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00:00When I was asked what the difference is between Ford's vision of seeing and mine,
00:07I replied that Ford's characters, they are so happy, they are so content,
00:12but when they open the window, they look towards the future, the great open future.
00:18My characters, when you open the window, you only have the fear of receiving a bullet between the eyes.
00:23That's the difference in hearing. And maybe Ford, as he was very optimistic, I'm very pessimistic.
00:40Pessimism. This is how Sergio Leone defines his cinema. And how can we contradict him?
00:46We feel it through the 7 films he made, the way he sets up his story,
00:50guided by the violence, the nuance of these characters, who can just as easily do good
00:54such as not caring about the suffering around them, or even using it to make a profit.
00:59However, the film that I am going to discuss today, beyond being one of the most important works of the 7th art,
01:04is also and undoubtedly the director's most optimistic film.
01:08Always nuanced and with its share of violence, but which nevertheless brings a form of hope to its story.
01:13After the success of the Dollar Trilogy, Sergio Leone no longer saw the point of making another western.
01:20He wants to move on and starts working on his lifelong project,
01:24the adaptation of the novel The Hoods, which would later be known as Once Upon a Time in America.
01:29However, Paramount wants to continue capitalizing on the Italian director's recent successes
01:33and makes him an offer he can't refuse to start work on a new western,
01:37namely a very generous envelope and the opportunity to work with Henry Fonda, one of his favorite actors.
01:43Leone therefore surrounded himself with the young Bernardo Bertolucci and Dario Argento to write the script for Once Upon a Time in the West.
01:50The film is the first in a new trilogy that chronicles the rise and fall of the United States of America.
01:54and which was followed by Once Upon a Time in Revolution in 1971 and Once Upon a Time in America in 1984, the director's last film.
02:03The film takes the opposite approach to Leone's previous westerns,
02:05notably through the treatment of the characters which he develops here much more than in his previous films.
02:10The sets are also different, the film is shot in Rome for the interiors,
02:14in Spain for the exteriors, but especially in the mythical Monument of Valley,
02:18a place inseparable from American westerns which here takes on a new lease of life through the camera of the Italian director.
02:23But what strikes me most, and many others, is Once Upon a Time in the West,
02:27This is the music of the New Morricon.
02:29Because if music is extremely important in the western genre, here we can say that it is the heart of it.
02:34The effectiveness of the collaboration between Leone and Morricon is no longer approved.
02:37She gave cinema some of its finest moments.
02:40And with Once Upon a Time in the West, the composer will surpass himself.
02:43Each main character has the right to their own theme.
02:46Heroic and melancholic for Harmonica,
02:48shrill and disturbing for Frank,
02:50jovial for Cheyenne,
02:51and melodious for Jill.
02:52The different themes of the film are composed before filming,
02:55which allows Sergio Leone to synchronize the music with his staging,
02:58while providing more immersion to the different actors during the filming of the scenes.
03:02We feel that through each sequence, the music becomes one with the image.
03:05Jill's melody perfectly accompanies the moving and crane shots.
03:09Cheyenne's theme, however, takes a break to highlight a gag specific to the character.
03:13The main theme, that of Harmonica,
03:15is the most used but above all the most anchored in the script
03:18since it is both intra and extra-diegetic.
03:21Which means it will be added over a scene
03:23and therefore be external to the plot,
03:25or on the contrary be played by the protagonist
03:27and therefore exist in the universe of the film.
03:28This theme generally announces the arrival of Harmonica,
03:31marks his presence in a scene
03:32but above all constitutes the basis of his duality with Frank.
03:35When the revelation is made,
03:37it becomes a sound of suffering
03:38coming from the object that started it all,
03:40a harmonica that the protagonist will return to his enemy
03:43like coin in his own coin,
03:44the symbol of revenge.
03:50Despite the omnipresent place of Morricone's music,
03:53the latter would later admit that his best work on the film,
03:56This is when the music is not playing and natural sounds are added.
03:59The sound design he puts in place during the introduction,
04:02with this wheel turning,
04:03the fly,
04:04the rifle,
04:05the train,
04:05the telegram,
04:06is for him his best contribution to this work.
04:09Because yes,
04:09the silences will also allow the film to enjoy an atmosphere
04:12and a unique rhythm,
04:13sensory
04:14and extremely pleasant
04:15for those who appreciate this kind of staging.
04:18Let's talk about the staging,
04:19because Leon here is at the height of his art
04:21and masters his film like no other.
04:23The first hour is extremely effective,
04:25strings together breathtaking sequences
04:27and familiarizes us with characters that we want to love,
04:30but also to hate.
04:31The camera movements are one of the film's strengths.
04:33How not to mention the crane plan?
04:34which allows us to discover the city under construction,
04:36the off-ground tracking shot
04:38where we follow Frank moving forward in the train in the background,
04:40while discovering the massacre that happened in the foreground.
04:43And of course,
04:44this epic duel,
04:45this game of gaze in movement between Frank and Harmonica,
04:48and this final revelation in flashback
04:49where we finally understand the character's motivations,
04:52which makes the outcomes all the more satisfying.
04:54NOW,
04:55what for me is the strength of Sergio Leone's cinema,
04:57This is how the filmmaker manages to introduce us to his universe.
05:00and its characters.
Commentaires
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  • Kikoo D. Boomil y a 3 mois
    Il faut parler plus de ce film
  • sousou 616il y a 3 mois
    Pas le plus grand film pour moi
  • Matthias Amonail y a 3 mois
    je vais mettre ça sur ma watch liste letter box alors
  • Le Kikoo Showil y a 3 mois
    tout le monde devrait l’avoir vu au moins une fois
  • Leraphil y a 3 mois
    Un excellent film
  • Hugo_Verseil y a 3 mois
    C’est lourd, franchement cool
  • COFFEE BREAK GEEKil y a 3 mois
    J’aime bien ce format
  • Chez Mouskoil y a 3 mois
    Continue, format mec, je suis trop fan
  • Nayyil y a 3 mois
    très sympa ce format comme toujours
  • Diiva’s Mood 🍿📺il y a 3 mois
    Un film vraiment culte !!!
  • JKHRIS.il y a 3 mois
    Quel film culte hein
  • Lavisdebenil y a 3 mois
    Il était une fois dans l’Ouest, c’est clairement un des classiques du cinéma, et comme je suis fan de western, je connais forcément
  • Grourmayil y a 3 mois
    Un grand classique du cinéma oui
  • Atrandosil y a 3 mois
    Oh le nouveau banger la
  • Hatimil y a 3 mois
    Moi perso j’ai jamais vu ce film
  • Starkuss.il y a 3 mois
    Je savais même pas que Leone parlait français.
  • Spider-Koda 🕷il y a 3 mois
    Super vidéo, cultissime ce film
  • Kratos et Joil y a 3 mois
    Un film culte qui a marqué le cinéma !
  • DoisJeLeVoiril y a 3 mois
    ce genre de film culte que quand tu l'a pas vu tu ose pas le dire lol
  • JordanUniverseil y a 3 mois
    Quel film culte 🤣
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