![]() ![]() What really makes this film different is it's overwhelming melancholy. The notorious rape scene is all the more hard to watch because its painful to watch Noodles try to destroy himself and his girlfriend by going through with it. However,he never glamourises his protagonists-he may dare us to like Robert De Niro's 'Noodles'-a murderous thug and rapist who always seems to make the wrong decisions-but that's different from glamourising him. Reminiscent at times of some very old gangster films such as The Roaring Twenties,one will find almost every gangster movie cliché one can find-one can imagine Leone half remembering bits and pieces from films he saw as a youth. ![]() ![]() However,those willing to submit will find it more than worth it. It's nearly four hours long,and demands total concentration from beginning to end. Once Upon A Time In America is the crowning achievement of director Sergio Leone. ![]()
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