Grand Theft Auto Needs To Do Once Upon A Time In America
If you've never seen Once Upon a Time in America, you should check it out the next time you have a spare 3 hours and 49 minutes. Even by Sergio Leone's standards, it's a long boi, but it’s also a crucial piece of cinema not to be missed. Not only a contender for Leone's best work, it's also probably composer Ennio Morricone's best, and has one of Robert De Niro's best performances. It's also James Woods' best turn, and the cinematic debut of Jennifer Connelly, with fantastic supporting performances from legends like Burt Young, Joe Pesci, and Danny Aiello. It's long, but it's worth your time - a lot like Grand Theft Auto.
Once Upon a Time in America pays tribute to classic gangster films, and so to boil it down to its most basic storyline makes it feel tropey. Two street kids, Noodles and Max, try to make it big in the world in the 1920s. After a gang clash sees Noodles sent to jail for ten years, the film then picks up in the early 1930s, where Noodles is played by De Niro and Max by Woods. As if to underscore how long this film is, Woods is one of the stars and it takes 91 minutes for him to show up. After Noodles leaves prison, the two remain partners, but have gone in very different directions with their criminal enterprises.
Related: GTA Interview: Rockstar On Working With Dr. Dre "We Built A Replica Of His Studio On The Mocap Stage"Max accuses Noodles of having "the stink of the street" on him, because he thinks small time. Just like when he was a boy, all he wants to do is make enough money to get by. Max, who becomes more of a white collar criminal working for politicians and moving diamonds in shady deals, has a million dollars in the bank - in the 1930s, meaning he has around $16 million - and still isn't
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