Leone, S. (English spelling)

Japanese: Leone,S.(英語表記)LeoneS
Leone, S. (English spelling)

Spaghetti Westerns are a type of film that is made in the 1960s and 1970s, and are often referred to as "spaghetti westerns." After Hollywood's film capital, which had been using the Cinecittà Studios in Rome and Madrid, Spain as overseas production bases to produce films at low cost, withdrew in the early 1960s, the remaining facilities and staff produced "westerns." The worldwide hit "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964), directed by Sergio Leone (1921?-1989), which was a western adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" (1961), sparked a huge boom in the genre.
[Characteristics of Spaghetti Westerns]
Italian westerns were originally made as imitations of American westerns, with cheap Hollywood stars playing the leading roles, and the Italian actors and staff all using pseudonyms instead of English names (for example, director Sergio Leone was originally called Bob Robertson, and actor Giuliano Gemma was called Montgomery Wood). The term spaghetti western was nothing more than a derogatory term for them.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Leone, S." is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…また,英語国では〈スパゲッティ・ウェスタンspaghetti western〉と呼んでいる。ローマのチネチッタ撮影所およびスペインのマドリードを海外の製作基地にして,安い費用で映画を製作していたハリウッドの映画資本が1960年代初めに撤退した後,残された施設やスタッフによって〈西部劇〉が製作され,黒沢明監督の《用心棒》(1961)を西部劇に翻案したセルジオ・レオーネSergio Leone(1921?‐89)監督の《荒野の用心棒》(1964)の世界的大ヒットがきっかけとなって,一大ブームを巻き起こした。
[マカロニ・ウェスタンの特質]
 イタリア製西部劇は,当初はアメリカ製を装ったイミテーションとしてつくられ,主役はハリウッドから出演料の安い三流スターを招き,イタリア人の俳優やスタッフもすべて英語名の変名を名のるといったぐあいで(たとえば,当初セルジオ・レオーネ監督はボブ・ロバートソン,俳優のジュリアーノ・ジェンマはモンゴメリー・ウッドと名のっていた),先のspaghetti westernというのもそれを揶揄(やゆ)した蔑称にほかならなかった。…

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