Ennio Morricone Ennio Morricone is an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpet player who is one of the most versatile and influential composers of all time. His career encompasses an extensive range of composition genres, from absolute concert music to applied music, working as orchestrator, as well as a conductor and composer for theatre, radio and cinema. “Throughout his near 50 year career as a film composer, across the board, his signature ideas have included simple ideas (easy
“European Western”, most well known as “Spaghetti Western”. Per un Pugno di Dollari (A Fistful of Dollars) is a movie that represents this genre. It was made in 1964 by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, and with a musical score composed by Ennio Morricone. This film set the pace and tone of the genre, so despite personal taste, this movie can be called revolutionary and influential. Key factors for such achievement are detailed next: the direction of photography, the editing, the neorealist influence
Eye to eye and face to face is where Harmonica and Frank found themselves. They were both seconds away from pulling the trigger, but who draws first is the question? This grand showdown was produced by one of the best western directors in the game. His name is Sergio Leone. Sergio Leone combined the smallest and largest details to create a “spaghetti western” movie. The so called “Spaghetti western” film that I will be focusing on will be, Once Upon a Time in the West. I found that Leone is very
What if World War II didn’t end in the suicide of Adolf Hitler and the surrender of the Axis powers? What if instead there was a double conspiracy in the works against Hitler that was concentrated coincidentally on an extravagant movie premiere in honor of the efforts of Nazi German soldiers in France at the time? How different history would be. This very plot is depicted in Quentin Tarantino’s World War II movie staring Brad Pitt as Lieutenant Aldo Raine and Mélanie Laurent and Shosanna Dreyfus
Leone’s Spaghetti The “spaghetti” western, Sergio Leone’s conscious departure from what had come to be known as the “classic” western formula, became a modification of the conventions of the traditional genre. In the film For A Few Dollars More (Per qualque dollaro in più, 1965), Leone’s formula is developed through a reformed narrative structure, slight changes in the traditional characters, his unique style, and the simple use of language, which revolutionized the western. The American “classic”
The killer is the main draw in for a giallo audience and their unmasking or demise is usually the climax of films. In most cases of giallo films the victims know or know of their killer and in both Bava and Cavara's films this plot device is used. In Blood and Black Lace Bava focuses on a power play relationship where the killer is unmasked as none other than the widowed Countess Cristina, owner of the fashion house, who retaliated to being threatened by her employee by killing her. Cristina's position
The Seaside Music Festival Wrap Up-May 21st and 22nd In the early 1900s it was a challenge to come up with a scheme to build on oceanfront property and attract people to come there. Now, generations later, the little town of Seaside Heights has received so much attention that it’s a wonder they haven’t transplanted The Brooklyn Bridge to Toms River just so tourists would be more comfortable crossing into the land of sea, sun and sin. The lure of Seaside Heights has attracted every legion of people
Scott Liss & the Sixty-Six- The Blackpool Letters Liss and crew are poster boys of risk here, mixing many expansive musical influences and scoring big on “The Blackpool Letters. I admired the skill and patience spent culling sounds and sculpting flytrap arrangements on this cd. As Scott says, “watching it take shape as the songs and through the production is the best part. I love the creative process the most. I could spend days, weeks, in the studio doing nothing but writing and recording, experimenting
Hollywood Westerns essentially focus on the concept of bringing the law to the lawless and for movie goers, it has been said, that the best Westerns were the movies that moved, not only from a physical action standpoint, but also in terms of moving an audience emotionally. It was this engaging combination that garnered the most satisfaction and praise from movie-going audiences. Most film scholars believe the first Western to be ‘Cripple Creek Bar Room’ (W. Dickson’s 1898 tableau). To understand
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Western films are the major defining genre of the American film industry, a eulogy to the early days of the expansive American frontier. They are one of the oldest, most enduring and flexible genres and one of the most characteristically American genres in their mythic origins - they focus on the West - in North America. Western films have also been called the horse opera, the oater (quickly-made, short western films which became as common place as oats for horses)