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Sep 12, 2016 · A typical American script is, on average, 120-140 pages long. The script for Once Upon a Time in the West is 420 pages! "Hundreds and hundreds of stage directions, with just one line of dialogue. The first sequence—there is the fly, the water, the knuckles, everything. The first line is on page thirty, I think.
Feb 12, 2023 · In other words, Leone was doing a Tarantino while the future "Pulp Fiction" director was still in short pants. Not a lot happens over 166 minutes, but Leone is supremely confident in his...
Once Upon a Time in the West (Italian: C'era una volta il West, "Once upon a time (there was) the West") is a 1968 epic spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone, who co-wrote it with Sergio Donati based on a story by Dario Argento, Bernardo Bertolucci and Leone.
Sep 25, 2018 · The definitive book on Sergio Leone's landmark Western, Once Upon A Time In The West (1968). An in-depth analysis and shot by shot look at this iconic film by the world's leading authority on Sergio Leone, Sir Christopher Frayling, who coined the phrase "Spaghetti Western."
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- Leone Was Retiring from Westerns
- Leone Made The Movie Because He Wanted to Work with Henry Fonda
- Fonda Was Convinced to Do The Film by Eli Wallach
- Harmonica Was Originally Offered to Clint Eastwood
- Henry Fonda Wanted Frank to Have A Different Look
- Actor Mickey Knox Helped Write The Dialogue
- Most of The Movie Was Shot in Spain
- The Score Was Completed Before The Movie
- Leone Consulted Many Classic Westerns
- One of The Three Cowboys Ended His Life in Costume
Despite being widely known for his Westerns, Sergio Leone was retiring from the genre. He did all he wanted to do with the genre, and he was hoping to move on to other material. His passion project would eventually become Once Upon a Time in America, a four-hour epic starring Robert De Niro, James Woods, and Joe Pesci. However, it would be decades ...
... and that thing was beloved American actor, Henry Fonda. Fonda had long established himself as an American icon, appearing in dozens of beloved films and earning two Oscar nominations for The Grapes of Wrath (Best Actor) and 12 Angry Men(Best Picture, having co-produced the film with Reginald Rose). Sergio Leone was a huge fan of Fonda and had l...
Frank is now one of Henry Fonda's most iconic roles. That's for two primary reasons. The first is that the performance is obviously excellent. But the second is because Fonda was widely known for his heroic roles, and Once Upon a Time in the Westsubverted that idea by making him the villain. Despite Leone's enthusiasm, Fonda was hesitant in taking ...
Despite the newfound maturity and somber tone, Once Upon a Time in the West was a Sergio Leone Western, and fans were expecting Clint Eastwood. Who they got instead was Charles Bronson. Eastwood had been working with Leone for years, starring as The Man with No Name in his iconic Dollarstrilogy. RELATED: 10 Best Performances In Modern Westerns Leon...
Perhaps to distance himself from the villainous role of Frank, or maybe to help viewers disassociate "Henry Fonda" from Frank, Fonda tried having a different look. For his first day on set, Fonda appeared sporting a beard and wearing brown contact lenses. Leone was incensed, as he wanted the near-mythical "Henry Fonda" and to provide 1960s audience...
Fans of Leone's Dollars trilogy will likely take note of the dialogue found in Once Upon a Time in the West. Whereas those three movies were peppered with unassuming, borderline comical dialogue, Once Upon a Time in the West was far more poetic, offering beautiful lines of dialogue with undercurrents of metaphor and mythical grandeur. That's becaus...
It's amazing how much Spain passes for the American West. Like many of Leone's older Westerns, a good chunk of Once Upon a Time in the Westwas shot throughout Spain. These sequences include the opening train station shootout, the scenes involving Flagstone, and Sweetwater Ranch. RELATED: Top 10 Westerns Of The 21st Century According To IMDb The exc...
In an odd and unconventional reversal from the norm, Ennio Morricone's iconic scorewas actually completed before the movie itself. Typically, music is scored in post-production, with the composer working directly with the finished footage. In this case, the music was the first thing completed. That's because Leone wanted to play the music during fi...
Leone's intent with Once Upon a Time in the Westwas to turn the Western genre on its head and subvert most of its tropes. To conduct research, Leone and his creative consulted dozens of "classic" Western films, and the movie contains many overt references. For example, the McBain funeral is taken directly from the 1953 classic, Shane. The ending, a...
Unfortunately, the making of Once Upon a Time in the Westcomes with a tragic story. Actor Al Mulock stars in the movie's opening train station sequence, playing one of Frank's hitmen. Shortly after filming his scenes, Mulock jumped out of his hotel window wearing his cowboy costume. He survived the fall itself but died in the ambulance on the way t...
Mar 25, 2019 · The following interview is an excerpt from the forthcoming book Once Upon a Time in the West: Shooting a Masterpiece, written by Sir Christopher Frayling and published by Reel Art Press. To be released on April 23, the in-depth, 336-page tome details the entire production, from script to screen — celebrating the 50th anniversary of the film ...
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Sep 28, 2024 · Once upon a Time in the West, Italian western film, released in 1968, that was considered by many to be Sergio Leone’s operatic masterpiece. The epic is also notable for Henry Fonda’s playing against type as a villainous killer.
