FILM: Favourite film moment, ever?

[DrunkHamster]

Definitely the Good, The Bad and The Ugly, the final firefight scene. The build up, with the music (Morricone is a god) and the faster and faster cuts is truley awesome.

[Cyrus]

This summer Morricone toured with an orchestra, directing it to a sampling of his soundtracks - he has written some 400 soundtracks and only about five percent of them were for westerns!

There was a little something before the sold-out event started in Milan, Italy, and it is shown live on TV. Five riders, appeared in the darkening distance, at the far end of the avenue leading up to the theatre, which is located at the centre of the city but traffic does not go there. As they get closer, the audience going to the concert moves to the side, some whistled and others started to clap but soon everyone fell ABSOLUTELY quiet and took in the spectacle.

The cowboys passed with a tired trot and we now see they were some kind of renegade bandits who must be on the run, after some battle with the forces of the law, their faces in caked blood, their clothes ripped and dusty, all of them some thousand miles of road showing. A half-Indian, a kid with dirty blond hair and even dirtier bandana, an old man with a long rifle, a heavy man who took close care of two heavy bags containing god knows what, and a Mexican with the ugliest sobrero you ever saw. Those folks passed everyone slowly without glancing and headed for the concert's entrance - when a dozen police squad cars' lights lit up the dark and the riders had to stop, surprised.

A gun fight ensued between the city policemen of the 21st century and the 1890 bandits. The cowboys fell one by one on the asphalt, noisly and bloodily, to their death, except for the blond kid who seemed a good rider and evaded most shots and also killed a lot of police. The guns eventually fall silent and the policemen stood up taking aim at the kid, who stops firing too and looks around for a way out of this.

The kid picked up the two bags from the dead chief's horse and turned towards the entrance. Started galloping, the police strated firing. The kid, our best stuntman, galloped the hundred yards or so to the dark entrance, letting off shots left and right to the surrounding police who were firing back at him in red fury, and then HIS HORSE LEAPED COMPLETELY OVER THE LAST POLICE CAR BLOCKING THE ENTRANCE TO THE OLD WEST OF ENNIO MORRICONE and makes it inside the arena entrance where he disappears in a torrent of smoke, gunfire, lights, shouts, curses, and the pyrotechics of dynamite.

At this point the lights over the entrance lit up MORRICONE A MILANO. The concert shall begin with "L' Ecstasi Dell' Orro", from "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly".

---The above is the synopsis for a little show that a group of Ennio fanatics wanted to put on before his concert this summer. The police ruled it out for reasons of crowd safety.

[John Cole]

Goblin with the soundtrack for Suspiria.