Django
1966
**
Director: Sergio Gorbucci
Cast: Franco Nero, Eduardo Fajardo, José Bódalo, Loredana Nusciak, Ángel Álvarez, Rafael Albaicín, Jimmy Douglas, Simón Arriaga
Django, a mysterious man who drags a closed coffin, arrives in a border town where Major Jackson's racist Klansmen and General Rodriguez's Mexican bandits fight for power. Django seeks revenge on his wife's death and decides to play both gangs against each other. Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars established the visual style for Spaghetti Westerns. Sergio Corbucci's mechanical and uninspired genre piece borrows not only the aestetics but the plot from the first part of the Dollars Trilogy. He also breaks the first rule of filmmaking: "show, don't tell." Where Leone was a masterful visual storyteller, Gorbucci has Django explain us his motives and actions in the dialogue. This results in a dull and clunky Western which is notable only for its body count, which is in the hundreds. However, the movie was immensely popular, and it spawned one official and dozens of unofficial sequels.
