The film is far beyond the original work, in addition to the shock brought by the lens, there is also the music that lingers back and forth outside the camera, those natural music sounds, accompanied by the endless imagination of the audience, jumping out of the countless pictures and characters that make people nostalgic, and going forward to hit the depths of people's hearts.
The classic whistle key of "Titoli" is the kind of Western soundtrack that will immerse you in the music.
Morricone: Chasing The Voice is about the Italian score master Ennio Morricone. His soundtrack is my favorite. In 2016, Enio Morricone won an Oscar, and in the film scoring industry, he has long been recognized as an emperor, and no one can stand out.
Antonio Monda, author of Morricone: Chasing The Voice, is an Italian writer and interview author designated by Morricone. Recording fifteen interviews with Morricone from 2009 to 2010, the process of moving from pure music to film score creation, the memories of many classic film scores and the influence of the film's director on his soundtrack creation, he uses frank language, bluntly states many precious memories that are not for outsiders, as well as anecdotes with important people in the film industry about the music behind the music.
Enio Morricone, known as "Mozart in the film industry", "emotional magician", is "the leader of European film music", "the soul poet of film soundtrack", he is good at using music as the theme background board, depicting the inner world of the characters, good at using music to skillfully carry on and turn, and telling the wonderful infinite story of the film without falling behind.
Enio Morricone is an all-round scorer. Classical, jazz, pop, rock, electronic... Almost every genre of music you can imagine, he has made a difference in it. The West, gangsters, comedy, drama, literature... Almost every movie genre you can see, he's tried to score music. He is the master of the most varied style and the most entertaining film score ever. In his more than 50 years of film scoring career, he has participated in far more than 500 films. Among them are countless soundtrack masterpieces that everyone is still familiar with today.
Enio Morricone has no inhibitions about film scores, trumpets, harmonica, flutes, piccolo, guitar... Any instrument seems to be the protagonist of his score. Even he pioneered the sound of whistles, stomping feet, whipping, closing doors... These bizarre sounds serve as material for the music he creates.
According to Enio Morriccan, "Composition is a creative activity based on complex processes of imagery and logic, in other words possibilities and unpredictability. Keen insight, inquisitive and extremely cunning creators, in the face of any type of work and environment, always put the professionalism to the extreme, work hard to the extreme, even if it is relatively easy work is the same, no matter what situation you encounter, you can always find a piece of space to play, contributing to the quality of the work. ”
In 1964, Morricone was invited to score the Western red dead redemption. At the time, director Seljo Leone was still a very obscure director, Morricone was only a very unknown soundtrack, and the lead actor was a very cheap American actor, Clint Eastwood. Even the title of the film was "Red Dead Redemption", and the original name at that time was actually called "Divine Courage Outsider".
"When the man with the pistol meets the one who brought the rifle, the one with the pistol is doomed," Eastwood replied, "come and try it." The character of the sharpshooter in the film is tinged with a bit of stone arrogance, which seems to be a portrayal of Leone himself. Sergio took Akira Kurosawa's story framework to add satire, adventure, and a touch of poignancy, and then amplified these provocative elements of excitement and transplanted them into the Western. Morricone thought he should follow this style, and his music should be as fierce and aggressive as a rogue tramp. Although, Morricone didn't know what the movie would ultimately be.
Due to the limited budget of small-cost production, Morricone could not afford to hire a large orchestra. Therefore, he boldly adopted musical elements such as whistles, trumpets, bells, whips, and vocal choruses, setting off the vicissitudes and desolation unique to the western world.
To everyone's surprise, the success of the film came unexpectedly, and it became a hit and became a benchmark for Italian Westerns. The famous "Titoli" classic whistle minor at the beginning of the film makes the audience tirelessly listen to it, immersed in the west of the film's unique whistle, and cannot extricate itself for a long time.
"Red Dead Redemption" has made three men - the soundtrack master Morricone, the Western grandmaster Leone, and the handsome tough guy Eastwood. The three who became famous in World War I followed up with the cooperation of "Twilight Double Dart" and "Golden Three Darts". The success of all these films is due to Morricone's soundtrack.
Wang Aijun wrote in "Film Score": The soundtrack is usually to create atmosphere, emphasize or improve the continuity of emotions and scenes, and there are about two ways to compose the soundtrack: one is the theme song-style soundtrack, which is very prominent and self-contained. The other is a musical-style soundtrack, created for the characteristics of the characters or an idea in the film, which has a strong inspiration for the development and transformation of the plot.
Among the tones used by Morricone, whistles are perhaps the most primitive, but also the most touching, whistling in a western world where human life is not worth much, becoming a way away from loneliness, in the night, by the campfire, with their own pride, and a little conceit.
During college that year, I loved the soundtrack in the dart trilogy, and time flies, even if things change, the familiar melodies that close your eyes are still in front of you.
On December 18, 1965, the second part of the dart trilogy, "The Twilight Double Dart", was released in Rome, once again opening with a whistle from a man on a horse in the distance of the picture...
In the dart trilogy, there are large sections of horseback riding chase scenes, and Morricone integrates the music into the sound of horseshoes clicking from far and near, showing the magnificent scene of yellow sand rolling from the horizon, and the sound effect of the horseshoe breaking the ground with the rapid rhythm of the horses, allowing the audience to immerse themselves in the mood of galloping horses.
Released on December 23, 1966, in Rome's super cinema The Golden Trilogy, the last film in The Lionel's Dart Trilogy, it opens with the famous wolf howl, with the sound of trumpets and trombones making "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Use the sound of coyotes to embody the beastly violence of the wild Midwest of the United States.
In every duel scene, Morricone will use gripping music to invisibly pressure the audience, in the face of exaggerated facial close-ups, the music makes the audience's heart raise the throat eye little by little, until the sudden withdrawal of the gun, falling, standing - suspense is revealed, suddenly release the pressure, just right to show the unique loneliness and distance of the Italian Western, a chivalrous image is told in the music, leaving the audience shocked and endless reverie.
Morricone: Chasing The Voice is an autobiographical retrospective that takes on a dialogue in the form of questions and answers, permeating life, music, and the intermingling of the two. The 16-page color-inserted rare photos make people like it endlessly, and the author uses the strokes of the gods to deeply analyze Morricone's creative concept, the original and thorough discussion of the soundtrack in the film, and in recalling the highlights of Moricone's scoring and recording all the scoring careers of Morricone, he combs in detail the expression value of his more than sixty years of scoring the soundtrack creation process in energy, time and space.
"To do what I'm doing now, I have to go the way before, because that journey has supported my culture, my musical personality, and my personality and self." - Morricone