I know what they are trying to convey but they just didn't work for me. Going from the gritty "real" feel that most of the movie has to the soft-focused, slow motion scenes of people driving around and frolicking in fields took me out of the film. Anyone agree?
I thought the movie was excellent otherwise.
No, I thought they were wonderful. Even with the very dated music (unusual for Morricone, I think). They conveyed a lot about John's character quite economically, and while the contrast might have thrown you out of the picture, for me it just made me pay even more attention, since it was so unusual for a Leone western.
__
"I'm vilifying you for God's sake - pay attention!"
That's cool. I know a lot of people do seem to like them. The one I had the biggest problem with was the last one, it just went on for too long in my opinion. I would have preferred it that they kept his motives more hidden but Leone's "mystery" theme might have been a little redundant at that point?..
shareThat kiss took forever.
shareI love those flashback scenes,so evocative and haunting with that beautiful music,there's just enough of them to give you an idea of Saean's past while still being deliberately ambiguous about certain things.
share[deleted]
loved them, but think that the final one went on too long/
my reviews of martial arts and horror films
http://freewebs.com/martialhorror
My favourite is the one in the pub, one of my all time favourite scenes in any movie. I've been in that pub in Dublin too. I love flashbacks, greatest movie ever Once Upon a Time In America is almost entirely a flashback
shareHi Bellaghy
Which Pub in Dublin was that flashback filmed?
I would love to visit it.
"Be seeing you!"
No6
True that. Just a tad too much slow mo for my taste.
sharethat's because it was a 3-way relationship, as revealed in a featurette included with the most recent release.
shareNo. They got me more into film. John is pretty one dimensional, and even cartoonish, until those scenes show up.
Spot on.
"What rotten sins I've got working for me. I suppose it's the wages." -Bedazzled (1967)
I love something in every Leone film. We are lucky to have had him. But I despise something in every Leone film too. The squawking chicken made its point looooooong before Coburn choked it. And everytime I looked up there was a firing squad. They became meaningless.
shareI thought they explained a lot in regards to James Coburn's characters pain and in my opinion represents the loss of his only true love he had in his life, and that he never recovered from that loss emotionally and it still haunted him, when the woman kisses the other man it gives me the impression he lost his true love to his best friend and explains why he ran so far away and ended up in mexico during such a violent time.
share