Review of Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) by Diego D — 07 Dec 2010
Maybe the best 'Spaghetti Western', Once Upon a Time in the West is the classical nostalgic film about the end of the myth of the frontier.
Written together with Bernardo Bertolucci, Dario Argento and Sergio Donati, is nothing more than a refinement of previous Westerns of Sergio Leone, "the good the bad and the ugly", with a touch more American, and precise, and washing away that grotesque that sticks in the precedent movie.
What energizes the film is substantially the strong motivation of revenge that motivates the hero Charles Bronson -here replacing fully Clint Eastwood, even if the film is slightly impersonal, especially in the first part-.
The most successful is in any case the way the characters are painted, so not completely Manichean, but connected to the classic figures of the west-western.
This review of Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) was written by Diego D on 07 Dec 2010.
Once Upon a Time in the West has generally received very positive reviews.
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