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Once Upon a Time in the West - Full Movie Watch Along (Patreon)

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2025-05-29 18:00:03
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Follow along with me using your own copy of the movie!

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Once Upon a Time in the West - Full Reaction

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William Terry

I heard Frank was evil on this one but so was everything else, even the animals lol. Good Henry Fonda movies where he's not the villain are not hard to find. "Mister Roberts" is great and almost as long as this one. Jason Robards Jr (Cheyenne) is not so plentiful but his role in "All the President's Men" is a great job. I like the soundtrack by Ennio Morricone in this and especially "Danger: Diabolik". For Katherine Hepburn in a western you should check out "Rooster Cogburn", "African Queen" is also great. Thanks bunny. I had difficulty with some of the points in the movie, like who were the men Harmonica killed in the beginning and it looked like they missed the deadline when the train arrived in the end and the station wasn't built yet. Terrific movie with all the touches of a spaghetti western and the beautiful Cardinale.

Markus Ruoff

I greatly enjoyed the watchalong - have only seen the movie once before I think. Is there a more iconic movie score? Also I got reminded to rewatch my old golden pond VHS again and will probably do so tomorrow... :)

Scott Phx

Good job Bunny. Hats off to Ted for recommending this one AND for offering to do the editing for free. How cool is that?! My favorite western? Probably The Good The Bad And The Ugly (which you say you've already seen.) It seems I can never get enough of that Ennio Morricone soundtrack, especially the Ecstasy of Gold with the incredible vocalist Edda Dell'Orso. Other good westerns for me are probably Dances With Wolves (1990) and Unforgiven (1992), among others. Glad you finally got to see and enjoy this excellent one!!

Edward M. Crowe

Hi Will! Many of the scenes in OATITW are oblique references to other westerns, so it can get kind of complicated. On your question "Who were the men Harmonica killed in the beginning", there are two answers: a short one and a long one. For the short one, they were Frank's men. Harmonica was tracking Frank along with the railroad. What would have happened had Frank actually showed up, and what Harmonica would have done then, is never made clear. For the long one, there was a companion essay written to accompany the movie when it was entered into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2009, by Chelsea Wessels, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Performing Arts at Cornell University. The opening scene references back to another famous western, "High Noon". Here is her complete explanation: "The opening credit sequence illustrates this emphasis on the cinematic history of the western, through a series of deliberate generic references that play out in a slow unfolding of heightened sounds and images. Three men wait at the station for the next train to arrive, immediately a clear reference to Fred Zinnemann’s 1952 “High Noon.” Even more referential, the three men are played by recognizable key figures in a number of westerns: Woody Strode, Jack Elam, and Al Mulock. As the waiting stretches on, a series of sounds draw the viewer’s attention to minute details: the buzzing of a fly, water dripping onto a hat, the clatter of an unattended telegraph receiving new messages. Critically, one of the men rips the cords of the machine, the sound of civilization interrupting his meditation on the violence to come as he caresses his gun after trapping the fly inside. Already, the dialectic between civilization and the frontier – a common theme in the western – is embellished with cinematic and generic flourishes." Hope that helps!! Have a great week ... T.C.

Alexander Kalinowski

Alright, quick explanations: you mostly grasped it all except got a little bit confused after the train scene. Frank and Cheyenne didn't know each other, Frank is someone coming from the East with Morton and the railway; they're strangers here. While Cheyenne was breaking Harmonica out, Frank got hold of Jill who turned out to be a former whore from New Orleans. He considered killing her to get the property (somehow?) and she tried to keep him from doing so by pleasing him by any means necessary. He then came up with the auction idea which got foiled by Harmonica. Cheyenne's men broke him out off-screen and then they set on Mr. Morton where Cheyenne got fatally wounded before he shot Morton. Before that we have the "Poker" scene where Morton hires 4 of Frank's men to kill Frank but Frank survives that with the help of Harmonica. That part got you a bit lost, everything else you were pretty much spot-on. Hope it helps! Great reaction, enjoyed it a lot. :)

TheNeonRabbit

This was quite a departure for Henry Fonda. He built his whole career playing good guys and heroes.

John DiGiantomasso

Nice job on this. I have the DVD which has a ton of commentary. A great semi-modern western is Silverado - it does a great job fleshing out all the backstories. I think you would really enjoy that one and its all-star cast!

bunnytails

Did you ever rewatch On Golden Pond? :D

Markus Ruoff

I did the next day. Henry Fonda and Norman were as great as ever.