some thoughts

Jesus 2022-04-19 09:01:18

I watched "Once Upon a Time in America" ​​the day before yesterday. The director is very good and skillful. The ingenious switching between the past and reality made me amazed. Picking it up with one hand, from which it immediately switches to Young Noodles being picked up by his brother when he was first released from prison, and then the story moves forward. There are still many places in this switch; What happened after this reminds people of similar things in the past, such as "you go out through the other door, don't look back, just go to the street, no one will see you." This sentence appears at least in the movie Three times, the first time was when Noodles was being hunted down in a Chinese theater, and a Chinese told him this, the second time was when the old noodles went to find an old lover, and the old lover told him that he didn't want him to see the truth. , the last time he was in the office of Minister Bailey, his former brother, Minister Bailey told Noodles to kill him and said this.

There is also a scene in "Once Upon a Time in America" ​​that convinced me that the long phone ringing not long after the movie started, from when Noodles was being hunted down in a Chinese theater, and then Noodles recalled the deaths of his three brothers in the accident, and also He dialed the phone at an anti-prohibition party, and after the other party picked up the phone, the ringing stopped, the phone ringing through and connecting these shots, and at the same time giving the audience a very restless feeling, eager to know who made the call, Who was it called, and why did it sound during the chase?

"American Past", I prefer the name "ONCE OPUN A TIME IN AMERICA", "American Past" makes people feel more focused on the history of the country, and the English name is more appropriate, just a story that happened in the United States, which also involves Changes to the United States, and national events in four decades.

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Extended Reading
  • Domenic 2022-04-24 07:01:02

    Years make people grow old. 30 years later, the memories of the past are bittersweet.

  • Austin 2022-03-20 09:01:13

    It's boring. It took almost four hours to narrate such a thing in a chaotic and vague manner, and I have to say it was a failure.

Once Upon a Time in America quotes

  • Frankie Minaldi: Hey, Joe, tell these guys the story about the pussy being insured. What is it? Tell these guys how you stumbled on this whole thing. Tell them the story. Come on. Pussy insurance, the insurance pussies. Tell them that story.

    Joe Minaldi: Life is stranger than shit, that's all. It's a pisser. No big story. I got this insurance agent, this Jew kid named David. He conned me into every policy in the world. Every policy, name it, dogs, house, wife, life, anything. I'm drinking with the boys one night. He comes in with his wife, a brunette with a nice ass who works for a jeweller. And he's still on the hustle, this guy. So I wink at the guys, I say, "Look... the most serious policy, you don't have me covered for." He goes, "What's that, Joe?" "Cock insurance. You make me a policy that when it don't work, I get a payment. I'll write out a check now." He thinks, and he says, "I don't know if the actuality gauges govern this... but we can make a policy. But you gotta guarantee you're in good health now." I says, "Look, leave her with me. Come back and see if it stands up. If it stands up, you know I'm in good health." The jerk leaves her. I screw her. Not only that, she likes it. And she tells me when her boss, the jeweller is shipping stones to Holland, where he keeps his stash - in a drawer in the safe - everything! Can't ask for more, right? Except, one better. I never paid the first premium on the new cock policy.

    Max: [laughing] Cock insurance...

    Joe Minaldi: Life is funnier than shit. But... be easy with the girl. I mean that. Be easy with the girl.

  • Dominic: Bugsy's coming! Run!