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Selene, a beautiful vampire warrior, is entrenched in a war between the ...
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Selene, a beautiful vampire warrior, is entrenched in a war between the vampire and werewolf races. Although she is aligned with the vampires, she falls in love with Michael, a werewolf hybrid who longs for the war to end. Part 1.
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These are the songs of an epic amazing western film back in 1968:Once Up...
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These are the songs of an epic amazing western film back in 1968:Once Upon A Time In The West directed by Sergio Leone.
This soundtrack was conposed and conducted by Ennio Morricone!=)
Description : The Western has always been a highly romantic genre,built mostly on the mythical figure of the gunfighters,but neither were very adept at doing what the other was paid for.But the West itself,the harsch,arid,short-grass country,is very real.Here the bleak towns are stranded in the midst of flat and monotonous land which has been nurned dry by billows of wind and heated by a loud,heavy sun.
The special power of Sergio Leone'film is in his use of the violent strength of the country and his portrayal of the people who live by it.Romance is where you find it,and to a man confined to a life of struggling with the land,a gunfighter,with his irresponsibility and freedom to move about,was a romantic figure.
In Leone's first three westerns the hero is the existential unnamed gunfighter,and the director's novelistic use of and attention to scenic texture and detail give substance to the myth.Before Leone's pictures the West itself had never been used as a character in films.In fact,it had hardly existed;in the westerns of Gary Cooper and Randolph Scott the country was used only as a backdrop for the plot.
Leone was never as concerned with story lines in his westerns as he was with exploding the romantic myth of the old West and exploring and analyzing the basis of that myth.The degree of accuracy of Leone's westerns is a subject for historians,but the ankle-length dusters,and his anonymous heroes(most of the names remembered from the West were names such as Billy the Kid,Jesse James and Frank Dalton),who were often indistinguishable from the villains,have a greater degree of truth than silver bullets and clean-shaven jowls of men on a trail drive.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST has the strongest line of all Leone's westerns and is,in many ways,his best.The powerful score by world renowned composerEnnio Morricone has drawn overhelming critical acclaim.For Morricone's music reflects all the tension and atmosphere of the West that Leone portrays on the screen.
In the opening sequence of the film three gunmen wait by a railroad siding to kill the unnamed hero(Charles Bronson).Even in this begining Leone focuses his camera,and Morricone uses his score in such a way as to create suspence.Later,at the McBrain ranch,where the family is preparing a party dry,lifeless countryside and the felling of the music carry an atmosphere of menace and death even before the killers step from behind the bushes ans massacre the family.The saloon where the hero and the outlaw Cheyenne(Jason Robards)meet is not the gay,bawdy meeting place filled with the sound of a roulette wheel and the tinny notes of a player piano,but a smelly,dark clapboard hole where whisky is sold and drunk while sitting on a rough,wobbly chair.
The movie is a series of strong visual impressions,underlined by Morricone's poignant music.The two story lines have to do with McBrain's widow Jill(Claudia Cardinale),attempting to hold on to her land against a gang of railroas gunmen led by Frank(Henry Fonda),and the unnamed hero's search for Frank.He is not concerned that Frank is trying to kill Jill;his is an act of revenge for his brother's murder. «Once Upon A Time In The West there were men like this.They were not noble;they were not heroic.They simply were.» Fred Binkley
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