The Love Donna Flora event opened July 25 to raise funds for the last ditch cancer treatment of Donna Flora creator Squinternet Larnia. To cut costs, Donna Flora was moved this week from it's own sim, Cinecittà, to a homestead which already means SL has lost a treasure in it's own right. Cinecittà is Italy's Hollywood and the sim was as lovingly constructed as Donna Flora's period wear.
Vero Modero's Oki cowgirl combination gives me a rare excuse to revisit the most famous productions of Cinecittà, the Spaghetti Westerns directed by Sergio Leone; A Fistful of Dollars; A Few Dollars More, and: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. And rare because in the Dollars trilogy, the few female characters usually wore nothing but skin and bruises and worked on their backs.
In detail:
Vero Modero Oki outfit with robe (new)
Pose by The Muse Poses, Donna #1 (new), available from Love Donna Flora
Earrings and Necklace from Donna Flora's Old West Set
The robe from Vero evokes the iconic poncho worn by Clint Eastwood in the Dollars trilogy. The boots, pistol belt and cuffs are from other creators.
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"Sergio Leone"
He came 'round here with his camera and some of his American friends
Where the money is immortal and the killing never ends
He set out from Cinecittà through the ruined streets of Rome
To shoot in Almaría and bring the bodies home
He said
I'll be rich or I'll be dead
I've got it all here in my head
He could see the killers' faces and he heard the song they sang
Where he waited in the darkness with the Viale Glorioso gang
He could see the blood approaching and he knew what he would be
Since the days when he was first assisting The Force of Destiny
He worked for Walsh and Wyler with the chariot and sword
When he rode out in the desert he was quoting Hawks and Ford
He came to see the masters and he left with what he saw
What he stole from Kurosawa he bequeathed to Peckinpah
From the Via Tuscolana to the view from Miller Drive
He shot the eyes of bad men and kept their deaths alive
With the darkness and the anguish of a Goya or Van Cleef
He rescued truth from beauty and meaning from belief.
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| The Avie with No Name |
Vero's Oki is an homage to the American western from a Turkish creator which echoes the origins of the Dollars trilogy itself--Italian films inspired from a Japanese film derived from an earlier American noir film.
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| '...was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you' |
"Maybe there's a God above
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
It's not a cry you can hear at night
It's not somebody who has seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah"
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
It's not a cry you can hear at night
It's not somebody who has seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah"
Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah
Credits:
As The Good: Anne-Elisabeth Jane (lockedfast Resident)
As The Bad: The Avie with No Name
As the Ugly: (it's SL fashion--written out of the script)
Wardrobe by Vero Modero and Donna Flora
Effects by Audrey Cresci, The Muse Poses
Filmed on location in Deadwood City
Score by Jackson Browne and Leonard Cohen
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