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Mar 1, 2016 - 6:13 AM
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hyperdanny
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Here it is ..
Morricone: Deep inside I was thinking “This time I am taking it home!”
The morning after Ennio Morricone, Oscar winner for the soundtrack for Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight after six nominations (the first in 1979 for Days of Heaven, with the exception of an honorary Oscar in 2007) , looks happy and rested: despite being 87, he doesn’t look worn out after the intense days that preceded the ceremony. He’s in LA with his wife Maria and his two sons, Giovanni and Andrea, and he laughs when he’s told that they were all waiting for him in the Press Room afterwards.. “They did not tell me I should go” he says giggling “I don’t speak English, maybe that’s the reason why they didn’t....or maybe they actually did, and I didn’t understand! So I just left..”
How did you feel on stage when you got the statue?
I was excited.. I’m telling you, when I got my past five nominations, I said to my wife I hoped they wouldn’t call me, because such an emotion scares me.
This time, instead, I didn’t say anything, but deep inside I was thinking: I hope I make it this time, so finally I can take the Oscar back home (laughs). Some times I didn’t even bother to travel to LA: I knew there was no chance.
(Morricone uses the traditional -very informal- Italian way to say that: "Non c'era trippa per gatti".."there was no tripes for cats"  )
This time you felt you were going to win?
Yes, a bit. For Tarantino I wrote music unlike any I had written before. I chose a new path. Quentin shot a western, but I could not go back 50 years, to the music I wrote for Sergio Leone. I didn’t want to repeat myself. I said to myself I had come up with a different writing. Something that reflects the drama and the irony of the movie. Tarantino gave me absolute freedom, he gave me no directions whatsoever. I based my work exclusively on the screenplay. It’s complicated music, because it’s symphonic in technique, but it’s very immediate for the listener. I was sure that they (the Academy ) would have acknowledged its value. And I believe they did.
You were greeted with much affection, with a standing ovation
Even if I never expect such outpourings, it was beautiful to feel so much warmness from the people, I was moved.
What did you think of the ceremony?
It was pretty simple, and fast, too..thank heavens. Other times they kept me waiting for 3 or 4 hours, it was boring. Instead this time the whole thing was faster and more streamlined. I had a translator next to me , and I especially appreciated fact that the American people implicitly endorsed important ethical issues like the ones mentioned during that night.
What do you think of the other nominees?
I didn’t hear a single note. I swear, I never make comparisons. Working in the field of movie music, if I listen to other composers’ music and I like it very much, that’s dangerous, but if I don’t like it I get very angry.So I avoid it. But, I have to say that John Williams is great, as I knew already. He was sitting next to me and we hugged each other. He has a whole collection of Oscars, he’s really very good.
You even got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
I didn’t expect that either, it was another thrill. They told me: you need to go to the so and so street, where there is this famous sidewalk. I said ok let’s go and see what happens. Tarantino was with me then, but I didn’t see him on Sunday. I am going to send him a book with my dedication. He made a very warm speech when he accepted the Golden Globe on my behalf last month, I am very grateful.
Did you talk with Harvey Weinstein, the Hateful Eight’s producer?
Yes, he’s just a great guy. I have to say that 30 years ago, when I lost for “the Mission” back in ’86, and I was so disappointed, he had made a prophecy, he told me that for sure I wound have gotten an Oscar sooner or later. He was right all along.
Projects?
I am going back to Rome right away, because I am working on a piece, but it’s not a movie score. A little variety is always good!
http://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/cinema/2016/02/29/news/morricone_dentro_di_me_pensavo_stavolta_me_lo_porto_a_casa_-134519799/?ref=HREC1-22
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Great read Hyperdanny, so thanks for sharing your translation. The maestro seems thrilled with everything that happened. Also, hope it didn't take up your whole lunch break and that you managed to grab something to eat as well...!
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Thanks for that translation, hyperdanny !
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Yes, thanks HD for the translation. It was good to read.
I hope Ennio enjoys this while he can. He will be venting his spleen in a year or two when some dimwit American producer(s) remove his score from some Hollywood piece of crap (given to him based on this new love wave) cos it doesn't sound enough like Zimmer or Balfe!
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Mar 1, 2016 - 10:02 AM
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Morricone
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While I don't think the score for THE HATEFUL EIGHT is particularly strong (outside the opening theme), I can't help but applaud his win -- if only out of "political" reasons, and the fact that he's overdue, not likely to get another etc. etc.
That's also my take on it to be honest. There are past scores which were far more worthy. I think even lovers of the score will agree with that. But it is great to see him win at last anyway.
Bravo Ennio.
Well I guess you didn't notice the crowd of us who felt THE HATEFUL 8 was the best and most original score we have heard in a long while. But one thing that has been prominent in Morricone's career was that, amongst all major composers, he has been the most consistently ahead of his time. When I ask a few who feel "Morricone has done better" what those worthier scores were, the first slew of answers is the Leone westerns A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS, FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE, THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY, ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST and DUCK YOU SUCKER. This makes me chuckle because I was around when these came out and, more than HATEFUL 8, there was no mention of these being classics, in fact here in America they were considered way too non-traditional to even be taken seriously. The totality of awards all these titles took in was... one win, by a group we here in the US have no idea about - the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists. Even sales of these were tepid with only the third dollar trilogy hitting the charts and that was through a watered down cover version by Hugo Montenegro which avoided Ennio's radical orchestrations. GBU soundtrack finally made it into the Grammy Hall of Fame...but that was in 2009. Recognition for much of Ennio's work only seems to come over time.
So my guess is when film music history is written the notable moments of 2016 will be Williams revitalizing his famous series and Ennio Morricone breaking new ground in an extreme western. I loved that the composers I have talked to have been the most enthusiastic of the HATEFUL 8 fans. Ennio himself is the most eloquent about his work in HyperDanny's wonderful translation of his interview:
For Tarantino I wrote music unlike any I had written before. I chose a new path. Quentin shot a western, but I could not go back 50 years, to the music I wrote for Sergio Leone. I didn’t want to repeat myself. I said to myself I had come up with a different writing. Something that reflects the drama and the irony of the movie. Tarantino gave me absolute freedom, he gave me no directions whatsoever. I based my work exclusively on the screenplay. It’s complicated music, because it’s symphonic in technique, but it’s very immediate for the listener. I was sure that they (the Academy ) would have acknowledged its value. And I believe they did.
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Yeah hyperdanny - thanks for your hard work.
So both boys and maria were with him.
At one point a few years ago Andrea moved to the u.s to help with work - i wonder if hes still there or back in Rome?
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Yep the famous picture.
Paraphrased but "We were at school together but we werent close friends. I played football in the playground but He (Sergio) preferred to play cops n robbers!!"
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