{"id":10713,"date":"2014-01-31T11:42:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T19:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=10713"},"modified":"2014-01-31T11:44:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T19:44:42","slug":"western-italian-style-1968-spaghetti-western-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2014\/01\/31\/western-italian-style-1968-spaghetti-western-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Italian Style: 1968 Spaghetti Western Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SpaghettiWestern1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10715\" alt=\"SpaghettiWestern1\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SpaghettiWestern1.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SpaghettiWestern1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SpaghettiWestern1-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SpaghettiWestern1-580x442.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a 1968 television documentary about the Italian film phenomenon known as the Spaghetti Western. These bold, violent, colorful movies took a dark and sometimes comic look at the western genre. In many cases, I think these films surpassed the American westerns they emulated by playing more loosely with the violence and morality that often made for a kind of stiffness in the American films. If you aren&#8217;t familiar with the full scope of the Spaghetti Western, it&#8217;s really amazing how many full length versions are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=spaghetti%20western&amp;sm=3\">available on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HIiL4AwQkSw?rel=0\" height=\"469\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iuM2Ltk4gzU?rel=0\" height=\"469\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SpaghettiWestern2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SpaghettiWestern2\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SpaghettiWestern2.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a 1968 television documentary about the Italian film phenomenon known as the Spaghetti Western. These bold, violent, colorful movies took a dark and sometimes comic look at the western genre. In many cases, I think these films surpassed the American westerns they emulated by playing more loosely with the violence and morality that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1158,1314,2400],"tags":[346,332,2401],"class_list":["post-10713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960s","category-documentary-film","category-western-films","tag-cowboy","tag-italy","tag-spaghetti-western"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10713"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10719,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10713\/revisions\/10719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}