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Once Upon a Time in America
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Description of this Once Upon a Time in America Poster
Once Upon a Time in America is Sergio Leone's final film from 1984. Starring Robert De Niro and James Woods as young Jews who grow from boys in New York's Jewish ghetto into figureheads of New York's organized crime.
The film premiered at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. in the original version which lasts 229 minutes (3 hours and 49 minutes). In the United States, the film was released in an abridged version, which was almost 90 minutes shorter than the original, which was screened in Europe. In the abridged version, scenes of contemplation were introduced and the events were organized chronologically. The American version therefore received numerous criticisms and failed commercially at the box office. Disappointed by the poor success, as well as the reactions of critics and audiences to this version, Leone until his death in 1989. he did not make any more films.
The film is associated with three eras of American history, with two flashback sequences (mainly in 1921. and 1933. year), with 1968, in which the main character remembers his life. After an anonymous plea to return to New York after 35 years in hiding, David "Noodles" Aaronson is forced to confront his past while searching for the person who found him.
After the deaths of his friends in 1933, Max, Patsy and Cockeye, killed by the police during a shootout, Noodles, who is pursued by a mafia, hides in an opium hideout. In hiding, he indulges in memories of his childhood in the 1920s in New York. Young Noodles (Tiler) 1921. retreats around the Brooklyn Jewish ghetto as a poor street bum. His gang consists of Patrick "Patsy" Goldberg (Bloom), Phillip "Cockeye" Stein (Curran), and Dominic (Moazezi), who has no last name. Crime in the ghetto is controlled by local bandit Bugsy (Russo), who also has his own gang.
Noodles and his gang meet Max Bercovitz (Jacobs) and start their own businesses with Noodles and Max's co-lead. The most important secondary themes of the film are collecting loot in a bag which they leave in a locker at the bus stop (key action detail) Noodle's incessant flirting with Deborah (Connelly) a neighborhood girl who wants to become a dancer and actress, and a gang relationship with Deborah's brother, Fat Moe (Monetti). The childhood memory ends in tragedy as Bugsy, furious at the boy's success and independence, kills Dominic. Noodles retaliates by stabbing Bugsy to death with a knife. At that moment, police appear and Noodles is sentenced to 12 years in prison.
The new flashback sequence begins in 1933 when Noodles (De Niro) was released from prison. He soon meets his old gang: Max (Woods), Patsy (Hayden) and Cockey (Forsythe), who have become big booze dealers. After a brief encounter with Deborah (McGovern), her brother Fat Moe (Rapp), who runs their illegal bar, and Peggy (Ryder), Patsy's girlfriend, who runs their brothel, Noodles returns to old ways when he is hired by the Minaldi brothers, Joe (Young) and Frankie (Pesci). The Minaldis want the gang to steal a shipment of diamonds from the jewelers and bring them to Joe.
During the robbery, we meet Carol (Weld), the jeweler's secretary, whom Noodles rapes while the others steal the diamonds. Then, on an abandoned dock, they kill Joe and his men. Noodles is outraged, but Max reveals to him that Frankie arranged to take out Joe and tells him it may bring more gang work. Noodles resists cooperating with the mob, and particularly points out that Frankie may one day order him to kill Max, but soon strays from the subject.
The gang quickly became more deeply connected to the mob. They intervene in a steelworkers' strike to protect union boss Jimmy Conway O'Donnell (Williams) from tycoon Crowning (Gerard Murphy) and his hitmen, led by Joe Kukavica (Bright). The gang is forced to get involved with corrupt police chief Vincent Aiello, who is bribed by a steelworker. They replace the newborn's boss with another baby at the hospital. Soon after, Carol becomes increasingly associated with the gang and falls in love with Max. Noodles goes to a meeting with Deborah and after rejecting her, rapes her in the back seat of a rented limousine.
Max increasingly connects four friends with the mob, unions and politics. He becomes greedy in his desire for the gang to take a more respectable position, but Noodles still disagrees. After the ban, Max proposes robbing a New York Federal Reserve bank, and Noodles begins to object, believing it to be suicide. Carol convinces Noodles to give the police a plan in hopes that three friends will be arrested. Unfortunately, Max, Patsy and Cockeye were killed during a showdown with the police; it turns out that Max's body was burned so he can't even be identified. Noodles, who needs money to escape, goes to the bus stop but discovers that someone has collected money from a bag and replaced it with newspapers.
The action was then moved to 1968. Noodles returns from Buffalo, where he has lived for 35 years under an assumed name. Back in the old neighborhood, he visits Moe, who still runs the bar, and Deborah, now a successful actress who is in a relationship with Commerce Secretary Christopher Bailey. Noodles goes to the bus stop again and finds money in the suitcase with an anonymous message that he was paid in advance for the last job. It immediately becomes clear to him that Max is still alive, that he faked his death in 1933. with the help of the crowd and rising again, this time as the powerful and wealthy Bailey. While being followed by a corruption investigation, "Bailey" sends a coffin full of money, by which he intends to hire noodles to kill him. Max will walk away with his honor unsullied, and Noodles has a chance to get revenge on the man who stole his life. Noodles refuses and leaves. Leaving Bailey's estate, he notices the man, Max, as he follows him. At that moment, a garbage truck passed between the two, and when it moved away, the other man disappeared. The camera focuses on how the truck crushes the garbage, suggesting that Max kills himself by throwing himself into the machine. As the truck's lights fade into the night, two cars full of drunks pass in the other direction. One vehicle dates back to the 1930s and people were dressed in clothing from that period. It's unclear if this is another flashback or a costume party on wheels. The film returns to the 1930s with noodles in an opium hideout. He lies on a small bed as at the beginning of the story, takes out some opium from a pipe, turns to the camera and begins to laugh happily. The image freezes, the rush to leave begins.
