ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (I / USA, 1968) OF SERGIO LEONE
After closing the "Dollar Trilogy" SERGIO LEONE intended to devote to a project that detached from the Western : "ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA" . The director's strong success in its western U.S., wanted to turn the film entirely in the States, and began trying to turn the studios who wanted to produce his new job, but the answer was that substantial funding would come, but after he had shot another movie like this that led him to fame. After thinking a bit, Leo decided he would build a new trilogy, which accompanied three crucial periods in American history: the first was "ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST" , the second "DOWN ' Head "and the final precisely " ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA ". He gave the script to two young aspiring filmmakers who were doing about as writers, DARIO ARGENTO and BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI : the idea of \u200b\u200bhaving the protagonist as a woman, came to Bertolucci, Leone found hesitant at first, then convinced by the writer from the introduction of the character, Jill. Which would have come down from the stage coach, framed from below, showing under the skirt that did not bear the idea giarrettiera.Leone then eliminated in this phase of reviewing the script, and CLAUDIA CARDINALE he declared that he would not never made the film if the scene had been done that the gunman modo.Per Harmonic initially consulted the director CLINT EASTWOOD , Which has declined this offer, that the idea to meet in Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef to interpret the three bounty killers waiting to start Harmonic film, because he wanted to return to America and change roles. HENRY FONDA, however, said not interested in what's offered the Italian director: flew to America to propose in person all'attempata star part of the villain Frank, described in detail the arrival on the scene of his character , framed from below, he shot a child in fuga.La camera revealed the face of the killer, and it was Henry Fonda! Leone had shock on the public, given that the actor had always played positive characters or eroici.Il star interpellated then Wallach, asking how he ended up working with Leone's ex-counsel with Tuco Fonda enthusiasm to take part in the film, saying it would be one of the best experiences for him as an interpreter. Accepted the role of Frank, Fonda appeared on set with brown contact lenses and two bushy mustache, but Leo wanted it to be natural, and that the claimant was clearly recognizable from the first shot that riguardava.L 'industrial Morton would to be played by Robert Hossein , but work commitments made earlier, he had to give up, and was hired Gabriele Ferzetti . One of the three players listed at the beginning of film waiting to kill him Harmonic, AL MULOCK , committed suicide by jumping from the window of the hotel where the crew stayed on the second day of the shooting, wearing the costume. The first draft of the screenplay was pagine.I over 430 titles last ten minutes, the whole prologue of the film. ENNIO MORRICONE composed the soundtrack based on the first draft of the screenplay: Leo, in many scenes, he used the music while girava.Il director wanted to put a lot of references to westerns he had loved in this work, more or less conspicuous from the most obvious, as the three men waiting at the station in the incipit, as in "High Noon" , or rifle that has Woody Strode, with the butt cut, such as STEVE MCQUEEN in the TV series "Wanted Dead or Alive" . Instead, the final duel between Fonda and Bronson would turn almost exactly like the one between KIRK DOUGLAS and ROCK HUDSON it "The Last Sunset" of ROBERT ALDRICH as suggested Bertolucci, who was a fan of this western. Jason Robards appeared drunk on the first day of shooting, and Leo threatened to fire him if he did another volta.In fact the actor was shocked by the news of the killing of Bob Kennedy , and the director gave up, refusing to continue shooting for the entire giornata.Più than half the cost incurred to pay for the feature film actors. Among the stunts used in America's future also was director JOHN LANDIS . 
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