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PCIntern

(25,347 posts)
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 05:33 PM Nov 2018

HEY! Ever seen Once Upon a Time in America? (Spoiler Alert)

At the end, the big political wheel played by James Woods who was a hoodlum-turned-political-crook-of-the-highest-order, walks out of his mansion with all the party guests there, and he knows he's doomed and going to jail. there is a garbage truck waiting. Its engine starts and then drives past Woods standing on the curb. When it passes, Woods is gone and all you can see is the garbage augur turning and the assumption is made that he threw himself onto the augur and was chewed up and spit into the trash truck.

Just sayin'...

Of course it's only a film and you cannot expect any real-life narcissistic criminal sociopath politico to do something like that to conveniently end the story. It would have to be much more complex...

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HEY! Ever seen Once Upon a Time in America? (Spoiler Alert) (Original Post) PCIntern Nov 2018 OP
Have not seen that but... jcgoldie Nov 2018 #1
Leone was a great visual director, but a fucking creep. John Fante Nov 2018 #2
Yeah, I didn't like the treatment of women TexasBushwhacker Nov 2018 #6
It's like Bond and Pussy Galore in Goldfinger... PCIntern Nov 2018 #7
Let's hire some trash trucks to loop the Whitehouse lame54 Nov 2018 #3
That was a good movie. Didn't he have a weird inferiority thing against De Niro's character? nt Snotcicles Nov 2018 #4
Yes very disturbing profiles of each of these characters PCIntern Nov 2018 #5

John Fante

(3,479 posts)
2. Leone was a great visual director, but a fucking creep.
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 05:40 PM
Nov 2018

(SPOILER)

Noodles (Robert DeNiro) violently rapes not one, but two women in this film, and I'm supposed to feel sympathy for him at the end? That's just bad storytelling.

"Deborah's Theme" is arguably Ennio Morricine's finest hour. It's so beautiful, it hurts.



TexasBushwhacker

(20,044 posts)
6. Yeah, I didn't like the treatment of women
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 06:18 PM
Nov 2018

There was the implication that Tuesday Weld's character enjoyed being raped. Fuck that shit.

PCIntern

(25,347 posts)
7. It's like Bond and Pussy Galore in Goldfinger...
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 06:24 PM
Nov 2018

and she was not even straight!

That's why it's a movie.

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