A History in Motion Pictures - Sergio Leone

Learn all about Sergio Leone's career!
Research comes from movie commentaries, wikipedia, documentaries, and interviews.

[@g.d1083]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly did have a set time period: The Civil War.

[@hschenck3394]

Even Once Upon a time in the west had a set time period

[@LouisGedo]

*Long Live Tuco!* ..........the greatest Western character ever created

[@alfonsos.7425]

It's a shame Leone never received a honorary Oscar

[@zachmorley158]

Who really cares, tbh. Award shows are just a publicity stunt anyways. The real reward is having an impact on the culture. When everyday people are watching you, quoting you, influenced and moved by you, dressing up as your characters on Halloween -that is the greatest award of them all.

[@nicholasnicou2598]

'Once upon a time in America' is an absolute masterwork, "I think it's one of the greatest movies ever made" said James Woods "and I wish I wasn't in it so I could say that more fervently". Scorsese has often said that 'Once Upon a Time in the West' and 'Once Upon a Time in America' are cinematic masterpieces. Director James Cameron was once asked to compare 'The Godfather' vs 'Once Upon a Time in America' and he said "one is a movie, the other is cinema".

[@GreatWestern175]

Once you had Leone and Morricone, you were in for something very special.

[@swoxfordmovies41]

Once upon a time in America is a masterpiece.

[@travisgray8376]

Yes it's brilliant

[@franklingenao1478]

What’s crazy it was a 6 hour film and the studio cut it down to 3 which really had Leone upset as that’s how he envisioned it. Imagined had we seen the original cut.

[@simonemancuso3576]

Once Upon a time in the west Is the real masterpiece

[@eltoneagle8136]

​@@simonemancuso3576Agreed 👍

[@sergiosuraci7306]

"Duck you,sucker" in Italy was released as "Giù la Testa" which literally means "Head Down/get cover" .

[@KebabMusicLtd]

“Unfortunately, Leone’s future is not so bright after this”… “no one took notice til later.” You mean, among American audiences? Leone was revered in Europe and amongst many of those American actors he had worked with. It was on the strength of their opinion of him that actors such as Eli Wallach, Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, James Coburn agreed to work with him and all said great things about him etc… Kirk Douglas wanted the part of Cheyenne in OUATITW John Carpenter had ‘Jill’s Theme’ played at his wedding In Paris, France, the uncut version of Once Upon A Time… West was shown continually in one theatre for two years. Once Upon A Time… West was also the last film on which Leone acted as full-time director. His later films were edited in the USA by their distributors which is why they failed. You have to remember that American audiences expected every film to be like ‘Herbie Rides Again.’ Or to have ‘box-office’ actors in the starring roles. I had never heard of ‘Duck You Sucker.’ Only when you used the title ‘A Fistful Of Dynamite’ could I understood what you were talking about. I always felt that each of Leone’s films (Dollars and Once Upon) could have been regarded as part of a Organon as they each feature an aspect of America during a different era (even though this is seen from a European perspective).

[@jovanbregu2057]

A Master of cinema..Rip Maestro..one of the greatest ever lived

[@lesblack8036]

Some of the best movies ever made in the last 2 weeks I'v watch 3 of his movies.

[@MajorDenisBloodnok]

Once upon a time in the West was cut for its US realise but the movie was shown in Europe the way Leone wanted it to be. And it was a huge success, especially in France where the movie is today ranked the 7th most successful movie in the French box office history (it only counts the first exploitation of the movie).

[@pcdubya]

Nice explanation and yes his visuals and music are unforgettable, the music at 2:15 is ingrained in my mind from watching this over 40 years ago with my Dad. I just watched "Duck you Sucker" the other day and was telling someone about his use of extreme close ups, like of the mouth's talking in the stagecoach scene with Steiger, genius.

[@d.n.3796]

Um dos maiores cineasta de todos os tempos . Alguém deve saber porque não ganhou nenhum Óscar prêmio + que merecido . Ganhou o Globo de Ouro . Deu vida nova nos filmes de Faroeste , escolheu os melhores Atores da época , as melhores Trilhas Sonoras . Recusou Dirigir o filme "O Poderoso Chefão" , por estar trabalhando no 'Era uma vez no Oeste" . Mas tem que se levar em conta que o Óscar , deixou de ser um prêmio tão cobiçado , muitos mestres do cinema não ganharam (injustamente) e muita gente ganhou sem *merecer* : *Stallone* , *Travolta* , *Julia Roberts* *Nicolas Cage* , (se não fosse sobrinho de Copolla) nem ator seria . Mas os amantes da 7a° Arte , sabem do seu merecimento . 🌷

[@marianisport]

Eterni i suoi film

[@JanisTreijs]

Enjoyed the video, thanks!

[@willalwaystelehandler8450]

Once open a time in the west pure master piece and fist full of dynamite, class, it's got everything 🎥📽️

[@raulroy1man490]

Sergio leone, is a director, of Legend ,of, Cowboys, I love is move

[@AndrewClark4MarkRacing]

Excellent commentary thanks

[@DEEPVIBEVIDEOS1701]

once upon a time in america is the most beautiful cinematogrophy of all time

[@cirovallone6485]

SE fosse stato americano avrebbe fatto la collezione di Oscar.

[@nemesisvgallery]

Kubrick, Hitchcock erano americani... Leone non è l'unico genio a non aver vinto l'Oscar..

[@cirovallone889]

@@nemesisvgallery infatti anche loro l'avrebbero meritato. Sono i miei tre registi preferiti.

[@luigiziletti1766]

@@nemesisvgallery Hitchcock in realtà era inglese. Detto ciò, non cambia il fatto che una statuina d’oro non condiziona quello che questi geni erano

[@Giuseppee62]

Gli americani pensano, che bisogna passare dai loro Oscar per essere considerati dal cinema mondiale. Fortuna che non è così. Si metano il cuore in pace, è scendano dal piedistallo.

[@nemopropheta2313]

@@nemesisvgallery A me risulta fossero inglesi.

[@RyanJohnsonD]

When did you mention his health? Where in the timeline?

[@edgepresentschannel]

Ryan Johnson I actually didn't talk about his health in this video. I just wanted to talk about his movies. Plus, I don't know much about his health.

[@sreejasreeja8554]

Nice

[@luigipati3815]

Yojimbo was, in real life, none other than legendary samurai Musashi.

[@MorphingReality]

\well done :)

[@MegaAndy93]

The movie that would set his film syle would be For A Few Dollars More since almost shot for shot Fistful Of Dollars would be the exact same as Yojimbo

[@adilkamli2436]

seriously, leone is passing missunderstanding maybe becaus of his political criticise opinions. duration of moovies must not be a probleme, after all,no one can put a doubt about genious of film maker, even music of morricone. it's like that. leone makes the best ever moovies in history may be. he deserve to have an international price or trophee or any other consecretion in his name. to be a stranger is very tough .but maybe a reason to make something good and different against all odds.

[@MrCallmedaveg]

Leone's future was not as bright after his first trilogy? Had to stop watching this video at 4:25

[@edgepresentschannel]

His later movies were revered in hindsight, unfortunately. When they were released, the studios cut out a lot of what he was trying to do. We all love those movies now, because of the recent DVDs and Blu Rays that have the director's cut that was more close to his vision.

[@Luca-bv5ic]

Uh... What? Once Upon a Time in the West is probably his best movie

[@oddleoo]

@@edgepresentschannel you speak from a point of view of US distribution, but in Europe his films remained in the version that Leone had conceived from the beginning and they immediately had a great success!