Morricone: Movie Music Maestro

Ennio Morricone is by far the most prolific movie music composer of all time and with an epic score for A Fistful of Dollars that was almost as legendary as The Man with No Name - and that was just the beginning of an extraordinary career. Morricone wrote the music for all three of the sprawling spaghetti westerns in "The Dollars Trilogy" - directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood - as well as scoring the three magnificent movies in Leone's "Once Upon a Time" trilogy. The Wild West portrayed by Sergio Leone was a harsh, violent place without mercy, where people are shot in the back and torturers laugh out loud. It's a brutal man's world where women are oppressed and there is no possible love story for the hero. In a remote western town without pity, the sun burns down, the clothes are filthy, the men are unshaven and enemies await around every corner to deliver a bullet between the eyes.....

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - 16 hours 52 minutes ago at 13:47

^ Sergio Leone's epic Once Upon a Time in the West is both my favourite western and all-time favourite Morricone music score. 

Psychedelic Paul wrote: ^ Sergio Leone's epic Once Upon a Time in the West is both my favourite western and all-time favourite Morricone music score.

While I generally am not that keen on Westerns, the HBO Westworld TV series aside :), I do like various Sergio Leone films and love Morricone's music of that period. I love so many of his soundtracks, but I guess i were to choose just one right now then it might be Maddalena (1971) or Una lucertola con la pelle di donna (1971).

A master of the art of film soundtrack.....that cat brings movies to life!  The Mission was a beautiful film mainly in how the music highlighted the amazing natural landscapes.....yes, the acting and a compelling story helped but without Morricone's score, the film would never have reached the heights it did, which you can say for most every movie his music embellished.