cockfighting

His Spaghetti Westerns use ritualistic confrontations and duels as extended metaphors for masculine combat similar to cockfighting's primal competition.

His films explore visceral body horror and violent competition as extensions of natural instinct, treating human conflict with the same unflinching examination as animal combat.

His work examines cycles of violence and aggression with clinical detachment, treating human brutality as an inevitable natural phenomenon akin to animal conflict.