Why Once Upon A Time In The West’s Opening Scene Is One Of The Best In Western Movie History

As the sun set on the Golden Age of the Hollywood western, Spaghetti Westerns rode into town, and changed the game. These features muddied the moral waters of traditional westerns, introducing gritty plots and morally grey protagonists. Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone was at the forefront of this cinematic movement. His Dollars trilogy cemented the rising subgenre, and his seminal 1968 epic brought it toward a grand finale.