Fun life lessons from spaghetti westerns

There are popular ones and funny ones – and some of the classics and spaghetti westerns are fun

From today's hits like Yellowstone to old-fashioned TV classics like Gunsmoke, Bonzana and High Chapperell. On the wave of popularity, a sub-genre appeared in Italy in the 60s and 70s, produced on a budget. Sergio Leone is considered a pioneer of the spaghetti western genre. Leone was an Italian filmmaker who made several films and helped popularize them. They are known for their anti-heartiness and policing of traditional Western tropes. All from meWhen you look beyond the properties, you can see that what they share has value. Here are some fun life lessons we learned from spaghetti westerns.

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Love

If you pay attention, westerns can teach you more about love and sex than a Prince song, and that's saying something. Set the stage – say you're drinking at your favorite bar and a local is about to call a barmaid “madam” while grabbing her arm. You stood up, punched the guy square in the jaw and the fight began. After you won (of course you would win because you're a good guy and good guys always win), the barmaid would take you upstairs, clean your wounds and then sleep with you. Ah, the good old days when all you had to do to have sex was risk your own safety. Say what you want, it's still better than Tinder.

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Alcoholism is a career option

In the Wild West, being a drunk was a perfectly viable career option. In fact, it was almost necessary. Every decent town needed a town drinker. Why? How would you know who the respectable people are if there were no unrespectable people to compare? It wasn't a bad living. You stumble out of bed, come to work smelling of whiskey and wearing the same clothes you went to bed in.

fashion

In the Wild West, wearing black meant you were a shitty person with no scruples or morals to speak of. In today's society, wearing black usually means you're a New Yorker, which just happens to mean to the rest of the world you're a shitty person with no scruples or morals to speak of. In the Wild West, all the villains wore black. So unless you were on the wrong side of the law, black was out of the question. Which is a real shame because black really makes you slim. It's a shame that clothing can be so stigmatized.

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How to be a man

Being a “man” may be a subjective thing in our modern times – but in the Old West there was a litmus test for masculinity. Men had to be tough, brave, sturdy and tall. If you weren't tall – that's fine, you just had to have a complex about it and punch every third man you saw in the jaw. Why? Because you're a man, that's why! But you also loved your horse, your dog and, although you didn't show it, the few friends you had. You've also stood up for what you believe in – sometimes when the odds are stacked against you.

It should be the classic “The Good, the Bad and The Ugly” from 1966 The best spaghetti westerns of all time. Take some time and enjoy the mix of western, culture, art and more.