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  • @BoxofficeMoviesScenes
    @BoxofficeMoviesScenes  Год назад +229

    Hi everyone! What grade (out of 10) would you give this video?

  • @susanekelly2626
    @susanekelly2626 11 месяцев назад +276

    I grew up having to watch this moving. I thought it was so long but it was my dad's favorite. Now he is 95 and in a memory care unit. He has poor vision but he still talks about this movie and I love to play it for him when I visit. W both love the soundtrack. He can't see the screen but he describes every scene with crystal-clear memory. I will always love this movie and think of my sweet dad.

    • @sebastianmannuzza6647
      @sebastianmannuzza6647 6 месяцев назад +11

      Beautiful sentiment 🙏

    • @thomaspetty3890
      @thomaspetty3890 5 месяцев назад +6

      This comment about the movie and her father touched my heart. I am a 76 Man and also loved this sad great movie.

    • @maheshmahatekar2885
      @maheshmahatekar2885 5 месяцев назад +5

      God bless your dad with stable health.

    • @pegen
      @pegen 4 месяца назад +3

      Thats just beautyful...

    • @DavidGarcia-h5l
      @DavidGarcia-h5l 3 месяца назад

      Was your dad's life too long also... Susan?

  • @bertie_magoo
    @bertie_magoo 3 месяца назад +40

    The music is haunting. You brought 2 to many. Classic line. One of the best movies ever. 2024 Anyone ?

    • @desertodavid
      @desertodavid Месяц назад

      If it weren't for the music movies would be awful boring. Not that I like the music I hate it. I'm just saying that just saying that they're really kind of idiotic.

  • @TheMusikpoet
    @TheMusikpoet Год назад +116

    Without Ennio Morricone's music, the film would never have been as successful and would not work as well. The filmmaker said in a documentary that he had the music played on set and the actors also acted according to the music. For me this is the perfect collaboration and a masterpiece. Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone!!! Thank you for your life's work

    • @glennharris665
      @glennharris665 2 месяца назад +2

      @@TheMusikpoet While The Great ENNIO MORRICONE's Superb Score Was Outstanding, Saying The Movie Wouldn't Have Fared As Well .... I Disagree.

    • @alfalfafalafelmafia
      @alfalfafalafelmafia Месяц назад

      The first music video

  • @kirktanka8199
    @kirktanka8199 Год назад +130

    “You brought two too many.” What a line!!! What a movie!!!

  • @meditationmountainbyrishab919
    @meditationmountainbyrishab919 Год назад +175

    Sergio Leone was a great rare master, he understood cinematic dimensions, angles, light, sound, depth of field, costumes, makeup and narrative usage, like very few do. He knew how to block and shoot a western better than anyone and this is what makes Once Upon a time in the West, unmatched!

    • @juerv1
      @juerv1 Год назад +10

      And he had a unique talent for gathering the best people around him. He cast Eastwood, Van Cleef and Bronson, three actors whose qualities Hollywood had ignored. And of course he cast Fonda, Wallach, Robards, Steiger, Coburn. And with Morricone, Tonino Delli Colli (camera) and Carlo Simi (costumes/sets), he had three men who did outstanding work in their field.
      I don't think any other director has ever applied such extraordinary cinematic talent to a popular film genre as the Western. Leone never wanted to be an elite or intellectual director, but wanted to make popular films.

    • @rickmiller1429
      @rickmiller1429 Год назад +7

      Amazing, it took an Italian to show us here in the US how to make westerns. Another great of his is The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

    • @anthonybrogan390
      @anthonybrogan390 Год назад

      He always had the best catering services too

    • @marlonbegue
      @marlonbegue 11 месяцев назад

      @@anthonybrogan390 how do you know that

    • @anthonybrogan390
      @anthonybrogan390 11 месяцев назад +1

      Clint talked about his spaghetti dinners.

  • @anthonycarter3942
    @anthonycarter3942 Год назад +73

    Just the opening scene makes this the greatest of all time. The whole movie is just superb!

  • @kevinwaters5872
    @kevinwaters5872 Год назад +123

    Only the Italians could get the western genre to this level of art. A true block buster.

    • @lorraineniece8813
      @lorraineniece8813 6 месяцев назад +3

      You mean the spaghetti westerns? I watched everyone of them. The music was also great

    • @edigabrieli7864
      @edigabrieli7864 3 месяца назад +2

      A block buster? Not so in the USA when it came out it went unnoticed a very few people saw it here while in Europe yes it was a blockbuster.

    • @glennharris665
      @glennharris665 2 месяца назад +3

      @@edigabrieli7864 Americans Obviously Didn't Know a Great Movie When Watching One. Cutting Out Cheyenne's Entrance, And His First Meeting With Jill And Harmonica, And The Smack Cheyenne And Harmonica Talked Was Dumb. Viewers Who Complained About The Legnth ... I Just Shake My Head. I Saw The Uncut Version, Then Went Back And Saw The Butched Version. To Each His Own ... I'll Take The SERGIO LEONE/ENNIO MORRICONE Italian Westerns Over The Action Starved, Talk-a-Thon American Westerns Any Day.

    • @soundtreks
      @soundtreks 12 дней назад

      It’s a masterpiece for sure but Leone followed Kurosawa in terms of pacing tempo and framing of shots. Plus Kurosawa’s samurai films were the template for the Clint Eastwood Leone films.

  • @abouttime5000
    @abouttime5000 Год назад +7

    No computer digitization or speicaileffects. Just plain film and amazing camera angles and close-ups. Pure genius.

  • @JOHNWILSON-hu2yz
    @JOHNWILSON-hu2yz Год назад +369

    I am a western fan, and this film outclasses them all. Bronson, Fonda, Robards, and Cardinale were all amazing. The score, direction, and cinematography were amazing. This is the greatest western of all time.

    • @michaelscot4816
      @michaelscot4816 Год назад +10

      I would put Outlaw Josey Wales up there, too.

    • @MrRhmccabe
      @MrRhmccabe Год назад +5

      @@michaelscot4816 ....The Wild Bunch is tied.

    • @michaelscot4816
      @michaelscot4816 Год назад +2

      @@MrRhmccabe immediately put on my watch list...I'm a virgin.

    • @Scotzie69
      @Scotzie69 Год назад +7

      ​@@michaelscot4816 sry but no, all other Western are 2nd

    • @MrRhmccabe
      @MrRhmccabe Год назад +4

      @@michaelscot4816 I envy you.....that is to see it for the first time,be sure to have a great screen and great sound...

  • @woifmachatch2101
    @woifmachatch2101 11 месяцев назад +3

    I was about 14, when I saw it the first time, it rocked me to the core

    • @woifmachatch2101
      @woifmachatch2101 11 месяцев назад +2

      It must have shown me then, that there was more to life then the naivety of youth

  • @davidtaylor3041
    @davidtaylor3041 Год назад +43

    I saw this film years ago, and it has always been a favorite. About 5 years ago, i drove out to Monument valley Utah and was lucky to be able to locate and photograph the remains of that brick arch used in the film. That was the highlight of my entire trip out west!

    • @sergelibe4946
      @sergelibe4946 Год назад +1

      👍👍

    • @sebastianmannuzza6647
      @sebastianmannuzza6647 6 месяцев назад +1

      I went to Monument Valley in 2016. I couldn’t find the arch but it was my own fault, I didn’t look hard enough.

  • @howlinhog
    @howlinhog Год назад +22

    I've watched this movie more times than any other. This was when you made a statement without a single word spoken.

    • @BrianVincent-gz2dq
      @BrianVincent-gz2dq 6 месяцев назад

      I am 550 and counting.
      More than any other human everived, and 4 times these last six days.
      Glad you appreciate it.

  • @ahmedchabir2610
    @ahmedchabir2610 Год назад +28

    No words can describe this marvelous movie and the superb actors behind... unforgettable. ❤

  • @diogenes5118
    @diogenes5118 Год назад +124

    Love the way Frank tries to reholster his pistol after being hit, as he has every time before. Sergio genius.

    • @davidroberts6549
      @davidroberts6549 Год назад +3

      good catch..

    • @igorwolkowsky6314
      @igorwolkowsky6314 Год назад +3

      Mann/Cruise honors it at the end of Collateral.

    • @HartmutJagerArt
      @HartmutJagerArt Год назад +3

      @@davidroberts6549 ...and great acting by Fonda !

    • @pedrochevez2090
      @pedrochevez2090 3 месяца назад +2

      Good observation. It was as if he tried to holster it as a form of habit and overconfidence from having killing guys off so many times before.

    • @Yora21
      @Yora21 2 месяца назад

      I believe he actually missed it on that take and just dropped the gun and continued acting the scene.

  • @43captrexkramer
    @43captrexkramer Год назад +172

    Never knew Henry Fonda could be such a badass until I saw this movie , perfect bad guy in a western.

    • @handsomeman-pm9vy
      @handsomeman-pm9vy Год назад +2

      He could not be selective in which characters to play in his old age.

    • @maulofamerica
      @maulofamerica Год назад +6

      Check out in "Warlock." He's a good guy, but it's Fonda at badass level 10.

    • @khankrum1
      @khankrum1 Год назад +18

      That is because Henry Fonda was more that a star, he knew how to act!

    • @letsgobrandon6281
      @letsgobrandon6281 Год назад +4

      He played a bad guy in fire creek
      Also

    • @letsgobrandon6281
      @letsgobrandon6281 Год назад +11

      Henry told the director he should wear brown contacts. The director said no way are we hiding your blue eyes.

  • @derekholgate6345
    @derekholgate6345 Год назад +520

    A masterpiece doesn't even come close to describing this western, no words in existence are strong enough to express the magnificence. Charles Bronson is perfect casting, and Clint Eastwood turning this role down despite his regrets was the correct decision.

    • @jjaraxle
      @jjaraxle Год назад +50

      I am a big Western fan and I love John Wayne movies and I love Clint Eastwood moves but this....this in on a different level. The writing, the direction, the actors, the music....perfection at it finest.

    • @JamesSmith-vl7yq
      @JamesSmith-vl7yq Год назад +10

      Agreed

    • @ltyler01
      @ltyler01 Год назад +21

      The script was re written for Bronson’s Harmonica role when Eastwood declined. I’m sure this film would be no less a masterpiece with either of these great stars….as Eastwood stared in arguably the greatest western ever made by most critics.
      Imo TGBU is the superior film as it changed westerns the way no other film had before or since

    • @joekelly9369
      @joekelly9369 Год назад +2

      clint was based on bronsons role in this , sergio leone westerns

    • @philipchief4406
      @philipchief4406 Год назад +3

      how would a white man act like a native Indian? Clint is white, and Charles is yellow, aren't they? This is apparently an Indian starred moive.

  • @George-dy2di
    @George-dy2di Год назад +42

    This is undoubtably one of the most carefully choreographed movies I have ever seen. Leone shot an enormous amount of footage and played with it in the editing suite to achieve exactly his vision of the wild west, with many influences from other great westerns. The result is absolutely sublime.

  • @derekbrown7892
    @derekbrown7892 6 месяцев назад +11

    All I can say is the best movie ever,the cast,the story,the music,there will never be in the future anything even near as good as the time and dedication is not possible anymore.

    • @SJHUE
      @SJHUE 3 месяца назад

      You are correct in every thing you say here.

  • @darkvader7231
    @darkvader7231 Год назад +52

    This is not just the definitive best western ever committed to film but one of the best films ever made, a true giant amongst giants with the best music score!!!! A true 11/10 movie!!!

  • @dap149b
    @dap149b Год назад +40

    The backdrop to the hanging scene is fantastic and this clip has the best two Western scenes ever filmed, Suspenseful music of Morricone and close ups of Leone. can't be surpassed. Masterful.

    • @hennagaijin100
      @hennagaijin100 Год назад +1

      Route 163 southwest of Mexican Hat Utah.

  • @sulijoo
    @sulijoo Год назад +244

    This was my late father's favourite western. As a kid I found it long and boring, and I'd dread it every time he watched it. But now as an adult, it has a special place in my heart, and is clearly the greatest western of all time.

    • @joeymiami
      @joeymiami Год назад +10

      My children will be saving the same about me. Watched this masterpiece with each of them individually as a sort of rite of passage.
      You are blessed to have had a father who thought enough to share something emotionally dear to him. And yes.. it is indeed a very slow movie for younger minds.

    • @DavidMyrmidon
      @DavidMyrmidon Год назад +10

      I didn't grow up on Westerns, but I was familiar with them.. and I respected Eastwood for them. But when I saw this for The First time, Only Last Year.. I thought it was a whole other level of Brilliant. Pure Story Telling, through Visual Means alone.
      ..it's Genius.

    • @esteban1487
      @esteban1487 Год назад +7

      The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is right there too as is Unforgiven.

    • @PeterLennon-n3i
      @PeterLennon-n3i Год назад +1

      It''s got some superb scenes but I've always thought (and still do) that it was too long, and self indulgent, and sometimes a bit too sentimental. Even the best film directors have a tendency to become too self indulgent over time. David Lean was the same. So were Kurosawa and Bergman.

    • @retthok
      @retthok Год назад +2

      @@PeterLennon-n3i Of course it is; that's what make it so good.

  • @visanion1361
    @visanion1361 Год назад +25

    This is one of the greatest movies ever made..... best soundtrack of all time.....the amount of detail is obbsesive for me..... obsessed with these movies and i just recently discovered sergio's masterpieces.....this level of movie is similar to da vincis renaissance works in painting......thats the comparison i can make that can closely describe it.

  • @ml1941
    @ml1941 Год назад +28

    When I was a kid, the gradual reveal of Frank through Harmonica’s flashbacks was downright terrifying.

  • @gunnshell
    @gunnshell 11 месяцев назад +16

    As a kid I absolutely hated Western movies. Then one day my uncle forced me to watch this movie and I could not believe how good it was and also how long it was. This is the best western that has ever been made. I must have watched it a thousands times by now. It never gets old. In my opinion, it is the greatest storytelling of all time.

    • @markf3229
      @markf3229 19 дней назад

      Your childhood was rescued by Westerns

  • @NoLegalPlunder
    @NoLegalPlunder Год назад +69

    I’ll never forget long ago watching this for the first time and seeing that out-of-focus, almost alien-like figure, slowly walking towards the camera. This is, for me, the greatest movie ever made.

    • @rikk319
      @rikk319 Год назад +3

      I don't consider art a competition, so I don't have "best ever" choices...I just love certain movies more than others. This one is a joy to watch.

    • @PainInTheS
      @PainInTheS Год назад

      ​@@rikk319I also have a hard time with top whatever lists and what is nr. 1....so many good things.
      But in this case, movies, I really wholeheartedly put 'Once upon a time in the west' at nr. 1.

    • @HartmutJagerArt
      @HartmutJagerArt Год назад

      The matter of who or what is the "Greatest" movie is entirely a matter of individual likes and dislikes !

  • @anthonylynch4737
    @anthonylynch4737 Год назад +26

    Was lucky enough to see it on the big screen..So epic unbelievable !

    • @PainInTheS
      @PainInTheS Год назад

      Now that I would love....seeing it on the big screen....even after I must have seen it a 100 times.

    • @timwalker3157
      @timwalker3157 11 месяцев назад +1

      Big screener here. First run.

    • @anthonylynch4737
      @anthonylynch4737 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@PainInTheS Like seeing it for the first time all over again on the big screen..

    • @michaelmakes1225
      @michaelmakes1225 6 месяцев назад +1

      A few years ago,Brattle Theater,Harvard Square, ran it to a full house..the entire audience, despite most having seen it many times, was spellbound..when the train rolls into Sweetwater and Jill brings out the water,and the music swells as the end credits spin onto the screen,there wasn't a dry eye in the house.And a long standing ovation as the lights came up... powerful.

    • @anthonylynch4737
      @anthonylynch4737 6 месяцев назад

      ​​​@@michaelmakes1225 Greatest Realistic Western on the Big Screen Period..With Fonda as the Bad Guy..Incredible Acting !

  • @Sunbakedgoat
    @Sunbakedgoat 2 месяца назад +2

    I know I'm late, but this movie is a masterpiece.
    Good characters, Henry Fonda as a villain is magnificient.
    Good music.
    Good camera work.
    All coming together, in one awesome package.

  • @didierlambreyds
    @didierlambreyds Год назад +40

    I so completely agree with you. A real classic. Leone knew so well how to master the wide angle filming and the Morricone music. And Bronson and Fonda and Cardinale and Robarts. All amazing

  • @owatagi
    @owatagi Год назад +166

    I have watched this movie so many times I’ve lost count. Everything about it is brilliant. Every time I see it again I garner another nugget of the backstory. From the start when the dusters are so integral to the final gunfight when Frank positions himself to have the sun at his back, every scene is a masterpiece. Greatest western ever.

    • @ficheye00
      @ficheye00 Год назад +12

      Me too. I was reading about it a while back and read that the music was composed before the movie was shot. Sergio Leone had dinner with Ennio Morricone and he described the whole movie in detail over dinner and a few bottles of wine. He went home and wrote it out.

    • @marcomalo02
      @marcomalo02 Год назад +1

      Well, I don't understand. It is overacted, dubbed horribly, and amateurish. It is also too long. I've never been able to sit thru it.

    • @beyond1957
      @beyond1957 Год назад

      Reckon so my friends.

    • @blabla-rg7ky
      @blabla-rg7ky Год назад +13

      @@marcomalo02 when you'll get to our level of understanding you will understand the complexity of the human being. Until then, keep watching pew-pew-pew movies that only require big guns, big egos and big muscles. Nothing wrong with that, I enjoy those too sometimes :)

    • @marcomalo02
      @marcomalo02 Год назад +1

      @@blabla-rg7ky Of course. And always remember that the "p" in pseudo intellectual is silent.

  • @veli-pekkakultanen2353
    @veli-pekkakultanen2353 Год назад +4

    Those eyes. No other movie has captured the power of immense stare. With power to match.

  • @patricksee4170
    @patricksee4170 Год назад +42

    A true masterpiece, cast, music, storyline were ahead of its time. Especially, seeking Henry Fonda playing a bad guy.

    • @nathandodge665
      @nathandodge665 5 месяцев назад +1

      Not ahead of it's time. Just executed well

  • @tiffsaver
    @tiffsaver Год назад +67

    I remember the very first time I watched this film. It was after I got off of work at 3:30 in the morning, and I was exhausted. But once I saw Henry Fonda blow away the little kid, I was wide awake, and this incredible saga just never let go. That was 42-years ago...

    • @stevenveganightowl12
      @stevenveganightowl12 Год назад +2

      Who knew Henry Fonda was such a badass?, truly one of the great westerns of all time.

    • @tiffsaver
      @tiffsaver Год назад +5

      @@stevenveganightowl12
      And Claudia Cardinale... BREATHTAKING. One of the most beautiful women to ever hit the screen.

  • @smilergrogan9605
    @smilergrogan9605 Год назад +7

    Fonda does one of the greatest death scenes ever. It's perfect.

    • @stevemccann4166
      @stevemccann4166 2 месяца назад +2

      Could see realisation in his face when he remembered what he did before dying.

  • @ChrisM541
    @ChrisM541 Год назад +13

    What a true masterpiece of a film. The sheer presence both these legends display here is stunning.

  • @skykingimagery899
    @skykingimagery899 Год назад +9

    Epic movie. Surely one of the greatest of all time. You can't top Sergio and Ennio. The eyes. The sparse dialogue. Cinematography, musical scoring. It's all here.

  • @leftcoaster67
    @leftcoaster67 Год назад +18

    When Jill says "I hope you come back someday...." My heart melts then breaks. Harmonica just looks wistfully "Someday..."

  • @80neptune
    @80neptune Год назад +35

    I've watched this film about 30 times. One of my favorite movies. Henry Fonda played a hauntingly evil, yet mesmerizing character. Serigo Leone would zoom in on the eyes of the characters which was so effective!

    • @tonyb9735
      @tonyb9735 Год назад +1

      Good film, but pales next to The Good, The Bad & The Ugly for me. I preferred all the Man With No Name Westerns to this.

    • @johncrotti5103
      @johncrotti5103 Год назад +1

      Hey armonica !!!!

    • @saiffaiz
      @saiffaiz 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@tonyb9735There are two kinds of people in this world my friend,those who like TGTBTU and those who have no taste of cinema.

  • @robertfrye9621
    @robertfrye9621 Год назад +8

    Most people don't realize that Ennio Morricone wrote the music FIRST and Sergio Leone made the movie to fit the music. Impossible? Best western of all time.

  • @hahtos
    @hahtos Год назад +4

    GOAT of westerns for me. Clint if awesome, but Bronson in this movie with Fonda with that score, unbeatable.

  • @tbolin25
    @tbolin25 Год назад +30

    The two greatest shots in cinema history: 1. The Sweetwater crane at the beginning 2. The Monument Valley crane here at the end and both set to the rhythm of Maestro Morricone's music and even there does Maestro Leone use music as a character as it's Jill's theme that accompanies the early crane shot and Harmonica/Frank's theme that closes out the final confrontation/reveal. Simply incredible Cinema by the Masters.

  • @shifuzenichi5345
    @shifuzenichi5345 Год назад +6

    one of the greatest westerns or just one of the greatest films of all time.

  • @AbdulrahmanHammad
    @AbdulrahmanHammad Год назад +33

    The reveal at the end, breath-taking

  • @lex1945
    @lex1945 Год назад +1

    Watching this clip is goose bumps all over again..

  • @thra5herxb12s
    @thra5herxb12s Год назад +28

    These movies still haunt my soul every bit as much as they did when they first came out. Every single actor was perfect and Leonne and Morricone were simply the very best at their art. Will there ever be anything like this again.

    • @HartmutJagerArt
      @HartmutJagerArt Год назад +1

      - We do not have great movies anymore because all the great directors are either dead or have sold out to conglomerates (like George Lucas) who churn out movies like sausages ! - But, of course, a new Master Director may pop up unexpected at any time ! -
      Reply

    • @abehambino
      @abehambino Год назад

      Not likely!

    • @swansong007
      @swansong007 Год назад

      No I don’t think so. We must cherish this one cause there won’t be anymore I think.

    • @FritsKist
      @FritsKist 6 месяцев назад

      Count your blessings.

  • @igorwolkowsky6314
    @igorwolkowsky6314 Год назад +3

    Most beautiful movie ever. Talks in pictures as it was its mother tongue: flawlessly, perfectly, naturally.

  • @PainInTheS
    @PainInTheS Год назад +3

    Best movie ever!!!
    Just hearing the music gives me goosebumps already.
    Best movie ever!
    Best film score ever!
    Most beautiful woman (Claudia Cardinale) ever!
    I bawl every time at the end and I must have seen this movie a 100 times!

    • @HartmutJagerArt
      @HartmutJagerArt Год назад

      - The matter of who or what is the "BEST" movie is entirely a matter of individual likes and dislikes !

  • @ianworley8169
    @ianworley8169 11 месяцев назад +3

    That smile of Bronson's is the smile of someone who has waited a long, long time to avenge the murder of his father. Nothing on Earth could stop him.

    • @karl-heinzhuber5910
      @karl-heinzhuber5910 6 месяцев назад

      Its his brother. Keep your loving brother happy
      Frank says to the boy.

  • @lucasmazzi
    @lucasmazzi Год назад +4

    the music, the caracters, the drama, the feelings.... EPIC

  • @beyond1957
    @beyond1957 Год назад +6

    One man's sweet is anothers poison, this masterpiece gives you both.

  • @sonsofliberty75
    @sonsofliberty75 Год назад +50

    A perfect film in every way! Harmonica’s journey intertwined with Jill’s and Cheyenne’s is truly a masterpiece of storytelling. Morricone’s music is the fabric that the film is woven on; it carries the story. The harmonic’s purpose and meaning is hidden until Frank lies dying! My favorite western of all time. Why can’t we have movies like this now?

    • @stevejanowiak1982
      @stevejanowiak1982 Год назад +2

      Perpetual adolescence or the man/child syndrome is killing EVERYTHING culturally.

    • @HartmutJagerArt
      @HartmutJagerArt Год назад +1

      Indeed, Visual Mastery and Music perfectly woven together ! - We do not have great movies anymore because all the great directors are either dead or have sold out to conglomerates (like George Lucas) who churn out movies like sausages ! -

  • @jocec3283
    @jocec3283 Год назад +3

    Greatest soundtrack of all time.
    In my humble opinion...

    • @lorraineniece8813
      @lorraineniece8813 6 месяцев назад

      I liked the sound track of 2001 A Space Odyssey the most

  • @doca8792
    @doca8792 Год назад +21

    Hands down, one of the best films of all time.

  • @davidking4838
    @davidking4838 Год назад +17

    I would like to nominate the windmill in the opening scene for an honorary award. Yes, it's a great movie, great story - but that squeaking windmill is so damn memorable.

    • @sst6601
      @sst6601 Год назад +5

      that fly deserves it too

    • @stevenbelow2502
      @stevenbelow2502 Год назад

      I saw a documentary on this film. Apparently one of the hands told Sergio that he would lube that windmill so it wouldn’t be so noisy. Leone replied that if he did Leone would shoot him.

    • @evanr1784
      @evanr1784 Год назад

      Great opening scene if not one of the very best .
      I think Midnight Oil used the same windmill sound in the beginning of one of their songs

  • @rickdoehler502
    @rickdoehler502 Год назад +7

    Henry Fonda is amazing in this movie.
    An incredible western.

  • @janpost4764
    @janpost4764 Год назад +5

    This is one of the first movies my dad rented when we first got a vcr/. I remember it had 2 tapes in the case....And then when the family scene came on he was like...ohoh might not be the movie for him....(I must have been 7 or so) . I just recently saw it again. and was so exited. What a Masterpiece...and the music! everyone having their own sound track. I raised a glass to my dad, who unfortunately passed away when I was 14. still feel like we shared an experience when I watched it again.

  • @khankrum1
    @khankrum1 Год назад +30

    Fonda displaying what a real Star is all about!

  • @ThriftShopHustler
    @ThriftShopHustler Год назад +13

    Ive seen 100 westerns and this is by far the best one.

    • @HartmutJagerArt
      @HartmutJagerArt Год назад +1

      The matter of who or what is the "GREATEST " movie is entirely a matter of individual likes and dislikes !

  • @donaldwhittaker7987
    @donaldwhittaker7987 Год назад +4

    Everything about this movie is perfect

  • @showingYOUtheworld
    @showingYOUtheworld Год назад +3

    No words no words NO WORDS !
    EPIC and LEGENDARY movie !
    A true MASTERPIECE ‼️‼️‼️

  • @Uwelein40
    @Uwelein40 Год назад +9

    Ein Klassiker für die Ewigkeit 🥰👍

  • @p.d8423
    @p.d8423 Год назад +3

    Facial close-ups told a great piece of the story. Plus the music -
    Never been duplicated since !
    MASTERPIECE.

  • @maximusaugustus6823
    @maximusaugustus6823 Год назад +13

    It might be weird to say it but I watched this movie 50 years ago (100 times more after that) and had a lifelong impact on me.

    • @HartmutJagerArt
      @HartmutJagerArt Год назад

      Top class masterpieces (of any kind) never age ! Only pale copies of them do !

  • @donpmc
    @donpmc Год назад +28

    Charles Bronson's smile says a lot.

  • @DRSTRANGELOVEIN
    @DRSTRANGELOVEIN Год назад +88

    “Keep your loving brother happy…”
    I was a kid myself when I first saw this movie and I still remember the vile hatred that welled within me at this scene. I might’ve actually muttered “you bastard…” once I realized what was happening. His fall is still one of the most satisfying defeats in cinema to me.

    • @juliapigworthy
      @juliapigworthy Год назад

      Just remember that feeling when the lockdowners face their judgement day.. they slow-motion killed our societies with the same sadism as Frank killed his brother, although most people haven't realised it yet.

    • @muhsinalhameed6408
      @muhsinalhameed6408 Год назад +3

      same here.

    • @DavidMyrmidon
      @DavidMyrmidon Год назад +4

      I think I was against him The Moment he Shot that kid in The Beginning. I was like, "Oh. He's one of THOSE dudes."
      "No Women No Kids." ~ The Rules

    • @leftcoaster67
      @leftcoaster67 Год назад +4

      When you watch the last gunfight. You see a certain satisfaction on Bronson's face, like he knows redemption is at hand. Then the flashback you see his face change, like he remembers why he wants revenge. Then he goes into angel of death mode. Absolutely brilliant.

    • @PainInTheS
      @PainInTheS Год назад +4

      Exactly this! Tears in the eyes with that revelation and a swelling hatred for the guy that killed your brother....it feels as if your own brother was killed and you want revenge, you want to see that a-hole dead!
      Masterfully storytelling...just perfection.
      And I love that moment of recognition in Fonda's eyes in his last seconds, when he finally realizes who Harmonica is. It may sound like nothing, but it's brilliant acting.

  • @oobrocks
    @oobrocks Год назад +96

    The best composer in film history was Ennio Morricone; iconic is an understatement

  • @ericrogal995
    @ericrogal995 Год назад +3

    This is movie making. It is involved and clever in how it communicates to the viewer.
    This is great fun for all who watch!!
    Old, young, everyone! True art for the eyes and ears!

  • @gordonginn1389
    @gordonginn1389 Год назад +24

    I've watched this movie a hundred times and never get tired of it best action movie there is

  • @bertinrow
    @bertinrow Год назад +7

    Greatest Western I've ever seen and I think one of the best movies ever made

    • @HartmutJagerArt
      @HartmutJagerArt Год назад +1

      - The matter of who or what is the "GREATEST " movie is entirely a matter of individual likes and dislikes !

  • @charlycolis9811
    @charlycolis9811 Год назад +3

    One of my favorite movies of all time - the script alone is nearly perfect!! I was blown away when I once read that Bertolucci and Dario Argento helped writing it as young men.. incredible!!!

  • @TheSoulchilde
    @TheSoulchilde Год назад +2

    It was amazing to see Henry Fonda play the villian

  • @nagytamasgabor2167
    @nagytamasgabor2167 Год назад +5

    Perfect....music and film. Forever.

  • @kevinrichardson6347
    @kevinrichardson6347 6 месяцев назад +2

    but surely"You brought two too many,must be the best fearsome line ever"

  • @iansullivan8167
    @iansullivan8167 Год назад +22

    Ten out of ten. Exceptional movie. Up there with Enter the Dragon and For a Few Dollars More. These movies are unique and moving

    • @susanneg2824
      @susanneg2824 Год назад +1

      @@paulhicks6667 That's true, but still, it's Bruce Lee!!!! You have to watch for the grace of his athletic artistry!

    • @rikk319
      @rikk319 Год назад +1

      @@paulhicks6667 Everyone has their own reasons for loving a film, song, book, or artwork.

    • @HartmutJagerArt
      @HartmutJagerArt Год назад

      'Enter the Dragon' was a mere average karate movie - and should not even be mentioned as being in the same Legue as 'Once up a Time in the West' ! -

    • @iansullivan8167
      @iansullivan8167 Год назад +1

      The skill and art involved in creating Enter the Dragon was intense and painstaking. The fights were full contact and with exact precision. The movie took 18 months to complete. It is an epic.

  • @Malrottian
    @Malrottian Год назад +37

    Always loved the brother's refusal to let him be responsible, even under duress, for his death. Went out on his own terms.

    • @mrinalghosh3005
      @mrinalghosh3005 Год назад +4

      Agree. It was only after watching the movie a few times did I realize that his brother actually kicks off the kid to hang himself.

    • @fitless
      @fitless Год назад +1

      ​@@mrinalghosh3005are you serious? It is so obvious... How can you not see it?! 😮

    • @leftcoaster67
      @leftcoaster67 Год назад +1

      That's what brothers do.

    • @PainInTheS
      @PainInTheS Год назад +2

      Has it ever been determined what he says in that scene......in my mind, before he kicks his brother away, it's him saying 'Hijo de puta' to Frank.

    • @antoniosilvestro9045
      @antoniosilvestro9045 10 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@leftcoaster67a real brother gets justice for his family and dead brother and that is what Harmonica did. Its better than charging the taxpayers to bang up murdering filth.

  • @peterkelsey5841
    @peterkelsey5841 Год назад +8

    The Greatest Western ever ! Cast, Music, Plot, Cinematography and finale!

    • @HartmutJagerArt
      @HartmutJagerArt Год назад

      - The matter of who or what is the "GREATEST " movie is entirely a matter of individual likes and dislikes !

    • @peterkelsey5841
      @peterkelsey5841 Год назад

      @HartmutJagerArt Exactly, and as an individual and in my opinion this Western is.

  • @ronjr831
    @ronjr831 Год назад +1

    One of my favorite movies of all time. I might watch it again.

  • @caramba10
    @caramba10 Год назад +5

    What a lot of younger viewers are probably unaware of is the handsome Henry Fonda with those piercing blue eyes usually played good guys. So when the camera panned around to first show his face audiences were stunned - it was a big deal back then. It is really an operatic Western where each character is introduced with their own theme.

  • @tcsl7764
    @tcsl7764 Год назад +6

    That final shootout could easily be the best scene in the history of film.

    • @LesAustin
      @LesAustin 2 месяца назад

      Fonda had to slow down so Bronson could beat him!

  • @myhandlehasbeenmishandled
    @myhandlehasbeenmishandled Год назад +5

    Beautiful music. Camera work is unbelievable.

  • @Baltimoreed
    @Baltimoreed Год назад +3

    I’ve listened to the soundtrack by the Danish National Symphony more than I’ve watched the film and truly enjoy them both. This, The Professionals and The Wild Bunch are my favorite westerns.

  • @djnkosi
    @djnkosi Год назад +2

    Cold cold cold!! What a classic! 👍🏽

  • @mokhtarmehdi7737
    @mokhtarmehdi7737 Год назад +4

    no body can do better. It's the summum of art. 20/10

  • @samtowe9154
    @samtowe9154 Год назад +82

    Best Western of ALL TIME…!!!!

    • @mansurik1922
      @mansurik1922 Год назад +1

      After this movie , "How the west was won !" movie was made by Paramount pictures but never released !!

    • @MrPedulla
      @MrPedulla Год назад +2

      Absolutely!

    • @jurtimmermans1486
      @jurtimmermans1486 Год назад +1

      The only real film ever made

    • @JeverHuelse
      @JeverHuelse Год назад

      So true!

    • @philippemoi8082
      @philippemoi8082 Год назад +2

      Oh yes ! 👍🏼 great movie , great actors , great music !

  • @jonarthur3569
    @jonarthur3569 Год назад +19

    Agreed, this movie was great and way overlooked by the academy!

  • @raincoatriver
    @raincoatriver Год назад +3

    Leone/Morricone at the height of their magical powers. My favorite film of all time.

  • @nem447
    @nem447 Год назад +12

    I've never understood why so many critics and lists rank _'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'_ above this one.

    • @redsabreanakin
      @redsabreanakin Год назад +4

      Right? Sorry as much as I love good,bad, ugly and Clint? Its not even close.

    • @nem447
      @nem447 Год назад +3

      Ikr

    • @chrisb3976
      @chrisb3976 6 месяцев назад +2

      They're all ranked at #1 in my book. You have to remember this is when Hollywood made actual movies and they were creative with great writing.

    • @letsgobrandon6281
      @letsgobrandon6281 5 месяцев назад +1

      Tgtbatu is twice as good

    • @PolishGod1234
      @PolishGod1234 2 месяца назад

      I still think The Good the Bad and the Ugly is slightly better. And the reason for that is Eli Wallach as Tuco Ramirez - insanely entertaining character.

  • @abehambino
    @abehambino Год назад +2

    You see, in writing we learn the difference between showing and telling. The same rules apply to visual media as well. On paper, this scene is as simple as “two men walk behind the building, at each other intensely for awhile, and both draw their guns to fire”. Simple set up, but infinitely more beautiful when we are SHOWN! This a ten minute climax to a three hour film and in theory it really is that simplistic, immortalized though in its EXECUTION!

  • @assisdomingos8527
    @assisdomingos8527 Год назад +12

    Charles and Henry twos legends

  • @MoeThantTin
    @MoeThantTin Год назад +26

    Ennio Morricone’s music score perfected the masterpiece.

  • @dwmzmm
    @dwmzmm Год назад +14

    Truly a classic western epic production!

  • @ccadelli
    @ccadelli Год назад +2

    Only The Good, The Bad and The Ugly even comes close!! Best Western hands down!!!!

  • @ericcoyle3520
    @ericcoyle3520 Год назад +3

    Still waiting for a better film of any genre to be made. For me this is the greatest film of all time.

  • @berenlevia8486
    @berenlevia8486 Год назад +3

    one of the best westerns of all time , this is a superior form of acting when the plot is simple there is very little but effective dialog and letting the facial expressions and eyes do the talking

  • @edigabrieli7864
    @edigabrieli7864 Год назад +1

    I saw it when it first came out in the 60's and right away it become my favorite western movie and it remain so to this day.

    • @HartmutJagerArt
      @HartmutJagerArt Год назад +2

      Yes, it is unbelievable that it came out in the 60's and is now as brilliant as ever !
      (especially if compared to the rubbish, over-cooked 'action' movies of today!)

  • @smilergrogan9605
    @smilergrogan9605 Год назад +4

    One of the greatest dialogue exchanges in film history; Harmonica: "Did you bring a horse for me? Jack Elam: "Looks like we're shy one horse." Harmonica: "No, you brought two too many..." Man that must have been a great movie set to be on. The talent. The stories. The drinking. The fun. It brought back the Duster as fashionable too.

    • @SwingingInTheHood
      @SwingingInTheHood Год назад +1

      Followed by the change of expressions on their faces when they hear him say it. Unforgettable stuff.

    • @smilergrogan9605
      @smilergrogan9605 Год назад

      @SwingingInTheHood Leone's cinematographer was a master of the close-up and desperate eyes. Bronson's face was a landscape in itself.

  • @vladislav3
    @vladislav3 Год назад +2

    Greatest film ever made. Easily the greatest western ever made.

  • @sanjaychatterjee8010
    @sanjaychatterjee8010 Год назад +6

    Though late--- these were & are still iconic action movies of all times-- We in our childhood used to dream such heroic(if I could have been) feelings while watching in cinemas, in those golden days of ours.

  • @barneysriver
    @barneysriver Год назад +1

    One of my favourite movies all time! Watched it many, many times and still watch it! Truely a Classic!!!😉😎🍻🥃

  • @akinsamuel2007
    @akinsamuel2007 Год назад +24

    1968 was arguably the greatest year for movies. In addition to Once Upon a Time in the West, there was The Thomas Crown Affair, Planet of the Apes, Rosemarys Baby and 2001 A Space Odessey.

    • @wowbobwow37
      @wowbobwow37 Год назад +3

      1962 was pretty good
      Lawrence of Arabia
      To Kill A Mockingbird
      The Miracle Worker
      The Manchurian Candidate
      Long Days Journey Into Night
      Days of Wine and Roses

    • @stlcardsuck
      @stlcardsuck 19 дней назад

      Sorry but 1939 was the Greatest year in film history, Gone with the Wind, Wizard of Oz, and many others not to mention Stagecoach!!!