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magnificent movie symphonic poem
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Discussion of Leone's "past Trilogy" (1): "Once
upon a time in the west"
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ever thought a question: Look on an Italian who only shoot
six films in his life as a great master of movie, whether
only because personal preference so that lack objectivity
and impartiality? However i found that for years, The most
talked-about from professionals to ordinary lovers and highest
frequency of occurrence in the world's movies , exactly are
the six films. And of ten also with heartfelt feelings of
admiration and reverence in talking about the six films. There
are many people to research this Italian in the world. One
representative is that former president of the Royal College
of Art of UK, the current chairman of the British Arts Review
Committee, Professor Christopher Frelin. The celebrity was
knighted in 2001, he is the writer of Sergio Leone's biographer
and recognized "expert about Leone" in the world.
In China, the professionals who look on the Leone as a film
great master is a lot of people. Film scholar and translator
Li Xun just is one of them. In addition, The writer also found
that in the years of research the world of film music, No
doubt the one after another of melody from the screen with
its extremely rich and the picture a sense can Touch people's
hearts, gives the inner visual to left indelible impression,
but not a film's music like as Leone's six works of music,
can let the audience be infatuated into that be carried away
into a region of dreams and "Worth hearing 100 hundred
times". A past neighbor which did not relate for a long
time due to a busy, a friend in chorus of Orchestra recent
suddenly call: ask for the music of "Once upon a time
in the west", because, he is not only damaged the video
record of many years ago because watch too much, also damaged
the acoustic record of film soundtrack because hear too much
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una volta il West, English
literal translation from the original Italian title translates
is Once Upon a Time in the West, it is Sergio Leone's first
film of "past trilogy" following the "Reward
Trilogy". As we all know, "Western" recognized
the geographical concept in the world refers to the mid-19th
century in the North American continent, the vast area of
virgin in the west of the Mississippi River. The westerns
film Born in the early 20th century, later became a type of
film of the most representative types of film in the United
States. Broadly speaking, all the Westerns film are about
the story of the Western Region, but from the first embryonic-type
westerns film "The Great Train Robbery" in 1903,
until the "How the West Was Won" in the early of
1960s that spent three master directors and more than a dozen
major actors star, their title is not one called the "Western
Story" or "the West past". Instead Italian
director Sergio Leone shot a Italian-style and can be called
epic "Once upon a time in the west" same take the
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Leone
's acrossing from third " The good, The bad and The
ugly" of previous trilogy to first " Once upon
a time in the west" of last trilogy,always made the
writer associate to Beethoven taken a huge step from the
second Symphony to the third Symphony. As the "heroes
symphony" produced On that basis of C major 1st and
D major 2nd symphony with the shadow of Mozart and Haydn,
"Reward Trilogy" with experiment color also seems
to be
created for the gestation and birth of the great
"Once
upon a time in the west". The reason made "Once
upon a time in the west" became the leading immortal
works in the world's cinema, not
only is its magnificent of historical background backed
by the story, The "Music Properties" of the film
itself -- a full structure of Sonata presented by five parts
of introductory usic, exposition, development, recapitulation
,coda, and the "aria" type of relationship between
every characters and theme of every soundtrack, all have
made this Italian-style westerns film likes a unique, magnificent
islands, rises high in the sea of all the American Western
films. Some people say that the Italian can shoot his westerns
into a big opera, I believes that Leone mades his
Spaghetti Westerns film
into A huge movie symphonic poem equivalent of a single-movement.
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we often flashed a video fragment of the "Once upon a
time in the west"" on the inner, ears will certainly
sounded a engraved heart melodies, the music to accompany
the groups of the lens will be with a permanent marker. The
soprano Edda Dell'orso's wordless humming with Meaningful
and commom humanity in all its nostalgic Complex feeling,
with crazy sand waves that Smoke-like swept the western earth,
over one after another yellow rock peaks where towers aloft
the Immemorial Monument Valley, fly to an infinite extensive
distance in where junction with elapsed golden age, become
to a great elegy dedicated by Sergio Leone for the western
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In the
many factors making the "Once upon a time in the west"
became immortal masterpieces, music played a most important
role. It is roughly the same with the worth of this fundamental
element which photography that is film can exist in. In
fact, it is difficult to imagine that Sergio Leone's works
without Ennio Morricone's music. The Penetrative power and
a strong Infectious possessed always by Morricone melodies,
can not be compared by any other film composer, For all
seen the "Once upon a time in the west" of the
people, Sound mournful, like whine harmonica and character-oriented
banjo sound, There also is unspeakable, vast wide, soothing
moving theme melody, all will never be able to forget. And
the most unique approach that is "the music exists
prior the film", made all the important scenes shoot
in accordance with mood and rhythm of Morricone music that
is created in advance, then mosaic in them, therefore the
overall effect formed between sound and pictures, is quite
different with the concept of "unify sound and pictures"
of that film shoot by conventional techniques
Aug.9,2007
(This article is a abbreviated version)
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