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Sergio Leone (; 3 January 1929 – 30 April 1989) was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter most associated with the "Spaghetti Western" genre. Leone's film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots. His movies include the sword and sandal action films ''The Last Days of Pompeii'' (1959) and ''The Colossus of Rhodes'' (1961), the Dollars Trilogy of Westerns featuring Clint Eastwood (''A Fistful of Dollars'' (1964), ''For a Few Dollars More'' (1965) and ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' (1966)), the Western ''Once Upon a Time in the West'' (1968), the epic buddy Zapata Western ''Duck, You Sucker!'' (1971) and the epic crime drama ''Once Upon a Time in America'' (1984). == Early life == Born in Rome, Leone was the son of the cinema pioneer Vincenzo Leone (known as director Roberto Roberti or Leone Roberto Roberti) and the silent film actress Edvige Valcarenghi (Bice Waleran). During his schooldays, Leone was a classmate of his later musical collaborator Ennio Morricone for a time. After watching his father work on film sets, Leone began his own career in the film industry at the age of 18 after dropping out of law studies at the university. Working in Italian cinematography, he began as an assistant to Vittorio de Sica during the movie ''The Bicycle Thief'' in 1948. Leone began writing screenplays during the 1950s, primarily for the 'sword and sandal' (a.k.a. 'peplum') historical epics, popular at the time. He also worked as an assistant director on several large-scale international productions shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome, notably ''Quo Vadis'' (1951) and ''Ben-Hur'' (1959), financially backed by the American studios. When director Mario Bonnard fell ill during the production of the 1959 Italian epic ''The Last Days of Pompeii'' (''Gli Ultimi Giorni di Pompei''), starring Steve Reeves, Leone was asked to step in and complete the film. As a result, when the time came to make his solo directorial debut with ''The Colossus of Rhodes'' (''Il Colosso di Rodi'', 1961), Leone was well equipped to produce low-budget films which looked like larger-budget Hollywood movies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sergio Leone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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