OT: Ennio Morricone dead at 91
Film composer Ennio Morricone has passed away at age 91, from complications due to a broken leg suffered a few days ago. You know him best from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, plus many of the other Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns, John Carpenter's The Thing, and recently, Quentin Tarantino's Hateful Eight, the first film he actually won an oscar for. All in all, he wrote some 500 film scores.
Fun fact, in 1966, the year that he wrote the music to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, he wrote 15 other film scores, working out to about one every three weeks.
epic composer.
wonder if charlie daniels will join the band.
A composer with such talent can surely find a spot for a fiddle player like Charlie!
The sound track from the Good, the Bad and the Ugly was excellent. One of my favorites! RIP Ennio!
There are 3 suns in Kansas, the sun up in the sky, sunflowers and them son's of bitches.
That score is so good! I liked using it in the class I used to teach to show the impact music can have on a film- the Mexican standoff scene at the end is essentially just three minutes of people staring at each other, but the score there (plus the pacing of the editing) makes it absolutely riveting.
final scene video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJCSNIl2Pls
best rendition of the theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enuOArEfqGo
For some reason I am amused by the soloist for the "wah wah wah" part, and that she's off by herself instead of near the choir. Well done, though.
The hanging effigy is a nice touch.
I bet I’m one of many who was familiar with the music before watching the films. Truly iconic music.
Try Burn! with Marlon Brando; overlooked classic, beloved of post-colonialist nerds. A snatch of it here.
My son and I always played Ecstasy of Gold before having a nerf gun war. RIP
The score from "The Mission" was fantastic. Lost a good one.
One of the most beautiful songs ever written: Gabriel's Oboe.
its a beautiful thing (and kind of crazy) when one can not only do their job at 80-90 yrs old, but do it well. talented dude
Good music, Bad movie. (Ugly too)
I've watched a lot of these old Eastwood movies recently, and I think it's quite amazing how well they stand up 50 years on. Especially the 3 Sergio Leone movies.
But of 3, this was definitely the weakest. My theory being the extra budget money from the first 2 made it worse, when minimalism was one of the keys to why the first two worked so well.
RIP. Just watched the good bad and ugly yesterday.
"There are two kinds of men in the world. Those with guns and those who dig. You dig."
* " You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig."
That's it! Technically Tuco had a gun with only 1 round when angel eyes was shot.
What? Blondie unloaded Tuco's gun the night before, so he only had to take out Angel Eyes.
I seem to remember him getting off one shot only, knowing that he'd shoot at angel eyes first since it was unlikely he'd be shot by Blondie. I'll have to rewatch to see.
Double post
Once Upon A Time in America was epic
Here is undoubtedly his best work: