Ennio Morricone
Sergio Leone compiled everything great about Westerns in Once Upon a Time in the West, and created as distinctive an entry as the world had ever seen.
The real power of scores is the intensity of feeling, the nostalgia of remembering, and (above all) the way it cements a film’s legacy.
Closely approaching Quentin Tarantino’s new film The Hateful Eight arises expectations not only because of the name he has created for himself, but also because we are aware of the repeating pattern of collaborators in his films. But this piece is not about the cast of the film nor about Tarantino’s specific style. It is about the collaborators behind the scene, specifically on his first time collaboration with Ennio Morricone as a composer of the film’s original soundtrack.