Paths of Glory is rightly regarded as one of the most intense and successful pacifist films in the history of cinema. war, and echoing La Grande Illusion in sociological acuteness - manages to give life to a highly personal work in which stylistic solutions and thematic nodes, then deepened in some of his later films. The filmโฆ
A paranoid general, convinced that the Communists are poisoning American drinking water, sends his nuclear bombers to Russia with apocalyptic results. The director's black humor lends itself to a ferocious satire on the dullness of power and more generally on the human one. war and the destruction of the world and in this way arrive at a broader and more incisive reflection ยซon the man of the twentiethโฆ
ยซI wanted to create a dance of death, shaping it according to the ordinary myths of traditional western films: the avenger, the romantic bandit, the wealthy landowner, the criminal businessman, the prostitute. Starting from these five symbols, I aimed to present the birth of a nationยป. With Once Upon a Time in the West, Sergio Leone composes a fresco of extraordinary visual and symbolic power which deals with the age from the Wild West to the modernity represented by theโฆ
ยซVolevo realizzare una danza macabra che si basasse su tutti i miti del western tradizionale: il vendicatore, il bandito romantico, il ricco proprietario, lโuomo dโaffari corrotto e la puttana. Utilizzando questi cinque simboli, avevo intenzione di mettere in scena la nascita di una nazioneยป. Con Cโera una volta il West, Sergio Leone compone un affresco di straordinaria potenza visiva e simbolica che affronta il aggio dal selvaggio West alla modernitร rappresentata dalla costruzione della prima ferrovia transcontinentale, mettendo in luceโฆ
In Once Upon a Time in America, Robert De Niro and James Woods) and their gang of very young Jewish immigrants who, as they grow up, will reach the top of New York's organized crime scene. The film begins and ends in a den above a Chinese shadow puppet theater, where Noodles is used to smoke opium, a drug that increases visionary abilities and alters the perception ofโฆ
The screenplay for High Noon is written by Carl Foreman, a left-wing intellectual blacklisted in Hollywood for refusing to answer questions from the House Committee on Un-American Activities. In this sense, the story of the sheriff who is cowardly left alone by his fellow citizens, at the mercy of a gang of outlaws willing to take revenge on him, is often read as a metaphor for the fate of all those people betrayed and abandoned by their own community. Fredโฆ
