Sunday, November 9, 2008

Ennio Morricone (The Mission) to compose score for "Inglorious Bastards"


Definately a big step for Quentin Tarantino, who's films always have soundtracks, but never have original music composed for them. Regardless of how the movie turns out, I'm expecting nothing less than brilliance from Morricone, who has composed some of the best movie scores of all time.

Source: Nukethefridge.com

We are hereby asking all of you readers out there to fasten your seat belts, tighten your belts and close your zippers, remove all breakable objects to a safe distance and close all doors and windows. Take a deep breath, calm down. Ready?

According to Italy Global Nation (IGN), none other than - and bear with me now, please don’t faint, dear readers - Ennio Morricone, ‘il maestro’ himself, has agreed to create the score for Inglourious Basterds. The best composer still walking the earth like Kaine in Kung Fu will turn 80 years this Monday. Passed over unfairly too many times at the Academy Awards he received an honorary one not too long ago. He said no to do some short tunes for Pulp Fiction, he offered himself for Kill Bill but Quentin Tarantino merely used some amazing tunes out of some of the best Spaghetti Westerns out there (for example Navajo Joe) and now he sais he was able to accept to compose the score for Tarantino’s latest project. “This time I accepted Tarantino’s proposal” he tells IGN. Ennio Morricone is mostly known for his work on Spaghetti Westerns, such as those by Sergio Leone, but he has also scored such films as The Mission, The Untouchables, Cinema Paradiso and Casualties of War. Tarantino on the other hand is known to be sceptical of film score composers, as he has expressed in interviews many times. If this should in fact confirm, it would probably mean new territory for Tarantino, who has not used a completely original score for any of his movies before. We will keep you posted on this.

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