Henry Fonda was one mean bastard in this film, cold blooded, no remorse, sadistic, insane! He played that part well, to play Frank, leader of a gang of bad guys. Bronson is no spring chicken either! Tough as they come, on a mission to settle a score with a nemesis from his past. Eastwood was asked to play the role of harmonica but turned it down so Bronson got the part. One of the greatest westerns to ever hit the big screen, an instant classic! Who would argue with that?!
Souvent les hommes d'équipage prennent un albatros, vaste oiseau des mers .... et souvent les chasseurs lorsqu'ils atteignent leur cible, affichent un rictus de plaisir au bout de leurs lèvres. Bande de salauds.
Yes. Can you imagine how shocked a lot of the audience would have been when the camera slowly reveals it's Henry Fonda. Henry Fonda was well-known for playing the good guy. When Henry Fonda got this part he planned to to change the colour of his eyes with contact lenses that he had bought so they would be brown and he had grown a little moustache. He wanted to look the part of a villain. But Sergio Leone wanted none of that. When Henry Fonda turned up on set with the moustache and brown eyes he said No. He wanted the smooth skin and the baby blue eyes that the audience were familiar with.
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Henry Fonda is the last guy people expect to be THE BAD GUY especially back in the 60s and seeing him with that smile before he pulls the trigger is priceless.
Pure terror in a non-horror film. The scene and music when the gunslingers appear and then the face of Henry Fonda always gives me goosebums. Incredible scene.
This scene back in 1968 shocked the world because of its cruelty not only because of the fact of killing the boy but also because of Henry Fonda's smile while killing him and that fantastic never heard before masterpiece in music. The real touching scene is really only 2 minutes.
This is my first western and the first time I watched this movie today and it was quite shocking even nowadays. Hell it's because the movie was so old that I did not expect the entire family to just get killed off. I even thought they were gonna let the kid survive and had slightly jumped when they shot him too. To put it into context, I'm an avid reader and watcher of horror. I've seen the clasics and the more modern ones and you tend to anticipate these kind of grisly scenes but this genuinely took me by surprise as I watched in horror, bewilderment and strangely enough in amazement. Legit one if not the most badass/tragic scenes ever. Gonna start watching more westerns now.
Frank was going to leave the kid, but the idiot beside him called him by his name...... You can see the change in Fonda's micro expression, what an actor he was.
That is EXACTLY why Leone was insistent on Henry Fonda who expected to wear dark contacts to hide his blue eyes. Leone wanted those icy blue eyes that simply sparkled with evil.
when i saw this movie the first time as a kid , it seemed to me that the coats looked almost like drawings in this scene. like some coats in the lord of the rings animation where drawn with rotoshop technique
You know what I love about Leone? Not a word, sound, or scene is wasted. Every second of his films pushes the story along. And the way Fonda and his outlaws emerge from those bushes like wraiths entering our plane of existence from some phantom zone.
Basic screenwriting classes will tell you keep your scenes under 2 minutes. The master of not doing that is Tarantino. And for whatever reason I forgot to connect the dots and remember who he was influenced by. Such a legend.
Leone, Morricone, Delli Colli (cinematography) and Fonda together create a legendary scene. No wonder Tarantino is so influenced. Indeed Kurosawa is the master.
The shot from the back where 5 bad dudes in the long coats are walking towards the kid..camera pans round to the front..the face nobody expected is there for all to see.Leone was truly a master of his craft..and that music from the maestro.Spine tingling stuff
this is the only MOVIE that will live FOREVER.... I watched it 7 times in the past 20 yrs but every time I watch it,, it was like watching the very 1st time....
TGTBATU has nice character devlopment and some cool settings, but the plot isn't as good, the soundtrack isn't as good, heck even the acting isn't quite as good (and that's really saying something btw), perhaps helped by the casting. What I meant by comparing the duels - TGTBATU's final duel is simple staring each other down then shooting. Though I'd admit the location is pretty cool. Someone tune that guitar though it's just annoying. Shooting the hat and gun into the grave are just plain silly (exact same sound effect played twice too). Meanwhile OUATITW's final duel contains a major plot point that unravels with the duel, getting the absolutely epic shot panning out from the arch in the middle of nowhere as you 'get it' - then ending with that brillaint bit of acting from Fonda as the last thing he ever thinks is remembering exactly who Harmonica is, the music this time going out of tune for an actual plot related reason.
+chiffmonkey Using the final scene to say OUATITW is better than GBU is absolutely crazy, that final standoff in GBU is one of the greatest movie scenes of all time. 3 unbelievable actors playing 3 brilliant characters, the music in that final scene is as good as can get and you have goosebumps because the movie buildsup to that scene amazingly well, the adventure they have gone through and it pays off sooooo good. With GBU the last scene was also less predictable than OUATITW, we knee the good guy will win and yes a plot point unraveled in that final scene but it was obvious that was coming. GBU you had 3 characters and everyone could guess that the bad will die but the intrigue was in wether or not the ugly would die who was such a great character. I also love OUATITW but it cannot compare however a big problem with the movie is the casting, Fonda was awesome but Charles Bronson gave an extremely wooden performance and I believe he single handedly held back the movie, it could have been so much bigger and well known if Eastwood was playing that role.
Henry Fonda. How could he go from an all emerican good man with sweet humble eyes to this with his sinister smile and ice cold evil eyes is beyond me. what a genius
This was great when you first see them emerge from the brush in their dusters, and the classic Frank "now that you called me by name" but Bronson as a kid during the duel, the hanging scene was real powerful as well.
They used very noisy cameras here, so all audio was done separately in a recording studio. What is really genius was they actually worked out dialogue in the 5 most popular languages (Eng, Italian Spainish, French & German) that matched the same mouth movements, so it doesn’t looked dubbed, & each of the main characters had their own music score that went with their appearance on camera. Leone was a genius. Every frame was composed like a work of art. Looks like it was based on a perfect storyboard but apparently Leone had every scene composed in his own head.
Tonino Delli Colli was the cinematographer responsible for the fantastic camera work. They shot with a Mitchell BNC (so I read) and a few, at least three Arriflex 35IIC, which can be seen in the many production stills. Noisy indeed. Both were modified for Techniscope, which is a smaller and cheaper format than anamorphic, since it only uses half of the 35mm frame, but it allows for those awesome deep focus shots. The slightly grittier image is perfect for this movie.
@@truefilm6991 cinematography is indeed astonishing for this movie - as demonstrated in the opening scene at the railway station -this movie is a textbook example of the supreme art of movie-making
Verissimo!!! E Leone non pensava agli incassi. Lui pensava ai Film, per trasmettere emozioni. Ed è per questo che moltissimi li considerano più un opera d'arte, piuttosto che intrattenimento.
The german translation is like a completetly different movie. It's called "Play me the song of Death", this is said twice during the film, both times when the harmonica is put into the mouth of a dying person. (The line"keep your loving brother happy" is missing, many german viewers think it's his father). Another change: The last dialogue between Harmonica and Mrs McBain English: "Will you come back someday?" "Someday." German: "I will wait for you" "There is always someone waiting"
I showed this to a friend who grew up in the 60s who was a fan of Fonda but never saw this movie. Up to the last second, she refused to believe Fonda was actually going to shoot the kid. I'll never forget the look of shock on her face.
I grew up in an italian family and i remember seeing these spaghetti westerns in my youth ... My brothers were crazy about them bc the style with the close up shots were quite raw for back then ...and the music .. There will never again be movies quite like these ... It was a magical time for movie making
I had hardly been born when this movie was made, but it one of the few films that makes my spine tingle, especially this scene. The music, Fonda's portrayal of Frank, Charles Bronson as harmonica. It is a true masterpiece, a work of art. Brutal, but at the same time beautiful. I feel blessed to have been able to watch such a creation.
Well i was born that very year and i have it on DVD. Seen it on tv, around 2010 or 2011, Blu Ray 35 mm or something i think they call it. Got the feeling i could touch the Herringbone fabric on Robard's trousers. And seeing Fonda as a baddie on the tv in '95 was shocking.
This sequence is so just fucking perfect! Could be the beginning of a thriller movie ...A Horror story or whatever.... The suspence is so palpable ....
This is a masterpiece of a movie....from Sergio's work of art in the context of cinematography, to Moriconne's music score, and Fonda's and Bronson's acting....all three blend into cinematic perfection
I was ten years old when watching the movie the first time (1985), and i will put it that way: It, and the tough action of Frank in that scene, well, could maybe have influenced me so slightly, that i had named my own Son, 28yrs later, Tim(my) too, maybe to make that murder unhappen (Enzo Santaniello were just eight in the movie, two years younger than me at first watching)... And i am a enthusiast in turkeys... Some movies shouldn't really be watched before a specific age, i guess- two more traumas to fight because of that movie ;)... Nonetheless i adore this movie, and it awakens my love for (excellent to better) Italo westerns too, which are no less than kind of a life elixir for me...
That also happens in the Searchers just before John Wayne's brother's family are attacked by the Comanche. Sergio Leone was a fan of John Ford westerns
When Leone settled on the roles, he was keen on Charles Bronson as the avenger, after Clint Eastwood dropped out. He characterized Bronson with the words: With that face you bring every steam locomotive to a standstill.
The moment, the kid stumbles down the stairs, comes to a halt in the door, and the guitar does BAMMM! beginning one of the utmost beautiful and heartbreaking melodies of all times. This moment brings me always to tears.
Esse filme foi muito criticado em Hollywood que nunca reconheceram os talentos de Leone e Morricone por eles serem italianos. O lema sempre foi : "A América sempre em primeiro lugar."
BUENAS TARDES CIUDADANO DEL MUNDO.. SERÁ ACASO QUE " EN EL ANTIGUO Y SALVAJE OESTE", HABITABAN OTROS SERES, MALIGNOS, DE OTRA CIVILIZACIÓN O CULTURA, CON AVANCES TECNOLÓGICOS SUPERIORES, PERO MUY MALIGNOS !!! Y CUYA REALIDAD DE SU EXISTENCIA, FUE OCULTA AL MUNDO... ???
In a Carson interview in the 70's,I believe he said the one character,which he identified with.Was Mr.Roberts,I agree on TomJoad,I was surprised to learn in all those years he never won an Oscar,until On Golden Pond.I thought Lancaster should have won for Atlantic City.He should have won for Tom Joad.
The way the camera captures the scene and then introduces Fonda is ICONIC! The slow beginning at the station with the gunfight after 13 min is even better for my taste. If you are a photographer or like photography ...just watch some stills...these are awesome image compositions!
Poor little kid...... I thought at first sight that he was the only survivor of this family and he was going to revenge when he will be grown up. He was so innocent.... made me cry a lot just by seeing the scene cutting off when Frank shoots.....:-( Anyway it's a great movie.
I saw the tail end of this movie on TV. Was captured by the shootout and goodbye to Cheyenne. Didn't catch the movie's name, but the closing scenes and the music haunted me until one day I saw the title in my mind's eye. I immediately went to Amazon and bought the DVD. I still watch it again every year or so, and even now, after many viewings, it still takes me hours to get back to reality after watching.
Leone plays masterly with the mind of his audience. First the hunting scene associating the shots with the killing of partridges and later the confusion about the shot and the flying partridges. It is no coincidence that the father's gun comes into focus when the daughter looks after the flying birds, seconds before the lethal shot. This is how to transfer thoughts and feelings of the characters into the viewer.
All the scenes in this film are the best, but I agree with those who favour the opening, and I recommend absolutely everyone to see the whole film. It is one of the best ever made!
I can go along with that. Funnily enough, I'm a huge fan of Clint Eastwood. Love every picture he ever appeared in. But Once Upon a Time in the West is my absolute favourite Western, even though Eastwood was absent. Leone may have left a few spaghetti stains around but that don't matter one iota. His westerns were the very best & Once Upon a Time is the great grand daddy of them all. I imagine Eastwood playing all of the lead roles in this epic masterpiece & I come up short. Every minute of every actor on film in this stunning & jaw-dropping work of art is picture perfect. I don't imagine Clint could have improved on any of the performers in this production. This movie is just supreme.
Like scenes in William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist,” which I will not mention, there is a darkness to this scene. And despite the increasing amounts of obscene, visceral content Hollywood can show in movies today, this scene is still atypically powerful in the “hard to watch” sense.
Ryan Osbourne, I agree. Like scenes in William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist,” there is a darkness to this scene. And despite the increasing amounts of obscene, visceral content Hollywood can show in movies, this scene is exactly what you said it is.
Absolutely true Sergio Leone was the best but we has someone following his steps cinematography Quentin tarantino is genius too his special atention to audio and visual detail is genius
@@santinho212 Tarantino is a genius but his strength is in dialogue - Leone used very little dialogue but could create an entire story with no words at all - look at the opening scenes of The Good the Bad and the Ugly
The scene where they all emerge out of the bushes was so badass. No slow motion, no VFX, literally just a bunch of menacing cowboys emerging from the shrublands.
There was a look of 'i feel sorry for for this kid he's so inocent' on Fondas face then within seconds a look of evil. Class acting by fonda and all the cast involved brilliant movie
It isn't sympathy, Frank wants a surviving witness to tell everyone what kind of coats the killers were wearing. The plan is ruined when one of his compatriots calls him by name, which is what causes his annoyance. But then he remembers how much he loves his job, and that unsettling smile reemerges.
This scene is just one of many masterful set pieces that is present in this movie which in itself is a masterpiece,the Frontier setting, the festive table and a family preparing for a celebration….then a peaceful scene turns into a massacre…the curtain (dust) lifts to reveal the evil behind the horror…a devil with a benign smile….perfection…!!!
Interesting bit from Wikipedia that adds to the scene: "Fonda did not accept Leone's first offer to play Frank, so Leone flew to New York to convince him, telling him: 'Picture this: the camera shows a gunman from the waist down pulling his gun and shooting a running child. The camera tilts up to the gunman's face and… it's Henry Fonda.'" For context, Henry Fonda almost always played heroes and strongly moral characters in movies. So the reveal that he's actually the villain, and a pretty twisted one at that... would be like watching a movie where it's revealed Tom Hanks is the villain. Very against type, but all the better for it!
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So many nuances in this scene. For instance, Frank's content expression mirrors that of the Irishman after shooting the birds. Both signify satisfaction with a job well done, yet it vivdly contrasts the difference between them. It is a remarkable introduction of Fonda's character.
Imagine being in the cinema in 1968 waiting in all that silence and diegetic sounds for almost 20 minutes and all of a sudden the theme of the movie at 6:35 attacks your ears.
When it was first aired, i wasnt born yet. I've seen this masterpiece 5 times. I think its the best western ever made. And everytime i watch this film, around @7:50 to @7:58 always shivers me, and it feels like its the first time i'm watching it. Its crazy!
I saw this at Fort Braggmovie theater in Sumner of '68 and while frank was having his way with Mrs. McBain while she was laying topless in the bed on her stomach a guy called out "turn her over Frank" and got a round of applause.
Its Morricone's sublime musical score, and accompanying soundtracks, that make this western an all out classic. The Jill McBain theme, when she first arrives at Sweetwater, one of Morricone's very best.
Holy Leone and Morricone...we'll never see anything like this again.
I mean.... Nolan and Hans Zimmer in the dark kinght
quang le my the dark knight is trash
Henry Fonda was one mean bastard in this film, cold blooded, no remorse, sadistic, insane! He played that part well, to play Frank, leader of a gang of bad guys. Bronson is no spring chicken either! Tough as they come, on a mission to settle a score with a nemesis from his past. Eastwood was asked to play the role of harmonica but turned it down so Bronson got the part. One of the greatest westerns to ever hit the big screen, an instant classic! Who would argue with that?!
You should not have said Frank! Now that you called me by name, BANG!!! Fonda was cold blooded as a Walter the Walleye!
@@danielauer9307 no, Bronson stopped playing the man with no name and then Eastwood got the part. The next movie was "A Fist Full of Dollars."
One of the greatest introductions of a villain in cinematic history.
Amen! Lol
Más que mejor introducción de villanos... es la mejor escena en todo su esplendor
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Yes. Can you imagine how shocked a lot of the audience would have been when the camera slowly reveals it's Henry Fonda. Henry Fonda was well-known for playing the good guy. When Henry Fonda got this part he planned to to change the colour of his eyes with contact lenses that he had bought so they would be brown and he had grown a little moustache. He wanted to look the part of a villain. But Sergio Leone wanted none of that. When Henry Fonda turned up on set with the moustache and brown eyes he said No. He wanted the smooth skin and the baby blue eyes that the audience were familiar with.
There are so many best scenes in that film
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This movies number two. No. one is "Lonesome dove" by Larry McMurtry.
So true!
Henry Fonda is the last guy people expect to be THE BAD GUY especially back in the 60s and seeing him with that smile before he pulls the trigger is priceless.
Frank was happy for the reason
It just shows how brilliant actor mr. Hond... i mean mr. Fonda was.
Pure terror in a non-horror film. The scene and music when the gunslingers appear and then the face of Henry Fonda always gives me goosebums. Incredible scene.
@ Vignesh Kumar: I got the movie on DVD. Who watches movies on fucking Twitter? If your girlfriend loves the film, go and buy her the DVD.
Audiences were aghast as fonda usually played the goody
Henry Fonda certainly showed how to play the baddie evil in this movie his body language and stare was enough to make you shiver
You know, one of the screenwriter of OUATITW was Dario Argento, Italian master of horror and thriller. He undoubtedly bought some elements of tension.
Dr. Phibes in Red ua-cam.com/video/cHI6Hl7FUqA/v-deo.html
This scene back in 1968 shocked the world because of its cruelty not
only because of the fact of killing the boy but also because of Henry Fonda's
smile while killing him and that fantastic never heard before masterpiece in music.
The real touching scene is really only 2 minutes.
Henry Fonda always played the good guy in westerns so it was a masterpiece of casting and took audiences by surprise.
This is my first western and the first time I watched this movie today and it was quite shocking even nowadays. Hell it's because the movie was so old that I did not expect the entire family to just get killed off. I even thought they were gonna let the kid survive and had slightly jumped when they shot him too. To put it into context, I'm an avid reader and watcher of horror. I've seen the clasics and the more modern ones and you tend to anticipate these kind of grisly scenes but this genuinely took me by surprise as I watched in horror, bewilderment and strangely enough in amazement. Legit one if not the most badass/tragic scenes ever. Gonna start watching more westerns now.
@@Forastero011 Watch definitely the Good, the Bad and the Evil!!
Frank was going to leave the kid, but the idiot beside him called him by his name...... You can see the change in Fonda's micro expression, what an actor he was.
That is EXACTLY why Leone was insistent on Henry Fonda who expected to wear dark contacts to hide his blue eyes. Leone wanted those icy blue eyes that simply sparkled with evil.
the bad guys appearing from the bushes wearing long coats and carrying rifles while walking toward the camera. one word PERFECTION
when i saw this movie the first time as a kid , it seemed to me that the coats looked almost like drawings in this scene. like some coats in the lord of the rings animation where drawn with rotoshop technique
@@AutomanicJack They're called duster jackets. Got some just like the oens in the film.
Two words: Sergio Leone 😉
There are more perfect scenes on the film. The station scene with music is perfection.
This is no "Billy the Kid vs Dracula" (1966) but it certainly is one wonderful Western !
Words cannot describe how well this scene is made.
You know what I love about Leone? Not a word, sound, or scene is wasted. Every second of his films pushes the story along. And the way Fonda and his outlaws emerge from those bushes like wraiths entering our plane of existence from some phantom zone.
Basic screenwriting classes will tell you keep your scenes under 2 minutes. The master of not doing that is Tarantino. And for whatever reason I forgot to connect the dots and remember who he was influenced by. Such a legend.
@@RusticChivalry1985 They both learnt from Kurosawa.
Leone, Morricone, Delli Colli (cinematography) and Fonda together create a legendary scene. No wonder Tarantino is so influenced. Indeed Kurosawa is the master.
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Like Fucking animals, like vulture going to eat some death prey.
The shot from the back where 5 bad dudes in the long coats are walking towards the kid..camera pans round to the front..the face nobody expected is there for all to see.Leone was truly a master of his craft..and that music from the maestro.Spine tingling stuff
this is the only MOVIE that will live FOREVER.... I watched it 7 times in the past 20 yrs but every time I watch it,, it was like watching the very 1st time....
The only movie that will live forever ? What about "The Ghost & Mr Chicken" from 1966 ? What cinema dialog could top "Attaboy, Luther !" ??
There IS a lot tbh. But he is one of the best.
I've watched this movie again and again.
The best Western EVER made
The Good The Bad and The Ugly
Is a great film, but not as good as this. Just compare the final duels if you want to see blindingly obviously why.
+chiffmonkey This is better than the good the bad and the ugly? dude be more specific.
TGTBATU has nice character devlopment and some cool settings, but the plot isn't as good, the soundtrack isn't as good, heck even the acting isn't quite as good (and that's really saying something btw), perhaps helped by the casting.
What I meant by comparing the duels - TGTBATU's final duel is simple staring each other down then shooting. Though I'd admit the location is pretty cool. Someone tune that guitar though it's just annoying. Shooting the hat and gun into the grave are just plain silly (exact same sound effect played twice too).
Meanwhile OUATITW's final duel contains a major plot point that unravels with the duel, getting the absolutely epic shot panning out from the arch in the middle of nowhere as you 'get it' - then ending with that brillaint bit of acting from Fonda as the last thing he ever thinks is remembering exactly who Harmonica is, the music this time going out of tune for an actual plot related reason.
+chiffmonkey Using the final scene to say OUATITW is better than GBU is absolutely crazy, that final standoff in GBU is one of the greatest movie scenes of all time. 3 unbelievable actors playing 3 brilliant characters, the music in that final scene is as good as can get and you have goosebumps because the movie buildsup to that scene amazingly well, the adventure they have gone through and it pays off sooooo good. With GBU the last scene was also less predictable than OUATITW, we knee the good guy will win and yes a plot point unraveled in that final scene but it was obvious that was coming. GBU you had 3 characters and everyone could guess that the bad will die but the intrigue was in wether or not the ugly would die who was such a great character. I also love OUATITW but it cannot compare however a big problem with the movie is the casting, Fonda was awesome but Charles Bronson gave an extremely wooden performance and I believe he single handedly held back the movie, it could have been so much bigger and well known if Eastwood was playing that role.
I remember my brother and I going to see all the spaghetti westerns including this one. We paid 50 cents to get in. Life was easy!!!
Where did you go to see it ,and what year
Henry Fonda. How could he go from an all emerican good man with sweet humble eyes to this with his sinister smile and ice cold evil eyes is beyond me. what a genius
He did it for a few dollars more.
Sergio Leone s' work.....genius and timeless. A director who gives special attention to detail.
Yes, dirt.
KEEP YOUR LOVING BROTHER HAPPY
This was such a powerful movie. I saw it in the theater when it first came out. Never forgot.
I still can't believe this is Mr. Henry Fonda's only villain role. He was absolutely amazing.
It isn’t. You should watch There Was A Crooked Man.
Fire creek
I think he was a villain in Firecreek, he brought a whole band of outlaws into James Stewart's tiny town...Also a 1968 film!!
Not the only, but one of a very few.
This was great when you first see them emerge from the brush in their dusters, and the classic Frank "now that you called me by name" but Bronson as a kid during the duel, the hanging scene was real powerful as well.
That hanging scene is mind blowing. So much tied up in that moment and then the rush of realization from the reveal.
The one movie every human being on the earth should watch before they die. Love from Kerala, India.
Bro same😄
I agree....the score, cinematography, and acting are perfection
❤❤❤❤❤
They used very noisy cameras here, so all audio was done separately in a recording studio. What is really genius was they actually worked out dialogue in the 5 most popular languages (Eng, Italian Spainish, French & German) that matched the same mouth movements, so it doesn’t looked dubbed, & each of the main characters had their own music score that went with their appearance on camera. Leone was a genius. Every frame was composed like a work of art. Looks like it was based on a perfect storyboard but apparently Leone had every scene composed in his own head.
Tonino Delli Colli was the cinematographer responsible for the fantastic camera work. They shot with a Mitchell BNC (so I read) and a few, at least three Arriflex 35IIC, which can be seen in the many production stills. Noisy indeed. Both were modified for Techniscope, which is a smaller and cheaper format than anamorphic, since it only uses half of the 35mm frame, but it allows for those awesome deep focus shots. The slightly grittier image is perfect for this movie.
@@truefilm6991 cinematography is indeed astonishing for this movie - as demonstrated in the opening scene at the railway station -this movie is a textbook example of the supreme art of movie-making
Verissimo!!!
E Leone non pensava agli incassi. Lui pensava ai Film, per trasmettere emozioni.
Ed è per questo che moltissimi li considerano più un opera d'arte, piuttosto che intrattenimento.
The german translation is like a completetly different movie. It's called "Play me the song of Death", this is said twice during the film, both times when the harmonica is put into the mouth of a dying person. (The line"keep your loving brother happy" is missing, many german viewers think it's his father).
Another change: The last dialogue between Harmonica and Mrs McBain
English:
"Will you come back someday?"
"Someday."
German:
"I will wait for you"
"There is always someone waiting"
@@truefilm6991 Sergio shot all his films silent, and had Ennio's score playing on set.
I showed this to a friend who grew up in the 60s who was a fan of Fonda but never saw this movie. Up to the last second, she refused to believe Fonda was actually going to shoot the kid. I'll never forget the look of shock on her face.
Jesus h Christ. Fonda was disturbingly sinister in this movie. Probably the greatest villian ever portrayed on film incredible
+platotroy Henry Fonda's family said that Frank was closest to Henry's personality of all the characters he played.He sure played it well!
***** I'm glad he accepted the role.this film is truly stunning.
Better read ' FONDA - My Life '. By Henry Fonda and Howard Teichman. You'll see of all his roles in nearly 50 years,this was his favorite.
Fonda Rules, those blue eyes as the Bad guy..Perfect!!
bedstuy rover so he was an evil bastard in real life?
I grew up in an italian family and i remember seeing these spaghetti westerns in my youth ... My brothers were crazy about them bc the style with the close up shots were quite raw for back then ...and the music .. There will never again be movies quite like these ... It was a magical time for movie making
My all time favourite film. I have it on dvd.
I had hardly been born when this movie was made, but it one of the few films that makes my spine tingle, especially this scene. The music, Fonda's portrayal of Frank, Charles Bronson as harmonica. It is a true masterpiece, a work of art. Brutal, but at the same time beautiful. I feel blessed to have been able to watch such a creation.
Well i was born that very year and i have it on DVD. Seen it on tv, around 2010 or 2011, Blu Ray 35 mm or something i think they call it. Got the feeling i could touch the Herringbone fabric on Robard's trousers. And seeing Fonda as a baddie on the tv in '95 was shocking.
This sequence is so just fucking perfect! Could be the beginning of a thriller movie ...A Horror story or whatever.... The suspence is so palpable ....
The subject is made by a young Dario Argento also. I think this has greatly influenced the narrative.
+modder1975 absolutely!
This is a masterpiece of a movie....from Sergio's work of art in the context of cinematography, to Moriconne's music score, and Fonda's and Bronson's acting....all three blend into cinematic perfection
The lil boy sure can act ❤ He really did look frightened and confused 😢 Henry Fonda indeed is a Legend 👏👏👏
*running footsteps from the house*
Music! instant goosebumps. pulse racing.
My god that's an excellent scene!!
It all fits together like a puzzle. The build up, suspense, mystery, camera work, the music, and perfect editing. Great story telling.
first time I saw this my jaw dropped the floor. and I had a hungover for days
Was the same for me with "Keoma"...
@@Navarre751 I'm waiting for my hangover, after a lot of high abv beer I need some Sergio.
I would have given anything to see the look on people's faces when this first screened in the theatres
I was ten years old when watching the movie the first time (1985), and i will put it that way: It, and the tough action of Frank in that scene, well, could maybe have influenced me so slightly, that i had named my own Son, 28yrs later, Tim(my) too, maybe to make that murder unhappen (Enzo Santaniello were just eight in the movie, two years younger than me at first watching)... And i am a enthusiast in turkeys... Some movies shouldn't really be watched before a specific age, i guess- two more traumas to fight because of that movie ;)... Nonetheless i adore this movie, and it awakens my love for (excellent to better) Italo westerns too, which are no less than kind of a life elixir for me...
Frank was one hell of a SOB. God i miss that era. Gone with the wind forever left us wanting.
I'm sorry but the opening scene of this movie is one of the best scenes of all time.
Nothing to be sorry about because your absolutely bloody right!!
Get off it Kanye
What does that have to do with this clip?
You brought two too many
Why are you sorry?
The sound of the bugs going silent always gets me... Nature knows when danger approaches.
That also happens in the Searchers just before John Wayne's brother's family are attacked by the Comanche. Sergio Leone was a fan of John Ford westerns
This one of the best Westerns ever!!
When Leone settled on the roles, he was keen on Charles Bronson as the avenger, after Clint Eastwood dropped out.
He characterized Bronson with the words:
With that face you bring every steam locomotive to a standstill.
The moment, the kid stumbles down the stairs, comes to a halt in the door, and the guitar does BAMMM! beginning one of the utmost beautiful and heartbreaking melodies of all times. This moment brings me always to tears.
Brilliant!!
Still my favourite Western.
this movie is a gem of Hollywood...please preserve it...
Actually this is an Italian movie.
Esse filme foi muito criticado em Hollywood que nunca reconheceram os talentos de Leone e Morricone por eles serem italianos.
O lema sempre foi : "A América sempre em primeiro lugar."
It is preserved ,in the flim registry's, so this flim will be comeing out on new format
When they appear behind the bushes with the long coats...almost like fallen angels.
Terrific scene.
BUENAS TARDES CIUDADANO DEL MUNDO..
SERÁ ACASO QUE " EN EL ANTIGUO Y SALVAJE OESTE",
HABITABAN OTROS SERES,
MALIGNOS,
DE OTRA CIVILIZACIÓN O CULTURA,
CON AVANCES TECNOLÓGICOS SUPERIORES,
PERO MUY MALIGNOS !!!
Y CUYA REALIDAD DE SU EXISTENCIA,
FUE OCULTA AL MUNDO... ???
Henry Fonda, ultimate good guy, gone bad. That shocked everyone when watching it the first time in cinemas, especially my dad.
"Well, now that you've called me by name..." The crowning performance of Henry Fonda's career. This and Tom Joad are the best things he ever did.
TM Rezzek don’t forget 12 Angry Men
In a Carson interview in the 70's,I believe he said the one character,which he identified with.Was Mr.Roberts,I agree on TomJoad,I was surprised to learn in all those years he never won an Oscar,until On Golden Pond.I thought Lancaster should have won for Atlantic City.He should have won for Tom Joad.
Yup
Nonsense. This is acting crap. If you want to see his best , there are a dozen films and a half were he should have or was nominated
In his autobiography, Fonda says this is his favorite role.
Chilling scene not found in todays movies
Problably the best villain introduction that I've seen in everything until now
The way the camera captures the scene and then introduces Fonda is ICONIC! The slow beginning at the station with the gunfight after 13 min is even better for my taste. If you are a photographer or like photography ...just watch some stills...these are awesome image compositions!
The camera panning around the shoulder of Henry Fonda mixed with the music is one of my all time favourite scenes in cinema
And the electric guitar is a reverence to modern times with the same kind of villains and cruelty
The greatest Western ever made and by the Italians. Henry Fonda immortalised, a childhood memory .
Sergio Leone, Ennio Morricone and Claudia Cardinale.......all #1
The greatest is The Good The Bad The Ugly by a mile.
@@idum01 Which was made by Italians 😁
Poor little kid...... I thought at first sight that he was the only survivor of this family and he was going to revenge when he will be grown up. He was so innocent.... made me cry a lot just by seeing the scene cutting off when Frank shoots.....:-( Anyway it's a great movie.
❤❤❤❤❤
The part when the figures appear from the brush with the music is bad ass!
Greatest film ever made
OK. That does it! I am getting the DVD and playing this movie again! Fifty years old and still a timeless masterpiece.
I saw the tail end of this movie on TV. Was captured by the shootout and goodbye to Cheyenne. Didn't catch the movie's name, but the closing scenes and the music haunted me until one day I saw the title in my mind's eye. I immediately went to Amazon and bought the DVD. I still watch it again every year or so, and even now, after many viewings, it still takes me hours to get back to reality after watching.
The way Henry Fonda appears with that move of camera... perfect
GREAT FILM... WONDERFUL SOUNDTRACK... ONE OF MY VERY FAVORITES!
Music out of this dimension....pure art!
Truly inspires a unique response of indescribable feeling.
Leone plays masterly with the mind of his audience. First the hunting scene associating the shots with the killing of partridges and later the confusion about the shot and the flying partridges. It is no coincidence that the father's gun comes into focus when the daughter looks after the flying birds, seconds before the lethal shot. This is how to transfer thoughts and feelings of the characters into the viewer.
This is amazing! For sure we’ll never see anything like this again...
A true representation of humanity when it isn't trying to pretend it is something more.
This is I have to say My Favorite Western of all time. Beautiful Score...
All the scenes in this film are the best, but I agree with those who favour the opening, and I recommend absolutely everyone to see the whole film. It is one of the best ever made!
I can go along with that. Funnily enough, I'm a huge fan of Clint Eastwood. Love every picture he ever appeared in. But Once Upon a Time in the West is my absolute favourite Western, even though Eastwood was absent. Leone may have left a few spaghetti stains around but that don't matter one iota. His westerns were the very best & Once Upon a Time is the great grand daddy of them all. I imagine Eastwood playing all of the lead roles in this epic masterpiece & I come up short. Every minute of every actor on film in this stunning & jaw-dropping work of art is picture perfect. I don't imagine Clint could have improved on any of the performers in this production. This movie is just supreme.
Movie name please
@@MrAnsuman2010
Are you trolling? Gotta be...
These western movies are and will be the best.
Like scenes in William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist,” which I will not mention, there is a darkness to this scene. And despite the increasing amounts of obscene, visceral content Hollywood can show in movies today, this scene is still atypically powerful in the “hard to watch” sense.
True.
Agreed. A depth realized through incredible artistry by everyone involved. Impossible to reproduce by going through the motions with a formula.
one of the most beautiful and also chilling moments in time....briiliant
This film is a great triumphant work of art. It is a great film from a great filmmaker at the top of his game.
Even in 2019 where nothing is sacred anymore, this is still a stone cold fucking scene!!!!
Ryan Osbourne, I agree. Like scenes in William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist,” there is a darkness to this scene. And despite the increasing amounts of obscene, visceral content Hollywood can show in movies, this scene is exactly what you said it is.
Fonda rules as the greatest western bad guy like no other!!
Jack Palace in SHANE was very scary also.
Sergio Leone ..... one of the best most copied directors of all time. There will never be another Sergio Leone.
Absolutely Correct,AMAZING MAN !
Mm ☹️
Absolutely true Sergio Leone was the best but we has someone following his steps cinematography
Quentin tarantino is genius too his special atention to audio and visual detail is genius
@@santinho212 Tarantino is a genius but his strength is in dialogue - Leone used very little dialogue but could create an entire story with no words at all - look at the opening scenes of The Good the Bad and the Ugly
The scene where they all emerge out of the bushes was so badass. No slow motion, no VFX, literally just a bunch of menacing cowboys emerging from the shrublands.
DER BESTE WESTERN ALLER ZEITEN!!!!!👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌😎😎😎😎💥💥💥🤘🤘🤘😊😊😊😊
Awesome scene👌👍👏💪
One of the greatest western scenes ever period !!
Leone was going to make the siege of Leningrad;regrettably,the great director above called him home far to soon;it would have been awesome!
I've got the lesson since my childhood when I watched that scene, life is ruthless 😢 💔 😪 😔 😕 😭
Never forget when I first saw this as a kid, seeing Fonda with his incredible acting as the bad guy completly blew me away !!
There was a look of 'i feel sorry for for this kid he's so inocent' on Fondas face then within seconds a look of evil. Class acting by fonda and all the cast involved brilliant movie
It isn't sympathy, Frank wants a surviving witness to tell everyone what kind of coats the killers were wearing. The plan is ruined when one of his compatriots calls him by name, which is what causes his annoyance. But then he remembers how much he loves his job, and that unsettling smile reemerges.
This scene is just one of many masterful set pieces that is present in this movie which in itself is a masterpiece,the Frontier setting, the festive table and a family preparing for a celebration….then a peaceful scene turns into a massacre…the curtain (dust) lifts to reveal the evil behind the horror…a devil with a benign smile….perfection…!!!
I agree. Best movie ever. Afetr all these years this part remains for me PERFECTION. I live close by and have been to all the locations. :-)
360 digital cinema where are the locations?
Interesting bit from Wikipedia that adds to the scene:
"Fonda did not accept Leone's first offer to play Frank, so Leone flew to New York to convince him, telling him: 'Picture this: the camera shows a gunman from the waist down pulling his gun and shooting a running child. The camera tilts up to the gunman's face and… it's Henry Fonda.'"
For context, Henry Fonda almost always played heroes and strongly moral characters in movies. So the reveal that he's actually the villain, and a pretty twisted one at that... would be like watching a movie where it's revealed Tom Hanks is the villain. Very against type, but all the better for it!
Best movie ever made. Best fucking movie. ever. made. - thanks so much. Just wow
Before it's time.........light years
It's a toss up with good bad ugly.
I'd disagree
Johnny Marlin by
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The best western ever made one of the best films ever made
This is classic and well made.
the fact that he smiled when killing the kid even after he was called by name chills me to the bone
Best villain intro of all time but the opening 10 minute on that train station was the best scene of this timeless tale.
So many nuances in this scene.
For instance, Frank's content expression mirrors that of the Irishman after shooting the birds. Both signify satisfaction with a job well done, yet it vivdly contrasts the difference between them. It is a remarkable introduction of Fonda's character.
Imagine being in the cinema in 1968 waiting in all that silence and diegetic sounds for almost 20 minutes and all of a sudden the theme of the movie at 6:35 attacks your ears.
...and that DARK harmonica and musical score filling the theater after the gun blasts 🥺
I was 17 when I saw this. I went not knowing or expecting anything. And then this...
The red headed daughter was stunning! Not many credits for a beautiful little lady!
This movie should have gotten more credit than it did.
Agreed. But she's not Irish at all - Ms. Simonetta Santaniello.
She was Italian, like the child, who was her real brother, Enzo Santaniello.
@@AriaLuminosayes they looked like siblings
When it was first aired, i wasnt born yet. I've seen this masterpiece 5 times. I think its the best western ever made. And everytime i watch this film, around @7:50 to @7:58 always shivers me, and it feels like its the first time i'm watching it. Its crazy!
I saw this at Fort Braggmovie theater in Sumner of '68 and while frank was having his way with Mrs. McBain while she was laying topless in the bed on her stomach a guy called out "turn her over Frank" and got a round of applause.
Greatest Western scene ever filmed with Fonda as the bad guy. Greatest acting!!
Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Charles' Bronson
Best cast ever. Henry played the Bad Guy to perfection. Died with a Harmonica in his mouth.
Priceless ☺️
And you omitted the star of this film......CC
The cast couldn’t have been better…IMO
Legendary!
Nothing left to say!
I always get goosebumps when I see this.
2nd best scene-the gunfight at the end is the BEST.
WhT about when Cheyanne meets Harmonica for the first ?
best western of all this genre from this time period and in my opinion one of the top 3 ever
Love the music as well, I have watched this movie so many times over the years, I still see new things every time.
6:37 damn...what a masterpiece...
Except for one obvious mistake
Best best best western ever made!
Its Morricone's sublime musical score, and accompanying soundtracks, that make this western an all out classic.
The Jill McBain theme, when she first arrives at Sweetwater, one of Morricone's very best.
It's the best scene in the movie, because the woman is both outside AND in the kitchen! Well done, Sergio.. Well done.