The 3 January 1929 He was born in Rome Sergio Leone. Italian film director and producer. Son of art, his parents were film director Roberto Roberti (alias Marie Lamb) and l’ actress Bice Valerian (Edvige Valcarenghi alias). Raised in Trastevere, He studied a wide Roman humanity is then entered massively in his films. He was a great admirer of John Ford Westerns from which he obtained a precise semantic distance: the characters of John Ford gazed with hope the open spaces, Leone's characters were afraid to receive a bullet between the eyes. His first appearance back at the age of fourteen with his father, in the movie Mouth on the way. His second experience is by De Sica, where did the Assistant and played the part of a young priest in the film The bicycle thief. Afterwards he worked with directors such as Gallon, Dressing rooms, Soldiers, Bal, Comencini and De Sica. When Hollywood came to Rome to turn Peplum films (costumed stories taken from the Bible) He worked with directors such as William Wyler and Mervyn LeRoy. He directed the chariot race scene in Ben Hur. He collaborated on Quo vadis and other American films. This experience allowed him to develop a very personal style which was then imposed internationally. Great narrator for images, Lion could give thickness to the characters with the first few floors on looks. His rule was spectacular in every scene. A long shot and a first order were designed with the same attention. His first film as a Director was The Colossus of Rhodes. With the western A fistful of dollars and For a few dollars more gave evidence of manic scene composition. Made use of details often on weapons used by his characters, thighs of horses, the blatant zoom. Bernardo Bertolucci and Dario Argento were the writers with him There was a time in the West. Movie The Good, the bad and the ugly was inspired by a film of Kurosawa Yojimbo. We can identify two Trilogies in his works, the first one of the dollar (A fistful of dollars, For a few dollars more, The good the bad and the ugly). The second trilogy time and memory (There was a time in the west, Keep your head down and once upon a time in America). Stanley Kubrick said that without the films of Sergio Leone would never made A Clockwork Orange. Quentin Tarantino elevates it to master and every movie is stuffed with Leonine quotes. Clint Eastwood was discovered by Leo in the television series Rawhide. Clint Eastwood's first film director to take an oscar was Unforgiven. Clint at the beginning of the film poses the inscription in honor of’ friend and teacher “to Sergio”. The partnership with Ennio Morricone, second only to the combination of Lennon and McCartney, made possible the development of a common element to film and music and transpose into film story masterfully, the time. A man who is told as gruff and serious in appearance, but good and thoughtful soul. Possessed sense of’ irony that mingled with the cynicism in an exceptional balance. His latest film Once upon a time in America developing a storyline that steeped in melancholy he tied his favorite themes: friendship, betrayal and memory. Crossing different genres detective noir psychological thriller and sentimental drama. The Melancholia that pervaded then anyone is passionate about cinema of Leo. Leaving us forever 30 April 1989 to those who love him still today one wonders what would “for some more Lion movies″.
Hector Parker
