Sophia Loren, from her home in Geneva, weeps dejectedly death of Ennio Morricone, which made cinema great and often excited her as a spectator. “I spent a really sad morning, as soon as I heard the news I started listening to songs from all the films he had music, they are many, they are beautiful, starting with those of Sergio Leone that leave an indelible trace inside.” says Loren who played movies in which she left funny musical memories, singing as in A husband for Cinziae Bread love and …in which he goes wild with De Sica in the Italian Mambo, not to mention the musical The man from La Mancha e That’s amore. They were songs, often cheerful, but this is a sad hour and there is talk of a man who has been able to read in the intentions of the director, becoming a kind of alter ego, such as Rota with Fellini, Williams with Spielberg, Herrmann with Hitchcock … «I am still upside down. I assure you that this morning I spent very bad moments and immediately I started looking at clips of all his films, I don’t know how many I have seen, starting with those directed by Leone of whom he was the soul ».
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The last divine diva in her long career has never had the opportunity to star in films that had her own soundtrack.
“No, unfortunately we have never worked together and it is a great regret, but what do you want, our job is like that, what do you do?”.
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What was its distinctive feature?
«He was a man full of warmth, with a really great big soul. And he went away ».
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Would you have liked to have composed him for your film?
«Yes, I know, unfortunately you can’t have everything, it never happened. The ways of cinema are not controllable ».
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Had you met him during your career?
“We met during a gala in America, one of those official evenings that bring together many celebrities from the cinema, and it was a pleasure to be able to speak to him in person because I was lucky enough to have sat him next”.
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What man was he?
«An adorable, sensitive, wonderful man, also handsome and as a whole very charming. A serious loss. Unfortunately, we remain increasingly alone, the grown-ups gradually leave, but it is the law of life ».
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Was it appreciated by Americans?
“From the Americans? Are you kidding me? He was appreciated by the whole world, they all noticed immediately, because he had a wonderful soul that made him an extraordinary man ».
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At the beginning Morricone also hadand worked with popular artists such as Mina, Morandi, he had taken care of the arrangement of the scores of some musical comedies by Garinei and Giovannini, had a wide range of interests and used the human voice within his motifs, as heard in Leone’s westerns.
«Being a man who thought big he made no distinctions and he immediately stood out everywhere, in every sector and then he became the best in cinema».
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What peculiarity did it have?
«Whenever I hear your own theme, your own search motive, the film to which it belongs immediately comes to mind, it is an immediate return between image and music. Life is beautiful but when these things happen here it hurts a lot to me but also to the whole world. For music he was a huge person with a great soul, I say that I am part of a family of musicians. And he went away ».
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