Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

By Ali Madad | Published: August 29, 2009

A still from Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America:once

Fleeing the city, the survivor of a gangland massacre (De Niro) pauses before an advertisement of a Coney Island of long ago and Leone thwarts our expectations of a flashback by flashing forwards to the same character returning as an old man to the city we have just seen him leave.

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