Ennio Morricone is on the phone EL SEÑOR ENNIO MORRICONE. Thus, in capital letters. Impose by imposing. In every sense. Not only are his more than 500 soundtracks influenced by the much more banal experiences of the past with him. We are before a man with a declared and manifest disdain live and direct to each phrase that has the form of a question. It therefore requires long before you even agree to pick up the phone. Marco, his son, attends and without any more presentation than that of a journalist after the name, the phone passes to the father. "I am very happy. What else can I say. I understand that the beautiful and valuable thing about prizes is never expecting them. They arrive and that's it. Who can be so stupid to believe they deserve any prize?he says and laughs. The 91-year-old man and a body often enclosed at just over 1.60 and who imposed so much before speaking, now is all thanks. A thank you, be clear, shared.

He says, in an exercise in surprisingly cheerful modesty, that his job has no function other than to be functional. "Honestly, with so much recognition I think we sometimes lose sight of the essentials. He asks me about the value of music in a film and I can only say that my work, like Williams', is valid as long as I help the film itself. I'll tell you one thing: a bad movie will be bad regardless of the soundtrack. But inspired music can never make a movie good, "he says without interrupting for a second his unbeatable state of mind.

A long time ago he confessed that "if you write as custom dictates, you forget to investigate and pursue originality." And perhaps for this reason his constant effort not to let himself be classified, to avoid being the possessor of something like a style. "The trade is important, but as long as he does not allow himself to be devoured by routine," he comments immediately afterwards, claiming, in addition to the tireless work that has made him sign up to 20 films in a year, luck. That also influences. "I have always let the directors call me. I have never looked for them. I will tell him, since he calls me from Spain, that one of the biggest surprises of my career was that Pedro Almodóvar was interested in my work." Why? "Well, basically, because I know Spain and I know that you have great composers there. Why did you turn to me if I could have called any other?" , affirms and this and, yes, completely disarms. Real modesty or feigned modesty, the grumpy myth is over. Ennio Morricone is definitely happy. And inspired.

He says that when he met the manchego with whom he collaborated in ' Átame ' he was surprised by their silences. "He listened to what I composed for him without saying anything. He left me very puzzled. Restless ... Then, on the occasion of some awards in Germany, he would coincide with him years later and, yes." Then he already said yes, that he had liked it. "And after having worked with Sergio Leone, what does Spain suggest to him?" I don't know what to say. Right now, Spain is simply thanks . I am very grateful, believe me. "

Reviewing the list of directors who occupy his career, overwhelms. Does not want. Now, already, the phone weighs him down. But it doesn't change the mood. Refuses. Listen to the names of Bertolucci, Pasolini, Pontecorvo, De Palma, Hitchcock, Tarantino, Leone again ... and congratulate the interviewer on the memory. "Each director is looking for something and it is your obligation to give it to them. Some explain it to you, others make you read the script ... The only thing you can never forget is that you are there with a purpose: to serve the film. I would say that the director It is also for the same, "he says. And perhaps, in this statement he perfectly summarizes his work in the cinema. He has been able to create his own label by force of pure heterodoxy, striving not to be carried away by fads and labels. While others make music for the public, he works for the cinema.

Will you travel to Spain in this dramatic year of a pandemic? "Count on it. I will do my best to be there."

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