"Once Upon a Time in America" is, to a certain extent, a purely author's film. It carries the "American complex" of director Sergio Leone (Sergio Leone himself was not born in the United States). And he has not lived in the United States for a long time), what he wants to tell is not a logically complete traditional story, but a pure self-expression of the American history, culture and spirit he has loved throughout his life. Because his understanding of the other side of the ocean is not Italian Americans who grew up on the street like Coppola, but acquired and accumulated through American movies on the screen, he will shoot a film with a non-American temperament. The American theme of the film to complete the things that he has sought in his life.
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