why are they called spaghetti westerns?

Answer 1

Filmed in Italy. That is where the connotation "spaghetti" comes from.

Answer 2

Spaghetti Westerns were Western movies made in Italy or by Italian movie directors. So people started calling them Spaghetti Westerns as a way to identify them as a genre.

Answer 3

They were all filmed in Andalusia Spain,,which is strange really that they got called spaghetti westerns,,you can go to the film sets there and have a look around and meet some of the extras who show visitors around,,,,some of the sets are still in place,,,they should have been called Paella westerns but I guess spaghetti sounded better,,,

Answer 4

Because they hire a bunch of meatball actors and actresses to star in them???

But seriously, Spaghetti westerns are called like that because they were produced by Italian studios. Most of them were spoken in Italian, had lots of violence and low budgets. Sergio Leone, probably the most important western director of all times, was Italian. Ennio Morricone, who wrote the music for classic spaghetti westerns such as "Once upon a time in the west" and the classic flick "The good the bad and the ugly", was also Italian.

Answer 5

Such as those old Clint Eastwood movies? As I understand it, it came about when soaring production costs in this country created an incentive for the producers to make the films, first in Italy (and thus spaghetti!) and later in Spain. I have been to Spain and I found that, indeed, parts of it looks like the American Southwest; no doubt they found it well-suited to do Westerns with a low budget.

Answer 6

More specifically, they were produced and directed by Italian companies. They were low-budget films that eschewed commonly-held beliefs about westerns. The most famous of these involved former actor-turned-director Clint Eastwood, who worked with director Sergio Leone in the famous "Man with No Name" trilogy ("A Fistful of Dollars", "For a Few Dollars More", and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly").

Answer 7

http://www.wildeast.net/spaghettiwestern.htm

Because they were financed by Italian companies ... so many westerns were made in the late 60's and into the 70's they coined the term "spaghetti western" for those movies.

Answer 8

Cheap Italian movie filmed in Italy on a spaghetti budget...

Answer 9

Filmed in Italy

Answer 10

Because most of the westerns back in the day were produced by Italian studios.

They WERE NOT filmed IN Italy.....most of them were filmed in Spain.