[Fmpro] (no subject) - the power of the score

[Sunblossom Records]

John, what a powerful description ... I am going to rent the GB & U and 
listen closely to that cue. Sounds magnificent! My mother's side of the 
family is from the western coast of Italy, just a little south of where 
Ennio was born. I think Italian music is embedded in my DNA :) - kiki


>>>Kiki, one of my all-time favorites is Morricone's Ecstasy of Gold cue 
>>>(THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY), heard as Tuco (Eli Wallach) runs, 
>>>full-out and completely overcome by avarice, through the immense Civil 
>>>War graveyard which contains buried sacks of gold. This magnificent 
>>>composition is almost an apotheosis of spiritual victory - a movement fit 
>>>for a symphonic Mass. The genius lies in the manner by which the music 
>>>transforms the moment. In the real world this would only be a greedy 
>>>bastard succumbing to his lusts, but Ennio forces us to comprehend that 
>>>these three men, Tuco, Blondie (Eastwood), and Snake Eyes (Van Cleef), 
>>>are paradigms, mythical constructs representing the most potent aspects 
>>>of the human condition. They are not a part of the dirt and death of the 
>>>real world but rather Gilgamesh-like beings, symbolic and transcendent, 
>>>moving through our smaller lives and acting out their mythical agendas. 
>>>None of this would be available if not for the power and magic of m!
 usic. - John Bender