The movie devotes itself to the glories of Morricone's soundtrack music, but it's also about his mischievously self-serious personality.
The movie devotes itself to Morricone's music, from the pop songs to the spaghetti Westerns to "The Untouchables" and beyond. But it's also about his impishly self-serious personality.
The Morricone we see in “Ennio” does not look crazy. On the contrary, he looks like a paragon of highly cultivated middle-class sanity. But I think, in a funny way, that that’s just what Wertmüller meant.
Morricone’s father was a professional trumpet player who wanted Ennio to follow in his footsteps. So in 1940, when he was 12, Ennio entered the Saint Cecilia Conservatory and learned to play the trumpet. But his passion was for studying composition under the legendary Goffredo Petrassi, which he did for 10 years.
The spaghetti Westerns made Morricone a celebrity. Bruce Springsteen speaks for many of us when he talks about the effect that seeing “The Good, the Bad and Ugly” had on him. The music, with its famous coyote howl , seemed to exist in its own pop dreamscape. Once again, it’s as if the movie was accompanying the music.
Morricone wrote over 400 soundtracks , and a great many of them were for Italian films that never made it to the States. I used to study the CD covers of them in the spectacular Tower Records soundtrack section, an entireof which was devoted to Morricone. He was happy to stay rooted in Rome, where the world’s most celebrated filmmakers could come to him. His biggest regret is having missed out on the chance to write the score for “A Clockwork Orange.
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