C'era una volta il West

Clarissa 2022-04-21 09:01:17

The classic work of Sergio Leon, the master of spaghetti westerns, following his collaboration with Clint Eastwood in the "Red Dead Redemption Series", Sergio Leon's nearly three-hour long novel was Call it the greatest Western in movie history.
The story tells the story of a mystery man (Charles Bronson) who came to town and was involved in a land grab between a widow (Claudia Cardinal) and a railroad tycoon. The most interesting character in the film is Henry Fonda, who has always been a righteous image, rarely played a cold-faced and cruel killer in this film. He had almost no expression from beginning to end, only the corners of his mouth moved occasionally, which made people shudder... When the film was released in the United States, It was trimmed by the film maker because the length of the film was too long, resulting in ambiguous story structure and unclear language.

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  • Ethel 2022-03-23 09:01:16

    It can only be described as "great". I'm a bit regretful that I watched this one before I watched other westerns, I'm afraid it will be tasteless later. Many people say that the tempo of the first hour of the movie is too slow, but I think it was exactly the first hour, especially the first ten minutes, which achieved the ultimate language of the movie. Very quiet, very slow, but every second feels thrilling, and there is some power ready to go. A pioneering point is that the image of the heroine is completely different from the usual pure object of desire in western movies and the props of the contention and rescue plot, and it has a richer connotation. The music that Morricone wrote for this film is, to a certain extent, above the American past. When the strings of "Harmonica Man" sounded in an ensemble with the bleak and strange harmonica sound, it was really exciting. At the end of the film the theme music sounded, the train rolled through the old age, the bad guys are dead, the ugly guys are dead, the good guys are gone, leaving the heroine like the mother of the earth, and the small town under construction, full of energy.

  • Dee 2021-10-20 19:02:09

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Once Upon a Time in the West quotes

  • Morton: [to Wobbles] Hm. You should learn to live as if you didn't exist.

  • Harmonica: [to Frank, spotting a gunman above a painted clock] Time sure flies. It's already past twelve.