When shooting the wild bunch shots during the cemetery scene, the director probably asked the DoP to get a few long shots of the wild bunch. He probably mentionned the need for a very long focale (it's at least 300mm from what I can see and the effect is very strong) and also told "it must look like they are 1.000". It doesn't. At all. It looks like they are 50:http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/name-nobody-3.jpg
But you're way wrong when you say the movie looks cheap... It doesn't. Granted, it doesn't look like OUATITW, but that's simply cause that's a Leone movie.
It is not a Leone movie, hence it doesn not have or need its own section.
That's like saying SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARF'S isn't a Walt Disney Movie because Walt Disney didn't direct it
Or, EMPIRE STRIKES BACK isn't a George Lucas movie ' cuz Gl didn't direct it.
Y'all puttin' too much emphasis on the "directed by" credit.bruce marshall
You 'others' must be trying equally hard to discredit that role. Who is the 'owner' of a movie piece anyway, if not the director?
To answer that question you have to ask yourself a more practical one: who usually gets blamed if the movie ends up being a failure?
May be that doesn't make it a Sergio Leone film, but you can be sure it doesn't make it a 100% Valerii film either.
The "usually" argument is always fallacious. You're a fallacious person so it's ok. However, you shouldn't use it in this case since it doesn't support your point: who's usually blamed for MNIN's flaws and congratulated for its strengths? Sergio Leone.
I have a better question for you: would it be the same movie if Leone had not been involved? The movie wouldn't have happened at all.
The discussion is on whether it is a SL movie or not, and not whether it's a Valerii movie or not. Since we're not on TV's forum here).
Which is exactly why he didn't sign himself as the director there.
A position he himself, being old school, cherished very much.
He makes it very clear in that interview the director is the 'father' of the movie.
Let's face it: he knew all along it wasn't his caliber of excellence. It is unwritten yet sensed by everybody here, though you don't wanna say it, hah.
Plus, he did not write it alone.
Now that's a real facto-logically sound discussion... when the ''iffing'' starts.
And of course MNIN should have it's own section just like the other Leones. Last Days of Pompeji too. The MNIN thread has already become too large and too unclear to find information if one searches for such.