00:00Knowing how to start your film well is an art, and Leon has mastered it to perfection.
00:04In A Fistful of Dollars, the main character is revealed in all his aspects in the space of 15 minutes.
00:09We discover a solitary, greedy, arrogant, but incredibly classy man,
00:14who knows how to defend himself and whose motivations are not geared towards gain.
00:17And we discover and understand all this with almost no dialogue.
00:22And for a Few Dollars More, this time introduces us to two characters, one after the other,
00:33in order to emphasize their differences and initiate the future duality.
00:37When one is meticulous, diligent in his mission, discreet, the other is much more blunt, arrogant, and a smooth talker.
00:44From there, the film holds us, and we only wait for one thing, the confrontation between the two which will naturally transform into a partnership,
00:50because the viewer has learned to love these two characters.
00:53In The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, we move on to three characters,
00:56which are presented to us through very distinct archetypes, even to the point of displaying them on screen.
01:01We then know that destiny will inevitably bring them together through a common quest,
01:04hence the emphasis on the gap that separates them in terms of development,
01:07because the viewer will have to make a choice, who will emerge victorious from this three-way battle?
01:11And it is this question that forms the foundations of the story.
01:14A clever way of introducing different important characters and which will be reused over and over again in current Hollywood productions,
01:20and very often without grasping its meaning and effectiveness.
01:23Leon is therefore a master in the art of the introduction, and it is in Once Upon a Time in the West that he will surpass himself.
01:28For nearly 15 minutes, we will witness what the western never shows.
01:32The silence of the Wild West and the condition of the antagonists, who when they are not confronted with violence, suffer from mortal boredom.
01:38This endless wait underlines the emptiness of their existence, which basically boils down to killing and fighting insects.
01:45But this moment suspended in time will above all accentuate a palpable tension, because we know that they are not there by chance, and that blood will flow.
01:52It is from there that Harmonica makes itself heard, arriving like a mirage, a white knight ready to do battle.
01:57The character will demonstrate his speed and take out the three cowboys, but also his vulnerability, since he is injured in the battle.
02:04This introduction is followed by another introduction, that of the antagonist, which is just as impactful and which underlines the violence and inhumanity of the character,
02:12but I'll leave you the honor of listening to Henry Fonda tell it.
02:15My first scene in the film, before you see me, you see a very happy family, a very happy family, a father and three children, a 16-year-old girl, an 18-year-old girl, a 9-year-old girl.
02:30And in the middle of this happy, there is a film of an off-screen film, and the girl is dead, just like that.
02:39And the father sees himself like that, and there's a film of a film, and he's dead.
02:44And the sound, which is in mijnificationité in a grandêuque車 yap места, for 9 years to see, we will be to see his mark, he begins to sicurée and he sees the ar
02:59aiming at them.
03:00But the little 9 year old, he comes into the house with two jugs and he is wonderful, onun jump and jump, and jump and jump and jump, and jump,
03:07and we lean, and we direct it, from the camera angle there two cats, five chi!!
03:11The hominus figures come, long cloaks like this, broad brimmed hats like this, unidentifiable from a distance, all with rifles in their hands, and they walk from, you know, converging like this very slowly, and then the camera goes in back of one of the characters, as he comes forward in the foreground, is the nine-year-old boy standing there, absolutely petrified.
03:33Then the boy standing there, and the guy here next to me says, because we haven't killed the whole family, obviously, now, and he says, what are we going to do now, Frank?
03:42My name is Frank, and I sort of spit a little tobacco out and look at him, and I say, you call me by name, and turn back to the boy, and I shoot the little boy.
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