An unforgiving journey into the grim confines of ‘no hopesville’, this is Corbucci’s fully realized blizzard world of blurred morality, an ominous snow-swept frontier loaded with corruption, greed, despicable bounty hunters, a man called Loco, and a man named Silence. Beautiful, bleak, and unforgettable. 

Corbucci’s masterpiece.

Someone build a bronze statue of Klaus Kinski so I have something tangible to pray and worship to.

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"It's all within the law."

Plenty of spaghetti westerns deal with the rippling effects of violent vengeance, but The Great Silence is something else, something heavier and colder and more malevolent. It's haunted. It's the ghost of all of the previous vengeance cycles, the blankets of snow its shroud, the sound of bullet casings hitting saloon floors its rattling chains. Its story is the prequel to a ghost town. A silent scream.

It's hard watching it today not thinking of its relevance to current events. A crooked powerman looks a grieving widow in the eyes and shrugs at her cries of injustice. "Your husband broke the law. His death was his own fault." Starving, huddled masses considered outlaws by merciless bounty hunters, have to live outside of the town for fear of being taken down if they step foot in the wrong city. Life is cheap, but business is good if you lack humanity. Cold truth.

"What times we live in!"

Me cuesta mucho ver a Trintignant en un spaghetti, ¿me pasa solo a mí? Pero luego está Kinski, toda esa movida de los bounty killers, el sheriff, la nieve y todo lo demás.

10/10
The words SAVAGE and BADASS describe this movie pretty well. Corbucci's masterpiece also has one of the best movie endings and soundtracks EVER :)))).

A glorious experience!
Totally see the influence this had on future films, especially Tarantino’s works

A legremekebb westernek, és egyben legnagyobb kedvenceim egyike. Sötét, kiábrándult, apokaliptikus, nem mellesleg mesterien összerakott, a műfaji szabályok ellen lázadozó időtlen remekmű. A tökéletes anti-western.

Már egyedisége, rendhagyósága miatt is figyelemreméltó, de egyszerűen minden más is tökéletesen klappol ebben a filmben: pazar színészek és alakításaik, jó sztori és forgatókönyv, kiváló rendezés, zene, fényképezés, hangulat, és micsoda finálé! Sergio Corbucci számomra mindig is a műfaj trónjának jogos birtokosa, az ő filmjei sokkal közelebb állnak hozzám druszája klasszikusainál.

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

"Tigrero: You're on the side of the law. We, we're on the side of the law of survival... survival of the fittest!"

Brutal. Retrata a violência de 1898 pensando na de 1968. A classe dominante e a lei enquanto inimigas, os bandidos enquanto mocinhos. Não estava preparado para aquele final.
Interessante ver como várias das cenas começam e terminam de forma semelhante: um close extremo dos personagens, abre a câmera, movimento, fecha a câmera.
É interessante também pensar na arma de Silêncio. Aquela pistola automática alemã, típica do final do século XIX, começo do XX, pode ser interpretada como um símbolo do fim do Velho Oeste, com seus revolveres tão característicos.

I was so in love with Sergio Corbucci's Django, i decided to watch another one of his work soon after that - 'The Great Silence'.

This was really good. Has a deaf tough-guy as hero. Cool locations. Awesome soundtracks (Ennio Morricone). And there are certainly scenes that inspired QT's The Hateful Eight.

But out of nowhere the ending slapped me in the face. Its hopeless. I know its based on some real incident but come on. You created this cool hero for apparently no reason.

Loved everything apart from the ending.

THE GREAT SILENCE (1968)

Film western dengan ending paling beda. Bukan para jagoan yang menang tapi para penjahat lah.

Mungkin The Great Silence layaknya kehidupan, bukankah dalam kehidupan nyata ada begitu banyak kisah orang2 yang berada di pihak yang benar yang justru terkalahkan, karena mereka lebih lemah dan tidak terorganisasi dengan baik.

Score: 4/5