A four-hour movie is really long, and without spoilers, in such a staggered timeline, I think the director just wants us to watch it twice. What kind of story is this? A must-see movie for men? About brothers, hard work, love, ambition, trust and betrayal, a story spanning teenagers, young (middle) years, and old age. People have to sigh, on the one hand, it is the foreign film production technology in 1984, and I don't feel peacekeeping when I look at the picture now (the last time I had this feeling was when I watched The Shining in 1980, at least it made me not interested in old foreign films. resistance), on the other hand is the artistic pursuit of early film makers. Today, more than 30 years later, commercial blockbusters, one after another, are naked gold-sucking works. Art always makes people feel like they can make it, but Once Upon a Time in America gave me a textbook-level filmmaking feel.
The following content contains a lot of spoilers (it is recommended to read it for the first time, some people in the fog should read it)
Introduction of main characters:
Noodles: male protagonist, distinctive features, mole on the right side of the face
Max: slender face
Peggy: plump, she became a girl when she was young
Deborah: Goddess
Fat Mo: Little Fat Man, Deborah's older brother, keeps the keys to the Noodles squad's trading cabinet in his hands
Lola: Noodles raped her at a robbery, met up again at a party, saw Max as the one who raped her, and fell hopelessly in love;
Eve: Met Noodles at a cocktail party and later became his partner
plot combing
Scenario 1: Several big guys are looking for Noodles. People involved:
Woman (Eve, with pictures of Noodles, apparently cohabiting, human-shaped bullet holes in bed, killed),
Little Fat Man (hanged and beaten, informs the police of Noodles' whereabouts)
Noodles (in the Chinese theater, there are three brothers photos in the newspaper, they are suspected to be dead, maybe I didn't see clearly, Noodles doesn't seem to respond)
Scene 2: Three corpses, one burned beyond recognition (Noodles at the scene)
Scene 3: Prohibition Cake Party, Noodles kisses Eve, like a goodbye, Max watches Noodles enter the house
Scene 4: Noodles escapes from the theater and goes to Fatty's pub, but it's a mess, finds Fatty, rescues him, takes the key to the cash cabinet, but there is no money in the cabinet. Arrived at the station, whereabouts unknown.
Scene 5: The old Noodles walked out of the station just now, returned to the old house (with tombstones to carry), looked for the little fat man, and explained the reason for coming back (received a letter from the relocation of the cemetery, indicating that even though the Noodles have been remodeled, they have been found)
Scene 6: Teenage Noodles spied on Deborah dancing. Deborah knew that he was peeping, and she changed her clothes openly and explained Noodles' real name (David);
The Noodles team burns the newsstand for others. In order to get more money, they prepare to rob the drunk and meet Max;
Noodles went to the toilet and hoped to buy Coke with Peggy. Peggy said that she had to exchange cream cakes and refused him. Max caught a glimpse of this scene;
Noodles officially met Max and was robbed by the police, saying that Noodles was Max's uncle;
Toothless went to buy a cream cake, hoping to have a relationship with Peggy, but ate it while waiting (indicating that he was still a child);
Noodles, Max, and Toothless see the officer and Peggy buying Coke, threaten the officer, the officer quits, and Max continues to dick with Peggy, Noodles watching (this is the first time Max robs Noodles' "woman"? At least his wish);
Deborah was alone with Noodles, and was interrupted by Max, Noodles chased out, but she and Max met with a gang of bullies and were beaten. When they returned, Deborah refused Noodles to be alone with her again;
Scene 7: Max joins the Noodles group and uses the solubility of salt to help water smuggling (the plan was proposed by Noodles). Noodles and Max successfully jumped into the sea to celebrate because of the plan. Noodles thought that Max was gone and cried anxiously, and later found that Max was one day earlier Get on the boat and watch his jokes (indicating that the friendship between the two has further heated up);
The small team put the money in a cabinet and gave the key to the little fat man, but did not tell him what it was used for. On the way back, the shortest child in the team slipped and was hit by the bully and died. Noodles immediately took out a dagger and stabbed the boy to death. People, Noodles go to jail; (slightly implying that Noodles are resourceful)
Scene 8: Older Noodles come to the new cemetery to visit three friends who have passed away, claiming to be the uncle of one of them (echoing scene 6), and find that there are words left in his name (actually not) and a key in the cemetery , learned from the cemetery caretaker (older Peggy, who didn't recognize Noodles) that the cemetery was also built in his name;
Noodles took the key to the money box when they were young, and there was a large sum of money in it, and wrote the deposit for the next task (the description is a task left and released by someone who knew everything about them);
Scene 9: The young Noodles was released from prison, Max came to pick him up, held a party for him, met Deborah again, and Max watched;
The small team goes out to rob the diamond dealer again, and the Noodles get on Lola; they kill the person who paid them to do the errand when they deliver the goods; the Noodles don't understand Max's behavior, thinking that if someone asks him to get rid of Max, he will not Will do it, Noodles wanted to calm down and drove the car into the river, the crowd of Max couldn't find Noodles and started to worry, Noodles appeared later (echoing scene 7);
Scene 10: The elderly Noodles saw the garbage shredder in the cemetery (there is an echo), saw a car that could, and exploded in front of him, and later learned that it was a prosecutor who was riding in Bailey's car, the Secretary of Commerce. investigating Bailey-related cases);
Scene 11: Max's group replaced the police chief's son for the union movement; the small team celebrated and saw Lola, who mistakenly recognized Max as her person at the time, and fell in love with him hopelessly;
Noodles had dinner with Deborah, learned that she was going to Hollywood, raped her in the car, regretted it, went to a party, and met Eve;
Deborah got on the train and left. Noodles was depressed for a while because of Deborah's departure. After returning to the group (and found that Lola had joined), he was mocked by Max. Max said that women are playthings, and let Lola go away after saying that;
The small team is ready to join forces with politicians to make a fortune in lifting Prohibition, but Noodles does not agree to leave;
Max and Noodles are on a seaside vacation and find out that the prohibition is about to be lifted and their business is about to end. Max proposes to rob the Federal Reserve Bank. Noodles says he is crazy, Max reacts very strongly to this, and he is not allowed to say it again;
Lola is very worried because Max is thinking about robbing the Commonwealth Bank. She hopes that Noodles can report to the police that his team is selling alcohol during the Prohibition Period, and put Max in jail, or if he can't bear it, he can put Noodles himself in jail. Important partners will also eliminate the idea of robbing a bank. Noodles in Lola's mind are weak and timid (from Max's description), and Noodles don't have to participate in such a dangerous thing by putting themselves in prison first.
Scene 12: Prohibition Cake Party (return to Scene 3), Noodles tells Eve that he won't be coming back anytime soon, walks into the house, Max watches the whole process of his entry, Noodles reports the team, Max finishes playing at Noodles After entering the house after the phone call, Noodles said Max crazy again, and the two had a conflict.
Scene 13: The elderly Noodles meet Lola, Lola said that Max was desperate for death, Max's father was in a mental hospital (so he never liked being called crazy), afraid of the same fate, designed them to call the police, when the police arrived, Max shot himself first; Lola also said that the foundation was started by an actress (ie Deborah), but she didn't know (ie Deborah);
Scene 14: After Deborah's performance, she recognized the elderly Noodles at a glance. Noodles accepted an invitation from Secretary Bailey, who she did not know, to attend a party and asked Deborah if she knew him. Don't participate, at this time, a teenager named David (Noodles is named David), who looks like Max, calls Deborah (implying that it is Deborah and Max's child);
Scene 15: The banquet starts, Noodles goes to the appointment and finds that Bailey is Max, Max confesses that he designed everything before, he is not dead, hope Noodles kill him, Noodles says he won't do it (echoing scene 9), Max Pulling out the pocket watch from when they first met, saying that if a friend betrayed, he should fight back, Noodles said he has another story, trying to save his friend and trying to put him in jail, but killing him, but he thinks that is the right thing to do. It was what this friend wanted, Noodles walked out of the banquet and saw Max jumping into the garbage shredder and committing suicide, his eyes were wet;
Scene 16: In the Chinese Theater, the young Noodles took a sip of ya film and laughed weirdly;
end of the story
Junior: 6, 7
Youth: 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 11, 12, 16
Seniors: 5, 8, 10, 13, 14, 15
I always feel that Max has a strange feeling for Noodles, Max stole a few of his women, stole his money, the child used his name...
By the way, a classic soundtrack in the movie is like a piece of music in "Bright Days in the Sun".
"The Godfather", which I had no patience to watch before, feels like I can watch it again.
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