Once Upon a Time in the West

Once Upon a Time in the West was a very interesting movie. Sergio Leone did a wonderful job keeping the viewer entertained and at the edge of his/her seat. I found it very interesting on how he used such little dialog and still achieved it. He opened it up with a train scene which is probably the most memorable part of the movie. A good 5-10 minutes without much dialog but other sounds that told the story just as well. He did this the entire movie, creating characters and showing the audience their personality with having them talk next to nothing. At times because of the shortage of dialog it makes you think that a character is going for one thing, only to reveal that his true intentions later such as when Harmonica was ripping up the clothes of Jill. We first thought that Harmonica was going to rape Jill or something to that extent but in the end it happened that Harmonica did it to protect her. Also the story did not completely follow the normal western about revenge. Harmonica explictly says that he wants to meet with Frank and you get the fact that Harmonica wants to kill Frank but you do not understand why. Only in the end of the movie is it revealed why Harmonica is out for revenge very different from other westerns that I have seen. In other westerns the opeing part of the movie is about the act at which the main hero is going to get revenge on. This kept me on constantly thinking about what Frank could have done for Harmonica to want to kill him so badly. The end was better than my expectations and the movie as a whole was very good.