Last night, I rented and watched Once Upon a Time in America, starring Robert De Niro. I really liked it. It's one of those old school gangster movies that takes place in the ghetto neighborhoods of lower east side in New York City during the prohibition. Not realizing that the movie is 229 minutes long (I actually had to change discs to continue the movie, which also included an intermission), I had wanted to watch it upon learning that its score was composed by Ennio Morricone. The music was beautiful. I can't emphasize that enough. There were scenes in the movie when music alone expressed the characters' feelings and intentions without dialogue or action. Genius.
Aside from Once Upon a Time in America, I also recently watched Cinema Paradiso a few months ago for the first time. Morricone has a way of conveying so much with such simple melodies. Even before watching these two movies, I had heard sample clips of their scores, and something about the way they were written made me so sad and so nostalgic. I thought, "Based solely on the soundtrack, these movies have to be amazing." Listening to the themes of these two movies, you can really feel an indescribable longing for a past long gone or for a love long gone. In short, Morricone's music is emotional.
I love that about music, and I love that certain composers have an incredible talent for producing music that control our emotions with so much precision.
Nobody's gonna love you the way I loved you. At times I couldn't stand it. I used to think of you. I'd think, "Deborah lives. She's out there. She exists." And that would get me through it all. You know how important that was to me?
Aside from Once Upon a Time in America, I also recently watched Cinema Paradiso a few months ago for the first time. Morricone has a way of conveying so much with such simple melodies. Even before watching these two movies, I had heard sample clips of their scores, and something about the way they were written made me so sad and so nostalgic. I thought, "Based solely on the soundtrack, these movies have to be amazing." Listening to the themes of these two movies, you can really feel an indescribable longing for a past long gone or for a love long gone. In short, Morricone's music is emotional.
I love that about music, and I love that certain composers have an incredible talent for producing music that control our emotions with so much precision.
Nobody's gonna love you the way I loved you. At times I couldn't stand it. I used to think of you. I'd think, "Deborah lives. She's out there. She exists." And that would get me through it all. You know how important that was to me?
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