Sergio Leone

Sergio Leone (Rome, January 3, 1929 died april 30, 1989) was an Italian film director. He is best known for the Director of such classics as The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and Once Upon a Time in America (1984).



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[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == Sergio Leone was born in Rome in 1929, the son of the experimental filmmaker and pioneer Vincenzo Leone and actress Francesca Bertini.
 * Leone's influence 2
 * 3 trademarks
 * 3.1 Content
 * 3.2 Visual
 * 3.3 Music
 * 4 Filmography

He began writing screenplays in the 1950s and went to work at Cinecitta studios in Rome. Because of the low production costs there were many American movies included in the Cinecitta Studios: so worked as an Assistant Director at the shooting of the Leone film classics High Noon (1953) and Ben-Hur (1959).

Leone made his debut in 1960 as a solo Director when he during the recording of Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei the sick Director thereof replaced. This shot came, however, to stand in the name of the sick Director.

Leone made his first real feature film In 1962 with Il Collosi di Rodi.

However, his big breakthrough came with A Fistful of Dollars, the first film with Clint Eastwood. This film was not the first spaghetti western, but the first one was very successful. The separate way of filming and assembling, the slow pace and the overwhelming music of Ennio Morricone, the surreal, apocalyptic design and the combination of brute force and black humour are characteristic for all other spaghetti westerns.

The success of the film led to two sequels. For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966). Both films Clint Eastwood in the title role and both had perfected the style that Leone had already used in the first film.

The three films make up the Dollars trilogy or Man with no name trilogy.

Using his successes in 1968, he directed C'Era una Volta il West (Once Upon a Time in the West). Eventually this masterpiece, in combination with the music of Ennio Morricone, be a world success and an example for almost all western films that were made afterwards.

After that, he directed Duck You Sucker (1971), a film that dealt with the emergence of the current America. The making of this film, however, was characterized by all kinds of problems: the producer had the final control over the Assembly and changed the film against the feeling of Leone. Also, the title was changed at the last minute in A Fistful of Dynamite. Leone distanced himself in the end of the project and the movie flopped mercilessly.

Next, Leone My Name is Nobody (1973), a comedy western in which he his own directing style and cast doubt on the style of spaghetti western. Also, he hit the offer to The Godfather to make off, something he later publicly regret it got. Disappointed with the many problems in the film world, Leone made any films and in subsequent years he held just deal with film distribution and advertising films. In 1984 he made the epic gangster film Once Upon a Time in America. This enigmatic, almost 4 hour movie had an open end and was nearly completely told in flashbacks. Although Once Upon a Time in America was praised by critics and earned a huge cult status, the film was not a great success.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Just before his death he made plans for a new film about the siege of Leningrad. He could not, however, more to this start. ==Leone's influence<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" 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;">Leone has only 7 movies directed. Despite this, he is seen as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. This is mainly because of its influence on movies of others:

<p lang="en" len="48" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Other famous spaghetti western directors are:
 * Leone is seen as the father of spaghetti western. This is a subgenre within the western genre that consists of westerns that were recorded by Italian filmmakers in Spain. The actors are largely Italian or Spanish and have a lichtgetintheid whereby they Mexicans can play. Characteristic of spaghetti westerns is that they are significantly more violent, darker and more realistic than their American counterparts. Because they often contain a minimal story be spaghetti westerns with lots of action seen as the forerunners of modern action movies.
 * Leone had a typical management style that is characterised by an unorthodox installation, strange camera work, little dialogue, lots of atmosphere, a slow buildup of tension followed by quick action and a notable presence of music and sound. This unique style was revolutionary and countless other filmmakers have tried to imitate. In that respect, Leone had an enormous influence on the film grammar.
 * The Spaghetti Western Orchestra, gave him the pseudonym of Bob Robertson. In their presentation they play the music of Ennio Morricone.

==Trademarks<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" 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);">] == ===In Terms Of Content<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><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);">] === ===Visually<span class="mw-editsection" len="326" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><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);">] === ===Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="325" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><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);">] === ==Filmography<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" 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);">] ==
 * Sergio Corbucci
 * Sergio Sollima
 * A minimal story. The story is in a Leone story always subordinate to the design and is often built around the action scenes. Leone gave itself admits that he first conceived the scenes and then the story. Even Once Upon a Time in America is much less complicated than he seems. Leone's movies are actually all piece by piece style exercises and no story tales.
 * Opera-like drama. Leone was of Italian descent and an avid opera lover. Actually, every film a kind of mini-opera. As with operas are the (simple) stories of Leone's movies filled with themes such as death, violence, betrayal and revenge. The loaded and always prominent music of Ennio Morricone actually performs the vocals of operas and the design with long coats, hats and grotesque gestures is typical opera. Once Upon a Time in America (1984) even has the entire narrative structure of an opera.
 * A minimum of dialogue. And if dialogues are then these are often iron-clad one-liners. Sometimes there is one character who talks a lot, but he never gets response of the main characters. (Such as Tuco in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Clint Eastwood ever against talk.)
 * A pessimistic worldview. Everyone is corrupt and hate each other, no one is to be trusted and the main character is barely better than his opponents.
 * A historic setting. Every film of Leone is in the past now and especially in the later films he did everything to make this historical period, as much as possible, to bring to life. Locations, clothing, decorations, weapons, with the most minuscule detail is taken into account. Many of his films are set against an important development in the history that affects the behaviour and life of the characters, for example the demise of an era. All films of Leone are more or less epic to say the least.
 * One of the salient features at Leone's way of camera is his penchant for close-ups of faces. In each film of Leone are dozens of extreme close-ups of faces that look to each other. Leone used the face to things without words to be able to tell, in combination with the music knew exactly what emotions the viewer than the character at the time. Over 10 seconds long keeps Leone his camera aimed at a person who expressive looks without saying anything. The character looks furious, dogged, sad, desperate or ice cold in front of him. Leone had a taste for, as he himself said, faces that were landscapes, striking faces, or rather faces with typical characteristics such as wrinkles, scars, pimples, stubble, beads of sweat etc. The faces of actors look at Leone always dirty, rough and wild out.
 * In addition to faces are also other objects in the films of Leone filmed up close. Examples include a hand to a gun, a fly that seizes on the cheek of a crook crawls, feet that run while the traces ringing, a close-up of an eye, etc. This extreme close-ups are interspersed with huge total shots that filming the same events from a great distance. Always these total shots filmed from an unusual point of view: for example, low to the ground, through the bars of a garden from behind a gate, drapes, from the roof of a building, etc. Leone constantly plays with the contrast between close-up and totally shot. It's getting near-far away-near-so far away, and that is built up at an ever increasing pace.
 * Another feature is the build up to a scene. In many of his scenes is building much more important than the key moment itself. The characters are sometimes minutes long waiting for something to come. Or they are minutes long followed while they walk to the place to fight. These often involve building scenes without music and with great attention to small natural sounds (e.g. footsteps), the tension is increased slowly and carefully. The actual act where all the while to it was built, on the contrary, is lightning fast. E.g. you see first minutes long how two people walk toward each other, after which they shoot each other in just seconds.
 * Crane-shots at mass scenes. A camera rises high above the characters from to get an overview of a great event, such as a battle, a mass execution, a railway is built or a fly-over of a western town.
 * Each character ' carries ' a separate melody that accompanies him at the scenes where he appears.
 * Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei (ongecrediteerd) (1959)
 * Il Colosso di Rodi (1960)
 * Sodoma e Gomorra (ongecrediteerd) (1961)
 * Il Cambio Della Guardia (ongecrediteerd) (1963)
 * A Fistful of Dollars (Per un Pugno di Dollari) (1964)
 * For a Few Dollars More (Per Qualche Dollaro in Piu) (1965)
 * The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo) (1966)
 * El Magnifico Ediriweera (1967)
 * Once Upon a Time in the West (C'Era una Volta il West) (1968)
 * A Fistful of Dynamite (Giu ' la Testa) (1971)
 * Il Mio nome è Nessuno (ongecrediteerd) (1973)
 * Un Genio, Due Compari, Un Pollo (ongecrediteerd) (1975)
 * Once Upon a Time in America (1984)