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I haven’t seen this but I love when a classic blows you out of the water. For me it’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
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never seen that one!
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Here’s some trivia for you that I’m sure many, aside from myself and a bunch of Leone fans, don’t know. The opening scene where Harmonica kills the 3 men. The three men were originally supposed to be played by Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach in reprising their roles of sorts from the last film Leone did in The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly but it never happened as Clint had a falling out with Leone during the production of that film.
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Wow he wanted to kill off Cliff in the first scene?! That is interesting! When I saw that the ‘good guy’ was Charles Bronson I just figured they fell out with Eastwood and plopped Bronson in there, as he kinda is the ‘man with no name’. Either way he did an awesome job
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I love Once Upon a Time in the West 🙂 Ennio Morricone’s music score is just electrifying and Henry Fonda was brilliantly cast against type as a villain 🙂 Another great filmmaker of westerns is Sam Peckinpah 🙂 In fact, when you search my site next, type in the search engine box “My Favorite Sergio Leone Films (Revised and Updated)” and for Sam Peckinpah type in: “My Favorite Sam Peckinpah Films (Revised and Updated)” 🙂
P.S. I responded to your reply about under my favorite films by director Nicholas Roeg 🙂 P.S. keep up the great work as always 🙂
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Thanks for reading John. I’ll have to check out your Leone list! And I know of Peckinpah, been meaning to watch Wild Bunch for a long time. I have seen Straw Dogs… not a western but still awesome
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I still need to see a lot of Sergio Leone stuff, though generally I’m not into Westerns. I couldn’t complete my March blindspot unfortunately, the movie refused to play on iTunes last night which is a real bummer as I really wanted to see it!
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Ahhh that sucks! I’ve also seen little of Leone’s work, but what I have seen is bloody brilliant. And Ennio Morricone… freakin’ genius
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Yeah it sucked, but I ended up seeing an indie film that I quite like. I just posted a review of it.
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Nice review. Fantastic film!!! I just watched The Good, The Bad & The Ugly for the first time. Also good but I preferred this. 🙂
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I think I lean slightly towards “The Good…” but this one really kept my attention. And that harmonica…. I’ll never forget that tune
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That harmonica tune RULES. So haunting. Morricone is the best. 🙂
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Indeed! 😀
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I also got around to watching this recently and loved it all the same. Splendid piece of pure western cinema with a bunch of really tip-top performances.
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Oh I love this movie. This is such a brilliant piece of work, my favorite Leone by some distance. Glad to see you finally got to see it and even glad that you liked it
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That harmonica man…. as soon as that started, I was hooked. I think I slightly prefer The Good, The Bad… but this one is real close
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Yeah The Good, the bad.. is an amazing film too. The whole Dollars trilogy is amazing
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I still need to see a Fistful and a Few Dollars More. Got em on BR but haven’t even opened em
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I guess I’m not the biggest fan of A Few Dollars more, but I really like A Fistful of Dollars so would definitely recommend checking that out
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I hope to watch em all eventually 😀
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Sorry I didn’t read this review when you first posted it. This is my favorite western of all-time. Bronson is a wonderful stand-in for Eastwood. Claudia Cardinale is great and certainly is the most developed character in the film. That said, it’s still Henry Fonda that makes the movie. He is, as you said, fantastic. Great review!
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I love this movie so much! And this is the soundtrack that introduced me to Morricone. Man with a Harmonica remains one of my favourite scores by him still to this day.
SO GLAD YOU LOVED THIS JORDY!!!!!!!!
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Yeah that Harmonica is just so damned…. memorable, iconic, all those good adjectives!! Bronson is great, almost as much screen-presence as big Cliff. And yeah, Morriconne…. that reminds me, I need to go rewatch The Hateful Eight, cos I really wanted to like it but didn’t.
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