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Once Upon a Time in America (English: Once Upon a Time in America), is a 1984 Italian/American epic crime drama film directed and **** written by the same Italian director Sergio Leone. Starring Robert De Niro and James Woods. Adapted from Harry Grey's novel The Hoods, it tells the story of several teenagers in the Jewish ghetto of New York City, USA, who gradually grow up to become gangsters, and shows a microcosm of American urban life from the 1920s to the 1960s. The film's themes explore childhood friendships, love, lust, greed, betrayal, loss, broken relationships and the rise of the mob in American society.
The film is the final installment of director Sergio Leone's "American Trilogy," and its excellence lies in its narrative style, which abandons Hollywood's typical "linear narrative" structure and adopts a "non-linear narrative" structure. Narrative" structure, which makes this movie cost classic. The non-linear narrative structure of the film is centered on the entanglement between Noodles and Max, interspersed with multiple events in different eras, and the scenes are interspersed in the time and space of the protagonist's three different eras, which wonderfully reflects the changes of social life in the American metropolis during the past 40 years. In 1985, the film won the BAFTA Awards for Best Soundtrack and Best Costume Design and was nominated for the 42nd Golden Globe Awards for Best Director and Best Original Score.
One night in 1933, Noodle, who was preparing to smoke opium in an opium den, read the newspaper news that "three bootleggers were wanted and shot to death," and then fell into a trance with the opium, recalling some of his past memories off and on. Fat Moe's tavern and takes a key to a locker at the New York train station, but when he gets there, the money in the box turns out to be scrap newspaper. With nothing left, Noodle decides to buy a ticket and leave for Buffalo.
Thirty-five years later, in 1968, Noodle returned to New York, where Fat Mo's Tavern was still open. He took out a letter of invitation and asked his old friend Fat Mo, very confused. The invitation was sent by Minister Bailey, but Noodle did not recognize the scandal-plagued Bailey. But later, while watching TV, he realizes that Deborah, Noodle's former lover, is Minister Bailey's wife, so he decides to go to her first.
At the end of the night, Noodle thinks back to his childhood with the other Jewish children, from time to time to help the hooligans to do something to earn extra money, and the only one in the crowd is Fat Mo never involved in it, but he often help the Jewish children; Deborah is Fat Mo's sister, practicing dance, and aspires to break through in the future. Noodle has a crush on Debra, but Debra rejects Noodle because of his dishonorable life and work.
Soon Noodle's gang befriends Max, a newcomer to the neighborhood, who sabotages their thieving scheme, but when the police show up, Max calls Noodle his "uncle," and joins them in a bootlegging scheme to make a fortune and start his own business. Max advocates that the money be deposited in a locker at the train station, which can only be opened in the presence of all five brothers. Noodle was a bit hesitant, but ultimately he believed in his friends' loyalty, so he agreed.
The hooligans were so upset with Noodle and his gang that they violently warned two of them the first time, and the second time they sent a man to shoot them, killing the youngest, and enraged Noodle killed the hooligans and uncontrollably killed the policeman, for which he was sentenced to 12 years.
After his release from prison, Max's gang career is sitting pretty and soaring. Noodle rejoins the gang, but he doesn't agree with Max's tricky and murderous ways, and Max refuses to get out of the way, becoming more and more unable to extricate himself from the situation, thus creating conflicts between the two men. In addition, Noodle's bitter love for Debra is also a source of resentment for Max, who believes that Noodle will not be able to devote himself to the gang's cause.
Debra, seeing that Noodle is unwilling to change his ways, decides to leave for Hollywood to pursue her career as a star. The day before her departure, she agrees to her first date with Noodle and gives him one last chance to decide whether he wants love or brotherhood. Once again, Noodle chooses brotherhood and is separated from the world.
Frustrated, Noodle goes to an opium den to take his mind off his troubles, but Max is enraged that he won't go out on business with his brothers for the sake of a woman. Soon, Prohibition will be lifted and Noodle and the gang will have no business and will have to find another way out. Noodle does not agree with Max proposed political collusion, but the arrogant Max even proposed another robbery of the Federal Reserve Bank, and determined to implement, Noodle can not bear to take the brothers' lives at risk, so beforehand denounced the bootlegging, trying to prevent the robbery with a lesser charge, but the three brothers and the police shootout, and ultimately lost their lives.
Noodles went to the graves of his three deceased friends as instructed in the letter and found his name engraved on the tombstone and a locker key hanging on the wall. Noodle goes to the train station and finally finds the huge sum of money that should have belonged to him but has disappeared.
The movie goes back to 1968. In order to find out the truth, Noodle goes backstage to see Deborah after she finishes her play. After some small talk, Deborah asks Noodle to leave so that her memory will not be erased with the truth, suggesting that the truth will be a very desperate one. Deborah's son then calls out to her from the door, and Deborah, in a panic, refuses to let the boy, David, in and prevents Noodle from going out the front door, saying that Noodle will be even more desperate. But Noodle insists on going out the front door, and sees Deborah's son, who looks exactly like Max did back then.
Turns out Max colluded with the police to cheat death, betrayed his brothers, took the money, continued his career under another identity, and eventually became Minister Bailey, but when the embezzlement came to light, he sent someone to assassinate the investigating judge, and eventually reached this point of no return.
Noodles is invited to Bailey's villa and is privately invited to the study. Max confesses to his betrayal, and again asks Noodle to shoot himself in the dark as revenge for years of betrayal, but is refused by Noodle, who politely claims that he is the betrayer: the police he reported to the police thirty years ago had caused them to be shot long ago. Leaving the Minister's villa, Noodle sees Minister Bailey disappear behind a garbage-crushing locomotive and hears the sound of machinery, and sees some of his aging or dead friends again, cheering as they drive by in an old, new, old car in a return to their youth.
Finally, the garbage truck's taillights turn into 1933 headlights, and the young noodle lays back in opium couch smoke, takes a few puffs and smiles wryly.
The girl in the picture is named Jennifer Connelly
Jennifer Connelly (Jennifer Connelly), born December 12, 1970 in Catskill, New York, USA, is an American actress and a graduate of Yale University and Stanford University.
Jennifer Connelly was born in 1970 in Catskill, New York, USA, and graduated from Yale University and Stanford University. In 2010, she starred in the movie "A Love Affair"; in 2012, she starred in the movie "What Happened to Virginia"; in 2014, she starred in the movie "Noah's Ark: Journey to the End of the World"; in 2012, she starred in the movie "What Happened to Virginia". ; Participated in and starred in the movie "In the Heights" ? . 2017 starred in the disaster movie No Way Out