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From: yali@utcsrgv.UUCP (Yawar Ali)
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Subject: Re: Anything but that space epic, please!
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Date: Thu, 20-Oct-83 10:46:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 20 10:46:46 1983
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My favourite western goes well with meatballs; it's the
epic 'Once Upon a Time in the West' by Sergio Leone,
starring Jason Robards as a bandit of the old school,
Charles Bronson as an enigmatic gunslinger with a musical
bent, Claudia Cardinale as a former lady of the night whose
fortune has changed (or has it?), Henry Fonda (!) as an
upwardly mobile, sadistic, murderous, psychopath with no
redeeming features whatsoever, and the meanest, dirtiest,
ugliest bunch of villains you would ever want to avoid 
closer acquaintance with. The plot is not simplistic,
the characters are complex, the scale is grand, with the
drama unfolding against the backdrop of the 'Winning of the
West'. In short, it's a thoroughly enjoyable, gritty,
hard-nosed, unromanticized, yet ultimately romantic saga.
(The opening sequence, which has three scuzzy gunslingers
waiting at the station for their intended victim to arrive
on the train, is a masterpiece in itself!)
This gem occasionally shows up on late night t.v. Don't miss it.

			Yawar Ali
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