Funny / Once Upon a Time in the West

• While the film is far more serious than the Dollars Trilogy, constant sarcasm from Harmonica and Frank occasionally crosses the line into hilarious.
  Frank: How can you trust a man who wears both a belt and suspenders? The man can't even trust his own pants.
  • Guess where Frank shoots the informer when the idiot proves to be too much of a liability? Hint: Frank shoots him three times...
  • And Cheyenne's reaction to the informer's death is deadpan: "Told you to keep your mouth shut."
  • Also an in-joke. Leone himself wore a belt and suspenders.
• Some scenes in the 11 minute intro, probably an intentional example. And the tense and cool exchange afterwards.
  Harmonica: Did you bring a horse for me?
  Frank's Man: Looks like we're shy one horse.
  Harmonica: (shakes head) You brought two too many.
• Hilarious scene:
  Harmonica: I saw three of these dusters a short time ago, they were waiting for a train. Inside the dusters, there were three men.
  Cheyenne: So?
  Harmonica: Inside the men, there were three bullets.
• This little gem:
  Harmonica: The reward for this man is 5000 dollars, is that right?
  Cheyenne: Judas was satisfied with 4,970 dollars less.
  Harmonica: There were no dollars in them days.
  Cheyenne: But sons-of-bitches? Yeah.
• Literally every line out of Cheyenne's mouth is all wit and snark. It deserves a whole Quote page of its own.
• Some Black Comedy
  Morton: Tell me, was it necessary that you kill all of them? I only told you to scare them.
  Frank: People scare better when they're dying.
• Cheyenne doesn't care one iota about the final duel and is just annoyed when the shooting makes him cut himself while shaving.
• The exchange between Jill and a barman.
  Barman: I can tell you're accustomed to fine living. Bet you come from one of those big Eastern cities.
  Jill: New Orleans.
  Barman: New Orleans!
  Jill: You've been there?
  Barman: No.
• Frank's henchman Snaky's reactions to a fly landing on his face that he doesn't even bother to swat away with his hand. Finally he traps it in a gun barrel. When it stops buzzing inside, he checks to see if it's dead, only for it to start buzzing again.
  • Snaky's expression when he sees the fly on the bench, like "Oh, God, no..."
• In the same scene, a residue from the ceiling keeps dripping onto Stony's head, repeatedly. He puts on his hat and the water keeps dripping onto his hat instead.
  • And then proceeds to drink the water that dropped on his hat.
• The audacious way Cheyenne uses one of his boots to conceal his pistol and catch one of Frank's men off guard before shooting the guy. Cheyenne makes every moment a chance for fun & games.
• The Native American woman who is chased out of the station mutters to herself as she runs, "Dumb palefaces..."
• Cheyenne ponders that they could make "thousands of thousands of dollars", to which Harmonica enlightens him with the quip: "They call them millions."

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