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6:41 It's worth to mention that at the exact moment Harmonica falls, the bell in the soundtrack starts ringing as his brother is hanged. Absolutely fabulous detail, which hints the fantastic blending of sounds and music into one.

Having a close shot of a character in foreground and a long shot of another character together in the same staggered shot was not unusual by 1968. But everything else is a good analysis.

Is the project dead? just found the channel.

My favorite shot in this movie is that slow pan into Charles Bronsons eyes before the grand reveal

Kinda reminds me of the shot in Pulp Fiction, early in the movie, just before Jules and Vincent enter the apartment to confront the guy with the Big Kahuna Burger. Jules says it's not quite time yet, and then they walk down the hall and continue their conversation about foot massages. But the camera doesn't follow them. The camera turns toward them but doesn't follow them down the hall; instead, showing the convo from a distance. The camera is ready to enter the apartment and see what's going to go down. The camera knows that's where the upcoming action is. In some ways, this is like the opposite of what the camera is doing in Taxi Driver. The camera is so over that phone convo. It's like, "come on Travis, time to hang up, buddy. Just walk away...."

Same with Scarface and the chainsaw scene

To me, this reminds me of akira kurosawa

This classic western is a masterclass in every element of film making.

This brings me back to my old film as art class. Absolutely love it. Your presentation is very much that of a film professor, and I bet you are one. This was truly mind-blowing. I also just love the mis-en-scene in regard to all the phone consoles on the wall in the Taxi Driver scene, almost like stairs climbing up and helping to draw our eyes to that empty hallway even before we pan over to it. And of course, the muted clothes felt just right and helped foreground that initial shot. Brilliant stuff. Thank you.

That camera pull away is such a great way to convey an emotion to the viewer. Absolutely brilliant.

FUN FACT: The location from that scene in Taxi Driver is the employee entrance to The Ed Sullivan Theater where they tape The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Nice video

The biting of the apple and the crack of the older brother's neck. Leone said it him self, he basically makes silent movies.

Good explanation. The movie is a masterpiece and a climax of Leones work. That would not have been possible if that was his first western movie but it is in fact the end of a long continuous work of a dream team (music, camera, decoration...). The first long scene at the station is also worth while to have a closer look at.

Subbed after seeing this on Reddit. Great stuff dude.

The flashback scenes are shot in Monument valley - the authentic west from old Hollywood - which aids the impression that this is from some primordial west. Everything around it is shot in the Italian wets of Spanish Almeira.

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The flash frame at the end of suspiria 🎉

Great stuff. Can I request an analysis of a scene from Network? Particularly the scene where Robert Duvalls character fires William Holdens character. There’s a lot of interesting editing and camera techniques used but I can’t quite put my finger on it. Keep it up!

Brilliant analysis. I loved Cheyenne music theme alot. You could almost think he is the villain at the beginning of the movie. But there is something quite odd when he appears along with such a chill cool music. Yeah, big twist!

@2:20 i noticed that the camera rack focuses from the other kids to the child in yhe foreground, which supports the later shot of thr camera tracking on him with the blurred background kids to draw the audience to his experience, rather than that of the other kids

I waffle. Unforgiven has as much heart, more pain, and realism. I would agree its the best of spaghetti western. Maybe the best Fonda Bronson performance.

Beautifully explained. I felt, like I was a child from the campfire, while watching your analyzes. How about making a full movie analyzes (of your choice)?

Great analysis dude!

I use my shirt as a glove to negotiate public door knobs/handles

You just never do stop learning things about this film and final duel here. Crazy.

I just wish more ocd themes were present in media aside from the commonly used contamination one. This was well done though.

Fonda's look for the flashback (when he is younger) is great, achieved with an undetectable hairpiece and super-short beard.

I don't know who noticed this or not... Morricone's theme for that scene starts with the "classic" full version, is then followed by the harmonica theme played slower and with echo (flashback), and then the main theme played again under the arch. This last version of it (arch) includes an extended part with the entire thing going faster in a psychedelic mode.

Thank you for your really good analysis ,but I GOT to disagree with your take on the last establishing flashback shot not being necessary. That shot was EXTREMELY necessary to make sure that the entire viewing audience KNEW for sure that Frank FULLY understood WHO shot him and why before he died. The reason why it's of the upmost importance for the audience to know this is because the audience and Harmonica are now one AFTER viewing the horrible thing that Frank did to Harmonica when he was a kid. The audience IS Harmonica now and his revenge is now the audience's revenge. When Harmonica pulled that trigger it was also the audience pulling that same trigger. With ALL the years that have passed and all the people that Frank has killed there is NOWAY we are gonna settle for we "THINK "he know why. No, no, we GOT to KNOW Frank knew why inorder to get total satisfaction! I use to hear people say that this was the "BEST" Western ever and I would JUST turn my nose up because I am a western NUT and I LOVED ALL the Clint Eastwood and John Wayne and Audie Murphy westerns but THAT was before I saw THIS movie. I still love those movies, but THIS movie is in a class all by itself! 😀👍🏾

Great video

I was just looking for this scene to compare it with Tarantino's

You contradict yourself with your little criticism because after it you acknowledge that the flashback of the harmonica falling out of the young Bronson's mouth matches with it happening with Henry Fonda. What were you thinking?

Excellent analysis! I actually like how natural your narration is with the little um's and coughs.

Flashback is gratuitous. I agree. But it’s minor. Tugging at heart strings Mr. Leone.

I am 54 and still, the cinematography together with the soundtrack send me every time into tearing up. What an icon of a motion picture.

You could pretty easily get rid of that background noise on the voice, and if you didn't try to record all in one take you could trim the "um" and swallowing noises down. A bit distracting, but good video.

I've always liked when movies film through glass. Cool video :)

Just how creative the lighting was before color cinema was absolutely fantastic.

I think there's another important layer to the Taxi Driver shot, which is that it becomes an "anticipatory" shot. The audience can tell and is being told that Travis' attempts are futile and he has no chance with this girl. So, the shot is basically foreshadowing, though only by a few seconds, that he is going to hang up and walk away alone. It's a great way to build expectations in an audience; like seeing someone sit off center on the far end of a park bench. The audience will instinctively wait for someone else to join them.

I'm not a cinema guy but I was in awe with how nice this movie is to look at. It has this really nice "mellow" feel to it.

keep making videos! these are incredibly insightful man!

Disagree that both shots have a common functionality. The Taxi Driver shot intentionally illustrates that Travis Bickle's love life is synonymous with an empty hallway, while the Reservoir Dogs pan-away provides intentional censorship of a sadistic action, as well as a means for Michael Madsen to prepare the prosthetic ear to use as a prop for the rest of the take.

ez sub. what a great video.

There's a similar shot in The Public Enemy (1931).

nice analysis 👍😎. didn't notice this before

Great analysis. I've never seen either movie. I do want to see Taxi Driver, but Reservoir Dogs... damn, I think I'll skip that one.

Really cool content!

Hey, dude. I love your video. Really well explained for a person who enjoys and wants to learn about movies but doesn't have much knowledge yet.

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