2. Leon sat on the balcony of the Hilton Hotel for 11 years, and finally waited until there was a system. The filmmaker invested. It took him 3 hours and 40 minutes to tell the producer Arnon Michan about this huge production. Every scene and every picture is in front of him. It hit it off and started shooting this epic. Unfortunately, such as Orson Wilson’s "Citizen Kane" and Coppola's "Apocalypse Now", classics have to be polished by the world to show their quality. At the beginning of its release, the film was very poorly reviewed in the United States at the time. Investors later thought that they were too naive at the time. There were 3 versions in circulation, but there was no longest version. When it was released in the United States, the film length was greatly shortened and the timing changed. Some film critics rated this film as the worst of the year and the best in 10 years after 10 years.
3. When the 200-page outline was given to the screenwriter, the left side was the scene description, and the right side was empty. He let the screenwriter fill it up. The screenwriter wrote a draft and gave it to him. He smiled and read it, giggling non-stop, thinking that the lines are interesting, and what this movie needs is not interesting lines. One of the screenwriters sighed that this was the longest creative process in film history.
4. Long before the filming started, Leone discussed the soundtrack with Ennio Morricone. When filming started, two-thirds of the soundtrack had been completed, and the actors could hear the soundtrack on set. A wonderful thing. But there is one version that did not include Morconi's music when it was released, which is really hard to forgive.
5. Leoné once said that every time he makes a movie, he loses his life for five years. Indeed, some people say that he has devoted four times as much effort to making a movie as other directors. He can often see him demonstrating actions for actors and doing it himself. Has become a habit. This movie also caused Leon's vitality to be severely injured, leading to a serious heart attack. He passed away on April 30, 1989. Critics claimed that it was the loss of Italian cinema, which was a blow to the world cinema.
6. At the beginning of the mixed film circle, Quentin knew very little about professional terms. He often heard him say, "This, give me a Leonie shot. This is more useful than a close-up, everyone can shoot a close-up. And when I say Lenin’s lens, I want that feeling, not just a close-up."
7. My way of seeing things is sometimes native, but with sincerity of the kids from the Viale Gloriose steps.
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