FILMMAKER MOVIE REACTION!! Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) FIRST TIME REACTION!!
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Yeah..this is one of those rare films...MUST EXPERIENCE.
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This is probably my favourite western. So glad you’re covering this movie. I think Sergio had perfected his style of western with this movie. It’s almost perfect that Clint had opted out, and he got Bronson instead 👌
Charles Bronson is just a badass, try the "Death wish" series. 4-5 movies.
The Searchers is also a gr8 one with John Wayne helming the lead role
Hell yeah man. Must watch movie fo sure.
I have a movie it’s called the wild bunch (1969) directed by Sam peckinpah it’s a western film that isn’t your typical western fantasy film where the good guy kills the bad guy and it’s the end no it’s more like this (good) I shot you your dead (reality) no you missed I shot you your dead (good) but I shot you first . The movie was controversial when it first came out it was considered controversial for of its graphic violence and the betrayal of raw men . you’ll be surprised what kind of movie this is because it feature of the greatest and bloodiest shootouts in cinema history . The movie is about a gang of outlaws who professional robbers and killers who are the type who will survive by any means available . Instead of being a typical western where they tape place in 1880s or 1890s The movie takes place in 1913 a year before World War One where the days of outlaws are closing fast . The movie take place during the Mexican revolution . Also the guns they used weren’t all the traditional weapons used in other western since it was a new era they used new weapons like the 1911 pistol and pump action shotguns . That’s all I can tell you because I want you to have the experience I felt and it was one of the greatest movies of all time also this movie is in the category of one of the greatest films in cinematic history . I highly recommend this movie ( the wild bunch 1969 directors cut ) . I hope you check it out.
I still love Henry Fonda's interview he did where he described how he realized why he was cast as the villain. The director got mad at him because Fonda had grown out a mustache and goatee and bought brown contacts in order to look more villainous. Leone wanted Fonda to look like his blue eyed everyman so in his opening scene when the camera pans up to Fonda's face after he slaughtered a whole family the audience would go "Jesus Christ that's Henry Fonda!" It would be like if a bunch of people went to see a movie starring Tom Hanks not knowing he was the villain and his opening scene had him eating babies or something.
Hahahaha that’s fucking incredible!
I was just about to make the same Tom Hanks comparison. Fonda was terrifying in this.
Exactly, the man was like Tom hanks always playing the good guy. This is his only bad guy role.
Up until then Henry Fonda had always been playing very likeable characters. It was a massive shock for the audience to see him not only as a bad guy, but a bad guy that killed an innocent kid.
Great analogy with Tom Hanks. I was trying to find someone that would shocking today to see in a edgy role, because nowadays every actor does so many things. But especially then people were much more pigeonholed, so Henry Fonda here as a black hat was a real game changer.
Even with all the talent that Sergio Leone has as a Director, the Dollars trilogy does not achieve the greatness that it did without Ennio Morricone’s impeccable score. Truly one of the greats.
Agreed. This movie isn't part of the Dollars trilogy, though. ;-)
As others probably have already mentioned: the music score was written before filming started. Sergio Leone wanted to be able to play the music on set to help the actors find the right cadance in their movements, thus making sure the music and images would fit together perfectly.
Well, that’s what makes it so damn special:
This is one of those rare miraculous cases in film history where the composer’s and the director’s visions are totally symbiotic. Each pushes the other to an even higher level of greatness.
Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann; Federico Fellini and Nino Rota; Steven Spielberg and John Williams - it’s fantastic when marriages like this occur.
Agree, and we can say the same about STAR WARS/John Williams and Blade runner/Vangelis
Probably 3 of the top 5 all time greats.
2 of my very favorites as well.
The Henry Fonda reveal is unfortunately lost on most younger viewers. Fonda was one of Hollywood’s typical “good guys” and was cast against type here, which would have certainly shocked most moviegoers at the time.
Yep, his character is very dark.
It's somewhat comparable to Denzel in Training Day. Main difference is that this was in your face rather than slowly finding out that Alonso Harris is a scumbag.
So true. Current viewers would have to imagine if the villain turns around and turns out to be Tom Hanks, or Mr Rogers.
Its told that some audience walked out the minute Fonda shot the boy. It was not well received at the time 🎬
Similar to the casting of eternal good guy Glenn Ford in 3:10 to Yuma
Ennio Moricone. The GOAT of film composers.
I think the only movie that he did that didn't work for me was State of Grace.
One of the reasons I love The Thing.
@@Teaniinja Always wanted to watch that film but never have. Now that I know Ennio wrote the score I have to watch it immediately.
Him and Lalo Schifrin. Although Schifrin is probably more well known for his television work.
Il Maestro. An earned title.
"People scare better when they're dying," is one of the coldest lines in cinema history.
maxxgraber "Keep your loving brother happy..."
How about:
"What are we going to do about this one, Frank?"
"Now that you called me by name..."
"Looks like we are shy of one horse, (laugh)
No, you brought two, too many"
@@randywhite3947 that's correct. The no was the gesture with the head 😅
In my opinion, the greatest western of all time. Every facet of this movie is A+, directing, production, acting, cinematography, writing, sound, music, you name it, it was all top notch. This movie is truly art. They definitely don't make them like this anymore.
Yes! From fistful of dollars to once upon a time in the West, they just got bigger and better
you can safely remove the word western from your post!!
Another reason the opening scene was “shocking “ was that Jack Elam and Woody Strode we’re name western stars, and to have them killed right away, showed that this film was going to be different.
And if I'm not mistaken, Leone initially planed for Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef to be the three guys shot by the Harmonica at the beginning of the movie.
It ultimately couldn't be done, but I think it could have been really cool.
@@azertyqwerty8398 I think all three even really wanted to do it too but it was all down to scheduling conflicts that we never got that level of shock and awe opening.
another amazing touch from the master in this scene .... the survivor DOES get shot
@@LordHoth_09, The other two did, but I'm pretty sure Eastwood declined the opportunity.
@@mitchellmelkin4078 that was understandable though
"Masterpiece" is the only word to describe Once Upon a Time in the West. It is my favourite film of all. It is great to see others appreciate it too.
i saw it with my family as a kid with my family at a drive in in sackville nova scotia in the early 1970s i thought claudia cardinale was the most beautiful woman i ever saw
"Looks like we're one horse short."
"No, you brought two too many."
Most badass line ever.
It was that little head shake he does that really sells it.
Once Upon A Time In America is a must. Leone's greatest.
Beautiful gangster drama by legendary director.
I'd argue that The Great Silence is but OUATIA is phenomenal, as well.
Make sure to see the 250 minute extended cut, not the bastardized theatrical cut which runs 139 minutes.
@@aerthreepwood8021 The Great Silence is a Sergio Corbucci film, it's not one of Leone's.
Cool movie but overrated as hell.
Even though he won two Oscars, I've often felt that Jason Robards was seriously underrated. His performance in Magnolia, one of his last, is quietly devastating. Great reaction!!
He was great as Al Capone in St Valentine's Massacre, too.
I recently watched a documentary on Sergio Leone in which he says that he was inspired by the comic books he read as a kid. In a sense, he was the guy who really managed to translate that sensibility to movies and that's what other directors are still trying to achieve today, more or less successfully.
You also really can see Kurosawa in this.
He was also heavy influenced by his parents who made silent films in the early days of cinema.
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly reaction next?
Has to be innit? Though this is the better film but GBU comes close
@@marlonthemarvellous I think GBU is better, but you know what? There’s no wrong answer to that question
@@erakfishfishfish never a truer word said 👐
I really hope you do The Good the Bad and the Ugly next
I believe gbu was made last in the trilogy but it feels like the first since the man with no name puts on the blanket poncho at the end.
Henry Fonda was brutal in this. Top tier
"People scare better when they're dying". Absolutely brutal.
Watch The Boys the homelander character has the same feel.
Cold blooded,plays a very convincing killer.Did again in Fire creek
@@archivesofarda986 he always played Tom Hanks kinda roles
@@skinheadjon901 Brown contact lenses but Sergio Leone wanted Fonda's famous blue eyes.
I just love how Leone´s movies are so exhausting (in a good way). You feel the hardness of the desert, the lack of food or water, the tension before the shooting, the ecstacy of gold and revenge that by the time you are done you feel like you achieved something great.
A true film-story teller.
Honestly this might be Ennio Morricone’s best score it adds soooooo much to the tone and emotion of the film
one would think that, and then you listen to anything else he did and you say the same
@@anezzzz you right lol I’d still say at the end of the day it’s between this and the good the bad and the ugly with The Thing being right after that
@Karl Zaraiva haven’t seen The Mission yet unfortunately 🙃
The Untouchables soundtrack by Morricone is amazing. I had it in cassette tape (we are talking 1987) and listened to it so much I wore it out.
@@solar1913 oh yeah I forgot he did that! I mean we can throw in The Hateful Eight and Cinema Paradiso while we’re at it
The old gunshot sounds has such a vibe to it
Facts!!
James VS Cinema this is my all time favourite western movie.
I can see why!
Weirdly, I think it transcends genre. It's just a masterpiece.
The good the bad the ugly wants words 😂
My favourite western also! Charles Bronson, a real life badass!
And Claudia Cardinale one of the most beautiful women ever!
this and Shane are my fav Westerns. Would love if he saw Shane. And some newer, awesome Westerns like Open Range (2004)
My favorite visual scene is when the gang of bad guys "materialize" from out behind the brush and bushes in the opening family murder scene. So cinematic.
Agreed. Is so mesmerizing
This movie and Blade Runner are my two favorite films. Total masterpiece. Thanks for watching and reacting!
Blade Runner is my favorite as well!
@@JamesVSCinema Really? And here I already liked you before! That's great! Maybe I should get on your Patreon since I like your reactions so much.
"I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
@@Bawookles When James said "Too bad Cheyenne couldn't live" I heard Edward James Olmos in my head saying: "But then, who does???"
@@adamwarlock1 Jill is obviously a replicant. Your basic pleasure model from New Orleans.
Henry Fonda was the Tom Hanks of the 60's, always played the good guy, so people were shocked when they saw this! The sound track is timeless, every main character has their own music.
To fully understand the impact on audiences at the time, Henry Fonda was the blue eyed all American hero......and they start this film with him killing children.
Wild haha!
@@ririschannelx it's less the fact of blue eyes but that Henry Fonda was like the everyman of movies,always good guys.The Tom Hanks of his time.
@@ririschannelx you know how it works: you repeat a lie so many times that people think is true.
"this guy is so creepy." This guy is the legendary Henry Fonda.
Casting Henry Fonda as the villain was considered shocking to audiences. He was known as a clean-cut hero in movies like Twelve Angry Men and wanted to move to darker, meatier roles. He said the first time the camera cut to his face, he wanted to viewer to say 'Jesus Christ, that's Henry Fonda.'
Sergio Leone used the camera like a character in the movies he directed. Now, most filmmakers stick to safe and conventional shooting styles.
One of my favourite films, a Sergio Leone masterpiece
100%
@@JamesVSCinema please react to another movie that came out around the same time Night Of The Living Dead(1968). It's George A. Romero's masterpiece & the granddaddy of the modern zombie movie. You'll love it when you see it. Romero did so much with so little.
@@jesselester9722 Get that zombie shit out of here. Were trying to appreciate cinema here and masterpieces. Sure Night of the living dead is good and all but compared to a sergio leone film...Come on!
I love al 3 of the Once Upon Trilogy
This movie is an absolute Picasso. From the writing, the editing, the acting, cinematography and the soundtrack. I have the DVD and watch it fairly often. It never gets boring. The harmonica made it back to it's rightful owner.
Dude you be watching the most epic films
Great taste
Hahaha I try my best 🙏🏽
My absolute favorite movie!
"Once Upon a Tim in the West" is the ultimate masterpiece. Directing, camera, music, acting, editing...just perfect.
Ennio Morricone wrote the score BEFORE Leone startet filming. That way, Leone could perfectly orchestrate the pictures to Morricone's score.
Have you seen a movie called "the Mission" Jeremy Irons, Robert De Niro, Liam Neeson... It is also a Ennio Morricone Score. I think you are going to love it.
Música should always come first. It’s what shapes ones emotions in a movie most after all.
This is one of my favourite movies of all time. I love everything about this film, Leone and Morricone are just spectacular in every way. The acting, framing, score, soundtrack, sound design, cinematography and lighting are some of the best I’ve ever seen. And on a side note, The dollar trilogy also has some of the best westerns of all time.
One of the best movies of all time. The soundtrack is impeccable.
Garbage movie.
CORRECTION: The GREATEST Western movie of all time. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly ranks a close second.
Although the cowboy western is an American phenomenon, they couldn't make a movie as good as these two greats.
@@rogeliozamora9264 i never said it wasn't the Greatest western, i said it's one of the best movies in general.
@@ColombianThunder sorry, but I'm just setting the record straight.
For everyone else.
@@rogeliozamora9264 what do u mean by 'the western is an american phenomenon"? is it becos this was made by an italian?
"Once upon a time in the West" is my absolute favourite movie. And it is so great to see other people enjoy it too for its writing, character building, camera movements and angles, music and sounds, timing, framing and so on. Another great Sergio Leone experience would be "Once upon a time in America" in the times of the prohibition. Same quality.
Sergio Leone is one of the best filmmakers without a doubt, shame we didn’t get more from him.
@Karl Zaraiva that’s absolutely horrible, I don’t know how you could look at his filmography and say it’s bad, every film he made was pure cinematic art.
@@benjaminhuntergreen7142Leone died in 89, not the 90s, and OUATIA certainly didn't 'ruin his career', although the studio completely butchering his work didn't help. Before he died, Leone was securing financing for a ww2 epic set during the Siege of Leningrad, he even got permission to film in the city itself from the Soviet Union something that was almost unheard of (apparently his movies were very popular in the USSR). Unfortunately his health declined before he was able to make the movie.
Sure, Once Upon a Time in America flopped, buts it’s considered to be a masterpiece, so I’m happy with that
The opening scene of this would be an amazing short film on it's own. One of my all time favorites, and one of the finest movies ever made.
You can read this film as harmonica being a ghost: Besides the haunting sounds of the harmonica that have a ghostlike quality, he never enters a scene, he's always already in it and revealed through camera movement or cuts, he is a quick shooter bordering on the supernatural and he gives himself the names of dead people.
Needless to say this movie is my favorite ghost story.
It's got nothing to do with him being a ghost. The theme of the film is the end of the "wild" west and the arrival of civilization. Civilization is represented by the railroad (and to a lesser extent Jill McBain) and the wild west of individualism is represented by Harmonica, Cheyenne, and Frank. All three of them know that they have no place in modern civilization and their time is coming to an end. (That's why Harmonica doesn't stay with Jill.) They are dinosaurs and the railroad is the meteor. Harmonica and Frank are flip sides of the same coin. One is good and one is evil but neither fit in or play well with others. Both want to resolve their situation with each other before the meteor hits. Frank tried to adjust to the approach of civilization but realized he was never going to be able to. That is what he hints at when he tells Harmonica that he couldn't become Morton (i.e. the railroad) because it wouldn't have made a difference to Morton whether Harmonica was dead or alive. Civilization is coming and it is coming whether Harmonica or Frank live to see it arrive or not.
Those dusters are visually amazing/haunting. Sergio had such a sense for visuals. One of the greatest movies ever. I’ve lost count how many times I’ve seen it.
Sergio had the entire movie mapped out in his head; a genius. He described each character and scene to composer Morricone who wrote the score before production started so Sergio was able to play the score on set to further motivate the actors.
This is one of my favorites. Imo this is Bronson’s best role, and Morricone’s score is brilliant.
Yeah it’s super legendary!
@@JamesVSCinema Charles Bronson's second best role is Paul Kersey in Death Wish(1974). Please react to it. Death Wish is the reason Marvel created The Punisher.
@@jesselester9722 punisher’s a critique of the death wish-type role though? Like the movie frames Kersey as the good guy, whereas the Punisher’s a purely selfish anti-hero.
@@jesselester9722 I'd put his portrayal of Danny in The Great Escape as his second best role. That's another three hour movie James needs to react to.
Shiiiit if we doin westerns you absolutely have to do The Wild Bunch
Also, the Professionals
The Wild Bunch. Great shout dude
PLEASE
Absolutely...”The Wild Bunch” is a masterpiece.
And from there into Hard Boiled by John Woo.😎
I’m really glad you watched this and I hope many of the younger generations later watch this. Sergio didn’t do that many films but the ones he did do were masterpieces. He was also a major influence for Quentin Tarantino who went on to use the same film composer, Ennio Morricone, for one of his films before he passed away. The opening is beautiful because in all of Sergio’s films, especially the Dollar trilogy, the opening credits scenes are loud with a lot of music and gun sounds. But this one, it’s very quite to build the anticipation as you wait for the train… And the most beautiful scene, the killing of the McBain family and how Frank’s gang appears out of no where like ghosts with Morricone’s music, masterpiece.
This is one of the movies that really got me into film and film study. So glad you finally watched it. You may recognize the guy that plays Cheyanne is Jason Robards who was the old dying man in Magnolia. Possibly my favorite film soundtrack ever. Right behind At Eternity's Gate. I think the film is about America and the end of the Western era and genre. Frank the villain, Harmonica the hero, Cheyanne the outlaw, and Jill is America's future. Frank and Cheyanne must die because the new America has no place for them. Harmonica can live but he needs to leave first. Jill is America's future and therefore gets to stay. It has such a melancholy feeling of "end of an era" to it which I love. Frank is trying to adapt to the new way of life in America but he can't and eventually accepts his role as a villain and essentially goes after Harmonica ready to die. Also if you liked this style of filmmaking you NEED to see some Kurosawa
Perfect movie to get inspired by!
For me, the greatest Western of all time. Incredible atmosphere, characterisation, dialogue, photography, and of course the soundtrack, which is almost like a character in its own right. Something that is generally forgotten now is that Henry Fonda (Frank), when this film came out, was universally known as an actor who played heroic characters, so that reveal of him standing over the murdered kid with his big ol' eyes was a huge moment for the audience upon release. An all-time great.
Keep the reactions coming man, I am absolutely loving it
This is such a masterpiece of a film! One of my fly favourite western films ever! The music the framing like you mentioned just everything
Once Upon a Time in America is also a masterpiece and I think it's Leone's best
But it's gotta be the director's cut
@@Stravinsky75 yes!
As much as I love Once Upon a Time in America, I would say this one is slightly better. Can't hate on your choice though!
@@twhis9843 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
One word ran through my mind watching this movie: Art. This movie is art... every scene is a painting.
PLEASE REACT TO "Apocalypse Now" if you haven't seen it. Greatest war film of all time (Or put it in your polls AT LEAST)
@Karl Zaraiva I don't even know the difference between the versions. All I know is that it's great
Well we have a You Tuber who calls himself Filmmaker (an American one, it seems), and no Apocalypse Now until now, it always means know your history, haha, Greetings from Germany
Apocalypse now is barely a war film. Its a psychological/thriller film.
@@Alderak1 half and half
Karl Zaraiva My point is that its not a movie about war. War is just a backdrop. Its an adaptation of Heart of Darkness. Its basically The Shining set in Vietnam.
This movie is a graduate class in film making. Absolutely the number one western ever made.
Ah yes, Cheyenne. I've watched thousands of movies in my life, with hundreds of well-written and well-portrayed characters in them - to this day, Cheyenne remains my favorite of them all, my personal number one movie character. Masterful performance by Jason Robards and the writers. Glad you enjoyed him too.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks my friend!!
''Das boot" 1981 German version directors cut! This movie deserves a good reaction and discussion. Great stuff man and have a nice day!
Have a great day as well!!
Now that you have gotten to the “Once Upon A Time” films, do not skip (not that many people have heard about this one) “Once Upon A Time… The Revolution”. That is the name used in Europe, but here in the states it was called “Duck, You Sucker” and for awhile “A Fistful of Dynamite”. I recommend you watch that before you move on to “Once Upon A Time In America”. You see a progression of the end of the old west and the beginning of the gangster world.
"Duck you sucker" is a masterpiece
Yes it’s part 2 of the once upon trilogy it’s also called Once Upon A Time… The Revolution but in Europe it’s called a fistfull of dynamite and in the U.S Duck You Sucker
One of my favorite things about the sound design in this movie is how the 4 main characters each had their own tune that got you into the mood of them. Like Cheyenne's little upbeat funky tune vs the eerie harmonica for the man with the harmonica. This movie is so great at "showing" not telling. and the only reason i put showing in quotes is because the sound really does tell so much of this story. Truly a masterpiece, it's great knowing im not the only one who loves it :)
I can't tell you how happy I am to see you post this!
Personally, a Top 5 movie and aswell as being me and my Grandads movie, this is one of the main reasons I'm a filmmaker today. 🤘✌
Happy to hear that seriously!
The over-arching theme is the end of the 'Wild West', which is so beautifully conveyed through the music at the end.
The ultimate taming of a continent, and the passing of a certain breed of men; into historical myth and legend.
Superb movie, and for me the best 'Western' ever made.
Imagin sitting in a cinema with a big screen and than watching these hughe faces! that was epic
I watched it with my Dad wehe I was about 10y in 1973. this was so impressive. I will never forget this movie and how it build the way I like movies from that on.
@@catmini1 Being my favorite movie, I regret not to have seen it on a big screen. If I could see it in a theater that would be one of my best time in my life.
Since you brought up Quentin, He definitely loved this one! I will swear to this day that odd "Pump" sound in the opening scene is where he got the odd sound of the water pump in "Kill Bill - volume 1" climax in the snow!
Just watched this movie for the first time and my god I was blown away!
Thanks for your reaction bruh. Always nice to watch it with you together 😊
Happy to here that Julian, you the man!
The opening scene though. My goodness, chills everytime the kids run out of the house and Morriconne's music kicks in.
One of my all time favorite films. Thanks for sharing your reaction to it. Amazing work, as always James!
The harmonica when he's been shot is so haunting. A much different feeling from the music right there in the scene. Thank you so much man for introducing some of us to such good movies for the first time.
Nothing will ever top the overall filmmaking of this movie. You can rank favorites over this, but you can't rank quality over this. It's perfect in every way.
Yes, My favorite one... Give me Dark Side of the Moon and Once Upon a Time in the West, and I can stay in my room forever.
The "scary" guy is Henry Fonda. This was the first movie that he didn't play the hero. It took a lot to convince him to play the cold blooded killer.
What about his character in FORT APACHE? Sure that character isn’t evil really, but he’s certainly a semi-antagonist.
@@joonaa2751 Which movie came first?
@@randallshuck2976 Fort Apache came out 20 years earlier
@@joonaa2751 Ok. I was going from an interview that Fonda had done on his character. He said he showed up to the first day of shooting with a beard to change his appearance and the director made him shave so every one would immediately recognize him in that first scene where he shoots the kid.
It didn't really take that much. All it took was for Fonda to have a conversation with Eli Wallach. Fonda mentioned to Wallach that Leone wanted him to play the villain in his next film but he wasn't sure if he should take the part. Wallach basically told him he would be crazy and regret it the rest of his life if he passed on the opportunity.
One of the underlying themes of this movie is water. The name of the Ranch/Station was Sweetwater, when Harmonica tells Jill "from the well, I like my water fresh.", when Harmonica is beating up the guy in the laundry, Jill in a "nice hot bath", Mr. Morton's obsession with reaching the ocean and getting lost in the painting of the ocean. And his ultimately dying with his face in a stream. Water, water everywhere. Not sure of the significance, other than the fact we all need water to live, but it is interesting. Probably Mr.Sergio Leone's best work, along with Mr.Ennio Morricone, and all associated with the production.
omg man ty ..now this is my all time favourite movie ,ty for taking this it is rlly must experience ,that ending was piece of art .
Happy to hear!
One of the best movies ever made.
I saw this movie (for the first time) in the late 70's and it was instantly my second favourite western of all time (and it still is), my number one is and has always been "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" by the same two masters: Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone
I also love the theory that Harmonica is a ghost, that this is a revenge story like The Crow. Frank is established as would kill a kid if the kid could identify him, so he wouldn't have left Harmonica alive. Harmonica and kid Harmonica are wearing roughly the same clothes. Harmonica got shot in the opening, but it's like it never happened. We also see Jill apparently shoot Harmonica in the dark, again with no effect.
Harmonica is one of the all-time great characters, in one of the all-time great westerns. The final reveal of his goal, and the motivation behind it, is epic. Charles Bronson had many memorable parts over his career, but this one is maybe my favorite (with the possible exception of a coupla his war movie characters). Great to see young folks appreciate the westerns I grew up with. 👍🏻
It’s in my top 5 movies; absolute classic and inspired so many other films.
*You* don't get to kill this man. He's *my* mark. He dies at my time, and in my way. After he remembers... After he realizes who I am.
One thing about the film is the sound design.
Sergio Leone filmed without audio, with all sound (including dialogue) being dubbed in later.
Another thing: the majority of the soundtrack was made before hand and played during the scenes to help the actors with timing and such. A stroke of brilliance.
Leone created this film as an homage to all western movies. That's why they flew all the out to America to shoot Jill's carriage scene in Monument Valley. So many Western films were shot there including most of the John Wayne/John Ford movies.
Leone created a separate theme for each of the four main characters: Frank, Jill, Cheyenne and Harmonica and created them all before any shooting started. In the showdown at the end we get a combination of Frank and Harmonica's themes.
It has been described of Leone's films "they are operas and the arias are staring".
One of the greatest movies of all time a true masterpiece very classic Once Upon a Time in the West directed by Sergio Leone starring Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards and the incredible music score by the one and only Ennio Morricone. Thanks bro great reaction👍👍👍
I spent the summer of 1973 in Europe, and while I was in Amsterdam I saw that this movie was playing. It was kind of legendary among US movie buffs at that time, because its American release had been butchered -- cut down to a much shorter length -- and everyone was saying "but you have to see the full-length cut." And here was possibly my only chance to see that, so I went. And it was a shattering experience to see it on a big screen (even with Dutch subtitles), for all the reasons you mentioned. Now, of course, the full-length movie is the only one available in the US, thanks to home video etc.
Thank you for the upload! This is my favorite film and you are the best at what you do. What a treat!
Happy to have it out for you guys!
I almost screamed when I saw your face next to this video:-)) one the my favorite movies of all time.MASTERPIECE not to mention Ennio Morricone's music i have grown up on.It was such a feel watching italian ,spanish movies in my language...miss those days.
THANK SO MUCH FOR YOUR INTELLIGENT THOUGTHS AS ALWAYS..
ENJOYING THEM SOO MUch
Hahaha this made me so happy!! Happy to have watched this! Enjoy!
@@JamesVSCinema please react to
Rear Window (1954)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Casablanca (1942)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Dracula (1931)
The Birds(1963)
Bonnie & Clyde(1967)
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid (1969)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Westworld (1973)
Death Wish (1974)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Phantasm (1979)
Got to see Ennio Morricone conduct this in concert. Damn, does it hit you.
Would recommend checking out the Dollars trilogy to see what else this director can do with westerns.
James out of context: “Dang, I love these threatening undertones.”
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Because of the implementation..
Bro u are really watching all the good movies out there...love ur channel
This is simply my favorite MOVIE ever... I mean as movie for theater... and as Movie as FILM, not video... The "true pure" art.
Something that someone seeing this now can't appreciate: the bad guy here, Frank, was played by Henry Fonda (Jane and Peter's dad), a huge star who'd only ever played everyman good guys. Having the camera pan around and show HIM as the evil guy was a kick in the guts to the audience. It'd be like if this were filmed today and they panned around and it was Tom Hanks who just shot a kid. Fonda took the role to do something completely different from the roles he'd done for 20 years. Brilliant casting.
Now, need to give a go to “Once upon in America”… 😙
You are correct about the music. When he had the wherewithal to do so he had Morricone write and record the themes before shooting and had them on set to play to set the mood during filming. For his last movie, "Once Upon a Time in America," the ramp up to shooting was over so many years that he got to the point where he would hold court at Cannes trying to entice backers - Leone would tell the story of the movie scene by scene and shot by shot either with a tape recorder playing the music or with Morricone sitting at a piano accompanying.
Along those lines, Leone was a guy who planned everything out very meticulously in his head while at the same time leaving room for happy accidents to occur. The guy who translated the script for "Once Upon a Time in America" from Italian into English told a story about how he was running his rendition of a specific scene from late in the movie by Leone that involved a camera move across a decorated floor, up a woman's body to a big close up of her face, landing at its final position on a specific line. Leone read what the guy had given him, nodded and said yes this was good, but he needed six more words. Translator guy was all, "Huh? Is there something wrong with what I gave you?" Leone replied, no what he had was perfect but because of the speed of the camera move and the size of the set, and the height of the actress he had in mind (they were years away from production at this point - no set, no camera, nobody officially cast yet...) the speech needed six more words in it to last as long as he needed it to. Dude had an amazing movie brain!
Apparently Henry Fonda was the one Leone originally wanted to be in "Fistful of Dollars" but Leone was nobody and couldn't get near him. So years later when they went after Fonda for "Once Upon a Time in the West" Fonda hadn't seen any of the Clint Eastwood westerns yet so called up his friend Eli Wallach who had just done "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" for Leone to ask what he thought of the guy. Wallach said, "You'll LOVE this guy! Don't worry about the script, it's all gonna change in dubbing and the words aren't even the point of the thing - just go, if nothing else you'll have a great time doing it." Intrigued, Fonda set up a screening of the three Dollars films, having heard by that point that he had been in the frame for them but his manager at the time blew them off. He spent a long afternoon watching all of them, came out and fired his manager. "You sonofabitch, I could have been doing these for the last four years!"
I'm something of a fanboy of Leone's. :)
Fun bit of possibly apocryphal trivia about this movie: rumor has it that Leone's original idea was to have the three guys meeting the train at the beginning be played by Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach - and have Bronson blow the big megastars away in the first scene, as a sort of symbolic farewell to that part of Leone's career. It is not known how seriously this was taken by anybody - it might have been just a silly notion Leone and his people came up with late one night to entertain themselves. It's hard to imagine Eastwood (or Eastwood's people) being down with this at this point in his career though, and if he didn't want to do it there was no reason to go after the other two. It would have been amusing for us years later, but it would have been probably ruinously distracting at the time. Who knows?
"Once Upon a Time in America" is my all time number one favorite movie but you want to take care which version you sit down with. It's almost impossible to see the fucked up two and a half hour American theatrical version now, thanks be to the Cinema Gods, but in recent years Leone's family has dusted off a bunch of outtakes and deleted scenes and rather clumsily stuck them back into the movie. They couldn't find camera negative for everything so some of the 'new' material looks pretty ropey. Some of these scenes assumed a legendary quality over the years but Leone didn't include them in his three and three quarter hour European cut, presumably because several of them duplicate story information that is conveyed more elegantly in the film already, so they come across as redundant. In my opinion (and other people may feel differently) the version to watch is the three hour and forty-odd minute version - that's plenty of movie right there. Most Blu-Rays on sale now have both this version that I prefer and the 'extended' cut with an annotated menu so you can go back afterward and check out the 'new' stuff. I'd do it that way, myself, but that's me.
LATER - all the sound in this was added later, but rather than foley as understood in American movies (which usually means going back and putting in clean footsteps and door creaks and stuff to enhance the dialogue recorded on set) it was the practice in European movies at the time to post-dub all the dialogue and sound effects, sometimes recording a guide track on set but usually not. Movies with money from several countries behind them would routinely have a main cast from as many different countries as there were actors and often nobody could understand anything their fellow performers were saying - it was not uncommon for each actor to be saying lines that had been translated into their own language and have the responses from the other actors in the scene come in a different language - everyone knew what was happening in the scene, it's just the words themselves that were unfamiliar. If the director was less than stellar, it was a matter of each performer waiting their turn to speak. Everything was routinely re-written in the dialogue dub so the language mess wasn't even something anyone worried about. Fellini sometimes cast non actors in key parts, people who had no experience learning lines whose faces he took a fancy to, so he would just tell them to count really angrily or hilariously or whatever emotion was required and they'd sort it out with whoever dubbed the character's voice later. Productions with less cash could move more quickly and cheaply if they didn't have to sweat getting a clean dialogue recording on location - some directors preferred not being forced to have an absolutely quiet set for the sake of the sound man. Most of the time post-dubbing or post-syncing results in a haphazard, rather basic sound design for a lot of movies from this era but guys like Leone and a few others would take advantage of having to build all the sound from the ground up and do neat things with it, as you noticed in this.
He filmed his movies with no sound. Jason Robards talked about coming back and dubbing his lines in a studio to match his lips moving in the film. The quiet part of each frame is not far away.
Love all those western films, especially The Good, The Bad and The Ugly & Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch which heavily influenced Tarantino
Don't forget THE IRON CROSS which peckinpah made also and THE DIRTY DOZEN, both served as inspiration for Tarantino's inglorious bastards.
@@Juggernogger64 Not to mention the original Italian film The Inglorious Bastards, very different movie to Tarantino's but a super entertaining action film.
The opening to this movie is one of my favorites
Your killing with your choices lately. One of the greatest movies ever
Sergio Leone is legendary director. We know Every director know.
Yup!
On my top 10 greatest movies of all time! A complete masterpiece through and through!!
So happy to see you watch this movie the way i watch it. The technique and cinematography the soundtrack, the layers of characters painted into the landscape giving it depth. It is truly awesome.
Another film to check out with a Morricone score is the film The Mission. It’s a semi historical telling of Spain and Portugal’s conquest of South America. Stars Jeremy Irons, Robert Deniro, and others. It’s a tragic movie, but a beautiful film.
You should react to Once Upon A Time In American, Leone’s next masterpiece. Love this film and Claudia Cardinale. So beautiful, so underrated.. Henry Fonda is the best bad guy ever. A brilliant score by Morrecone.
One of my favorite movie openings of all time.
Same. Blew my mind when I first saw it about 15 years ago. Instantly became something I recommend just from that scene.
So glad you did this one. It's one of my top-5 all-time films.
Re-watching this reaction a year later. I first saw this in the late 80s and when I saw it, I immediately watched the entire movie again, and then again the next day. This is not only the best Western movie of all time but the best movie of all time.
A masterpiece of masterpieces. I just wish Sergio and Ennio were still with us making fantastic movies.
Agreed! This is the best movie ever made. No fluff, no cringe love stories or spoonfeeding the viewer.
James, if you liked this movie, you HAVE to watch Sergio Leones "once upon a time in America" with Robert de Niro. Fantasic film, also with the phaenomenal soundtrack of Ennio Morricone. But make sure you watch the almost 4h version, NOT the horrible short cinema cut.
I can't wait till you start getting into Akira Kurosawa's films.
The movie was 3 hours long, but there was only 15 pages of dialog. It's worth it to buy the DVD in order to see the very long bonus about how the film was made. The actors and crew all describe the process that Sergio Leone went through to get what he wanted. To answer your question: Yes. Sergio played the score on set while the movie was being shot. The entire score was recorded and in the can before the first scene was shot. This was the first movie, however, that he did this. There are four themes: One for Jill, one for Harmonica, one for Cheyenne, and one for Frank. Sergio did NOT want to make this movie. He wanted to make a non western called "Once Upon A Time in America". He was told he would get the financing for that if he did "Once Upon A Time in the West" first. All this information, and much more, is on the DVD/Blu Ray.
My favorite film of all time . It has been said nobody framed a shot better than Leone.