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* [[Genteel Interbellum Setting]]
* [[The Danza]]: By coincidence, Danny Aiello as Police Chief Aiello.
* [[Et Tu, Brute?]]: {{spoiler|Noodles finds out Max plans to hit the Federal Reserve. Realizing his best friend is going too far, Noodles tries to get the cops to arrest Max during one last smuggling job, which goes horribly wrong and kills all three of Noodles' friends...}}
** {{spoiler|...except when the story flash-forwards to [[The Sixties]], Noodles finds that Max tricked Noodles into making the phone call. Max sent someone else to die in his place, while he changed identities becoming a powerful politician. Max ends up responsible for Cockeye and Patsy's deaths and for Noodles' decades-long guilt.}}
*** {{spoiler|Unless this was [[All Just a Dream]] in Noodles' head back in [[The Thirties]]...}}
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** {{spoiler|Even ''after'' his death.}}
* [[Mind Screw]]
* [[One Last Job]]: Noodles {{spoiler|returns to New York in [[The Sixties]] summoned by politician Bailey. Told to check the locker where his friends stored money that had gone stolen in [[The Thirties]], Noodles finds the suitcase re-filled with cash. It's payment for a hit: Bailey/Max wants Noodles [[I Cannot Self
* [[One
* [[Opium Den]]
* [[The Power of Friendship]]: Between Max and Noodles, with their neighborhood buddies Cockeye and Patsy as a four-man mob squad. Arguably the theme of the movie:
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* [[Silence Is Golden]]: Like most of Sergio Leone's films, it's pretty sparse when it comes to dialogue.
* [[The Cameo]]: [[Joe Pesci]] puts in a minor appearance as a guy employing the gang. Burt Young, of the ''[[Rocky (Film)|Rocky]]'' movies, also appears at one point.
** Apparently Pesci's role was a lot bigger in Leone's script but was cut down considerably, [[What Happened to The Mouse?|which explains him completely disappearing in the last 3rd of the film.]]
* [[The Roaring Twenties]]
* [[The Sixties]]
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* [[Villain Protagonist]]
* [[Villainous BSOD]]: Noodles' reaction after he pours his heart out to Deborah and she turns him down flat, telling him she's going to Hollywood. Cross-pollinates with Leone's trademark [[Leave the Camera Running]] moments, as Noodles just stares for several minutes.
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: Leone's original six hour cut is apparently [[Lost Forever]], and even the four hour restored version has a couple dropped plot points, most notably Joe Pesci's character. The camera pans over to him apparently waiting for someone in a hotel lobby with ominous music playing...and he's never seen again.
* [[With or Without You]]
* [[Yiddish As a Second Language]]
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