Once Upon a Time in America Comments

  • Andres 2023-09-29 09:43:24

    I hate all the movies and literature that cleans up hooligans, etc. hooligans are hooligans, those who applaud will not be sheltered, but ordinary people who are killed at will on the streets. . The three views in this film are extremely wrong, and the uglifying imagination of China reached a disgusting level in 1984, making people think that this is an 1884...

  • Conner 2023-09-15 08:31:32

    I always felt that it was an obligation to watch the extended version plus 25 minutes of beauty on the big screen. I didn't see how I could be worthy of Leonne, who died because of this film, and how dare I say I love movies. When I watched the street walking around 1:00 am, I deeply realized that the more than four hours in the studio just now was a reunion through time and dimension. As if the dance, the bridge, the swirling music, the feeling of looking back, everything seems to have...

  • Trycia 2023-08-08 16:02:34

    Was fooled back then. It is now almost certain to be the culmination of the worst male narratives. Each of the men in it is disgusting. The so-called legend is nothing more than a greedy lust for power and a hymn of cruelty to others, and then treats women as trophies like money and power. It's still tragic, and it's still reminiscent. Hurry up and bury it underground to rot. A plate of brightly colored shit is shit after all, and at the heart of this movie is a long rape. These dog things...

  • Enid 2023-08-04 03:06:19

    Rewatch the Director's Cut at HKIFF in 2015. It is too promiscuous, and the rhythm is completely out of control. The children's performance is very fake, it is an overrated...

  • Telly 2023-07-23 13:45:37

    Watching the restored 4K version of Once Upon a Time in America on the big screen was my happiest year in...

  • Hiram 2023-07-13 20:53:49

    9.5/10 I still shed a lot of tears for the soundtrack. At this moment, I still can't describe the mood in words. I still want to express it happily. I don't like Leon's slowness, but I always enjoy his slowness. Thick and majestic, but delicate and tactful, I really want to laugh like this and fall...

  • Trace 2023-05-16 21:14:43

    Classic narrative. A figurative epic of male...

  • Arvid 2023-04-17 22:42:17

    I didn't expect to watch it when I was hiking with my friends in the middle of the Huihang Ancient Road and staying at the inn. At that time, it was raining outside the house, the dogs barked intermittently, and my whole body was exhausted. At the end of the film, Noodles recalled that the five boys walked across the Brooklyn Bridge. There, the indescribable taste (and then found the poster used this one). Max is waiting for Noodles, or vice versa, or both, or just a dream, it's a lifetime...

  • Horace 2023-04-07 02:38:28

    After ten years of listening to the original soundtrack, I finally finished watching this movie. Although it is a gangster story, there is not much beating, smashing, looting and burning, but in terms of narrative time and rhythm, it feels very melodious. The mood is very well managed, a massage on the heartstrings. But what is each character like? Maybe from the director's point of view, this is an open-ended characterization, but this problem can really kill 10,000...

  • Deondre 2023-03-30 22:32:16

    With a masterful male perspective and a masterful narrative that extols masculinity into a myth, it's no wonder that the film has been at the top of the men's bible canon for years. The two rape scenes, especially the suffocating look of the latter, are not feminist to tolerate rape, but rather the plot is set up purely in the service of shaping and glorifying male toxic love. On such a tone, the heroine and even the female characters of the whole film are functional tools, which are used as a...

Extended Reading
  • Abelardo 2021-10-20 17:24:00

    Four hours of life

    The four-hour lifetime of
    "Once Upon a Time in America" ​​is nearly 4 hours long. When the movie ended, I didn't feel it was tedious at all. Instead, I marveled that the sun was shining outside the window just now, and the sun was setting when I raised my head. People sat on the sofa for a...

  • Jerald 2022-04-19 09:01:18

    What are the wonderful details of Once Upon a Time in America?

    In no particular order: details to be explained

    3 points: 14. Bullet holes in the shape of a man in the bed, and a portrait in a shattered glass frame.

Once Upon a Time in America quotes

  • [about Max's Reserve Bank job]

    Carol: What chance is there that a crazy thing like this might succeed?

    Noodles: Don't ask me, ask Max.

    Carol: You know as well as I do that this is suicide, pure and simple, for everyone.

    Noodles: Yeah, well, don't tell me, tell him. You got your own methods.

    Carol: I tried. He doesn't want to screw anymore. All he thinks about is this job: tear gas, hostages... Now he's gonna do this, and he's gonna do it with or without you!

    Carol: Noodles, we've never liked each other. We put up with each other for Max. So why don't we get together once... and do something for him. And after that, we can go back to being enemies.

    Carol: You know... if you were all in jail first... there wouldn't be any bank job.

    Carol: I got the idea from your friend Max.

    Noodles: What do you mean?

    Carol: He laughs at you. He makes fun of you. He says Eve has got you by the balls. Every time you walk past this place, you shit in your pants. You'd do anything for the cops to pick you up, so you wouldn't have to do this. Well then, do it. Do it! Put him in jail. Put him in jail. Not long, just long enough so he can get the idea out of his mind. If you can't stand being away from him, put yourself there too. Better off than being dead. You know what to do. And if you don't, I will.

  • [Noodles meets Fat Moe after raping his sister Deborah]

    Noodles: You got any coffee around?

    Fat Moe: Yes.

    Noodles: Thanks.

    [stirs coffee for 60 seconds]