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Ennio Morricone RIP

  • 06-07-2020 09:23AM
    #1
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,513 ✭✭✭✭


    Very sad to hear of his death. My favourite modern composer. Did you have a favourite score that he wrote?
    I love the Once upon a time in the West score

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Q8h-fDfEI


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  • #2
    ArchXStanton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭ArchXStanton


    Only posted this last night in another thread, then heard the news this morning... Everything about this film was perfect, the story, characters, scenes but most especially the music... RIP

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZHEu7HusG4


  • #3
    Eduard Khil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Eduard Khil


    Loved Once upon a time in America really captured the characters and scenarios perfectly


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    RIP Ennio. His fame largely rests on the Spaghetti westerns, however latter day Morricone was a versatile composer who produced many a classic including this personal favourite:



  • #5
    Gun_Slinger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 212 ✭✭Gun_Slinger


    IMO the most perfect piece of music ever written...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oag1Dfa1e_E


  • #6
    Merry Prankster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 262 ✭✭Merry Prankster


    Love Deborah's Theme.



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  • #7
    dasdog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,144 ✭✭✭dasdog


    His art will last centuries - I count myself lucky to have seen him conduct twice. The world should be thankful for what the Maestro brought to it.

    https://subscriptions.boards.ie



  • #8
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Sad news, another great lost.



  • #9
    paw patrol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭paw patrol


    "the ecstasy of gold" from the good , the bad and the ugly was my fav

    https://youtu.be/PYI09PMNazw


  • #10
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,067 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    :(


  • #11
    interlocked
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭interlocked


    "Ennio!,we thought you'd never get here, I'm Giuseppe but you know that, come on over here, the boys are bursting to meet you, you know Wolfgang, Ludwig, Johann and Pytor, we're all huge fans, you've got to see the choir and orchestra we've got here, they've been practicing Ecstasy of Gold for weeks,you're going to fit right in"


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  • #12
    bigar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭bigar


    A true giant in his field lost to us all.


  • #13
    fatbhoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,293 ✭✭✭fatbhoy


    ArchXStanton wrote: »
    Only posted this last night in another thread, then heard the news this morning... Everything about this film was perfect, the story, characters, scenes but most especially the music... RIP

    ...

    Class username, ArchXStanton.


  • #14
    tigerboon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 740 ✭✭✭tigerboon


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcJCdX_7nSQ


  • #15
    paw patrol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭paw patrol


    ArchXStanton wrote: »
    Only posted this last night in another thread, then heard the news this morning... Everything about this film was perfect, the story, characters, scenes but most especially the music... RIP


    it's the best film , always kinda jealous of your username too


  • #16
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK2FbVkYaDE


  • #17
    Philipx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 180 ✭✭Philipx


    I fully intend leaving intruction to have Gabriel's Oboe played as I'm carried out of the church; in good many years time yet though :P

    What a wonderful, wonderful piece of music. :)


  • #18
    The Princess Bride
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,801 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    Such a privilege to see him last year on what was his last tour of Europe.
    What an immensely talented genius.
    To have created so many iconic tracks, so many passionate compositions, wow.

    Favourite score, jeez I'd be posting all day long.
    Gabriel's Oboe and Deborah's Theme are simply too beautiful for words.

    Requiescat In Pace.


  • #19
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,712 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    The theme from The Mission is one of my favourites.
    I entered it in a walrus but forgot to add that it's the soundtrack version as that live one is a bit slower tempo in places. Anyway RIP he leaves quite a legacy.


  • #20
    patmac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,599 ✭✭✭patmac


    I was introduced to Ennio Morricone among others after I stumbled upon Marty in the morning on Lyric Fm around 2007 to escape from the Great Depression that was all the other radio stations at the time and have listened to him ever since. The great man has left behind some legacy.RIP Eamon Macaroni.


  • #21
    The Princess Bride
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,801 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu1Kglm6190


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54WkUiZopBU


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V8aZLTpKXo


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjU8yg-a0o0


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  • #22
    OldRio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭OldRio


    Cinema Paradiso is my all time favourite film. The music itself could bring a tear to the eye.
    RIP


  • #23
    ArchXStanton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭ArchXStanton


    paw patrol wrote: »
    it's the best film , always kinda jealous of your username too

    3 scoundrels trying to out do each other over money, no cgi, no overly attractive actors(apart from Clint maybe) ... What could be better. The whole thing is like taking a journey, it touches on the absurdity of war, people's greed and it all cumulates in one of the best film scenes ever... 3 scoundrels staring at each for 5 minutes over money...wouldn't be half the film without the soundtrack though, it adds a certain atmosphere to it

    177 minutes well spent, think I'll watch it again tonight


  • #24
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,513 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    ArchXStanton wrote: »
    3 scoundrels trying to out do each other over money, no cgi, no overly attractive actors(apart from Clint maybe) ... What could be better. The whole thing is like taking a journey, it touches on the absurdity of war, people's greed and it all cumulates in one of the best film scenes ever... 3 scoundrels staring at each for 5 minutes over money...wouldn't be half the film without the soundtrack though, it adds a certain atmosphere to it

    177 minutes well spent, think I'll watch it again tonight

    I would have thought Clint was about as handsome as you could possibly be! Lee Van Cleef was one hell of a cool customer too. And the ugly wasn’t even that ugly!


  • #25
    Relikk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭Relikk


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q9maBPLp9c


    Genius. From one of my favourite scenes in any movie, ever. RIP.


  • #26
    Patrick2010
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    Merry Prankster wrote: »
    Love Deborah's Theme.



    Magnificent film


  • #27
    ShatterAlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭ShatterAlan


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    I would have thought Clint was about as handsome as you could possibly be! Lee Van Cleef was one hell of a cool customer too. And the ugly wasn’t even that ugly!


    None of them had sthe smouldering good looks of McQueen, Newman and Redford from that ear though.


  • #28
    interlocked
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭interlocked


    I think a Fistful of Dollars is my favourite, Morricone AND James Coburn what more could you want!



    although this isn't bad either!


    or this....

    .


  • #29
    Mr Meanor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭Mr Meanor


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JC9P6nxp6Y
    Mission to Mars


  • #30
    Mr Meanor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭Mr Meanor


    Mission to Mars


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  • #31
    deise08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,333 ✭✭✭deise08


    Am feeling this today.
    It's kind of, his music has been the soundtrack to my growing up.
    His and John Williams.
    So many memorable scores.
    Time to go back and rediscover them.

    Truly talented.


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