Composer Ennio Morricone was in a grumpy mood during his interview with Playboy Germany, attacking director Quentin Tarantino, Hollywood, and the US, all of which have provided him much career success.
In a “tell those kids to stay off my lawn” diatribe, the 90-year-old Morricone – whose scores graced such spaghetti westerns such as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – called Tarantinos work “trash” and described him as a “cretin” whose output was “not original.”
Morricone provided the score to Tarantinos Western, The Hateful Eight, winning his first Academy Award for the work.
“The man is a cretin,” Morricone complained. “He just steals from others and puts it together again. There is nothing original about that. And he is not a director, either. So not comparable to real Hollywood greats like John Huston, Alfred Hitchcock or Billy Wilder. They were great. Tarantino is just cooking up old stuff.
Tarantino was present at Morricones Hollywood Walk of Fame star unveiling in 2016, so the enmity is relatively new and apparently related to the pressure of grinding out a score.
“He calls out of nowhere and then wants to have a finished film score within days, which is impossible,” Morricone said. “Which makes me crazy! Because thats just not possible.”
Morricone said he no longer desires to travel “to this dreadful America, with these pompous pomposities, these embarrassments like the Oscars and the whole frippery.”
The composers last score was The Correspondence, an Italian-English film starring Jeremy Irons and Olga Kurylenko.
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