Talk:The Great Silence

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:04, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Anachronism and the Mauser
I removed the statement regarding Silence's pistol being an anachronism. If the gun existed during the time the movie was set, why would it be anachronistic? As well, the flashback scene doesn't specify what year it took place in... it's entirely possible it was after 1896.

Also, I changed dumb to mute, since it's considered offensive. Meliadoul (talk) 07:58, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Black Sabbath
The article stated: The segment from Bava's Black Sabbath'' titled 'Wurdulak' was also an inspiration for the film. "A nobleman, Count Vladimir D'Urfe (Mark Damon) discovers the headless corpse of Alibek (a Turkish bandit) in the snowbound mountains on his way to Yessey. He takes it to a nearby peasant house, where he finds a family living in fear.  Their father, an old man named Gorka (Boris Karloff) has been hunting for the bandit for days and is due back at ten o'clock that night; Alibek is a wurdulak (a vampire): 'a cadaver always seeking blood'.  If Gorka hasn't returned by the appointed hour, his family must kill him, as he has been vampirised too." The film also draws from the basic theme of A Fistful of Dollars (1964) in that there are "warring factions fighting over a town."''

Some of this has been challenged a year ago. The main claim, that the movie resembles the vampire scene from Black sabbath, looks completely made up. No source for any claim has been given.

Audio of alternate Version
I've once seen the altern. ending WITH sound.

The (thought-to-be-dead) sheriff comes to aid Silence, and they whack (i.e. kill them dead) the bounty hunters - Kinski (Loco) is the first one who gets it, right in the kisser, a bullet that is. After the grim killing, it is revealed that Silence wore some nifty scale-plate hand protection, and his hand injuries were just faked.

Meanwhile, the Bandits/Outsiders are arrested, although they can expect amnesty and a pardon - but for a while, they "need to be arrested", although the Sheriff has no grudge against them "although you ate my horse".

Then the Sheriff tells Sil. that he could use "a guy who knows what to do and doesnt talk much", and Silence gives a friendly smile.

Main Theme fades in, credits roll.

Indeed the short 1:50 minutes clip is in Italian, and probably another dub exists, but nobody knows about it.

Remember, many movies and dubs were lost over time, like all of the Laurel and Hardy "Real-Synchro" versions, where they dubbed themselfes by just pretending to speak German, French, etc.

PS: I prefer this ending a lot over the "all dead" Version. I just cant stand the bad guys seeing another day, and the good ones being killed.

Spaghetti Western Database
So from what I'm looking at no the sites About Us page, I do not think this site should be used as a source in this article, as it just appears to be another fan wiki.Per WP:USERGENERATED, I don't think we need to find a different/better source. Andrzejbanas (talk) 14:11, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

"Citation needed" templates? Or not. ...in the lead section...
Recent edits have gone back and forth on this issue. Let's discuss. Shearonink (talk) 23:12, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * The parts that in some edits have been given the "citation needed" template do have their info covered by the sources listed at the ends of the paragraphs in which they appear. I understand that some of what appears there looks like my opinion (it isn't necessarily), but it is representative of the ideas put forward by the original sources. PatTheMoron (talk) 01:27, 6 June 2019 (UTC)