Ennio Morricone - Il Buono, Il Cattivo, Il Brutto (The Good, The Bad & The Ugly)
Urgh, looks like I'm running out of room on my 150 gig external HD (over 100 gigs are taken up by my music). I'm probably going to get a 500 gig external.
Anyway, who can forget the amazing theme song from "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"? It is the work of composer Ennio Morricone, who's arranged and composed over four hundred soundtracks! I've included a video excerpt from John Burlingame talking about that famous
ahhh-ah-aaaah
section in theme song.
I kind of wanted to include this for the "no vocals" for the vox hunt, but ended up using Shonen Knife - Milky Way.
Anyway, the movie was the last in the "Dollars" trilogy (the first film practically jump-started the Spaghetti Westerns mania). Although it's often called "The Man with No Name Trilogy", which is not entirely true - because Clint Eastwood's character all had names in each of the film. In the "Good..", his name is Blondie.
So I brushed off the dust of the Special Edition of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and started watching it. The movie, including the missing eighteen minutes that was cut off in the American version, is just one minute under THREE HOURS. Wow, that's a long movie, but man, oh man, that Mexican standoff is so awesome.
TIP: Since I know at least one of you guys like my tips, here's another one. I used the free Windows Movie Maker to edit that video clip (the bad non-syncing audio is from the source, not a result of the Movie Maker). Unfortunately, it's Windows XP only.
If you're curious about more Spaghetti Westerns, check out my little writeup: Spaghetti Westerns: Part 1.
Check out even more songs over at djohnson78.vox.com
Comments
My fav song by Ennio is Guns Don't Argue. Can't get enough of that piece.
-Russ
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