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Post by erik on Jul 6, 2020 5:35:29 GMT -8
You may not necessarily know his name right off the top, but it's likely you have heard his work. Italian film composer Ennio Morricone, who first became famous in America in the late 1960s for his scores to director Sergio Leone's classic spaghetti Westerns, such as THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY, and scored films for Quentin Tarantino (including THE HATEFUL EIGHT), has passed away at the age of 91: www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/obituaries/ennio-morricone-dead.html
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Post by eaglemaster on Jul 8, 2020 22:56:00 GMT -8
May you rest in peace now, Ennio...
I very much love your music, especially this piece:
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Post by erik on Jul 10, 2020 5:40:39 GMT -8
Yes, his music for ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (a film known for, among other things, being the one where Leone got Henry Fonda to play a cold-blooded corporate gunman, an actual villain) is magisterial; and, it should be said, that particular film is far less violent than the Dollars trilogy that preceded it.
Morricone also did a very brilliant score for director Terence Malick's 1978 film DAYS OF HEAVEN, which is set in the Texas prairie circa 1916. The man was brilliant in so many ways.
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