Spaghetti Western movie composure Ennio Morricone (91) passes away

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Italy: World’s one of the most versatile and influential creators of music for the modern cinema Spaghetti Western Movie Composure Ennio Morricone passes away on Monday in Rome. He was 91- years; his death was confirmed by his lawyer who said that Morricone had been in hospital after falling and fracturing his Femur.

Morricone scored many popular films of the past 40 years La Cage aux Folles (1978), The Thing (1982), The Untouchables (1987), Frantic (1988), Cinema Paradiso (1988), In the Line of Fire (1993) and the Hateful Eight (2015). In 2016 Morricone won his first competitive Academy Award for his score for “The Handful Eight”.

But the work that made him world famous was his blend of music and sound effects for Sergio Leone’s 1960s Spaghetti Westerns: a ticking pocket watch, a sign creaking in the wind, buzzing flies, a twanging Jew’s harp, haunting whistles, cracking whips, gunshots and a bizarre, wailing “ah-ee-ah-ee-ah”, played on a sweet potato-shaped wind instrument called an ocarina.

Imitated, scorned, spoofed, what came to be known as “The Dollars Trilogy”- A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1695) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)- all released in the US in 1967, starred Clint Eastwood as “The Man With No Name” and were enormous hits.

Morricone also scored Leone’s Once a Time in the West (1968) and Once Upon a Time in America (1984), both widely considered masterpieces. But he became most closely identified with “The Dollars Trilogy”.

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