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  • once upon a time in america and godfather, one of the moments where there are two bests

  • once upon a time in america, americans valued their personal freedom.. once, americans fought against tyrannical government, rather than defending it

  • Love, friendship and betrayal... The last scene sums it all up perfectly.

  • this is maybe the only one gangster movie,which made me cry several times :D so sad when you realize how short and transient life is .In one moment they are young,enjoing life ,on the peak .And then old,broken,alone hutned by memories.Great movie, De Niro -amazing, Woods -amazing ....Morricone´s music - godlike(supported by Yesterday - ingenious), all directed by Leone with amazing sceneries of old America - quality guarantee itself .... Once Upon a Time in America - priceless

  • Can someone please tell me that song in the werry begening of this clip from 0:0 to 00:47

  • @Playstation3gamenerd Yesterday.

  • @Playstation3gamenerd Yesterday by The Beatles

  • @Playstation3gamenerd Is a instrumental version of yesterday from the Beatles

  • @litster73 tnx really apritiate it can you pls link me to this particular version?

  • I think this might be the my favorite movie ever but I don't know why. Am I supposed to like Noodles and root for him here. He almost killed Max and did kill his two other friends by snitching. Also he's a rapist. I think Max is a more likeable character, why isn't he the protagonist. Why shouldn't he shit on Noodles for his betrayal, even if it was good intentioned? Confusing movie.

  • i might be naive for missing something but whats the significance of the garbage truck?

  • Halfway through the garbage truck scene an advert popped up for 'Avatar Yourself' and ruined everything...

  • yea richie8811 he did.

  • the golden movie .......

  • U give me opium and ill give u a thousand such stories.

  • I WANNA KNOW!!!!! DID HE KILL HIMSELF BY JUMPING INTO THAT GARBAGE TRUCK!?@#!?@#@!?????? ARGH

  • @richie8811 I think that Mr. Leone once said that the future parts of the movie (post 1930's), actually never happened, but instead were an opium induced dream by Noodles. That's why last scene has Noodles high as a kite on opium, and then smiling.

  • I think it would of ended better if after DeNiro walked out of the house, You heard one gun shot and then the movie would end.

  • @trev8200 yeah that would have been good, but i think he needed noodles to kill him to get payback rather than just killing himself

  • noi italiani siamo troppo forti!! onore a Sergio Leone e Ennio Morricone

  • I just saw this movie for the first time today. It's an awesome movie, no doubt. But one thing eluded me. Hope someone can sort it out.

    I got the part that Noodles tipped off the cops to put Max off from robbing the bank, but what exactly was Max's plan to betray the rest of them?

    Was the whole raid on the booze delivery a set-up by him or was it something else? And if it was, how did Noodles manage to get out of it?

    Thanks

  • @jaypatel384 Max knocked Noodles out for calling him crazy remember? Then Max went with the others to the heist and set them up by having them killed along with a third unknown person who was suppose to be Max's dead body. Before or after that Max took the money in the locker and payed his way into the syndicate and assumed a new identity when he was supposedly killed. He basically betrayed everyone. Max probably made the decision to do this after Noodles raped his secret lover Deborah.

  • @shaheed79 Ohk, I get it. So the guys shown at the beginning of the movie who kill the girl and attack Moe and are looking for Noodles are actually sent by Max?

  • @jaypatel384 No they were probably sent by the syndicate of the mafia. I'm not sure if they are the same thing or not and I don't think Max sent them to kill Noodles.

  • Summertime...

  • Noodles' face at 6.19... so shocked and sad... great De Niro

  • I literally gasped when I saw the pocketwatch when I first saw this movie. Truly epic.

  • A call to all the fans of this film: where's, in New York, the chinese theatre and the opium den where it's recorded the final scene? Did it really exist one opium den in NY, in 1983, or it was only a soundstage specifically created for the film?

    Thank you!

  • mr bailey hahaha

  • Once Upon A Time in America > The Godfather > Goodfellas > The Untouchables

  • For djerosim11, the last song

    Ennio Morricone - Cockeye's Song or Deborah's Theme from Once Upon A Time In America Soundtrack.

    Best music.

  • last songs plz?

  • @ Mehrad, yetersday from the beatles....nice isn't it.

  • The garbage truck scene is quite disturbing.

  • what song is playing in the background during 0:00 - 0:40?

  • @mehrad460 yesterday.

  • @brazilchem thnx.

  • @mehrad460 song is called "yesterday"

  • I felt obliged to give it a standing ovation after I watched it (seriously). Would definitely put this in my top 3, such a masterpiece.

  • I just watched "Limitless." Imagine an alternative universe where a film production company actually waited the exact chronological amount of years to film the ending of a movie.

    I truly admire the attempts to make DeNiro look old, but can you imagine what it would be like to have the first half of this movie filmed in the 80's, and then have the last half filmed in the 2010's? You can't replicate DeNiro wrinkles, facial lines, and just good ol' fashioned experience.

  • They sang the same patriotic song at the end of the Deer Hunter too in which de Niro also starred,

  • This is true art. I saw the movie for the first time 1981, I think it was. Since then I see it about every second year and it is still as good as it was the first time. I immediately turn into a special mood and a special feeling when the movie or a clip starts. The only movie I can compare it with is Once upon a time in the west.

  • @Alarik57 The movie came out in 1984. Did you mean you first saw it in 1991? I saw it in 97 I think.

  • This whole movie seems like one big Acid Trip!!!

  • chopped his ass up !

  • @davemustainee2 Actually we never know if he was murdered or if he pulled another fake death like he did 35yrs before. The movie leaves it kind of ambiguous.

  • Harry Grey, who wrote the original book WAS Noodles? He's said to have written it in prison late 40s/ early 50s. Wikipedia anyway.

  • bring back opium dens!!

  • bring back opim dens!!

  • james hayden wud have gone far

  • Once Upon a Time in America is one of the greatest movies ever

  • Последняя сцена отражает иллюзорность жизни. Как будто пелена в опиумном угаре. Смешение вымысла и реальности.

  • what can you say about this movie - lately i watch it every weekend and still i discover new things and emotions - this movie is number one !!

  • loe this...

    

  • i love the scene at the beach where max goes crazy for being called crazy because of his crazy father

    did i use the word crazy tomuch

    or am i .crazy

    crazy guys yuk yak

  • I never really got the end. Is Max been throwed in the garbage truck or is it just an open end?

  • This movie was amazing!! I was in awe by the end of it.

  • I first saw this in its uncut entirety about ten years ago and loved it. It makes any of my Top Ten Lists and I am a person who has watched everything from the silents on up.

  • Solo hay algo mas dificil que despedir la perdida de un ser querido, hacerlo cuando sigue con vida.

  • decia uno de mis maestros,el dinero marea a los hombres.

  • I have never seen any movie post-production like this.Three time zones combined perfectly. Masterpiece movie. You want to be director you'd better watch it.

  • even tough sergio couldn't release the movie that he wanted to release...this is a masterpiece!!! RIP sergio

  • @m3tm4n

    yes this is was a excellent movie, but showed the that the thugs have really taken over the entire WESTERN WORLD WITH nothing but SUFFERING and freedom out lawed

  • this film has been cut strange. once its old noodls and then young evrybody hey stop smoking opium^^

  • The World BEST! Smaki obrazów tego filmu, zapachy (czułem), klimaty, pietyzm scen,

    - nie umiem od tak wielu lat otrzasnąć się z niego... AAACH!

  • One of the Greatest movies, yet one of the most underrated too.

  • @vermilionskin You're right. I was asking Americans if they knew this movie, and -nope. Only one knew who said it was shot in European style. They just showed once in USA but it did not gain popularity. He told me American movie is either shooter, or comedy, or romantic and so on. This movie does not qualify for enough shooting but it combines little bit humor, love which makes it not a typical mafia movie but better than that. Even its soundtrack already makes it enough good. One of my favorite

  • @vermilionskin Underrated? Dumbass.

  • @wintersnoob What sort of films do you like? I wasnt alive when this was made, however i was born 6 years later and i watched it recentley and i think its a great film.

  • @DodgyIdeot It's not because of that. I do love this movie. It's because he said this movie was very unrated.. but it was well rated indeed. Just because it wasn't nominated for the Oscar awards it doesn't mean it wasn't well rated.

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  • La scène finale est magnifique l'affrontement de ces deux grands acteurs est prodigieuse. Un film qui m'a marqué lors de sa sortie en salle et que je regarde régulièrement aujourd'hui en DVD. Le film testament de Sergio Leone et l'un des grands chefs d'oeuvre du cinéma mondial

  • This film is a rollercoaster of emotions. I was fighting back tears when it was over. One of the greatest films of all-time.

  • que buena pelicula y que buenos actores !!! Robert de Niro , James Woods, Elizabeth Mc Govern , Treat Williams, Tuesday Weld ,Burt Young, ETC ... CONGRATULATIONS... !! ....おめでとう Omedetō.

  • amazing movie ! EPIC ! CLASSIC ! WSPANIALY !

  • i just think its time to watch again ;-)

  • I keep hearing that this originally was much longer. In fact I read that Leone had wanted to release it as two- 3hr. parts, and had over 10 hrs of footage at the end of filming, the original script being over 300 pages. That leads me to believe that there is still a lot of unseen footage out there. Anyone know if there ever will be a full, complete version on blue-ray or whatever?

  • Best film ever - there won`t be a masterpiece like this any more.

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  • -A Fistful of Dollars

    -For a Few Dollars More

    -The Good, the Bad and The Ugly

    -Once Upon a Time in the West

    -Duck, You Sucker!

    -Once Upon a Time in America (Original Version!)

    FUCK THE ACADEMY!!!

  • I also don't believe the story about how this is supposed to be all an opium fantasy

  • @hitmanhart670 none of it is a fantasy

  • @hitmanhart670 well isn't opium suppose to take you on a trip after you smoke it?

  • @LuiB13 You dream

  • This is my favorite movie of all time. Most people don't know about it or don't seem to think much of it when they've first seen it

  • This is one of the most under rated films ever. It's long so i think that put a blinker on it at the box office but it is a perfect film.

    I love it and the perfomances are fantastic. The soundtrack will stay with me forever.

  • If max jumped where is the blood

  • 6:19 - 6.27: Noodles' dismay and Morricone's background... no words...

  • Ennio Morricone = From the breath of God!

  • @StupidObamaNigger God doesn't want you to hate blacks.

  • Each time I have watched this film it brings back my life as a young Italian growing up with close friends. The bond that you brought to the table never ever dies. I am in my early 60's and some of those close friends have left. This movies lives past all of those bonds and each time you watch it brings back the memories of our youth. Thank you for such a great piece of art.

  • The movie's based on a novel I have. It was published in 1953, and it was called The Hoods. The author is Harry Grey.

  • Okay, did Max actualy throw himself in the truck? Note the painted hand waving cheerio, next to the no. 35 ( since 1933). Film was too good for the early 80s.

  • @Noodles37UK No, I think the Mob thru him in, at least that is my theory.

  • @Noodles37UK its too good for todays standards, such a shame the corrupt place that is hollywood butchered it just to make more money

  • @Noodles37UK Funny thing about the hand; it's actually a bird!

  • @justinbieberfan12891 You're right.

  • @Noodles37UK I read a pretty good article about that online, I don't remeber what it's called but I found it at a fansite for this film.

    Basically the theory was that Max fooled Noodles for the third time (first time when Noodles thought he had drowned when they were bootlegging booze, second time when he faked the burned corpse) and once again Max cheats death.

  • Robert's smile...

  • To the uploader-that's the best description text I've ever read

  • why is this movie so underrated???????films with the same genre like the godfather or scarface etc. are really known by everyone,this film is a lot bettr,but why so underrated?best movie ever,if u see the part where the little boy gets killed,thats really so sad,i almost needed to crie,really great film with flashbacks and the actuers are great,i wish that Al Pacino had a rol in this movie,he would fit good in this movie,dont u guys think so?

  • Do we have an idea of the date for the last scene with mr. Bailey the Secretary??

    I find strange to listen to the Beatles song "Yesterday" which was written in the mid Sixties

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  • @29TAFFY That part of the film was set in the 60's, if you'd notice Noodles age. :P

  • @29TAFFY Set in 1968. The Beatles' song is from their first of 2 albums from 1965. First was Help!, second was Rubber Soul. Hey, we can listen to anything we like, anytime we want : D

  • @29TAFFY 1968, look closely on the t.v screen that noodles is watching when it talks about the car bombing on the news

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  • It's 10:25. I've gotta garbage truck to catch. See ya!

  • It should be criminal how so underrated this movie is.

  • i hate james woods

  • what is the name of the song 0:43-3:00 ?

  • @aizik2005 Summertime from the musical "Porgy and Bess"

  • Does James Woods allow Noodles to escape the night Patsy and Cockeye are killed? Does Joe Pesci send those men to kill DeNiro? Woods does try to tell DeNiro to stay home - right before he knocks him out. "It was a syndicate operation," says Woods. Thus, Woods isn't a complete scumbag. Clearly, Woods could have found him before the 1960's. Also, are the three men at the table when Burt Young tells that joke the same three guys that kill DeNiro's girlfriend and beat up Fat Moe?

  • I saw this film when I was a little boy. I didn't understand much of the language but couldn't stop watching the images. I was about nine and forgot all about it in few days and never knew the name of the film. Then after many years I saw it again. I felt what a huge impact it had made to me even though I didn't realise it then. It was like suddenly remembering a childhood-dream as clearly as yesterday. I don't quite remember if that was all true but that's just it, the final image of the film.

  • why does he smile?

  • when he took out the watch i started crying..

  • ugh. hated the dialogue. it had no substance.

  • @rayanneflowers Indeed. Their life had no substance - the dialogue inspires this exactly. The one's live is like a huge complex sentence with plenty of spelling mistakes; in this case the sentence is completely meaningless. That is why one of them might end his life in that MACK lorry, and the other - in his own opium dreamland.

  • Noodles regresa a su juventud sonriendo a los recuerdos de su gran amigo. Tratando de apartar le realidad de esos momentos. Tratando de salvar la pureza de la amistad y la lealtad que la inspira. Solo los grandes pueden trasmitir la tremenda humanidad que plantea esta historia y que ilumina el alma de quienes la apreciamos .

  • when I watch thise kinds of movies I get anderstand more and more that in past freands did everything insted save each other for their freandship and this days they ready kill each other for nothing I realised that we lost our teachers and the most our world and future

    I just would hope that god will be mursy for us to give humanity and justice

  • @orangepeach12 , be cool, it will be always difficult, with Sergio or God, and your life, you 'll have only to create your life with the good and the bad, with the joy and the violence, as it made from the time of the creation. You'll win, and you loose, and maybe you 'll die, like ich other. You just can make a difference with your intellegency ... a message of Sergio, The Great ...

  • Can someone tell me what james woods commits suicide in is it a dust bin wagon?

  • deffinetly the best movie ever made!!!

  • When Noodles meets with the Secretary they are both older, grey haired, and balding. After Noodles leaves th Secretary's estate he goes to the opium den where he is a much younger man in appearance. Can someone please explain?.

  • @BooBoo0818 Its supposed to be back when he was younger right after max and them die its another shift in time

  • @BooBoo0818 It goes back to before this ever happened its another shift in time, back to right after max and them died, thts why some think wht happened after maxes "death" is an opium vision

  • @1vanM ok thanks

  • @BooBoo0818: Ok we must speak of the "uncut" version of the film not the piece of dreck that the US studio cut it to. Speaking of the film the way Sergio Leone edited it, this movie starts and ends in the middle of the narrative, the point at which Noodles "drops a dime" on his friend, and his friend decides to fake his own death. At that point Noodles goes to the opium den and his girlfriend, at his apartment, is murdered. That time is the beginning and end of the movie.

  • @lebarosky ok thanks

  • One of the greatest masterpiece ever made !!! A true lesson for young filmmaker like us !!!

  • i don't know if max dove into the back of that thing there definatly woulda been a few screams, but then again it is a movie...

  • Beautyfull, romantic, pessimistic, reactionary, truly a masterpiece, "gesammkunstwerk"...

  • what a movie... fantastic

  • sergio leone .a rendező óriás.e film olyan,mint a mester egyik másik örök klasszikusa,a volt egyszer egy vadnyugat.nem nézni,érezni kell....átélni, érezni mint elmesél....

  • A deeply mysogynous film! Beautiful images, music, but also scenes that do not for one instant question the image of women portrayed. Violence is shown without any critique and only from a disturbing point of view.

  • ma che minchia vai dicendo?!?!?!

  • Einer der besten Filme aller Zeiten! Was für Darsteller!

     de Niro ist der beste Schauspieler aller Zeiten!

  • STRATOSFERICO IL FILM E STRAORDINARIA LA COLONNA SONORA!!!

  • great

  • Dear Wellgard, thanks for your post and comment. It very much captures the spirit of this magnificent video.

  • I love this film. But this scene can only be the best because the rest of the film leads up to it. There is no watching various scenes with this movie. You can only watch the whole thing at once to get the most emotion out of it. everyone involved in the making of this film is a legend.

  • Even 10 minutes on youtube is enough to again

    invoke the magic.

  • friends dont last forever,do they

  • one of the greatest movies i have ever seen ! and one of the most underrated, if not THE most underrated!

  • This is excellent, but I really like the entirety of the Max/Noodles scene. I love it when Max tells him "You're the only one I can accept it from", and Noodles tells him he is old and might miss.

  • what is the name of the song in the end?

  • @yadmaa : yesterday - the beatles

  • @tricchetetracchete i dont think so, 08:11 starts that song?

  • @yadmaa That's a theme that Ennio Moriccone wrote especially for this film. Beautiful, isn't it?

  • herşeyi ile mükemmel bir film.....

  • great

  • I believed it was a western, i waiting 10 minutes for saw a duel but nothing ! X)

  • Damn.....if the last 3 minutes dont bring you to tears u arent human,the music alone should do that great movie too bad we had to wait to see the completed vision long after Sergio has passed on.

  • it's not likely a body would vanish in such a little time with no blood splashes and no bone fragments to see... but then such an old man could not really get on the van from the back and keep hunging on it forever. He definitely didn't seat on the van front seats as the van drives him past. I think this end quite simply doesn't make any sense. Considering the film was finished in 1984, it could just be a post-modernist twist to a very structured film. The interpretation is left to the viewer

  • "The interpretation is left to the viewer" yes. I don't like your realist remarks about anatomy: this ain't "Saw" and the fact that body parts or protoplasm does not behave like in anatomy class and the paper is in there is not soaked red, does not mean Bailey did not jump. Watch other depictions of violence and rape in the movie and you see that the intention is not to depict these acts realistically.

  • @ tublar87

    "My "intellectual status" has nothing to do with this.

    Your comment that the mafia is Jewish and that "movies is a jew business" just sounded racist; that's all."

    Jews DO in fact run the movie world, They rule new york and Los angeles too. You might not think so or agree with that, but its completely true

  • fuck you Deborah&max

  • There is no blood stains in the truck's triturator.

    Strange...

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  • @HistorialChannel hey the jewish mafia are the most powerfull in the world there the dimiond merchants its not racist its fact do you know what mafia means?

  • Don't forget that the movie is based on the book of Harry (forgot his family name).As I think - Jewish because of the poorest NYC district.And to show the difference between the generations-"Deborah,will you go to sinagogue with us? No, Dad, I'll go to train myself"

  • My "intellectual status" has nothing to do with this.

    Your comment that the mafia is Jewish and that "movies is a jew business" just sounded racist; that's all.

  • @HistorialChannel

    Your saying that the mafia is Jewish and not Italian and that "movies is a jew business" sounds racist. You can consider that an accusation if you like, but I'm not taking it back or removing it.

  • @HistorialChannel

    It's not necessarily better than the Godfather and I'd have to say that your comments about Jews sounds racist.

  • It's debatable whether Woods killed himself or not.

  • No, I really think that's a fundamental misreading of the movie. The entire movie builds up to the betrayal. Constant references are made towards the end of DeNiro being devastated ("turn into a pillar of salt") were he to find out how badly he was betrayed. So to say that DeNiro "knew Woods was alive" runs counter to a central part of the plot.

    Nobody really "won" in the end. That's a term that would be more applicable to sports than a tragedy like this film.

    (cont'd)

  • I have an idea. The truck was a throwback to the wagon trick done in the beginning of the film. The wagon is used to hide something from the observing cop. It ends with James Woods hopping on the back of the wagon as it rides away.

    Maybe he this time hops into the back of the garbage truck to his doom, since it had been mentioned several times that he was suicidal.

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  • @HistorialChannel I disagree. He smiled because as Deborah said (I paraphrase) "all we have are our memories." He was thinking back to all the great fun he had with his gang and the opium was allowing him to forget all the tragedy that came of it. That's what makes the movie a great tragedy. The main character has great success and great loss.

  • I humbly beg to differ with you. I think the ending is indeed very meaningful and it's not the smile of a winner we see.

    The scene preceding it with the decadent pre-depression lookalike party goers is significant as well in my interpretation.

  • Doesn't the ending Opium Scene take place before the mobsters enter the Den? Anyway the smile could symbolize repressed loneliness and guilt (over his friend's deaths and the raping of Deborah). But I love how the movie is revolved around the somber tone of time and that in the end you cannot change what you did in the past, but you can slowly let it go in the future.

  • Yes I thinks that's right - Max (as Bailey) says something like "I ruined your life". But it wasn't Max's life to ruin. Noodles took full responsibility for his actions and how his life had gone - he had come to terms with his past