Storytelling with Opposites: Dying Westerns and Once Upon a Time in the West | Video essay скачать в хорошем качестве

Storytelling with Opposites: Dying Westerns and Once Upon a Time in the West | Video essay

How do we create more tension using opposites, such as sound and silence, or slowness and speed? Storytelling with opposites is a strong tool, something Sergio Leone is a master in, the famous director of Spaghetti Western classics. This video essay is about the movie "Once Upon a Time in the West", and how it's useof opposites is unmatched in cinematic history. Sergio Leone is known for directing such movies as A Fistful of Dollars or The Good, The Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in America, and his skills truly excelled in the latter parts of his career. Once Upon a Time in the West is a great example of Leone showcasing his ability to tell a story using tools available only to movies. Leone handles these cinematic devices with impeccable skill. More reading on Sergio Leone, Spaghetti Westerns and Genres: “Sergio Leone: Something to do With Death” by Christopher Frayling. “The Spaghetti Western: A Genre Study” by Thomas Schatz “Italian Western: The Opera of Violence” by Laurence Staig and Tony Williams. For video essays on emotions and cinema, subscribe to Fragments of Cinema:    / @fragmentsofcinema   Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:23 Sound & Silence 03:15 Visual Language 04:16 Rhythm 05:28 The End of an Era Follow Fragments of Cinema on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?... Instagram:   / fragments_of_cinema   Medium:   / fragmentsofcinema