Sergio Leone demonstrates a unique style to his directing in movies as in the movie, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (Tribute, 2003) where he goes one step ahead of most directors in directing movies that reveal much about himself.
We learn from Elvis Mitchell as he explains that Leone’s style of directing can easily create an enthusiastic audience. Mitchell also tells us about Leone’s extraordinary talent when he says, that (Mitchell, 2003) "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" shoehorns Leone's European sensibility into a genre for which he had enormous appreciation and a peculiar understanding.The western was the perfect outlet for his fascination with alienation and paranoia — a fascination that resonates as profoundly in his films. ” It is also apparent that Leone uses lighting as a source of enrichment for his film as he creates fear and excitement through using the great outdoors as a platform in making the movie.
Leone was able to captivate his audience through the utilization of a vast area to create thrills by allowing his viewers to watch as the actors in the film, with the wonderful direction of Sergio Leone leading the way, act in a manner only suiting this directors needs.Leone uses the country setting in this movie to demonstrate the Spanish aura as he is able to persuade viewers to get a feel for the emotions that he was trying to create in the movie. Sergio Leone’s directing style is creative and appealing. He can use silence to bring out the best in scenes where many directors would feel the scene was too boring. Leone led his cast in a smooth direction with the stillness of the area where he directed the movie.
One of the characteristics of a Sergio Leone film, especially “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” is attention to detail.Historical details of the Civil War period were closely studied and reproduced. ” Leone paid close attention to being certain that he made the movie as authentic as possible by directing his cast to act as people did in this time period. He was good at reproducing scenes through the way he thought the characters of the same place and time would behave. The little extra that a director offers can a make a world of difference in the production of a movie and Sergio Leone is able to give a little extra in every scene that he directs.
He has a coolness about his style of directing that is different from any other director in the business. He creates passion and adventure in a war setting by the manner that he directs by leading his actors to portray characters that he sees in his own mind. He then adds more drama by the territories that he selects for them to act in and by putting both elements together in the movie scenes, he delivers perfect details of the story that he is trying to tell.Leone seems comfortable with the western setting as it amplifies his personality in directing. The cemetery with the buried treasure is another unique mystery in this movie as Leone develops mystery and excitement.
Leone directed with violence and brutality in mind when he directed this film and combined with the stillness of the setting, the quiet tones and manners of the actors and the visual effects that he thought were so important, the director was successful in creating a film that he will long be remembered for.He was able to make the expressions, himself that he wanted identified in the film and he was good at making the actors for the movie familiar with the message he was trying to get across to his audience. Leone is tremendously effective in adding much of his own personality in his movie and it is unusually obvious how passionate Leone is about the work that he is creating. Sergio Leone will always be remembered as a great director of films. Leone was born in the year, 1929 and died in 1989.
He was extremely popular with spaghetti western movies and for using scenes where the camera caught close shots of actors and scenes he was meaning to enhance. Leone began working in movie-making at the early age of eighteen. He wrote screenplays and he even worked for as an assistant movie director on many popular movies. This Italian director of movies worked on many other films where he was the leader in developing excellent movies through his unique style of directing and he will long be remembered for this unusualness in movie- making. Leone came from a family who had a love for the cinema.Leone was born to Vincenzo Leone and Edvige Valcarenghi in Rome, Italy and he was good with movie that depicted historical and western settings.
Leone was good at adding more appeal to westerns. He added more than just gun chasing cowboys and bank robbers to the western movies. He gave his movies pizzazz and a better story line and with the emotions that he stirred in his audience of the new western viewers, he was incredibly successful and will long be remembered for his great style in movie directing, especially for the movie, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.Attitude that surpasses all others in his field, Sergio Leone; intelligent, deep thinker and directing artist that left his mark on movie-making.
He was able to use few words to deliver a message that would take most men hours of non-stop talking to bring across their meaning. His great directing ability came from his own personality where he was very good at encouraging actors like Clint Eastwood to act the way he felt about each important and unforgettable scene.
