This 1984 epic crime drama was the final film directed by the legendary Sergio Leone. The sprawling, non-linear story chronicles the lives of a group of childhood friends from a Jewish ghetto in New York City who rise to become powerful gangsters during the Prohibition era. Spanning several decades, the film explores themes of friendship, loyalty, betrayal, greed, and the elusive nature of the past through the memories of its main character, David "Noodles" Aaronson (Robert De Niro). It is considered a masterpiece of gangster cinema, praised for its ambitious storytelling and Ennio Morricone's haunting score.
Interesting Tidbit: The film is notorious for the two drastically different versions that were initially released. Director Sergio Leone's original cut, shown at the Cannes Film Festival, was 229 minutes (3 hours and 49 minutes) long and told its story in a non-chronological order. For the American theatrical release, the studio, against Leone's wishes, severely cut the film down to just 139 minutes and rearranged the scenes into chronological order. This version was a critical and commercial disaster, and Leone was said to have been heartbroken by it. The director's original cut has since been restored and is now widely regarded as the definitive version of his masterpiece.
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