Once Upon a Time in America

Once Upon a Time in America is an Italian-American crime film from Sergio Leone's 1984 . The film is about a friendship between two Jewish gangsters, played byRobert De Niro and James Woods, who grow up in New York. It is an epic film that play in 3 periods: the 20 's, the 30 's and 60 's of the 20th century. A group of friends to see is respectively as a child, young adults and the elderly.

The film has the narrative form and drama of an opera and it is a philosophical study on themes such as time, memories, love, violence and betrayal. The film is praised for its beautiful cinematography, see the details of the three historic environments and the complex, open story.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == David ' Noodles ' Aaronson (Robert De Niro) and Maximillian ' Max ' Bercovicz (James Woods) are two friends who in the 1920s, growing up in Jewish slums of New York.Soon the two decisions by the enormous poverty to enter the crime. First with minor offenses, later with the trade in illegal liquor. On a day running a feud so out of control that David needs to kill a competitive beverage dealer. David, the prison in and comes out only a few years later.
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In the 1930s he David comes out of prison and is picked up by Max. Max appears together with his friends to have built up a giant beverage trade. David and Max go merrily on to criminal work. Meanwhile, the times to change more and more: the crime world is getting more violent, the gang members committed the mistake of itself with politics to interfere and Max is his wealth and power him to his globe increased. This drives the friendship more and more apart. Moreover, the social skills of Max and David to be highly underdeveloped. To his own frustration David succeed but not to start a relationship with his jeugdvriendin mesh bag, which ultimately results in a rape.

If the prohibition is lifted, David realizes that the criminal operation over. Max would, however, none of know and he wants to commit a robbery on the Federal Bank. David tries to stop his friend, but he realizes that Max wants to commit suicide for fear of dementia. (Like his father, Max begins to dementeren at a young age).

There is only one way to have a friend rescue: indicate him to the police. As Max prison in must, is he at least comfort. Thus David calls the police and betrays his friend from sake. It failed however: Max opposes with his arrest and is shot. David feels eternally guilty about the mistake he has made and flight far away. He becomes addicted to opium and lead a Hermitage existence goes.

More than 30 years later David goes back to his childhood tracks. He visits his parents ' House, the tomb of Max, he comes again against his old jeugdvriendin mesh bag and he goes along with the only surviving member of the gang.

Suddenly he gets an invitation to a party. David goes towards it and finds out that Max is alive. He has his own death staged and he is there at the time, with the Treasury of the gang gone away.

Max sits with the same guilt as David. Also he has betrayed his best friend. Max asks David if he wants to shoot him as punishment for the betrayal that he committed. David refuses this and let his old friend life. He runs away.

While David runs down the street he sees are 1 more time Max. Max suddenly disappears behind a moving garbage truck (probably he jumped in the operating waste bin of the garbage truck). ==Structure<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The above synopsis is told chronologically told, the movie itself picks flashback, dreams and different periods right through each other. The following is a clarification of the structure:

==Versions<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Like many films of Leone, was Once Upon a Time in America in the United States released in a heavily edited version, which was almost 90 minutes shorter than the version that appeared in Europe . The truncated version also had quipped, "remember, no structure, but placed the scenes in chronological order. Leone has always distanced from this version.
 * As with the film begins with an Overtureoperas. Describes very briefly explained the highlights and key scenes. These scenes tell anything yet, but stir up immediately to the attention of the Viewer. Many scenes or sounds (like the ringing phone) come back later in the film.
 * After the Overture, we see a scene where David goes to a Chinese club where he smokes a bong with opium. There now unfolds a story in which past, present and future right through each other. It is the history such as those remembered or imagined is in David's mind.
 * There is a more or less chronological story told about David and Max as children growing up in the 1920s. These scenes are interspersed with Max's flash forwards in search of the traces of his youth. This part ends when David disappears in prison for the murder of the competitive beverage dealer Buggy.
 * A piece of 60 's in which David visits the grave of Max and there finds a key visit. In the safe turns out to be the stolen money. David also goes in search of his jeugdvriendin mesh bag.
 * Now come the 1930s, also interspersed with flash-forwards of the 1960s. This part ends with the death of Max.
 * The last part in which David visits his childhood friend and find out that Max is alive. This part ends with the disappearance of Max.
 * An epilogue in which David at the opium to Chinese enters and is a water pipe to smoke.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Originally took the film 269 minutes, but Leone had to of the distributors there 40 minutes cutting out. In 2012 went a restored version premiered in Cannes, which was restored as closely as possible. This version takes 255 minutes. ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * The film is based on the novel The Hoods by Harry Gray.
 * Sergio Leone wanted to make the film for the western The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, but he owned when the rights of the book yet.
 * The very first version of the movie took about six hours. With some reluctance has Leone the playing time of that version should almost halve.
 * The preparation of the film took a total of ten years.
 * The duo Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro came three more times in a mafia movie: Goodfellas in 1990 and 1995, both Casino directed by Martin Scorsese, and A Bronx Tale (1993), directed by De Niro himself.