Chinese translation: Once Upon a Time in America

Hong Kong and Taiwan translation: Yi Bo Yuntian/Sihai Brothers

More film titles: C'era una volta in America

Director: Sergio Leone (Sergio Leone)

Starring: Robert De Niro (Robert De Niro)

James Woods

Jennifer Connelly

Joe Pesci

Danny Aiello

William F. William Forsythe

Elizabeth McGovern

Tuesday Weld

Distribution company: Warner Bros.

Film type: Crime (Crime) Drama (Drama)

Rating: R

Film length: 229 minutes

Country/Region : American Italy

Dialogue language: English, French, Italian

Color: Color

Format: 35mm matte widescreen system

Mix: Mono

Rating: Rated R for strong violence, sexual content, language and some drug use. (edited version)

Rating:

Hong Kong:III Finland:K-18 Finland:K-16 Germany:16 Netherlands:12 Sweden:15 Brazil:14 USA:R Canada:R Canada:13+ Australia:MA France:-12 Ireland:18 Japan:R- 15 Norway:18 Spain:18 UK:18 West Germany:18 Australia:R South Korea:18 Italy:VM14 France:-16 Netherlands:16 Singapore:M18 New Zealand:R16

Production cost: $30,000,000 (estimated)

Copyright: Regency Entertainment (USA) Inc.

Filming date: June 14, 1982 - April 22, 1983

Premiere date: June 1, 1984

Filming format: 35 mm

Printing format: 35 mm

[Edit this paragraph] Awards

The film was nominated for the 1985 American Golden Globe Award for Best Director.

[Edit this paragraph] Plot of the film

Italian director Sergio Leone, famous for his spaghetti westerns, leads the audience across more than forty years to New York. Set against the backdrop of a Jewish community, it tells the story of the entangled grievances and resentments between four childhood playmates who grew up together.

Gold Award-winning actor Robert De Niro plays Noodles, the protagonist of the four main characters. This film is based on the criminal career of Alonso and his partners. It is a film about friendship. An epic gangster movie with human conflicts such as antagonism, loyalty and betrayal. The background spans important events in American history such as the Great Depression, Prohibition and World War I.

Actor James Woods (James Woods) also plays a role in the film; the film was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director that year, and has scored many popular movies, which can be called Italian National treasure master Ennio Morricone was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Music for this film. Ennio Morricone used a melancholy and nostalgic score to take the audience back to New York many years ago. of the Jewish Quarter, reliving the atmosphere of the past.

This is one of Sergio Leone's "American Trilogy" and is the image of the United States from the 1920s to the 1960s in the eyes of Italians. The director changed the pattern of Hollywood's traditional Western films and used a unique perspective to create an image of the American gangsters who went through life and death.

In the United States in the 1920s, a New York teenager nicknamed "Noodles" met the smart and cunning Max together with several friends of the same age. They started smuggling. Soon, Noodles killed someone in a fight and was imprisoned.

A few years later, Noodles was released from prison, and his former friends had turned into mature and strong young people. Under the leadership of Max, they returned to their old business and began a series of robberies, thefts, and extortion activities. As the criminal activities continued to deepen, Max seemed to be dazzled by the victory, and even included the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States as a target. Noodles, who had experience behind bars, couldn't bear to see his friend go to ruin, so he secretly called the police, hoping to force Max to stop. A fierce gun battle broke out between the police and Noodles' friends, and Max and others were all killed. Under extreme regret and pain, Noodles left the place where he grew up, left his beloved girl, and traveled far away.

Decades later, Noodles, who was almost twilight, returned to his hometown in despair, and unexpectedly discovered that everything back then was carefully planned by Max. He got rid of his partners with the help of noodles and the police, and escaped from his shell, swallowing up the gang's huge sums of money. After changing his appearance, he entered politics and became a celebrity in the upper class. Max begged Noodles to kill him, hoping to atone for his sins, but Noodles refused. In desperation, Max commits suicide by jumping into a trash crusher.

[Edit this paragraph] Behind-the-scenes production

This is an epic gangster film that depicts human conflicts such as friendship and opposition, loyalty and betrayal, directed by an Italian director who is famous for his Italian westerns. Directed by Sergio Leone, it is one of Leone's "American Trilogy" and is the image of the United States from the 1920s to the 1960s in the eyes of Italians. The director changed the pattern of Hollywood's traditional Western films and used a unique perspective to create an image of the American gangsters who went through life and death. The film is quite powerful and there is a poetic quality to the depiction of violence. The time spans 40 years, with major events from the Great Depression, Prohibition to World War I serving as the backdrop. The film only selects a few characters and events from the original work and adopts a typical Hollywood narrative structure. The difference is that the film's spatio-temporal structure processing is quite unique. The story is gradually unfolded through the memories of the protagonist Noodles. The story always proceeds in an unreasonable debt dispute between Noodles and Max. The film won two Academy Awards for Best Soundtrack and Best Costume Design from the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1984, and was nominated for the 1985 American Golden Globe Award for Best Director.