tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7260987546452439018.post5505450875521427903..comments2010-04-21T19:03:52.731-04:00Christopher Irvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07583494334607619256noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7260987546452439018.post-69105924516957490752010-04-21T19:03:52.726-04:002010-04-21T19:03:52.726-04:00The magic of Once Upon A Time In America is it&#39;s ability to linger long in the memory. So many great scenes set to Morricone&#39;s beautiful music create a cinema that all the CGI money can buy will never touch.<br /><br />Saw it in 1984, butchered and broken but like the America it celebrated and mourned for, still was able to offer up its hard earned beauty. Perhaps no other director&#39;s work more mirrored their creator than those of the Great, that&#39;s right, Great Sergio Leone. His films have been cut and desecrated by the very country they were intended for and he has been ridiculed as a hack and pop artist.<br /><br />40 years later, Leone is considered one of the Masters of Cinema and all 7 of his films considered classics of modern cinema with 3 being outright Masterpieces. God Bless you Sergio Leone, we are not worthy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com