If you think the title: "Once upon a time... the Revolution" everything makes sense in the movie. For me thats the perfect title of the movie, instead of "Duck you sucker" or "Fistful of dynamite". I'll forever thank Sergio Leone for his mexican characters, very accurate and human look of my people.

Loosing countless children in revenge

Absolutely anything is better than the movies they make these days.

This movie is a fitting end for Leone to me, Once Upon a Time in America is more like a epilouge for me.

Yessss!

possibly my favorite morricone score from all six movies

Same for me, amen to that, brother. So underrated too.

❤from Bharat India

So the woman represents Ireland that John loved? Then his friend may represent the revolution, his second love WOW!! Thanks for explaining me the meaning of that final scene of the movie, now that awkward 3 min make sense.

Same

"This is his last true western" Modern western. I think Modern Western was "Once upon a time in America" too. Leone was Swan of Freedom. He represented his look on Freedom of the People in his movies. However, understanding that while people can be a free - from the point of view of logic and philosophy man can not - and this creates his dichotomy, which is so sentimental. Leone crossed such influential - in his time - existentialists and postmodernists with his view of human existence. He is genius for West filmmakers just like Kurosava is genius for Asian filmmakers. Both are Genius for film art.

Even though you spelled Kurosawa wrong, your reply is the perfect way to put the feel of this film. What Leone's Once Upon a Time trilogy has in common with each other is that they're brilliant hybrids of style and substance, and the stories are standalone yet each one is unique in their own way. Once Upon a Time in the West is Leone's operatic farewell to westerns co-written with Sergio Donati, soon-to-emerge filmmaker Dario Argento, and later-controversial filmmaker, Bernardo Bertolucci. Once Upon a Time... the Revolution is set during the Mexican Revolution, Leone's criticism of Zapata Westerns, a sub-genre of Spaghetti Westerns about the Mexican Revolution, which he used to not only show contemporary Italy in a way but also show the divine paradox of freedom. Once Upon a Time in America is not a western, but a kind of art-house gangster film, which is a long one, plus it's also a brilliant examination of a gangster coming to terms with his past as a ruthless criminal between 1920 and 1968, sort of his own version of The Godfather: Part II. Plus, the last film is adapted from a novel by Harry Grey, and he gave his heart and soul to make that film. So, I think the first two films were like experiments for finding new ways for him in order to get ready to make the third, yet the film went through many writers, studios, and actors before it could even get made. I saw all three of them in their full versions on television film channels. I agree with Alex Cox, Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese on one thing: Sergio Leone deserves to be in the pantheon of filmmakers. Thank you for the reply!

Leone wanted this film to be called ''Duck You Sucker"" thinking that this was a everyday term used in America and as hard as everyone tried to explain to him that hardly anyone used that term in America or anywhere else they could not talk him out of it.

@@steverakes6182 Yeah. But what are you going to do?

I disagree on some points. First of all, "A Fistful of Dynamite" and "Once Upon a Time... The Revolution!" are unofficial titles given by distributors to ride on the gravy train using the success the Trilogy of the Dollar and Leone's previous movie had, respectively. In Italian it is named "Giù la Testa" because they did not let him name it "Giù la Testa, Coglione!" (down with your head, you moron!) which is the exact thing John says to Juan before blowing his carriage up, so that is the only true title. Secondly, it was not meant as a trilogy, Leone did not even want to direct this movie, but to write it only and give it to Bogdanovich first, Peckimpah then and lastly Donati to direct, but for various and different reasons the thing could not happen. Steiger said he wouldn't act unless directed by Leone himself and he, who wanted to give up on westerns and concentrate on "Once Upon a Time in America" reluctantly agreed. Glad it went this way, as it is my favourite Leone movie. The trilogy shite was again artificially made up by producers and whatnot, given the success the Dollar's Trilogy had. In the third place the message is not revolutions ain't worth a thing. That is what Juan says as he's seen the harsh truth of history from the lowest place possible and is disillusioned about reality. But the ideal of Revolution stands, it's men who are weak and often corrupt, turning a true occasion of social justice and of change from an unbearable situation for the weakest into egoistical personal profit or an utter failure. This becomes clear to the weary John before he forgives Villega instead of killing him like his friend Sean. Lastly, the Lead Years have nothing to do with revolution. It was a counter-revolution with which corrupt people in power tried to create a fertile environment for antidemocratic power and control, suffocating the new ideas of freedom and social justice which were spreading among students and laborers.

Same here

Can we talk about this? 🤨

i don't believe in this narrative by leone that this was supposed to be a trilogy. he didn't even want to direct this film. but thank god he did. this is a great grand glorious masterpiece of the revolution

No. It meant that he is now alone and depressed because he lost his family and now his friend and he wanted to die.

The girl represented a free Ireland.

Bad take

I was wrong

It's meant to be "Sean" or "Shaun".

@@Grandmastergav86 the Irish version of “John”, which is the name of both the main characters in this film, since the Spanish version is “Juan”.

He was already dying from being shot multiple times

@@greenleader3520 but maybe he could survive ?

@@angc1456 he had no reason to, he completed his goal of making Juan a hero of the revolution; and he finally came to term on losing his best friend and country due to his actions

@@greenleader3520 still he had Juan - A NEW FRIEND. right??

@@angc1456 but no country