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13 years of association with Didier Thunus |
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Didier Thunus is an old friend. start from 2007, it
will be the 13th year forour friendship
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Our website was founded in 2003. At that time, the
Chinese (including the Internet) knew very little about Ennio Morricone.
My first webmaster's
handwriting recorded the situation at that time. At that time, we
searched Ennio Morricone in Google or Baidu, its results were very little
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old friend Sherry raised his arms on the forum and shouted, "Have
any friends who like Morricone here?" Only there are few respondents
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In order to learn more about Morricone, I began to
Face the West. In order to find out the origin and development of "chimai"
music that many fans often ask, in August 2007, I tried to send an email
to Thunus Didier, the webmaster of that famous Belgian website with
Morricone theme (interestingly, that website is also
called "CHIMAI", and it was built at the same year as
us). I got a reply soon, and then he sent an email again to add new
contents changes. It made me fully feel his enthusiasm and seriousness
(See
here). Our friendship began from then on
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Since then, I have often looked up relevant information
on his website. After carefully browsing many web pages, I gradually
feel that his website is almost an encyclopedia about Morricone, from
music to movies, from hundreds of thousands of tracks to thousands of
albums, from detailed introductions about the content, background, relevance,
anecdotes etc. of the works to serious answers to visitors' questions,
which is almost all inclusive. In 2012, when Didier knew that I was
going to edit the third edition of the chronology, he gave me the
latest chronology materials that he had spent a lot of energy to
write carefully, which helped me a lot
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In the years that followed, I often asked him many
difficult questions, and he went to great lengths to explain and answer,
until I fully understood them. Example: 2016 on the soundtrack to the
movie "Flatlandia"
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In 2012, I decided to edit and publish "Ennio
Morricone Fans Handbook" and asked him to write a special article
for me. He generously promised and to write a rich and moving manuscript
in his busy professional work and limited spare time, and soon sent
it to me. He gave a detailed introduction to the real process for following
Ennio Morricone since he was a teenager, and his real experience with
many unique ideas of Morricone's work. Since then, he do has shown his
own desire to compose music independently, and in the next few years,
he has put it into practice and achieved
admirable results
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Below: after the English version of "Ennio Morricone
Fans Handbook" was published, he took the initiative to promote
it for
us on his website
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Below: The
first CD created and officially released by him (as EverKent) in
2016 - "Bridge of illusions"
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Below: in 2019, he alone completed the work of re-score,
performing and full sound synchronous for the 1922 silent film "Nosferatu"
(see this page for
details)
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At the end of 2012, he sent an email to tell me that
he had decided to take over the Dutch paper magazine MSV with Ennio
Morricone theme, which was about to be closed. He warmly invited me
to write for the first issue of the new magazine, and I was very happy
to accept his invitation. In order to let the global fans know about
the situation of Chinese fans, I chose the title: "Ennio
Morricone and China". But my English is very poor, because
it is only a little knowledge accumulated by self-study since I was
40 years old. I really feel inadequate to publish it in such a magazine
for global fans to read. However, he promised to make careful revise
for me. Soon after I sent him the manuscript, I was moved by his carefulness
and patience in the emails and revised manuscripts he sent back. Here
are 2 screenshots (revised WORD manuscript, PDF e-magazine finally released)
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Below is the PDF screenshot of the second issue of
MAESTRO
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In contact with each other, I expressed to him my
disappointing and doubts about Ennio Morricone's official website, and
he felt the similiar. With his support, I published a critical article
in the eighth issue of MAESTRO in 2015 under the title of "Disappointed
and puzzled by Morricone's official website - criticism and expectation
from Chinese fans"
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13 years passed by. I am already an old man and he
also has stepped from young to middle age. Although we haven't met each
other, we have at least more 400 e-mails, and I can receive the latest
published and free download information of "MAESTRO" from
CHIMIA website every year for 8 years. In each issue, he and Patrick
Bouster wrote their own articles. From my own experience in editing
webpages and books, I can see that it is a time-consuming and laborious
thing, it is difficult for people who lack faith and endurance to persist
in it for a long time. Through that e-magazine after another, I seem
to see that at the other end of the world, in another social environment,
there are also people, money is no longer the main goal of their lives,
they are quietly, affectionately, selflessly, doing those things what
they like and society needs, I understand them, I admire them. Didier
Tunus, keep working hard to spread the good things for those who we
know or don't know !
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