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Dismissed at his emergence in the early 1960s as a crafty peddler
of brutal, garish B movies, Sergio Leone has been elevated over
the intervening decades into one of the great originators--a postmodern
mastermind who transformed (and inflated) everything he recycled.
He borrowed from Japanese samurai movies (his first, star-making
Clint Eastwood vehicle was modeled after Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo),
while his early experiences in "sword & sandal"
features make it possible to see Leone's Westerns as gladiatorial
epics transplanted to the American West. Leone's heroically scaled
art is famous for its visual extremes, reaching for the iconic
graphic power of a Soviet propaganda poster or a Diego Rivera
mural--and in his best film, Once Upon a Time in the West, he
actually achieves it.
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