Waiting for the train The opening lengthy sequence. 1968 Italian/American film directed by Sergio Leone.
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@igotta94 жыл бұрын
The fly was even considered for a best supporting actor award.
@NinaadDas3 жыл бұрын
Or the husky from The Thing
@swaldron55583 жыл бұрын
True.
@AlonsoRules3 жыл бұрын
that fly is better actor than Schumer
@epicjackson90703 жыл бұрын
Was it related to the Mike Pence fly? They are making a come up huh lol
@igotta93 жыл бұрын
@@epicjackson9070 Unintelligible remark, huh?
@FilmandTVFan8 ай бұрын
You’d think that a 12 minute opening with little to no dialogue would fail to hook an audience, but Leone creates an atmosphere dripping with intensity, ambience and character! One of the greatest films of all time has one of the greatest openings of all time too!
@rayzhong85424 жыл бұрын
The cinematography is incredible. Every frame looks like a painting. Every shot is so beautifully framed.
@Not_An_Alien4 жыл бұрын
Just look at the windmill shadow on the water tank!
4 жыл бұрын
a painting of unreal - trains stop not in middle of nowhere. farm house in desert was a mansion , so many plot errors
@rayzhong85424 жыл бұрын
@ yeah, I guess that takes away its accuracy, but not its beauty.
@germanmosca4 жыл бұрын
@ Trains stopped in the middle of nowhere when they needed water. Or when the village was a mile or so from the train station. And if you pay attention to the plot you understand why the "farm" was a mansion.
@ZoolGatekeeper4 жыл бұрын
Did they really have that large train platforms in those days?
@stu26117 жыл бұрын
The greatest opening film sequence, every shot is a masterpiece
@nigelmaund90576 жыл бұрын
Best opening to a Western ever! ... Not surprisingly to one of the top rated Westerns of all time.
@nhlazyarse5 жыл бұрын
Yes Scenes were little is said are always the most defining parts of a movie.
@reakingringpiece5 жыл бұрын
perfectly put :)
@johnbrewer51275 жыл бұрын
Every sound is a masterpiece!
@edhoughton26094 жыл бұрын
Wonderful cinematography
@abehambino4 жыл бұрын
Honestly, if any complaint was to directed at Leone, it would only be that he didn’t give us enough films! He understood, casting, screenplay, scenery, cinematography, and of course music! Oh what music! If any living composer deserves to be counted among the greats of previous centuries, it would be Leone’s friend and collaborator Enio Morricone! The music he wrote for these films is unparalleled!
@cheemluke2 жыл бұрын
Sergio was great for choosing faces and editing on the 'cut' ie on movement which makes the transitions so fluid and precise. I totally agree with everything you said. I would have loved to see the war film that he was in the process of acquiring finance for. The opening scene was a close up of hands playing the piano then tracking back to outside a window with soldiers, tanks, people fleeing a city in World War 2....all in one take....:) We have to satisfy ourselves with the war scenes in The Good, The Bad and the Ugly which were epically filmed :)
@hennagaijin1002 жыл бұрын
He didn't give us enough films ------because he dropped dead prematurely.
@abehambino2 жыл бұрын
@@hennagaijin100 yeah, I’m aware. I’m referring to the decade hiatus between movies. It wasn’t meant as a critique, but a mere observation. Most directors who find the kind of success he did would’ve just gone after many projects in that time, but he didn’t. Again, not criticizing, just pointing it out. I would’ve loved to have seen what he would do in the eighties.
@jam123255 Жыл бұрын
Greatest director of all time
@toddstoptens138411 күн бұрын
Fun fact: Ennio Morricone wrote the “Once Upon a Time in the West” music before filming actually took place, and Sergio Leone filmed everything to match the music. Fucking brilliant.
@kristiqnmladenov597010 ай бұрын
To dedicate so much screen time to these three characters in the opening scene of the movie, to paint their patience and determination without a single word of dialogue. Every normal person who watches the movie forna first time would guess these would be the main characters of the story but no... in the next scene they are killed by the hero ofnthe story and never return to the screen. Its absolutely amazing directing. Sergio Leone is blowing my mind with this one. Every second of this scene is cinematographic masterpeice.
@landonpackard8935Ай бұрын
Think if you just got high from smoking weed for the first time ever about 5 minutes right before the beginning of this moving is starting to come on.
@toddstoptens138411 күн бұрын
Absolutely! Also, calling anyone in a Sergio Leone film a “hero” is a little generous. 😂 I love the moral ambiguity of his characters.
@DwayneETowns10 ай бұрын
In my top three favorite westerns of all time! this opening scene is straight out genius.
@toddstoptens138411 күн бұрын
This one, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” and “No Country for Old Men.”
@99solutionsit1011 ай бұрын
What a movie! Even the fly has its part. 😁 Seriosly, this is one iconic film that NO ONE should miss!
@rankobarensic9 ай бұрын
The raindrop❤😊
@user-qs7qz2cf4l2 жыл бұрын
Never in the history of cinema have sounds described so beautifully the storyline. A milestone, a masterpiece of films.
@Lea99Jones4 жыл бұрын
Elam and that fly. Priceless. Like Leone is saying, “Slow down folks, we’ll be here awhile.”
@dichter3314 жыл бұрын
Elam is really underated :)
@Lea99Jones4 жыл бұрын
Dichter Those first (?) five minutes? It's all brilliant, but the stuff he's doing with just his eyes... gawd. Brilliant.
@leftcoaster675 жыл бұрын
Woody Strode makes a Mare's Leg almost look like a toy. Such an under appreciated actor. He got more mileage out of a single look than most actors with 1000 pages of dialogue.
@eljefe55364 жыл бұрын
So true!
@michaelmoore13869 ай бұрын
and Cannonball Run
@barryodonohoe9806 Жыл бұрын
The scene today…CGI fly, CGI Windmill, CGI drop of water.
@davidquak43982 жыл бұрын
A fly, dripping fluid and a windmill. Best opening scene ever.
@toddubow25995 жыл бұрын
Sergio wasn't just the greatest film maker ever, he was one of the best artist ever.
@tyronehill38735 жыл бұрын
The one continuous shot when Claudia Cardinale leaves the train walks into the station and walks into town with the camera rising above the roof of the station to reveal the town is amazing.
@akechijubeimitsuhide3 жыл бұрын
Tonino Delli Colli is often forgotten but he was a genius with the camera work.
@peterdoring75218 ай бұрын
They needed a whole day for this one shot because Leone demanded perfection.
@swann4336 ай бұрын
Did you know the actor who played knuckles at the beginning with the long blonde hair committed suicide before the scenes right before the shootout and they had to use a stand in for him? That's why they didn't show a close up of his face during the shy one horse scene....
@peterdoring75216 ай бұрын
@@swann433 He jumped out of the hotel window with his movie clothes on. And according to a rumour Sergio Leone commented..."get me the coat...we need the coat..."
@sleuthentertainment5872 Жыл бұрын
Few times in the History of cinema you can see this kind of dedication from a filmmaker to the composition of the characters, the time, the sounds, the scenario, the atmosphere. After this minutes we have been already dragged into the dirtiest but most evocative West you can imagine...
@BhagyanagarRE6 жыл бұрын
Sergio and Ennio unbeatable combo..
@fungames243 жыл бұрын
The actors count for nothing? They all played brilliantly.
@sir_humpy4 жыл бұрын
Jack Elam got only a few minutes but was nonetheless majestic. The scene with a fly is a gem.
@louisjutras1 Жыл бұрын
Rumor has it that the studios of the time would not finance Leone's film if Jack Elam was not in it. They wanted a really big name from western movies, and they put enormous pressure for Jack to be there. Sergio Leone finally caved in, up to a point. He told the studios "You want him in? He's in..." He just never told them for how long! 😆😂
@padzzz937727 күн бұрын
Yeah, it’s all Leone, but glorious Jack Elam sure fits into Leone’s type of characters
@kingkong54837 жыл бұрын
IMO, Whoever laid all those planks down perfectly like that to make the station platform deserves some kind of special award!!!
@artist925435 жыл бұрын
Maybe, but I wouldn't want him to build my house.
@RCAvhstape3 жыл бұрын
I think those are rail tie sleepers for building and maintaining the tracks, like the railroad just decided to use them as a platform while being stored.
@steelsporty2 жыл бұрын
If you ever want decking in your garden...
@Useaname Жыл бұрын
It was a platform for loading and unloading hundreds of cattle. Leone wouldn't have wanted it to look perfect. He likes things to look used. It's a signature of his westerns.
@oldpossum7 жыл бұрын
Don't know how many times I have watched this excellent movie, always discover new details. On 6:51, at the end of the credits, the line "DIRECTED BY SERGIO LEONE", drops like a barrier in front of the stopping train.
@rhoddryice54124 жыл бұрын
It's brilliant. In highschool we had a short Film Festival and in my group's 10 minutes film we had a 5 minutes intro ending with a car coming to a stop and the last opening credit dropping down like that. Then we had a 2 minutes fight like 60's Batman and 3 minutes blank screen. We didn't win. =)
@KC.454 жыл бұрын
@@rhoddryice5412 Sounds good, you have a 10/10 from me.
@tbomberus2 жыл бұрын
I took note of that as well. Awesome touch.
@nyctidАй бұрын
I think of it like a clapboard. "Once Upon a Time in the West, scene 1, take 4..."
@nigelmaund90576 жыл бұрын
Brilliant attention to detail and building up an atmosphere of expectation and suspense! .... 5 Star Movie Direction!
@teeye18 жыл бұрын
I saw this movie for the first time a week ago at a special showing at an old movie theatre. I am still processing it but I think it is the best movie I've ever seen, incredible!
@Jolene88 жыл бұрын
+teeye1 Took me a while too. Now I know it's one of the greatest film ever made.
@nancyblackett66727 жыл бұрын
Imagine you saw it first in 1968 - as i did - when Henry Fonda was Mr Squeeky-Clean Good Guy Hero. And then the camera cuts from that little boy standing among the bodies of his family...
@MrBDB0017 жыл бұрын
Fonda was such a perfect choice. Like you I saw this in '68 and that pan to Henry's face... what a shock, fantastic, fantastic, fantastic. the closeups 10 feet tall of those eyes of Bronson... changed my view of film ever after.
@zdzichus.32646 жыл бұрын
well, there is a few equally good... by the same director... :-) Try "Once upon a time in America"... you won't regret! I can only bow down and say: "thank you, Mr Krzysztof Grzegdala for showing me these movies", nearly 40 yrs ago.
@Kelly14UK6 жыл бұрын
Keep processing. This isn't TGTB&TU but you'll love it.
@brianjay98112 жыл бұрын
Such masterful contrast, from the sound of a drop of water to the screeching cacophony of a locomotive train. Sound, timing, detail, character building, camera angle, artistic interpretation; it is all here in one of the greatest film opening of all time...
@Kelly14UK4 жыл бұрын
Leone must've been a GENIUS directing that fly
@TexasTested33 жыл бұрын
This film doesn’t require you to watch it multiple times to appreciate it.. the greatness of it is obvious while you’re initially watching it
@harmonica69944 жыл бұрын
Sergio Leone, best cinema director in history.
@PaulRietvoorn4 жыл бұрын
6:13 Gotta love how human life his little value in Sergio Leone's scripts, yet he lets the fly live. When I first saw this film I thought the fly going to be shot.
@kingkong54837 жыл бұрын
Sergio's intro is like a small movie, in itself!🤠 Fantastico!!!!
@edwardpate61287 ай бұрын
Doesn't get any better! Woody Strode such an underrated actor that is finally starting to get his due.
@timkunken42534 жыл бұрын
We found it... The greatest movie opening of all time
@oFoTcN19752 жыл бұрын
You're goddamn right!
@WrightsW53 жыл бұрын
Jack Elam got the greatest bit-part role ever.
@jam123255 Жыл бұрын
The sound of the creaking windmill to create tension is absolute genius, so many directors have copied the subtle technique of sound from Leone, truly the 🐐
@stateyourthesis Жыл бұрын
One of the BEST opening scenes in a movie ever. I think about it every once in a while like tonight 😝
@CARETAKER89able8 жыл бұрын
Greatest opening to a western.Period!!
@johnsailorsgoat8 жыл бұрын
Arguably the greatest opening ever!
@CARETAKER89able8 жыл бұрын
John Sailors Agreed every film student should watch this!!
@thaliart3 жыл бұрын
Actually it closing of westerns in general. He kills it off
@frankuraku56222 жыл бұрын
Come on, you can't beat Day Of Anger's kickass title credits.
@cslan410 ай бұрын
This is one the best western ever made!!!!
@optimisticcosmic4 жыл бұрын
Most suspenseful opening scene I think I’ve ever seen. Brilliant
@gregmackenzie58223 жыл бұрын
Jack Elam was brilliant , need more actors like this , too much emphasis nowadays on looks and what really makes a great actor
@RyanGiggsOBE8 жыл бұрын
The opening and ending scenes are my favourite scenes, the bits between them are incredible as well
@nr6553213 жыл бұрын
What an admirable movie. Leone's fluency in film making is just off the charts. Everything here is so fluid, calm, logical yet grand and meaningful at the same time.
@funnypussychanger22737 жыл бұрын
Quentin will never beat this
@normatible97957 жыл бұрын
funny pussychanger never!
@OroborusFMA7 жыл бұрын
Tarantino makes live action Road Runner cartoons, who are you kidding. This movie is a massive boring exercise in excess but it's still a movie, not a cartoon.
@Duke_Togo_G136 жыл бұрын
Hateful Eight was pretty damn good.
@georges34876 жыл бұрын
Why would Quentin try to "beat" a style he uses excessively. That would be like an artist trying to beat a brush stroke technique, it doesn't make sense to say.
@patrickdokter36145 жыл бұрын
It's not about beating or being better or worse. It's about inspiration and what comes from it.
@greva29044 жыл бұрын
The original plan for this scene was for the three gunslingers waiting at the station to be played by Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach, so that when they all get gunned down by Harmionica, it’s Sergio Leone’s way of telling the audience that he’s moved on from those films and characters and this is something new. Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach actually agreed to do it... but Clint Eastwood refused, as his career was really starting to take off. So they went with these three actors instead. Woody Strode and Jack Elam had already been in some classic westerns before, so they were the next best thing.
@Kelly14UK4 жыл бұрын
Imagine Eastwood playing a baddie as Fonda did in this.
@keysersoze23064 жыл бұрын
Pure Western, pure art, pure Sergio Leone...
@5burowz6 жыл бұрын
That was one talented fly.
@michaelkaczmarski29384 жыл бұрын
Two of the three hired guns were well-established actors at the time this movie was made: Jack Elam (with a really long list of supporting roles) and Woody Strode (who played the black gladiator Draba in Sparticus, and John Wayne's servant Pompey in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance).
@hennagaijin1002 жыл бұрын
Al Mulock (3rd gunman) was a well established actor as well,and a Sergio regular. But he committed suicide before the opening scene was completed, and the reason you don't see his face the last few minutes. A stand in was filmed from behind.
@superbanaan9 Жыл бұрын
@@hennagaijin100 yeah sad, i know where the hotel is where he jumped of roof,AL MULOCK rest in piece great actor
@Sulu-sw3zo Жыл бұрын
@@hennagaijin100 Oh wow, that's really sad. Did not know that.
@middelkoop20204 жыл бұрын
Best movie ever made.....
@terrytenney41754 жыл бұрын
100 % correct !!!!
@szczerzo6 жыл бұрын
There are not many movies I watch over and over again. But Once Upon is such a film. And the opening sequence I watch more often than "dank memes" clips.
@rfigueira3 жыл бұрын
Saw this yesterday for the first time in a big screen. Not only the filmmaking, but the sound and sound editing are masterpieces that can only be fully appreciated in a cinema theatre. The use of sound in this particular sequence is a prodigy.
@kezzabanana4958 Жыл бұрын
Amazing scenery and tension. Oh and that squeaky whatever is brilliant.
@SuperBuzzy576 жыл бұрын
Best opening of any Western ever !!!
@kenmoy75816 жыл бұрын
If you don't know Sergio. Then you don't know westerns.
@DMalltheway3 жыл бұрын
A lot of prejudice on these kind of westerns since they weren’t John Ford or Howard Hawks like visions. Leone brought it to the next level, same with Peckenpah
@thomascurtis95293 жыл бұрын
@@DMalltheway it’s a metaphor for the end of the Eisenhower era of America and beginning of the Vietnam era
@DMalltheway3 жыл бұрын
@@thomascurtis9529 Definitely, you got that right.
@oFoTcN19752 жыл бұрын
The greatest movie opening ever And The greatest windmill sound I've ever heard
@gregkors87918 жыл бұрын
Movie is amazing just watched it for the first time last night .
@PepperWilliams_songcovers2 жыл бұрын
The opening scene alone should have won ten Oscars!
@HotShame03 ай бұрын
The windmill rusty sound is stuck in my head till this day since i watched this movie.
@johnmooney94032 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest opening scenes in Western history!
@daviddavis31553 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest films of all time
@blinko6566 жыл бұрын
Best opening scene ever. All gone, sad...
@timothyball75023 жыл бұрын
Why? Death is the sad part of life. Can't avoid it.
@shmuvvy7 жыл бұрын
One of the best build-ups to an opening film sequence. The tension never wavers. You know something is about to happen, but Leone lets the ambience set the mood that indulges you as you wait.
@BcinNH8 жыл бұрын
Best western ever!
@bramk67206 жыл бұрын
Movie *
@robertm42235 жыл бұрын
what about The good, the bad and the evil?
@HiddenGhul5 жыл бұрын
I think For A Few Dollars More has it beat, but this is pretty top tier
@randywhite39474 жыл бұрын
Robert M ugly not evil
@alyh37212 ай бұрын
That windmill sound takes me right back to seeing this for the first time on a crappy VHS
@kathleenherschbach68225 жыл бұрын
Best movie , best cast & best music ever in one film
@markmerzweiler9094 жыл бұрын
You could never have a movie opening this slow today.
@jasbor19667 жыл бұрын
One of the best intro in movies ever..
@jayaybe17 жыл бұрын
Yes, the sheer patience from Leone and the trust that the audience will stay with it is something you won't see too much of these days.
@kfadetoblack80656 жыл бұрын
I usually skip the intro, but this one i had to watch again. I agree it is one of the best!
@MrRhmccabe6 жыл бұрын
Leone had a thin coating of jam put on Elam face so the fly would stick around...I don't believe we hear Elam's actual voice there was a lot of dubbing in this MASTERPIECE.Bronson should have gotten the Academy award for what he was able to say with his face and eyes and no voice when gets his lifelong quest for revenge..absolutely astonishing.
@hennagaijin1005 жыл бұрын
CC also.
@soaceba6 жыл бұрын
Sergio Leone is a legend
@haybeci757 жыл бұрын
Best opening scene in cinema history certainly.Leone is a genius and prove that cinema is 6th art..
@cedricliggins75283 жыл бұрын
One of the best opening scenes ever. Back when movies were movies
@petr80687 жыл бұрын
Surrounding sounds, scenery, playing...first 10minutes(incl.fight) is absolutely best from movie. :-)
@tonylynch93836 жыл бұрын
Greatest Western on the big screen ever besides the searchers.
@SuccessShared9 ай бұрын
Such an incredible build-up. You can feel their every thought almost
@lillybloom15908 жыл бұрын
One of the all-time great westerns, if not the best ever. Great music!! Bronson's best. Jack Elam and Woody Strode made the opening sequence, along with Bronson's line: "You brought two too many."
@johnvinga54466 жыл бұрын
And it was literally the legendary Al Mulock's last scene in his career.
@kurtvonfricken68295 жыл бұрын
John Vinga Then last scene in his life. I believe he died the next day .
@user-uj4ps9ih7j Жыл бұрын
@@johnvinga5446 Anyone knows why Al Mulock's name is not on the opening credits? It says: Guest Stars: Woody Strode, Jack Elam.
@billr37247 ай бұрын
Al Mulock was in both opening scenes for this movie as well as Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Both great scenes.
@ericynot7 жыл бұрын
No flies were injured in the making of this movie.
@mrsoothslayer6 жыл бұрын
The fly had it coming.
@MikeJones-rk1un6 жыл бұрын
Who played the fly? He was very believable.
@Kelly14UK6 жыл бұрын
Man that scene is something of a trip.
@jeffmayo24395 жыл бұрын
his name is Jack.........Jack Elam......And don't you forget it !
@Pyradonis5 жыл бұрын
I remember how surprised I was. There is this guy, a cold-blooded killer, yet he does not swat the fly that annoys him.
@JustSomeCanadianGuy2 жыл бұрын
This is one of the best opening scenes in film history. But you KNOW tons of people probably walked out in 1968. “Fuckin’ GET ON WITH IT!!!”
@Neodreth7 жыл бұрын
Imagine how fast on the draw Harmonica was that the guy with the fly was so fast and accurate to be able to catch it with in his gun barrel. Small details that only Sergio Leone could point out in such way to the audience.
@rowgli2 жыл бұрын
That's such a good point, details like this are lost on me :/
@rankobarensic9 ай бұрын
You don't no how to play
@pegnas4 жыл бұрын
Insanely inspiring, you can literally feel every moment, the framing is amazing , the whole sequence ties together brilliantly
@scottmescudi94544 жыл бұрын
someone give that goddamn fly an oscar
@icelinx4 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. - Ennnio Morricone ...
@richardextall20022 жыл бұрын
This is a work of art.
@terrorsaur599 Жыл бұрын
Alfred Hitchcock: “I am the master of suspense!” Sergio Leone: “Hold my spaghetti.”
@anekata217 Жыл бұрын
one of the best cowboy movie i ve ever seen.
@TVMatriX-10012 жыл бұрын
Scena che lascia basiti da oltre 50 anni: nessuno ha neppure provato a imitarla
@Robert_0304 жыл бұрын
This is Art
@rufustherat17946 жыл бұрын
If you skip to the end your not getting the full experience the thing that makes this scene so great is the dramatic build up imagine how dull it would’ve been if the opening was in a hurry to get to the action
@evad79334 жыл бұрын
Shows how overrated words are.
@tonyfortier88353 жыл бұрын
Words are meaningless if they have no,well, meaning
@warshipsatin87643 жыл бұрын
i feel like it shows how powerful words can be when you use strictly the ones that are necessary
@pedrohero74 жыл бұрын
My favorite cinema scene
@RubrasileiroАй бұрын
This is the best opening to any movie of all time.
@montigobear6 жыл бұрын
no words, yet so much said.
@pierrepiea32792 жыл бұрын
Masterful in a thousand ways. Casting? The man knew how to show a soul in a face. My all time favorite film.
@misterious52179 ай бұрын
I bought a physical copy of this after renting it on KZfaq. Such a slow yet intense opening, nothing over the top yet you know something is going to happen.
@BloodySJohnson3 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see someone making a blockbuster these days, just to show the bosses a first cut that opens this slowly. I think they would be immediately fired. :D
@Badco145 жыл бұрын
Sergio Leone's sure direction created a benchmark in the western genre.
@devrajsinghbalyasra14074 жыл бұрын
It is not a western it is a masterpiece
@nancyblackett66727 жыл бұрын
This is still only about half to two-thirds of the full sequence; it's like fifteen minutes long in total.
@clivebrackstone18969 ай бұрын
The best opening.. ever ❤❤❤❤❤❤
@plane72 жыл бұрын
A timeless,masterpiece.
@williamfell18023 жыл бұрын
Best western ever! The best opening of a movie I have ever seen. They sure don't make these kinds of movies anymore
@fixipszikon66706 ай бұрын
This was just great movie making.
@danieldipaolo17898 жыл бұрын
Such an amazing work.
@cheeseandonions95583 жыл бұрын
the build-up is so slow but so interesting.... especially if if you rewatch it, you start to start noticing small details...