Se sei vivo spara aka Django Kill!... If You Live, Shoot! (1967)

[finisterre]

i think it unlikely itv4 will show them with italian audio. 'subtitled' just means english subtitles for the hard of hearing, i should think.

[Banjo]

I guess you're right about the subtitles finisterre.
Just looking at the screening time 11.05pm to 1.25am,allowing for the commecial breaks,it appears that itv4 will be showing the full English uncut version of 115 minutes(yippee!)
Like Indio,I emailed ITV's feedback page yesterday to thank them for Django(and asked for more!) last Sunday and i will do  so again next week for Django Kill.
Even if i already have the movies to be shown,it will still be great for the Alex Cox introductions and will inevitably attract more members to this website!

[Marco Leone]

I have the japenese disc, where it reverts to italian with english subtitles for a handful of edited scenes.

[Banjo]

Marco,i don't expect we'll be lucky enough to get your version of Django Kill shown.Before buying the special edition of GBU i waited to see if ITV would show the extended version first but to no avail.

[boardwalk_angel]

This is one of Tomas Milian's best performances...he can really pull off a serious role with style.
I found that watching in Italian w/ English subs rather than the English dub is like night & day...& much preferable to the cartoonish dubbing.

[Banjo]

Just about managed to stay awake enough last night to tape Django Kill and pause the recording during the advert breaks despite nodding off briefly a couple of times,and to give an objective opinion will have to watch it again soon.After reading Howard Hughes pocket guide review i was expecting a "harrowing experience" with horses being macheted and blown to pieces but i didn't find anything particularly upsetting-Marco had ITV4 trimmed any of the violence?
I actually found the gratuitous scalping,lynching,chest cutting incidents tiresome rather than shocking.The unimaginative and repetative music was also annoying but i'm glad to have a copy at last and will give it another look.
Anyway well done to ITV4 and i'm just about to email some positive feedback and ask for more!

[Marco Leone]

I didn't see the whole of it, having already seen it a few times before, but watched the Alex Cox intro and first half. It looks like they showed a pretty much uncut version, even reverting back to the italian language for those scenes originally deemed too harrowing and nevr had an english dub (i.e. the bullet removal etc).

Really looking forward to seeing what else ITV4 can throw at us!  Despite the annoyance of ad breaks, its been great!

[Banjo]

Howard Hughes mentions horses being hacked to bits with machetes and i assume in his version this is at the near beginning of the movie when the Mexicans(with machetes) try and scatter the horses away.I know i was sleepy last night but i don't remember any machetes(thankfully!) being thrust into horses!Also i can't remember any horrible remains of blown up horses.Was Hughes speaking literally?
Will definately have another look!

[boardwalk_angel]

Also i can't remember any horrible remains of blown up horses.Was Hughes speaking literally?
Will definately have another look!

After the "horse bomb" explodes...there are some quick cuts of dead bodies...1 very quick shot shows the horse..comes & goes in a flash.

[Banjo]

I held my breath when the horse bomb exploded but with  the following cuts of dead bodies it was very much a case of blink and you will miss it.However i sincerely hope that no animal was harmed in the films making.
Despite his two excellent SW books,iIts seems to me that i Howard Hughes maybe a bit of a big girls blouse!!
On reading his slightly negative review of Fistful of Dynamite,Hughes made a big deal of "crude and downright distasteful humour and a plethora of bad language".So he odviously hasn't seen any Tarantino movies or lived in the 21st century!!Having already seen Leones movie beforehand, it didn't strike me particularly of being full of swearing-maybe 2 or 3" F" words used in total-or distasteful in any big way.Perhaps Hughes  belongs to an (older?) generation that is a little easier to offend!!

[indio]

i love it. its mad. strange for Milian to play it down,

[Alan Shearer 9]

man, that movie was bad. Not in a good way either  couldn't watch it all didn't hold my interest at all

[indio]

personal taste i guess. i like it ,but its not one of my favorites.

[Marco Leone]

I really love it to, but it definately is a matter of taste.

[Banjo]

I saw Django Kill in a better light on second viewing last night.Tomas Milian(if only they could have dubbed his voice!) was excellent in his first starring role,but i think overall there was some (intentionally?) bad acting.Zorro and his black-clad cronies and the ludicrous Indians were quite amusing,though.I guess for the time the gore was shocking but that sort of thing doesn't do anything for me at all!
A bad,but entertaining movie which would have benefited from a better soundtrack-god that  dreadful relentless monotenous bassline,aaarrrgh!!!