So much power in such a short amount of time.
There might be some debate on whether Once Upon a Time... in the West is Sergio Leone's finest Western, but there is no doubt that it is in this feature that Charles Bronson delivers the performance of a lifetime. Bronson delivers the perfect balance between subtlety and machismo with Harmonica, an enigmatic cowboy out for vengeance.
Charles Bronson's Performance Is Stoic and Unrelenting As the narrative progresses and unfolds, the spectator's initial guesses about Harmonica slowly become based on truth. He starts to become enveloped in Jill McBain's quest to take Sweetwater, the land she inherited from her husband. Frank, who wants to take the land for himself, had Mr. McBain killed while also framing gang leader Cheyenne in the process.
When Frank lets him live to tend to more pressing matters, he is rescued by Cheyenne, and the tides of the fight for Sweetwater change. Jill is forced by Frank to auction the land, while his goons use intimidation to dictate the action in his favor. Harmonica suddenly appears, and wins the bid and gets the property. In the name of money, Frank's associates turn on him and ambush him in the street, but in a surprising twist of events, are aided by Harmonica.
One particular sequence shows the patented Leone zoom closing in on his eyes, and the audience is treated to a flashback, revealing his true intentions. Frank killed his brother in front of him, and to add salt to the wound, was asked to keep his loving brother happy by sticking the harmonica to his mouth. His eyes, which were previously unmoving, without a shred of fear, now subtly drooped. The visual is powerful and transports both us and his character back to his past.
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