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Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) Co-written by Dario Argento and Sergio Leone, how could this western not be awesome? Disappoint it did not. Sergio Leone is a master of scene building. Every scene that deserves significance gets attention, and like the watched pot that does not boil, his sense of timing is brilliant. The cast is perfect, with each character's backstory a secret, driving element of things to come. When a director gets his cast to really act, where we understand the players by the looks on their faces, the tormented souls from their eyes, that is when have something more than a simple flick, and that is what we have here, meat to sink our teeth into. Merci beaucoup.
derek
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