Ennio Morricone (Official Thread)

Big Ears

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When Europeans made westerns, they kept traditional elements, but added their own, as in the music. I love those films, but when the Americans made films inspired by the Italians, Sam Peckinpah's Wild Bunch was a masterpiece.

This is off-topic, but the British made a western with an amazing cast called A Town Called Bastard (aka A Town Called Hell). Waldo de Los Rios (Mozart's Symphony No. 40) wrote the score. The Smurfs later used one of his classical adaptions. After A Town Called Bastard was novelised, a team of writers, led by Terry Harknett under the name George C. Gilman, produced a massive series of western novels called the Edge series.
 

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Some faves...


A Fistful Of Dollars - Ennio Morricone



Death Rides a Horse - Ennio Morricone



The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Ennio Morricone

 

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Other gem of one of the most important Italian composers of movie soundtracks (another is Nino Rota) is this theme:

 

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