Spaghetti Westerns / Ennio Morricone

I caught the end of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly this weekend. Damn I love that scene! You know the one. The duel in the graveyard?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awskKWzjlhk

For me, it just never gets old...

Anyone else love these movies?


Also, I put Ennio Morricone's name in the subject line cause IMO he is a big part of why those movies are some of my favorites. The man's a genius.

I love the trilogy, they're all good movies. The graveyard scene is awesome though...3 way gunfight, yeeha!

When Tuco screams at Blondie. :D

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That was great...Tuco stole the show in that movie.

but Clint Eastwood gets the townfolks to paint the town red. The scene: whippin up on the bad guys (literally) then chucking the whip into the bar to the leader of the bad guys.

I think that's the one... I'd love to have these on DVD someday.

a total blank on the title but it was some fun for Eastwood.

... in about 1973, and it was a superb homage to those Spaghetti Westerns he'd acted in, in the '60s. He moved up a full notch with '76's "The Outlaw Josey Wales," which is one of my favorite Westerns.

BOUNTY HUNTER: Man's got to do somethin' for a livin'.
JOSEY WALES: Dyin' ain't much of a livin' boy.

Which was not a spagetti western. But still had a great soundtrack by Morricone.

But it didn't have that same flair.

That score during the finale makes the movie.

and he's at least a part of why that movie is so powerful.

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Don't even need the movies. His stuff is excellent on it's own, and his name pops up as inspiration for quite a few bands that I get into, even some that you'd never connect to him by their sound. My buddy got a bunch of stuff last summer and made me copies, bless his soul.

And yeah, the movies are excellent also. Check out the movie The Proposition with Guy Pierce and Ray Winstone. It has a similar feel, though it's not so much action as character driven. Nick Cave wrote the screenplay and did the soundtrack with Warren Ellis, and the soundtrack has that same sparse feel.

Morricone also did the score for Carpenter's version of The Thing.