provided a “cheese Western” parody as a film critic discussed Sam Peckinpah’s Rogue Cheddar film.
An entire sub-genre of Westerns produced by the Indian film industry, and especially Bollywood based in Mumbai, is whimsically named “curry Western.” Notable as being one of the most successful box-office hits of all time in India is the “curry Western” Sholay.