The Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson Western That Gave Us the Genre’s Most Iconic Twist

The Big Picture Sergio Leone certainly didn’t create the Western, as filmmakers like John Ford, John Huston, and George Stevens had already created foundational works within the genre by the time Leone changed the game with his innovative Western A Fistful of Dollars in 1964. However, the recurring hallmarks of the Italian filmmaker behind the “The Man With No Name” trilogy epitomized the stylistic hallmarks that led to the popularization of the “Spaghetti Western” in the 1960s.

Like many Western heroes, Harmonica plays by his own rules and does not prescribe to any sense of higher morality. However, Harmonica does know the difference between right and wrong; this puts him in conflict with the film’s main villain, Frank, played by Henry Fonda in a brilliant piece of subversive casting. Frank is a remorseless outlaw who leads an assault on the land owned by the rancher Brett McBain , who sends his fiancée Jill to flee the property.

'Once Upon a Time in the West's Twist Reveals That Frank Killed Harmonica's Brother Close While the sequence is painstakingly crafted to be as exhilarating as possible, it's not simply another action sequence that Leone randomly inserted within the film, which runs nearly three hours long. It’s an integral piece of the story, as the twist in Once Upon a Time in the West personifies the differences between Frank and Harmonica.

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