Sergio Leone

Sergio Leone , Italian Realizer born the January 3rd 1929 with Rome (Italy), deceased the April 30th 1989 in Rome (whereas it prepared a film on the Bataille of Stalingrad ). Wire of Vincenzo Leone known as Roberto Roberti (pioneer of the Italian Cinema) and of the actress Bice Waleran.

Biography

It begins its career like many Italian realizers of its time. It carries out (or Co-realizes) initially Péplum S ( the Colossus of Rhodes ). Then, whereas the American Western is in full decline, it takes part in the development of the Western spaghetti (or spaghetti western; he declared however: “This word of spaghetti-western, it is one of the more idiots whom I ever heard of my life”), initially under the pseudonym with American consonance Bob Robertson (the Américanisation of the name is currency at the time for the realizers wishing to bore in the United States of America) then under its true name. This pseudonym has a significance since that means Bob wire of Robert in reference to his father, the realizer Roberto Roberti.

Its style is essential in four westerns become the representative ones of the kind: For a handle of dollars , And for some dollars moreover , the Good, the Rough one and the Gangster (all three with Clint Eastwood, which begins its career thus) and It was once in the West .

The Leone style:

  • the format of film (Cinemascope)
  • the great depth of field (use of short focal distances)
  • extreme Large-plans (scenes of duel), often on the only eyes of a character
  • the dollies postpones (of a detail in the overall plan)
  • stretched Temps: many scenes of long observation, tended and without dialog between duellists
  • Glance believed on the American West (the heroes are antipathetic a priori , dirty, malicious characters)
  • omnipresent Musique (Ennio Morricone), often essential as in the scenes of observation quoted above.
  • asocial Sets of themes: Misogyny, exacerbated individualism, morbid cupidity, apology for revenge

The trilogy of the man without name

For a handle of dollars , And for some dollars moreover and the Good, the Rough one and the Gangster are the three films carried out by Sergio Leone in 1964, 1965 and 1966 which compose “the trilogy of the man without name”; it is called also sometimes “the trilogy of the dollar”, because the main character who crosses the trilogy, interpreted by Clint Eastwood, is almost never named there: being with him only a character archetypic, it is immediately recognizable and thus does not need name. However, one can note that in the scenario of And for some dollars moreover , Clint Eastwood plays the character of the “Penguin” ( Manco in the english language version), and in the Good, the Rough one and the Gangster , Clint Eastwood are named “Cableway” ( Blondy in English) by Eli Wallach. These denominations can be taken for nicknames, although Clint Eastwood is not particularly penguin nor fair in these two films.

For a handle of dollars is a Remake film Yojimbo of Akira Kurosawa ( the Bodyguard ). The history, almost point by point, is transposed from feudal Japan in a universe western.

The trilogy " history of Amérique"

This trilogy recalls three important passages of the History. The first, it is the conquest of the West, which one finds in the film It was once in the West . In the film It was once the revolution , the protagonists find into full Mexican Révolution (1913). Then, the last shutter, It was once in America , where America of the time of prohibition and the advent of the gangsterism are depicted.

This trilogy was to be related to the preceding one by the first scene of It was once in the West . Indeed, the three characters who accommodate Charles Bronson at his exit of the train were to be interpreted by Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach. However Eastwood, in a preoccupation with a professional path, did not wish to die as of the first scene of film, Sergio Leone could not continue this idea in spite of the agreement of the two other actors.

In 2004 the Italian review of cinema " Ciak" published its last project, a posto che solo Mary conosce, has Place Only Mary Knows , written with Luca Morsella and Fabio Toncelli, a history on the American Civil war.

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