There are film scenes, which should recognize the science as a test, whether with their own feelings is still all right. Like the last minutes of "Cinema Paradiso": A successful director returns to his Sicilian hometown after decades because the film projectionist of the cinema died, in which the life of the place and its in the youth took place earlier. A movie role has left him Alfredo.
Now the director sees on the screen all the kissing scenes that Alfredo had to cut out at the behest of the pastor. This film final is a declaration of love to the cinema and life, wonderful kitsch. Who yawns, waiting for the credits and felt no twitch somewhere in the chest or in the stomach, which should really be examined once.
For above all enthroned, first softly, then a little louder, but never too loud and always beautiful, this melody, which has composed the master of film music: Ennio Morricone, proud Roman, currently on a farewell tour of Europe.
When I last experienced "Cinema Paradiso" with Morricone's music in the cinema, everything was still alright with almost everyone present and also with me emotionally. I'm dependent on the cinema anyway - not because I think watching television is devilish stuff, I just gotten used to it on a long journey and did not buy a device after moving. So I often go to the cinema. So many times that friends are surprised: Who looks at the times of Netflix & Co. for the third time the new "Blade Runner" in the cinema?
Outstanding: "The Legend of the Ocean Pianist"
The more astonished they are, when they ask me as a cinema fan for my favorite actor or director and I'm thinking longer. I like the nonsense of Bill Nighy, but is that why he's my favorite actor? Also with the director I have to fit, and a favorite genre - horror, drama, war film, French talkie movie of the nineties ... no. In the end, I always say that I have a favorite composer: Ennio Morricone.
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Ennio Morricone: Never say spaghetti westernFor more than 500 films, the graduated trumpeter composed the music and started in 1961. By his name many think of Italo-Westerns or just "play me the song of death", with a little luck on "The Hateful Eight", but one knows that more because of Tarantino. I like to talk about "The Legend of the Ocean Pianist" with Morricone's great music.
The film is about a man found on board the steamer "Virginian" on New Year's morning of 1900 and raised by stoker Danny. He never leaves the ship, discovers his musical talent, becomes a pianist of the on-board band. As his reputation spreads on land, the film culminates in a duel between him and jazz musician Jelly Roll Morton.
Unfortunately, music often colors the pictures
You have to give a film music room to unfold, Morricone once said. Here she can do it like in hardly any other movie.
"1900", so the original title, Morricone brought a Golden Globe, the soundtrack is wonderful as ear candy for a rainy Sunday afternoon on the couch. But not for parties, otherwise we have strange questions like last time I heard the film music of "O Brother, where are you?" (Deepest Southern blues, not by Morricone) and a friend said, "Something's wrong with the CD." - "All right, that's the music ..."
Bad or inappropriate music can destroy a movie. If you do not trust the pictures, just play music over them, is an old cinematic slogan - then often gluing Brachial orchestral sounds to everything. Or the producer decides to topple scenes with snappy pop and rock songs. Then the audience will at least keep the music in good memory, if not the movie.
The composer Morricone was on the safe and sunny side. His music never plays a subordinate role in the films, but never gets in the foreground. She always supports the pictures, underlines performances of the main characters, creates tension and atmosphere.
A maestro of sound experiments
Everyone knows the harmonica motif from "Play me the song of death". At the stretched entrance, where the three villains wait at the station on Charles Bronson, you can see how Morricone plays with silence and noise. With water drops, telegraphs, fly sums, wind turbines and train whistles. Almost nothing happens for ten minutes, yet the tension increases from second to second. And the sound of the harmonica is almost like a salvation.
How this movie would sound today in a big movie theater with great sound? For this, the films of director Sergio Leone are created with Morricone's music. "For a handful of dollars", "Two glorious scoundrels" or "Once upon a time in America" - I could enjoy all these films so far only reduced, although my old, goggling beamer and the surround system gave all the effort. So I continue to study the cinema programs from near and far in the hope of soon to come across a retrospective of the two.
In the cinema I could only experience a few Morricone films. Most recently he had a great success with "The Hateful Eight" by Quentin Tarantino and even received an Oscar for the best film music. Previously, Morricone was nominated five times without winning; He had received the honorary Oscar for his life's work in 2007 alone.
But in "The Hateful Eight" the pictures, actors, dialogues of the music do not leave enough space. I can not remember any piece or theme from it, which otherwise never happens to me at Morricone.
Wehmutsmelodien to the picture noise
Maybe the movie was just bad too. With a work of more than 500 films even an Ennio Morricone can fall by the wayside. The fantasy film "Red Sonja" with Brigitte Nielsen and Arnold Schwarzenegger? Film Music: Morricone. The white-shark copy "Orca, the killer whale" or "Exorcist 2"? Film Music: Morricone.
Sponge over it - most of his work creates masterpieces such as "In the Embers of the South": Terence Malick shot in 1978 with the young Richard Gere, Brooke Adams and Sam Shields, the film plays on the wheat fields in Texas at the beginning of the 20th century. Morricone composed a music that was so beautiful and melancholy that you would like to sit down next to Richard Gere, look at the sky and chew on wheat stalks.
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On the occasion of his 90th birthday, Ennio Morricone, who gets very angry at the genre label "spaghetti western", said: That's it with the soundtrack, folks. He is currently giving a farewell tour with a large orchestra, his most beautiful works and a single performance in Germany, in Berlin on January 21st.
After that I just have to listen to the soundtracks again and again. And to feel like in the final scene of "Cinema Paradiso": My God, that's beautiful!