Once Upon A Time In America Quotes (2023)

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What was the point of Once Upon a Time in America? ›

In Once Upon a Time in America, he deals with the illusion of the American Dream, as seen through the eyes of Jewish kids whose entire childhoods are drenched in poverty, with the prospect of crime being the only logical solution, for which there exist no feelings of remorse or guilt.

Robert De Niro, James Woods. Deborah: Elizabeth McGovern. O'Donnell: Treat Williams. Carol: Tuesday Weld.

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…last film he completed was Once upon a Time in America (1984), a grand-scale and somber drama about Jewish gangsters in New York City who encounter greed, betrayal, and regret.

Sergio Leone

Enrico Medioli

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In both cases Noodles thinks Max is dead, followed by him being alive. I think this realization, the good memories he has and the fact that Noodles forgave himself for everything he has done in the past are the reasons why he is smiling in the final shot of the film.

Noodles meets with Max in his private room at the party. Max explains that corrupt policemen helped him fake his own death, so that he could steal the gang's money and steal Noodles' love interest Deborah, in order to begin a new life as Mr. Bailey, a man with contacts to the teamsters' union.

Noodles' new girlfriend is murdered by the Syndicate, and Noodles hides out in an opium den. He escapes his pursuers and goes to retrieve the loot the gang had stashed years previously. When he finds the money gone, he flees to Buffalo, where he lives for 35 years under the name 'Robert Williams'.

The uncut original film is considered to be far superior to the edited version released in the U.S. in 1984. Ebert, in his review of Brian De Palma's The Untouchables, called the original uncut version of Once Upon a Time in America the best film depicting the Prohibition era.

The image of the truck doing its work definitely seems a little bit leading. Someone who's already hired his friend to kill him and been rebuffed might take the next opportunity available to do the job himself. Or perhaps the truck was part of an assassination plot, and Max didn't have a choice.

Circa 1983: In her first movie role, at age 13, Connelly appeared in the Sergio Leone epic "Once Upon a Time in America."

How long is the uncut version of Once Upon a Time in America? ›

The 2002 DVD is fully uncut. When the 'complete' film was released on laser disc in America, it still had to be trimmed slightly from 229 minutes to 227 minutes, to secure an 'R' rating. Cuts were made to the two rape scenes, and some of the violence at the beginning.

Perhaps the most unexpected location is the lavish 'Long Island' restaurant, to which Noodles (Robert De Niro) takes his dream date. You'll find this in Venice: it's the Hotel Excelsior Venice, Lungomare Marconi 41 on the Lido.

All the cast members are actually singing with their own voices, no one was dubbed. While filming the scene "Revenge is Gonna Be Mine", Colin O'Donogue (Captain Hook) was performing a stunt with a chair early in the scene where he landed the wrong way and broke his foot.

Marilyn Manson is the American music artist and actor who voices the Shadow on ABC's Once Upon a Time.

While never confirmed, there is a strong implication by the end that the film has been an opium dream, Noodles' memories of his past mingled with fantasies of a possible future. If a dream it is, then it's a dream on an epic scale.

I have seen many movies, good and bad. One thing for certain, Once Upon a Time in America is more than good. It is amazing, a true milestone in the crime drama genre. The cinematography, images, scenery and locations are all superb and quite sweeping, while Ennio Morricone's score ranks up there with his very best.

The film is the first installment in Leone's Once Upon a Time trilogy, followed by Duck, You Sucker! and Once Upon a Time in America, though the films do not share any characters in common.

Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a love letter to film studios' heyday. Even the name is a reverent nod to Sergio Leone's Westerns Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America, films that have had a notable impact on Tarantino's work.