Posts Tagged ‘The Good’
Score Your Week | Once Upon a Time in the West
The American, which was released this past week, is a fantastic ode to spaghetti westerns and one film in particular. Once Upon a Time in the West was obviously a huge inspiration on director Anton Corbijn as the film has many references to Sergio Leone’s masterpiece. Once Upon a Time in the West is my favorite western for many reasons, such as: Henry Fonda’s diabolic turn, the spaghetti western using vast western iconography, the magnolia plot weaving to Charles Bronson’s ultimate reveal, but the one that matters here is Ennio Morricone’s score. Morricone is responsible for some really great work throughout the years (The Thing, The Untouchables, Mission to Mars, State of Grace), but it is with Leone that he created some to the most iconic movie music of all time.
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Score Your Week | Mission To Mars
Every Monday (or Tuesday, better late than never) here at Filmdogs, a member of the pack will be offering a recommendation for a soundtrack to help you speed up those never ending work days and (if possible) inspire you.
Ennio Morricone is one of the greatest composers to ever live thanks to scores he did for films like: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, The Mission, Cinema Paradiso, and The Untouchables. Quentin Tarantino and those wanting to be as hip as Quentin often sample his music for their films such as Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds and Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-ass. However, it may be his work for Brian DePalma‘s so-so Sci-fi guilty pleasure from 2000, Mission to Mars, that is my favorite. The film itself is DePalma’s ode to 2001: A Space Odyssey, yet despite some well done sequences and a great cast it never lives up to that name. Read the rest of this entry »
