Very Rare Interview with Sergio Leone in 1984

[WanderLink]

Sergio Leone was a famous dolphin right?

[charms71]

this guy is one great director that died too soon. His "Once Upon a Time in America" is equivalent to other 5 director's lifetime work.

You've earned your legendary status by any definition Sir!

[PaulRietvoorn]

he put on his best clothes for this very special interview

[jan279]

The legendary Sergio Leone probably inspired Clint Eastwood to become the great director he is today! =)))

[knubir]

Sergio Leone e Ennio Morricone sono italiani magici!! Ho solo visto il grande epos e la grande declaratione di amore per America "c’era una volta in america". Il libretto e la musica. Un recordo "para siempre" in mi corazon. Tutti anni – un giorno- repito - con lacrimas la historia de Noodles, Deborah, Fat Joe e i altri. Mille gracie Italia per Sergio e Ennio!! Perdone mi italiano e cattivo. Sono norvegese.

[GardenProg]

@knubir riesci a farti capire abbastanza bene (anche se usi un pò di spagnolo) :)

[knubir]

@GardenProg Mille grazie! Sono stato capogroupo in Cattolica 1965 ma oggi il vocabolario e molto limitato. Ma mi amore per la cultura italiana existe encora!!!

[GardenProg]

@knubir :)

[mremile72]

i love the fact that he spoke no english for some reason lol

[MrSoprano92]

So an editing company severely depressed this man and stopped him from making films forever, i have only see Once Upon A Time in America but i plan to watch all of his Westerns, but from the one film i've watched this guy loved film making. Didn't do it for the money, i absolutely adored the feel of that film, i could easily sit through the 4 hours again. I might conclude his last, was his best.

[Something6000]

Bit Tits Zombie brought me here!

[ilikevines]

is he wearing a moomoo?

[Johnnystrychnine]

Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone are Gods to the Film world.

[CoolerKing37]

Great director........but why the muu muu?

[MasterNacho94]

I bet If Quentin Tarantino met Sergio Leone while he was still alive, He would fuck him.(But not in a gay way)

[NHRickard]

where do i find that gown

[Chopofiev]

Jaba Da Hutt? Anyone?

No, but he's awesome! xD

[flaviokleinrocha]

nice dress...

[thejman10]

if only he could have lived longer.

[TheArtofUTube]

Get three coffins ready.

[DimebagVision]

Sergio Leone made perfect films of what the wild west was REALLY about. Amazingly, Italian directors always made perfect westerns. Sergio Leone was definitely one of them.

[joekiddlouischama]

@DimebagVision The "real West" probably bore little resemblance to Leone's films. However, Leone's salient theme about vicious economic determinism and the violence that accompanied it evinced a refreshingly realistic sensibility, albeit drenched in a highly stylized, deliriously operatic mode.

But the vast majority of Italian Westerns fall far short of Leone's standards, although I seriously appreciate

Sergio Corbucci's "The Grand Silence."

[scagish]

Best director of all times, this man is pure epicness

[MrMarcolg]

D.E.P. Desde La Calahorra(España) Lugar que tanto apreciabas ,lugar en el que construiste un poblado del oeste llamado Flagstone para once upon a time in the west,donde rodaste las escenas de ferrocarril de La muerte tenia un precio y el bueno el feo y malo.Tu huella esta aqui Sergio,pintadas en las paredes del ya derruido Flagstone diciendo Viva Leone! estan aqui,tu recuerdo en La calahorra sigue vivo y sera inmortal

[firtday]

the greatest director of all time will be light years ahead even thirty years



[generalcircle]

I WANT MY SPAGHETTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII­IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII­IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII­III!!!!!!!!!!

[ConanVictor]

@generalcircle Duck, you sucker!

[surgite111]

Sergio Leone wanted to film Once Upon a Time in America but before that the studio's practically bribed him into making another western which he did not want to do anymore as he said that that type of genre was over for him.

Not only did he do one western he did two and when all was over they ruined his "epic" by getting an assistant editor from Police Academy to hack up the story line.

Had it been showed the way it was supposed to be, Once Upon a Time in America would have won many awards.

[steptb]

It rarely has happened that USA producers imposing a film to an author led to something great. C'era una volta il West is one of those times.

[ValesOnicA86]

è doppiato da richard benson... XD

[GhostOfBugsy]

Why is it that all famous directors are fat phucks and die young? Why?

[yes90125]

@GhostOfBugsy You must only watch films that are directed by famous fat phucks that are dead! Why?

[23MIKE95]

@JuanMacready Whathas Leone done to you? Leone was a genius. If you don't like his style of films, then why bother watching an interview with him and then call him a talentless fuck when clearly you're the talentless fuck because you haven't made a film.

[JuanMacready]

I'm so glad the talentless fat fuck Leone died at only 60.

[GordonMorrice]

@JuanMacready Have you made any films, Juan?

[JuanMacready]

@GordonMorrice No, I'm just glad Leone died at only 60. Wish it had been from cancer.

[F19991]

Sergio Leone. A hero. The greatest filmmaker of all time; A legend.

[kometman]

When "JuanMacready" dies, I'll be the first to piss on his grave.

[staphinfection]

Hands down, best DIRECTOR ever.

So many directors now borrow from Leone, it's not even funny. And people think it's all original and hip, yet Leone did it back in the fucking 60's and with all the critics calling him a total failure.

So fuck all y'all.

[rampskater0102]

@staphinfection critics dont know anything, i know that leone is considered one of the best but i only wish people recognised him for what he was while he was still alive :( i dont understand why he still cant win an honorary oscar and have them give it to his daughter or something like that, because he deserveres MORE than that

[insider94]

@rampskater0102 I think alot of people recognize him, I know I do, and I'm 15 lol. Me and my dad watched good, the bad, and the ugly all the time when i was 3 or 4. And his work definatley is reflected in films today, especially Quentin Tarantino films.............someday, I hope I'll make movies and do them in that style to remind people that it all started with Sergio Leone cause that man deserves a hell a lot of credit.

[zedoc76]

If you don't have time to read Karl Marx, watch the trilogy!

Leone was a genius

[JuanMacready]

Leone was a fat fuck.

[TheBoomViper]

@JuanMacready

go jump off a cliff troll

[setpunk12]

Brilliant director with a real vision. I wish he lived longer. His films are just beautiful. Ugly but beautiful/

[scenester64]

@rogerpenna But Kurosawa bought the rights to the book and is based on it. Leone didn't tell Kurosawa or the producers that he was going to remake Yojimbo, which is why he was eventually sued for it.

[piazzarock]

grandissimo sergio leone!!!!!

[scenester64]

He was a great director. But I will always remember him as the guy who stole Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' and turned it into 'Fistful of Dollars'

[rogerpenna]

@scenester64

Well Kurosawa himself copied Yojimbo from the book Red Harvest.

[rasenshuriken198]

this guy made clint eastwood the legend he is today

[TheRealOzzie234]

Juan Macready's western's a la John Wayne-style got ruined... pooooooor boy lol

[JuanMacready]

@TheRealOzzie234 The old westerns with Wayne, Stewart and Cooper were far better than the overlong, boring, badly dubbed crap by Leone, which just ripped off the old movies anyway.

[MotorSickler]

@JuanMacready Howdy Juan!i am old,but i remember Sergio and Peckinpaw as new stuff when i was a kid.Gotta take it in context.Serg grew up under Mussolini.American westerns were banned.He read penny dreadfuls.His movies are an insight to that,like Pulp Fiction.compared to Superman.All has its place,Ol Hoss.Peace be with you,grasshopper pal!

[rogerpenna]

@JuanMacready

Yes, and Starship Troopers is a way better movie than 2001 A Space Odissey.

[JuanMacready]

@rogerpenna 2001 is a piece of shit.

[AmericanOutlaw87]

@JuanMacready That's because idiots like you can't watch a movie without explosions every five seconds. 

[TheDirectorofFoo]

@JuanMacready So are you.

[joekiddlouischama]

@JuanMacready Dude, Leone's visions were antithetical to Western traditionalism.

[ROBERTLUCIAn]

@joekiddlouischama He was an artist, not a historian making History channel documentaries. His style and vision were great.

[joekiddlouischama]

@ROBERTLUCIAn I don't see how your point contradicts mine. "Western traditionalism" is an aesthetic matter with nothing to do with actual history; you don't seem to have understood the term or the point of reference.

I'm very much aware that Leone constituted a creative filmmaker.

[ROBERTLUCIAn]

@joekiddlouischama I can see your point. I am just not a big fan of John Wayne the draft dodger and other western traditionalists.

[joekiddlouischama]

@ROBERTLUCIAn I love Leone's radical revisionism; I was refuting the other poster's absurd notion that Leone just "ripped-off the old movies" starred in by Wayne, Cooper, et. al.

Sure, Leone toyed with Western conventions and precedents, but primarily to comment upon them via humor and visual spectacle and to subvert them with sardonic satire and nihilistic violence.

[joekiddlouischama]

@joekiddlouischama Even though, according to Clint Eastwood, Leone loved to discuss John Ford and American Westerns, the Italian director was never seeking to emulate directors such as Ford and Howard Hawks; quite the opposite.

[bassmanUSSR]

He's a legendary director, supremely talented. Changed the Western forever, and made on of the all-time best gangster pictures, if not THE best.

He also looks sick in that robe thing, and I want to give him a hug.

[bassmanUSSR]

@JuanMacready That's an awful thing to say. Forget the westerns comment, that's down to personal taste and preference, but that heart attack thing was just low.

Don't be so cheap, man

[okinawasword]

@JuanMacready You're an idiot

[JuanMacready]

@okinawasword Why?

[NYCBG]

@JuanMacready When's your heart attack coming? Keep us posted. Your fans.

[alwaysthesun]

@JuanMacready we wish u the same, bud

[wilhelmscream25]

@JuanMacready your fucked

[Cosmic86x]

@JuanMacready it's time that your account gets deleted. all your comments are just low and very stupid.

[mike5green]

My favorite Director ! Sergio Leone is a ledgend !

[slimbond227]

The man's a fantastic director but is it just me or is he wearing a muumuu?

[francoceravolo]

grande sergio possa riposare in pace

[UltimateMoviesMan]

One of the greatest directors to ever walk the face of the earth. He is truly missed every day. A great loss for cinema worldwide.

[makemovies]

He should be on the Italian Walk Of Fame

[limestoneroad]

The western was a tired won out genre but Sergio Leone took it and made it into something we had never seen before. He really was a genius.

[HunterMann]

grazi per este video clip!

[neverstarting02]

FrankClanton You are an idiot. Fuck you dirty faggot!!

[oneuraire]

FrankClanton you're not normal. You need a mental treatment ! Ask help to someone...if someone listen to you...

[GomerDose]

LOL Jabba the Hut

[TheBoomViper]

Sergio Leone

a man

a vision

a legend!

R.I.P.

[amazingdany]

Shame he had weight problems, I would've loved to his vision of the siege of Leningrad.

[connaught2008]

HIm and John Huston will never be bettered

[josephmonana12]

best director

and you american dicks dont have much respect to these man

[ohscooter07]

you are ignorant

[IWantDaveKast]

Sergio Leone is one of the directors that inspired me to become a filmmaker. Him, Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, and Steven Spielberg are all my inspirations.

[joetheanglo]

Undisputed master of westerns

[michel1162]

Grazie Sergio.

[burt36]

One of the greatest directors of all time.I can see in his work that he studied the Great John Ford's western films but with his own modern style.Sergio Lenone has been a huge inperation to me.Thats one of the reasons i am a filmmaker today.Enjoyed this interview.

[longjohnsilverPE]

@burt36 are you tarantino? LOL

[TheSteffen1223]

I hope the biography channel does one about him

[jtflyer]

Brilliant director.

[Fequarton]

Leone is one of the best director of Glyuputtah that I ever have seen. He will always be remembered.

[TheBoomViper]

Sergio Leone I salute you! You were one of the few very best out there...your classics will live on forever.

[KhmerSerey1]

Fat fuck or not,he is a master at his art and craft,a legendary director,he is very good at what he doese,i wish Sergio Leone the very best.I enjoyed his films alot...

[5uomalainen]

Yes, fat fuck who created one of the greatest movies ever in 60's - 80's

[rantifusaxp]

one of the greatests movies ever since the movies exist...

in imdb, it's the 4º best movie ever.

[dreamdewil]

So what if he died of a heart attack, his legacy lives on.

[gfscarface13]

Heart Attack victim leone. Im glad he hasn't made any movies since '88

[cyberscriptor]

shut up your mouth lil but deep shit even dead sergio is better than you alive

[ijzerdraad93]

Sergio Leone is the best director of all time.

[redgrant63]

the best filmmaker ever. great robe too.

[dontleademsomuch]

now we are stuck with homage-hacks like tarantino. this guy was a real original.

[GogolEugene]

First of all, we dont have just tarantino, we also have people like Steven Soderbergh, robert rodriguez and others great directors. also, even if I like Leone more than Tarantino, I must say that Tarantino IS original, even if not as much as Leone.

for example, his use of non-linear storytelling was never seen before, the unique use of dialogues and some of his shots are pretty much original.

[dontleademsomuch]

non-linear stroytelling has been used loadsa times before like in kubrick's The Killing! it's nothing new!! HAHAHAA!

he's a hack ripoff merchant!

[GogolEugene]

I said HIS use of non-linear storytelling, referring to pulp fiction, where he puts together some stories and shows them in non-cronological order..

and by the way, you say that tarantino does just homage and nothing new, but did you know that Leone had to pay the 15% of money he earned by A Fistful of Dollars to Akira Kurosawa, because the movie was strongly inspired by his film, Yojimbo?

[Swesuburan]

I don't think Rodriguez should be named here. However, the greatest director at the moment we have is Christopher Nolan, imo.

[GogolEugene]

Why do you think he shouldn't be named?

[Swesuburan]

I don't think he should be named because I simply don't think he's a good director. I liked some of Desperado, and From Dusk Til Dawn is a classic. But the Spy Kids movies, sharkboy and lavagirl and now Shorts, proves how much shit he's been getting out. I honestly don't understand how anyone can allow him to make all this shit. Sin City was OK.

[GogolEugene]

btw you're right, Nolan is a great director (maybe not the best, but i think it's impossible to say who really is the best)

[matteoprez]

you are so right.

[gip70]

ma dove si trovano questi filmati?

[bachelvis]

The greatest director in our time

[firelione]

A true film icon. Gone but not forgotten.

[strawdogs111]

Grande Sergio indimenticabile, grazie ancora.

[Lelej86]

maestro !!!

[sveltaccio]

Sei il mio dio con Kubrick

[lordtrax8]

true, Italian mate.

[lordtrax8]

I think that he could speak English but he evaded using it.

[Em4nu3le]

When i speak about him, when everybody speak about Sergio Leone, i'm really proud to be italian.

[Born28thMay]

@Em4nu3le You've always had great talent coming from Italy that you can be proud of. Nevermind Berlusconi, you'll always have that incredible talent and your culture with its undeniable impact on the world - especially on America. New York City just wouldn't be the same without the contribution of Italian and Irish immigrants, among other nationalities, of course.

[Moviebro]

I need to learn to speak Italian.

[danielejmk4]

it's easy = è facile

[DanteAntonelli]

Wow Khultan I'm quite sure you will never, ever learn Italian

[MonroeSmile]

LMAO!!

[Khultan]

Go and fuck yourself hard, DanteAntonelli Benito Mus SO AND SO BELLINI, okay?

[Khultan]

Wow, he really never did learn to speak English. Still, great director. Much respect.

[unj]

According to John Landis who was a stunt guy on one of his films he did speak English. Apparently he sounded exactly like Chico Marx.

[lucasaccardo]

To me the second trilogy actually ends with My name is nobody.

Still i don't understand the need to call trilogy movies that have nothing to do with each other besides obvious being of the same genre.

[vancleef74]

Thank you Sergio.

[PetoPerpetuo]

Great man... Great italian man

[facetina]

FACA

[MrTeethy]

great men.

[NartSaga]

I wonder how his Stalingrad would be like...

[lamalif36]

hoch lebe er sergio ...... möge er in frieden ruhen .....

[BluDevil93]

This guy is a legend.

[zazaboy62000]

R.I.P sergio and thanks for all the great movies!

[simo6656]

grandissimo immenso unico sergio leone!

[sternumagnum]

"Fool", huh? Who's the fool in this, let's see...

[jj4u007]

Thanks Sergio for your wonderful movies....Wherever you are may your soul have eternal peace.

[EazyMutaphukinE]

GENIUS

[missbutler1916]

thankyou from anthony

[squall697]

One of the greatest. R.I.P

[wildelvis69]

Sergio, sei partito così presto, nessuno oggi è in grado di suscitare tante emozioni come TU eri in grado di svegliare in noi. Il mondo del cinema e orfano perche ha perso il suo Maestro. RIP

[lesassassins]

pure genius.

[jma1uk]

My hero, it makes you think what other marvellous films Sergio would have made if he was still alive, RIP and thank you mr Leone, i salute you.

[goldyn12345]

i wish he was still alive,he would be making great films today.

[Mezzoponte]

Io adoro il cinema da ogni punto di vista: adoro tutti i generi, tutti i periodi, gli attori... adoro IL CINEMA! E i miei registi preferiti sono TANTISSIMI! Ma se dovessi fare una classifica, sergio sarebbe sicuramente tra i primi tre, se non tra i primi due!! I suoi film (specialmente la trilogia del dollaro) sono una vera e propria scuola di cinema! Dopo leone, tutto il cinema seguente deve qualcosa a lui!! Uno dei miei eroi! Ma proprio EROE nel vero senso della parola!

[cosanostranapoli1]

sergio leone è il mio regista preferito

[Badusername28]

sergio leone is my idol, thanks for posting

[GoblinGirl]

I've never seen/heard an interview with Sergio. Thanks for posting.

[roorybacky]

the greatest

[Methadone4Life]

I cant argue that my friend.

[cholulasaucehot]

what else would we watch ? if not for the man

[ISB]

Thanks for the upload. I also have a rare interview with the man, filmed by our (Serbian) journalist who interviewed him at Cannes, may 1984. Greetz from Serbia.

[kristijan12]

Pa covece uploaduj to, podeli to sa nama! :)

[JCuster89]

my favourite filmaker ever

[mahdiben]

it was a great director

[enrdes]

Brilliant, thanks a lot for uploading, it is really rare to find Sergio's interviews.

Awesome find!

[Claudinini]

Great film-maker.

[italian7777]

thanks for this where can i down load it from ??