Lot of 7, Sergio Leone, Robert De Niro stills ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (1984)

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Lot of 7, Sergio Leone, Robert De Niro stills ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (1984):
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(They ALL look MUCH better than these pictures above. The circle with the words, “scanned for , Larry41” does not appear on the actual photograph. I just placed them on this listing to protect this high quality image from being bootlegged.)

Lot of 7, Sergio Leone, Robert De Niro stills ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (1984) James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Tuesday Weld, Jennifer Connelly, Scott Schutzman Tiler, Rusty Jacobs, Noah Moazezi, Brian Bloom, MINT - vintage studio originals

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This lot of approximately 9.5” x 7.5” to 7.75” x 7.5” photos will sell as a group. The first picture is just one of the group, please open and look at each still in this lot to measure the high value of all of them together. The circle with the words, “scanned for , Larry41” does not appear on the actual photographs. I just placed them on this listing to protect these high quality images from being bootlegged. They would look great framed on display in your home theater or to add to your portfolio or scrapbook! Some dealers by my lots to break up and sell separately at classic film conventions at much higher prices than my low minimum. A worthy investment for gift giving too!

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These photographs are original photo chemical created pictures (vintage, from original Hollywood studio release) and not a copies or reproductions.

DESCRIPTION:

Though some viewers might be put off by its length, graphic violence, and absence of likable characters, Sergio Leone\'s final film is also a cinematic masterpiece. Spanning four decades, the film tells the story of David \"Noodles\" Aaronson (Robert De Niro) and his Jewish pals, chronicling their childhoods on New York\'s Lower East Side in the 1920s, through their gangster careers in the 1930s, and culminating in Noodles\' 1968 return to New York from self-imposed exile, at which time he learns the truth about the fate of his friends and again confronts the nightmare of his past. The acting, the re-creation of the time period, the cinematography, and the music are all superb. However, even more important is Leone\'s ability to make the film work on so many different levels: it\'s both a criticism of gangster-film mythology and a continuation of the director\'s exploration of the issues of time and history. Strange as it may seem, the violence and gore in the first half of the film turn into a sad elegy about wasted lives and lost love. The film\'s strengths emerge only in its full 229-minute version -- the 139-minute and other edited versions don\'t make nearly the same impact.

CONDITION:

These quality vintage and original release stills are in MINT condition (old yes, but FLAWLESS – uncirculated!). PERFECT TO BE AUTOGRAPHED OR SIGNED AT A PERSONAL APPEARANCE! I doubt there are better condition stills on this title anywhere! This lot of approximately 9.5” x 7.5” to 7.75” x 7.5” photos will sell as a group. Finally, they are not digital or repros. (They came from the studio to the theater during the year of release and went into storage for many years!) They are worth $10 each but since I have recently acquired two huge collections from lifelong movie buffs who collected for decades… I need to offer these choice items for sale on a first come, first service basis to the highest buyer.

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Domestic shipping would be FIRST CLASS and well packed in plastic, with several layers of cardboard support/protection and delivery tracking. International shipping depends on the location, and the package would weigh close to a pound with even more extra ridge packing.

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BACKGROUND: “\"Is the film too long? Yes and no. Yes, in the sense that it takes real concentration to understand Leone\'s story construction, in which everything may or may not be an opium dream, a nightmare, a memory, or a flashback, and that we have to keep track of characters and relationships over fifty years. No, in the sense that the movie is compulsively and continuously watchable and that the audience did not stir or grow restless as the epic unfolded.\"The movie tells the story of five decades in the lives of four gangsters from New York City -- childhood friends who are merciless criminals almost from the first, but who have a special bond of loyalty to each other. When one of them breaks that bond, or thinks he does, he is haunted by guilt until late in his life, when he discovers that he was not the betrayer but the betrayed. Leone\'s original version tells this story in a complex series of flashbacks, memories, and dreams. The film opens with two scenes of terrifying violence, moves to an opium den where the Robert De Niro character is seeking to escape the consequences of his action, and then establishes its tone with a scene of great power: A ceaselessly ringing telephone, ringing forever in the conscience of a man who called the cops and betrayed his friends. The film moves back and forth in a tapestry of episodes, which all fit together into an emotional whole. There are times when we don\'t understand exactly what is happening, but never a time when we don\'t feel confidence in the film\'s narrative.That version was not seen in American theaters, although it is now available on cassette [and DVD]. Instead, the whole structure of flashbacks was junked. The telephone rings once. The poetic transitions are gone. The movie has been wrenched into apparent chronological order, scenes have been thrown out by the handful, relationships are now inexplicable, and the audience is likely to spend much of its time in complete bewilderment. It is a great irony that this botched editing job was intended to \"clarify\" the film.Here are some of the specific problems with the shortened version. A speakeasy scene comes before a newspaper headline announces that Prohibition has been ratified. Prohibition is then repealed, on what feels like the next day but must be six years later. Two gangsters talk about robbing a bank in front of a woman who has never been seen before in the film; they\'ve removed the scene explaining who she is. A labor leader turns up, unexplained, and involves the gangsters in an inexplicable situation. He later sells out, but to whom? Men come to kill De Niro\'s girlfriend, a character we\'ve hardly met, and we don\'t know if they come from the mob or the police. And here\'s a real howler: At the end of the shortened version, De Niro leaves a room he has never seen before by walking through a secret panel in the wall. How did he know it was there? In the long version, he was told it was there. In the short version, his startling exit shows simple contempt for the audience.Many of the film\'s most beautiful shots are missing from the short version, among them a bravura moment when a flash-forward is signaled by the unexpected appearance of a Frisbee, and another where the past becomes the present as The Beatles\' \"Yesterday\" sneaks into the sound track. Relationships are truncated, scenes are squeezed of life, and I defy anyone to understand the plot of the short version. The original \"Once Upon a Time in America\" gets a four-star rating. The shorter version is a travesty.”