Except for some chattering and personal thoughts, all translated from IMDb
1. After the filming is completed, the lens will last for a total of 8 to 10 hours. Director Sergio Leone and editor Nino Ballari shortened the film to about 6 hours and plan to release it as two 3-hour films. The producer rejected this idea, and the director had to further shorten the film to 3 hours and 49 minutes (ahhhh, please release the six-hour version at least!).
2. In order to prepare for the role of Noodles, Robert De Niro requested a private meeting with Meyer Lansky (the godfather archetype Charlie Luciano left-handed, a rare dying mafia). This request was naturally rejected.
3. The movie story took place in 1920, 1932, 1933, and 1968.
4. James Woods (actor of McDonald's) said that after watching the 2 hours and 24 minutes release version, a film critic said that The Past in the United States was the worst movie of 1984. A few years later, after he watched the original three-hour and 49-minute version, he said that Past Events in the United States was the best movie in the 1980s. (At this time, this is really suitable, don't you think, guide?)
5. The street scene of Manhattan Bridge (movie poster) can be seen from Washington Street, Brooklyn, New York (Washington Street, Brooklyn, New York. Holy Land Tour!).
6. Deborah This is Jennifer Connelly's first film role. When filming from 1982 to 83, she was only 12 years old.
7. The racing director regretted his refusal to shoot Godfather, which was one of the reasons why he wanted to make a gangster movie. In the past in the United States, he also used the flashback technology first used by The Godfather II.
8. Although we finally saw the 3 hours and 49 minutes version, the movie still cut the 45 minutes that the game director deemed essential, including further explanations on gang and labor relations; Noodles and Carol (Tuesday Weld) The meeting in 1968; and a lot of shots about the relationship between noodles and Eve (Darlanne Fluegel). (Hey, I deleted so many shots of our old Luo! But there is one thing to say, if you follow the director's order, this movie will not be able to stop for 10 hours. You mean, right, guide?)
9. Qiao Paixi originally wanted to play Mai Da, and the game director felt that he was not suitable for this role (the game director was right), and asked him to choose one of the other roles as a replacement. He finally chose the role of Frankie, which played a more important role in the original script (after all, half of the footage was cut).
10. Lao Luo suggested that James Woods trim his teeth when playing Minister Bailey and use his neat white teeth to show his wealth and vanity. The producer hesitated due to cost reasons, so Lao Luo paid for McD’s teeth out of his own pocket (don’t Toss your teeth, ah, you can get 8,000 broken and 40,000 whole teeth like you).
11. The race director was very excited to see the real David "Noodles" Aaronson, that is, Harry Grey. Frankly speaking, Harry Grey reminded him of Edward Robinson. "This grotesque realist old gangster, in the last moments of life, could not restrain the use of a large number of gestures and lines that we have seen thousands of times on the big screen, which aroused my curiosity and made me feel Interesting. I was stabbed by the vanity in his behavior, and also shocked by the magnificent failure of this attempt."
12. Fat Moe's is based on the bar where Harry Grey and the director met. This bar was chosen by Grey himself. It is located near the New Calvary Cemetery in New York City, just off Green Point Avenue. As the director described: "Dark and dirty, people are sitting at small tables in the shadows and whispering. The bartender even looks like Fat Moe himself.
13. The little noodle actor Scott Tiler said that no one on the set speaks English, and the director himself does not speak English. The only English word the director himself said is "Goodbye".
14. It was not James Woods himself who jumped into the garbage truck but a stuntman.
15. James Woods said that the question he was asked the most was whether Mai Da died in the garbage truck in the end. However, as of today, he himself hasn't figured it out (it's unsolved).
16. Although it is not mentioned in the movie, the sentence for noodles is 12 to 13 years because Deborah said that she counted down 4566 days before she met noodles again.
17. Lao Luo is the first actor selected for this movie. He was confirmed to play the role of Noodles during the shooting of Godfather 2 and participated in the casting of the subsequent movie.
18. Al Pacino and Nicholson rejected the role of noodles.
19. Connelly got the attention of director Dario Aquido for playing the role of Deborah , and eventually got her first starring role in Mythology (1985).
20. The scene where Noodles took Deborah to dinner was filmed in Venice, and their destined way home afterwards was filmed thousands of miles away on the coast of New Jersey.
21. The "Song of Songs" in the Jewish Bible appeared twice in the movie. One time, Deborah caught the noodles and watched her dancing, and recited to him (Bao Dai reads the West Chamber); The second time, the noodles recite to Deborah on the beach after dinner. It is worth mentioning that the versions they recited are not accurate (my beloved is in the crowd, like an apple tree in the woods).
22. According to the tournament director, more than 200 actors have auditioned for McDonald’s.
23. Someone once thought that De Niro was too old for the noodles who played 25. At the same time, Deborah’s age set in the original script was 15 years old, and Elizabeth McGovern was already 21 years old when she starred.
24. In the first and last scenes of Mai Da's appearance, vehicles were used as barriers to appear. The first time was when Mai Da sat on the top of a carriage and watched the noodles using a vehicle to block the police's sight to complete the theft; in the last scene, Mai Da walked towards the garbage truck out of the sight of the noodles, suggesting that he might (but not sure) jump into it and commit suicide.
25. Deborah is closely related to the mirror: In 1923, when Deborah was dancing in the storage room, she looked at herself in the mirror. When she mocked the noodles and asked him to "look in the mirror to see himself", the noodles also looked in the mirror. Before she was reunited with noodles in 1933, she was looking at herself in a small mirror. By 1968, all her rivalry with noodles took place in front of the mirror.
26. This is the last film made by Sergio Leone , and it is 13 years after his last film Revolution (1971).
Before revisiting Meixiang, I felt that the relationship between noodles and Mai Da was a perfect reflection of Wilde's words, that is, "Everything in the world is about sex, except for sex itself, which is about power."
Throughout the movie, Mai Da expressed interest in all the women who slept in Noodles. Let them say goodbye to the innocent Peggy one after another; Carol, who was forced to become Mai Da’s lover by noodles during the robbery; Deborah, who became the Minister’s wife because of Noodles’ beloved love; including the naked girl who welcomed the noodles out of prison. After getting off the car, Mai Da also had Ask her if she wants to stay and come with him (the only exception is Eve, but her role has been deleted). Gao Zan said that Mai Da has carnal feelings for Noodles. I don't agree with him, but I agree with his reasoning about Mai Da's sexual dysfunction. Under these conditions, free, wild and untamed, completely street boy, Noodles, who killed their enemies while avenging their companions, became a symbol of pure maleness in his heart. It was a collection of things that the wise and restrained Mai Da could never do. Spiritual Alpha, and Mai Da expresses the conquest of the power he symbolizes by conquering his woman, and marrying Deborah is the climax of this expression of conquest: he wins through the power of precision and reason, completely unrelated to emotions Noodles loved it all his life, and it seemed that the power he possessed completely defeated Noodles' emotion-driven anger. But in the end we knew that he had failed, and he let the noodles shoot at him and bowed his head to feelings.
The guide's explanation of the scene of Deborah and Noodles in the car is too subtle. They fell in love. When Deborah kissed him, it was a faint hint of Noodles and let them bid farewell to them tenderly. They wanted to let themselves go completely through a cloud and rain but let their worries let go. A joy to compensate for the 15 years of noodles. Unforgettable, I made up for the 4566 days that I counted silently. In the end, Noodles chose to hurt her deeply. He wanted her to remember forever, and turned their love into a scar, which would be painful and bleeding all his life. This kind of damage to his beloved also deeply hurt Noodles himself. After Deborah left, he became more and more drunk today, as if there is no tomorrow after today.
It was the same when Mai Da bid farewell. He killed himself and all his brothers in Noodles through a suicide robbery, so that Noodles had no chance to die with his brothers, and the rest of his life would become a ghost; he made Noodles feel like himself. Died, and Noodles regretted not dying with them for the rest of his life. Mai Da and Deborah are two sides of the same body. After turning and leaving, they still have to remember the one they love: You are sorry for me.
IMdb’s Trivia actually wrote an article, saying that the director hinted that the whole movie might be a fantasy that noodles sucked opium and it was nothing that happened. Well, even though Lao Luo laughed too much creepy in the end, I still disagree with this one. However, whether Mai Da died in the end is really an unclear case that no one knows.
View more about Once Upon a Time in America reviews
