Hollywood Stopped, so Spaghetti Started

So, Leoni made Clint Eastwood a star, huh? Good for him. Where would the world be without Clint Eastwood? The same place it is now, just with one less actor.
I did not know that a lot of actors in spaghetti westerns did not speak English, and the voice was dubbed in. It looks that way in TGTBTU, but I was not sure of it. I think it's neat that Leoni never learned to speak English, but he was creating films set in America. It's not bad by any means, just interesting. He started making westerns because Hollywood had stopped making them. I guess that's what most people do-- they create things they lie when no one else does, or at least differently than others do.
I like that he made actors seem as if they had not bathed in “three weeks”. They were unshaven, scruffy, and had bad teeth. This is how cowboys were (in my mind at least.) I don't think they just randomly burst into a song when they were sad or what have you. They were rugged and tough and went after what they wanted. I guess we all have our opinions of how the American cowboy was.
He made them a bit meaner than I like, though. I do not think children should be slaughtered by the cowboy-- it's excessive. However, to Leoni, it was just a way of showing he viewing audience that particular cowboy was meaner and badder then the rest. It does make his point, but it could have been done another way. For example, he could have killed three men at once, with little to no reason. That would show him as being rough and mean, without taking the life of a child.
Maybe I just have a huge soft spot for children.