Why Sergio Leone was a great director. (Prison escape scene)
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- That accent you're hearing is Dutch. I compare two very, very similar western scenes about a prison escape. Note the similarities: It's night, the prisoner is asleep, escape by destroying the window, riding away in the dark and not a single word is spoken. The scenes even have almost exactly the same length.
Still, Leone's scene is better, because of his use of the music of Ennio Morricone. Thus, it's only Leone's very own style that makes this scene so great, and it says a great deal about why he made great films.
It's interesting that both directors, Sergio Leone and Giulio Petroni, used the same composer, had Lee Van Cleef in one of the leading roles and even shot the film in the exact same western-styled towns, built in Spain.
Leone's work was supremely free of cliche whether it was cinematography, music, story, characters, plot, dialogue or editing - his almost hypnotically entertaining movies were both surprisingly profound and outrageously stylish - the term "spaghetti" was the best hiss that a wildly envious Hollywood could throw at him
Agreed. Hollywood was also getting boring w the same corny plots.
He invented the genre and it spawned its own cliches from less talented directors
No such thing called cliche back in the day. He made it popular
Music for Death Rides a Horse was also composed by Ennio Morricone.
I haven't seen the samurai films you talk about. Leone got insiration from others, but still his western movies are in my opinion the best ever made. I've never seen a western better that Leone's. And also Morricones music was just brilliant. I really love Leone's westerns.
The story of a fistful of Dollars, a low_buddget spaghetti Western, was borrowed from one of Clinton Eastwood, favorite
movies, Akira Kurosawa, Yojimbo, the Samurai classic, starring the great Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune.
The result was that the film was not released in the US for three years due to the copyright problem.
Agreed, Lee Van Cliff escape scene with Ennio's music make most realistic. Great editing!
The 🎶 goes hand to hand with movie. Great director and a great composer
Very interesting and a nice point, but there was more detail that makes Sergio the best. For instance the bug on the face and smile shows the loneliness and insanity. The bug was the prisoner's only friend and companion. Then comes the 'new friend' only because he busted him out as he later introduces Clint to Indio..Sergio films are chalked full of details and symbolism in every scene.
In Death Rides a Horse. You get "Hum I'm getting busted out. Cool !" and that is it ! Yes music would have helped for sure.
In the Sergio scene. You get humor, sarcasm, fear, loneliness, insanity and you feel he has been locked up a long time..You feel the cold dampness of the stucco in the cell..The list goes on.
As well as the climax of the explosion. Not some bricks falling down !
Then you add the music (Ennio Morricone) on top of all that.
You get all that and so much more in just this one scene.
The indigo sky as they mount up to ride shows he was busted out in early morning as the sun began to rise. Which personally made me feel the coolness of the morning air. The horse he mounted even showed adrenaline !
Again symbolism showing a new day, a new start and freedom for a prisoner that was locked up in a cold dark cell with only a bug as a friend.
Sergio made you feel the adrenaline of the prisoner.
Sergio causes you to feel everything in every character and situation !
That's Sergio Leone !
Sorry for the long note.
I get kinda excited !
*You explained better than the uploader. Why say sorry.*
He could die in the explosion, they might get shot while running away. But during it all, the main character, Clint, knows better and willing to take his chances. At the end, the heroes manage to escape the tough situation by galloping into the darkness.
The music adds to the comic, or adventurous character of Clint - light but dead serious.
Try watching both scenes with no sound at all and you'll realize Leone's scene is better that way to.
Thank your for the video! Great indeed!
The music indeed adds a lot of interest to the scene however, an scene cannot be judged by it's soundtrack alone. Music should have an extra punch to an already working scene, by adding another dimension to it. Why is this scene more engaging?
The main reason is - tension is being built very cleverly by Leone. There is always a feel that something could go wrong and they might not make it. The prisoner is surprised as the audience is by the whole encounter. (continued in the next post)
Good point! Agreed!
The greatest ever
Just great!
You forgot to mention that Leone would play Morricone's music on set to get the emotion and pacing of the scene while shooting
Awesome such amazing fantastic
ik ben volledig met je eens Piet. Ook ik ben een superfan van spaghettiwesterns al een groot deel van mijn leven en idd de muziek van Ennio Morircone heeft zonder twijfel een een enorme invloed. Los daarvan zijn de films van Sergio Leone echt de allerbeste. En in mijn ogen Gian Maria Volonte in de wraakscene in de kerk met die werkelijk onvergetelijke muziek en close ups van de gemene gezichten van de bende...echt de top of the tops van *all of the westerns ever* ben jij dat ook met me eens?
The cinematography is also better.
theres alot more to compare for complexity reather than just the music choice, but ok :)
*You need to learn a lot about analysing a movie scene or director's mind.*
Horrible analysis lol!!