There’s rules to a gunfight and rules to how to shoot one. Sergio Leone wrote most of them…
Terrific tribute to Sergio Leone by BFI
There’s rules to a gunfight and rules to how to shoot one. Sergio Leone wrote most of them…
Terrific tribute to Sergio Leone by BFI
‘My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.‘
Sergio Leone (3 January 1929 – 30 April 1989)
Henry Fonda in “Once Upon a Time in the West”
“What’re we gonna do with this one, Frank?”
“Well, now that you’ve called me by name.”
One of the tropes of Westerns is you have an experienced gunfighter who meets the young cowpoke who has some mission that he has to accomplish, and it’s the old, experienced gunfighter who teaches him the tricks of the trade [… that’s in] most of Lee Van Cleef’s spaghetti Westerns that aren’t with Sergio Leone – that’s kind of Van Cleef’s role. (Quentin Tarantino, interview, Dec 2012)
Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee van Cleef and Sergio Leone fooling around with bank notes on the set of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”