Once Upon a Time in America

Director: Sergio Leone

Writer: Harry Grey,Leonardo Benvenuti,Piero De Bernardi

Countries of origin: Italy, United States

Language: English, Italian, French, Yiddish, Hebrew

Release date: June 1, 1984

Runtime: 3h 49min

Sound mix: Mono, Dolby Digital

Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1

Also known as: Bilo je nekoč v Ameriki

"Once Upon a Time in America" is a feature film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Robert De Niro , James Woods , Elizabeth McGovern , Tuesday Weld and others.

With the Jewish community in New York City as the background, the film tells the story of the protagonist "Noodles" growing from an ignorant boy to a gangster, and also shows the history of the gang in the United States from the 1920s to the 1960s. In February 1984, the film was released in the United States. In 1985, the film won the 8th Japan Akademi Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and other awards .

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By Clement 2022-04-23 07:01:15

Noodles... I slipped.

When director Sergio Leone's brother-in-law introduced him to "The Hoods," an autobiographical novel about New York's Jewish gangsters, he immediately thought it was a good point of view to express a European's view of America in order to complete his "The Hoods." American Trilogy. However, I didn’t expect that good things would come and go. It took nearly ten years to fight for the right to adapt the novel. After that, a total of 6 screenwriters, including the director himself, revised the...
By Sarina 2022-04-23 07:01:15

deceive and deceive

When the self-blaming old Mai Da disappeared into the stirring of the garbage truck, the aged Noodle's complexion became a little blank. At this moment, his face that has suffered from vicissitudes of life is being illuminated more clearly and clearly by a flashlight in the passing young people's motorcade, and his eyes reach the infinite distance with the backs of the young people. Finally, the eyes returned to the self-"I am old".

Light and shadow are the materials of time, and...
By Rasheed 2022-04-23 07:01:15

Once Upon a Time in America Film Review (1) Plot Summary

This is actually a better gangster movie than The Godfather trilogy.
Excluding plot factors first, any movie in the "Once upon a Time in America" and "The Godfather" trilogy is more than two and a half hours long, and the theatrical version of Once upon a Time in America reaches three and a half hours. Twenty-eight minutes an hour. Neither film adopts the fast-paced narrative style of the storm: directors back then had more sculptural power than today's directors, using loops and...
By Merle 2022-04-23 07:01:15

I'm just reposting it for myself

When sorting out the clippings of the movie pictures in the early years, I turned to Elizabeth Taylor in "Lacey the Dog" (1945 version). At the age of 12, she exuded a kind of innocent beauty, and then, at the age of 12, she also had Jennifer Connelly, who has performed well and was known as "Little Taylor", came to mind, playing the young Daisy in the 1984 film "Once Upon a Time in America". Bora, the scene where she practiced her dance alone in the warehouse, is an eternal image that many...
By Cheyenne 2022-04-23 07:01:15

The four-hour full version of "The Four Seas Brothers"

After reading Mafia Brothers aka America's Past, it's really half of the classics, and then it's gone. When writing the script, you should consider the length of the film. This kind of epic film, looking back on the infinite beauty of youth for many years, is now only melancholy. I feel that the structure and soundtrack were later borrowed to make a new paradise that is not epic at all. The common point is that the second half of the film was cut miserably.

The previous opening is the...

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By Andres 2023-09-29 09:43:24

I hate all the movies and literature that cleans up hooligans, etc. hooligans are hooligans, those who applaud will not be sheltered, but ordinary people who are killed at will on the streets. . The three views in this film are extremely wrong, and the uglifying imagination of China reached a disgusting level in 1984, making people think that this is an 1884...
By Conner 2023-09-15 08:31:32

I always felt that it was an obligation to watch the extended version plus 25 minutes of beauty on the big screen. I didn't see how I could be worthy of Leonne, who died because of this film, and how dare I say I love movies. When I watched the street walking around 1:00 am, I deeply realized that the more than four hours in the studio just now was a reunion through time and dimension. As if the dance, the bridge, the swirling music, the feeling of looking back, everything seems to have...
By Trycia 2023-08-08 16:02:34

Was fooled back then. It is now almost certain to be the culmination of the worst male narratives. Each of the men in it is disgusting. The so-called legend is nothing more than a greedy lust for power and a hymn of cruelty to others, and then treats women as trophies like money and power. It's still tragic, and it's still reminiscent. Hurry up and bury it underground to rot. A plate of brightly colored shit is shit after all, and at the heart of this movie is a long rape. These dog things...
By Enid 2023-08-04 03:06:19

Rewatch the Director's Cut at HKIFF in 2015. It is too promiscuous, and the rhythm is completely out of control. The children's performance is very fake, it is an overrated...
By Telly 2023-07-23 13:45:37

Watching the restored 4K version of Once Upon a Time in America on the big screen was my happiest year in...

Movie quotes

Young Max: From here on, we establish the shared funds of the gang. They belong to all of us together, and to none of us alone. And we solemnly swear to put in 50 per cent of everything we make. Agreed?

Young Noodles, Young Cockeye, Young Patsy, Dominic: Agreed.

Dominic: I wanna take another peek!
[in 1931, Noodles meets Deborah]

Deborah Gelly: Aren't you going to say hello?

Noodles: Hello.

[Moe cues a band to play the "Amapola" tune]

Noodles: Your brother's a real friend. He's a romantic. Max tell you I was getting out today?

Deborah Gelly: Max? No.

Noodles: You remembered yourself?

Deborah Gelly: No, Moe, it's always Moe.

Noodles: Yeah. You weren't counting the days?

Deborah Gelly: Of course I was. 4344, 4343... I lost track at 3000.

Noodles: That wasn't my choice. Yes, it was. It still is. Did you come here to welcome me back at least?

Deborah Gelly: I still live here. I was on my way out, Moe said I should say hello.

Noodles: I hope Moe didn't have to bend your arm or anything.

Deborah Gelly: No. Welcome back, Noodles.

Max: [calling] Hey, Noodles!

Noodles: You dancing?

Deborah Gelly: Every night at the Palace Theatre. I've made some progress since I danced here among the brooms and the empties. You can come spy on me if you like... if you have time.

Noodles: Every night.

Max: Noodles!

Deborah Gelly: Go on, Noodles, your mother's calling you.

Deborah Gelly: It's good to see you again, Noodles.

[leaves]

Noodles: my pleasure...
Noodles: Why'd you ask me to come here, Mr. Bailey?

Secretary Bailey: That invitation doesn't mean a goddamn thing, and you know it. All that counts is what was in that suitcase: the money and the contract.

Noodles: It didn't say who the contract was on, though.

Secretary Bailey: Haven't you figured that out yet?

Noodles: You, Mr. Bailey? I haven't had a gun in my hand for many, many years. My eyes aren't too good, even with my glasses. My hands shake. And I wouldn't want to miss, Mr Bailey.

Secretary Bailey: Cut the bullshit, Noodles, I'm already a dead man! At least give me the chance to settle the debt that I owe to you! I'll never make it before the investigating committee...

[indicates the people at his party]

Secretary Bailey: They're scared I'll implicate the whole bunch of 'em, they gotta get rid of me. Today is as good a day as any. You do it, Noodles. You're the only person I can accept it from. You see, I found out where you were. I brought you back here for this, to even the score between you and me.

[points to a side door]

Secretary Bailey: You can get out through there. It leads right down to the street. Nobody will see you.

Noodles: I don't know what you're talking about. You don't owe me a thing.

Secretary Bailey: Your eyes were too full of tears to see it wasn't me burned up on that street. It was somebody else. You were too shocked to realize that the cops were in on it too. That was a Syndicate operation, Noodles.

Noodles: You're crazy...

Secretary Bailey: You said that to me once before, a long time ago. But my mind was never as clear as it was at that moment. I took away your whole life from you. I've been living in your place. I took everything. I took your money, I took your girl. All I left for you was 35 years of grief over having killed me. Now why don't you shoot?