Once Upon a Time in the West The opening sequence 1

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prytz1000

Күн бұрын

Waiting for the train The opening lengthy sequence.
1968 Italian/American film directed by Sergio Leone.

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@igotta9 4 жыл бұрын

The fly was even considered for a best supporting actor award.

@NinaadDas 3 жыл бұрын

Or the husky from The Thing

@swaldron5558 3 жыл бұрын

True.

@AlonsoRules 3 жыл бұрын

that fly is better actor than Schumer

@epicjackson9070 3 жыл бұрын

Was it related to the Mike Pence fly? They are making a come up huh lol

@igotta9 3 жыл бұрын

@@epicjackson9070 Unintelligible remark, huh?

@FilmandTVFan 8 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!

@rayzhong8542 4 жыл бұрын

The cinematography is incredible. Every frame looks like a painting. Every shot is so beautifully framed.

@Not_An_Alien 4 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

@rayzhong8542 4 жыл бұрын

@ yeah, I guess that takes away its accuracy, but not its beauty.

@germanmosca 4 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.

@ZoolGatekeeper 4 жыл бұрын

Did they really have that large train platforms in those days?

@stu2611 7 жыл бұрын

The greatest opening film sequence, every shot is a masterpiece

@nigelmaund9057 6 жыл бұрын

Best opening to a Western ever! ... Not surprisingly to one of the top rated Westerns of all time.

@nhlazyarse 5 жыл бұрын

Yes Scenes were little is said are always the most defining parts of a movie.

@reakingringpiece 5 жыл бұрын

perfectly put :)

@johnbrewer5127 5 жыл бұрын

Every sound is a masterpiece!

@edhoughton2609 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful cinematography

@abehambino 4 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!

@cheemluke 2 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 :)

@hennagaijin100 2 жыл бұрын

He didn't give us enough films ------because he dropped dead prematurely.

@abehambino 2 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

@toddstoptens1384 11 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.

@kristiqnmladenov5970 10 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.

@landonpackard8935 Ай 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.

@toddstoptens1384 11 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.

@DwayneETowns 10 ай бұрын

In my top three favorite westerns of all time! this opening scene is straight out genius.

@toddstoptens1384 11 күн бұрын

This one, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” and “No Country for Old Men.”

@99solutionsit10 11 ай бұрын

What a movie! Even the fly has its part. 😁 Seriosly, this is one iconic film that NO ONE should miss!

@rankobarensic 9 ай бұрын

The raindrop❤😊

@user-qs7qz2cf4l 2 жыл бұрын

Never in the history of cinema have sounds described so beautifully the storyline. A milestone, a masterpiece of films.

@Lea99Jones 4 жыл бұрын

Elam and that fly. Priceless. Like Leone is saying, “Slow down folks, we’ll be here awhile.”

@dichter331 4 жыл бұрын

Elam is really underated :)

@Lea99Jones 4 жыл бұрын

Dichter Those first (?) five minutes? It's all brilliant, but the stuff he's doing with just his eyes... gawd. Brilliant.

@leftcoaster67 5 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.

@eljefe5536 4 жыл бұрын

So true!

@michaelmoore1386 9 ай бұрын

and Cannonball Run

@barryodonohoe9806 Жыл бұрын

The scene today…CGI fly, CGI Windmill, CGI drop of water.

@davidquak4398 2 жыл бұрын

A fly, dripping fluid and a windmill. Best opening scene ever.

@toddubow2599 5 жыл бұрын

Sergio wasn't just the greatest film maker ever, he was one of the best artist ever.

@tyronehill3873 5 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.

@akechijubeimitsuhide 3 жыл бұрын

Tonino Delli Colli is often forgotten but he was a genius with the camera work.

@peterdoring7521 8 ай бұрын

They needed a whole day for this one shot because Leone demanded perfection.

@swann433 6 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....

@peterdoring7521 6 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...

@BhagyanagarRE 6 жыл бұрын

Sergio and Ennio unbeatable combo..

@fungames24 3 жыл бұрын

The actors count for nothing? They all played brilliantly.

@sir_humpy 4 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! 😆😂

@padzzz9377 27 күн бұрын

Yeah, it’s all Leone, but glorious Jack Elam sure fits into Leone’s type of characters

@kingkong5483 7 жыл бұрын

IMO, Whoever laid all those planks down perfectly like that to make the station platform deserves some kind of special award!!!

@artist92543 5 жыл бұрын

Maybe, but I wouldn't want him to build my house.

@RCAvhstape 3 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.

@steelsporty 2 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.

@oldpossum 7 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.

@rhoddryice5412 4 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.45 4 жыл бұрын

@@rhoddryice5412 Sounds good, you have a 10/10 from me.

@tbomberus 2 жыл бұрын

I took note of that as well. Awesome touch.

@nyctid Ай бұрын

I think of it like a clapboard. "Once Upon a Time in the West, scene 1, take 4..."

@nigelmaund9057 6 жыл бұрын

Brilliant attention to detail and building up an atmosphere of expectation and suspense! .... 5 Star Movie Direction!

@teeye1 8 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!

@Jolene8 8 жыл бұрын

+teeye1 Took me a while too. Now I know it's one of the greatest film ever made.

@nancyblackett6672 7 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...

@MrBDB001 7 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.3264 6 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.

@Kelly14UK 6 жыл бұрын

Keep processing. This isn't TGTB&TU but you'll love it.

@brianjay9811 2 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...

@Kelly14UK 4 жыл бұрын

Leone must've been a GENIUS directing that fly

@TexasTested3 3 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

@harmonica6994 4 жыл бұрын

Sergio Leone, best cinema director in history.

@PaulRietvoorn 4 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.

@kingkong5483 7 жыл бұрын

Sergio's intro is like a small movie, in itself!🤠 Fantastico!!!!

@edwardpate6128 7 ай бұрын

Doesn't get any better! Woody Strode such an underrated actor that is finally starting to get his due.

@timkunken4253 4 жыл бұрын

We found it... The greatest movie opening of all time

@oFoTcN1975 2 жыл бұрын

You're goddamn right!

@WrightsW5 3 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 😝

@CARETAKER89able 8 жыл бұрын

Greatest opening to a western.Period!!

@johnsailorsgoat 8 жыл бұрын

Arguably the greatest opening ever!

@CARETAKER89able 8 жыл бұрын

John Sailors Agreed every film student should watch this!!

@thaliart 3 жыл бұрын

Actually it closing of westerns in general. He kills it off

@frankuraku5622 2 жыл бұрын

Come on, you can't beat Day Of Anger's kickass title credits.

@cslan4 10 ай бұрын

This is one the best western ever made!!!!

@optimisticcosmic 4 жыл бұрын

Most suspenseful opening scene I think I’ve ever seen. Brilliant

@gregmackenzie5822 3 жыл бұрын

Jack Elam was brilliant , need more actors like this , too much emphasis nowadays on looks and what really makes a great actor

@RyanGiggsOBE 8 жыл бұрын

The opening and ending scenes are my favourite scenes, the bits between them are incredible as well

@nr655321 3 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.

@funnypussychanger2273 7 жыл бұрын

Quentin will never beat this

@normatible9795 7 жыл бұрын

funny pussychanger never!

@OroborusFMA 7 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_G13 6 жыл бұрын

Hateful Eight was pretty damn good.

@georges3487 6 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.

@patrickdokter3614 5 жыл бұрын

It's not about beating or being better or worse. It's about inspiration and what comes from it.

@greva2904 4 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.

@Kelly14UK 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine Eastwood playing a baddie as Fonda did in this.

@keysersoze2306 4 жыл бұрын

Pure Western, pure art, pure Sergio Leone...

@5burowz 6 жыл бұрын

That was one talented fly.

@michaelkaczmarski2938 4 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).

@hennagaijin100 2 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.

@middelkoop2020 4 жыл бұрын

Best movie ever made.....

@terrytenney4175 4 жыл бұрын

100 % correct !!!!

@szczerzo 6 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.

@rfigueira 3 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.

@SuperBuzzy57 6 жыл бұрын

Best opening of any Western ever !!!

@kenmoy7581 6 жыл бұрын

If you don't know Sergio. Then you don't know westerns.

@DMalltheway 3 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

@thomascurtis9529 3 жыл бұрын

@@DMalltheway it’s a metaphor for the end of the Eisenhower era of America and beginning of the Vietnam era

@DMalltheway 3 жыл бұрын

@@thomascurtis9529 Definitely, you got that right.

@oFoTcN1975 2 жыл бұрын

The greatest movie opening ever And The greatest windmill sound I've ever heard

@gregkors8791 8 жыл бұрын

Movie is amazing just watched it for the first time last night .

@PepperWilliams_songcovers 2 жыл бұрын

The opening scene alone should have won ten Oscars!

@HotShame0 3 ай бұрын

The windmill rusty sound is stuck in my head till this day since i watched this movie.

@johnmooney9403 2 жыл бұрын

One of the greatest opening scenes in Western history!

@daviddavis3155 3 жыл бұрын

One of the greatest films of all time

@blinko656 6 жыл бұрын

Best opening scene ever. All gone, sad...

@timothyball7502 3 жыл бұрын

Why? Death is the sad part of life. Can't avoid it.

@shmuvvy 7 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.

@BcinNH 8 жыл бұрын

Best western ever!

@bramk6720 6 жыл бұрын

Movie *

@robertm4223 5 жыл бұрын

what about The good, the bad and the evil?

@HiddenGhul 5 жыл бұрын

I think For A Few Dollars More has it beat, but this is pretty top tier

@randywhite3947 4 жыл бұрын

Robert M ugly not evil

@alyh3721 2 ай бұрын

That windmill sound takes me right back to seeing this for the first time on a crappy VHS

@kathleenherschbach6822 5 жыл бұрын

Best movie , best cast & best music ever in one film

@markmerzweiler909 4 жыл бұрын

You could never have a movie opening this slow today.

@jasbor1966 7 жыл бұрын

One of the best intro in movies ever..

@jayaybe1 7 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.

@kfadetoblack8065 6 жыл бұрын

I usually skip the intro, but this one i had to watch again. I agree it is one of the best!

@MrRhmccabe 6 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.

@hennagaijin100 5 жыл бұрын

CC also.

@soaceba 6 жыл бұрын

Sergio Leone is a legend

@haybeci75 7 жыл бұрын

Best opening scene in cinema history certainly.Leone is a genius and prove that cinema is 6th art..

@cedricliggins7528 3 жыл бұрын

One of the best opening scenes ever. Back when movies were movies

@petr8068 7 жыл бұрын

Surrounding sounds, scenery, playing...first 10minutes(incl.fight) is absolutely best from movie. :-)

@tonylynch9383 6 жыл бұрын

Greatest Western on the big screen ever besides the searchers.

@SuccessShared 9 ай бұрын

Such an incredible build-up. You can feel their every thought almost

@lillybloom1590 8 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."

@johnvinga5446 6 жыл бұрын

And it was literally the legendary Al Mulock's last scene in his career.

@kurtvonfricken6829 5 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.

@billr3724 7 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.

@ericynot 7 жыл бұрын

No flies were injured in the making of this movie.

@mrsoothslayer 6 жыл бұрын

The fly had it coming.

@MikeJones-rk1un 6 жыл бұрын

Who played the fly? He was very believable.

@Kelly14UK 6 жыл бұрын

Man that scene is something of a trip.

@jeffmayo2439 5 жыл бұрын

his name is Jack.........Jack Elam......And don't you forget it !

@Pyradonis 5 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.

@JustSomeCanadianGuy 2 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!!!”

@Neodreth 7 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.

@rowgli 2 жыл бұрын

That's such a good point, details like this are lost on me :/

@rankobarensic 9 ай бұрын

You don't no how to play

@pegnas 4 жыл бұрын

Insanely inspiring, you can literally feel every moment, the framing is amazing , the whole sequence ties together brilliantly

@scottmescudi9454 4 жыл бұрын

someone give that goddamn fly an oscar

@icelinx 4 жыл бұрын

R.I.P. - Ennnio Morricone ...

@richardextall2002 2 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-1001 2 жыл бұрын

Scena che lascia basiti da oltre 50 anni: nessuno ha neppure provato a imitarla

@Robert_030 4 жыл бұрын

This is Art

@rufustherat1794 6 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

@evad7933 4 жыл бұрын

Shows how overrated words are.

@tonyfortier8835 3 жыл бұрын

Words are meaningless if they have no,well, meaning

@warshipsatin8764 3 жыл бұрын

i feel like it shows how powerful words can be when you use strictly the ones that are necessary

@pedrohero7 4 жыл бұрын

My favorite cinema scene

@Rubrasileiro Ай бұрын

This is the best opening to any movie of all time.

@montigobear 6 жыл бұрын

no words, yet so much said.

@pierrepiea3279 2 жыл бұрын

Masterful in a thousand ways. Casting? The man knew how to show a soul in a face. My all time favorite film.

@misterious5217 9 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.

@BloodySJohnson 3 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