C'era una volta il West (Once Upon a Time in the West) influenced शोले (Sholay)

Sholay's makers took the look and pace of its revenge story from Leone. The massacre of the Thakur's family, shot in silence with the killers walking up to a boy, is staged after the McBain massacre that opens Once Upon a Time in the West, and the film's long wordless standoffs and wide rocky landscapes come from the same source.