Home-->m-comment-000-eng-->mb-comment-010-98-eng
PC

Broxton Comment-MB-010-98
FA6914 Uccidete il vitello grasso e arrostitelo
Auther: Jonathan Broxton

ENNIO MORRICONE REVIEWS, Part 10-98

UCCIDETE IL VITELLO GRASSO E ARROSTITELO (1970)

Uccidete Il Vitello Grasso e Arrostitelo – known in English as Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It – is an Italian giallo drama/thriller directed by Salvatore Samperi. Maurizio Degli Espositi plays Enrico Merlo, a young man who returns home from his father’s funeral, and then soon begins to suspect that his brother Cesare (Jean Sorel) and his sister Verde (Marilú Tolo) are plotting to murder him.

The score for Uccidete Il Vitello Grasso e Arrostitelo is another one of those anachronistic lounge jazz/light rock scores which crop up from time to time; the main title theme is a hip beat with a prominent Hammond organ performing the dance like melody, accompanied by a rock drum kit, before it veers off into the first of a series of impressionistic harpsichord interludes. The opening cue “Lungo la Stradina,” and its subsequent recapitulation, are a pair of playful woodwind dances that picksup a variety of other instrumental textures as they weave their merry magic. Similarly, “Ricordi Tanti Fiori” has an almost pastoral nature, with especially lovely writing for flutes and harpsichord, while the groovy “La Fredda Lama Del Coltello” goes down the road towards pop psychedelia.

The first “Al Confini Della Follia” is more conventionally romantic, showcasing a lovely bucolic piano line accompanied by lilting flutes and harpsichord. However, its recapitulation namesake is more unusual and unsettling, a series of abstract textures for woodwinds, percussion, and haunting keyboard tones; this is the part of the score that clearly alludes to Enrico’s suspicions about his potentially murderous siblings, and Morricone captures that unsettling trepidation well. The conclusive “Scivolando Nel Buio” is a disorienting collision of frantic electric guitars, insistent percussion, la-la vocals, and more keyed organ music, insinuating that Enrico may be a little mad… or is he?

The version of Uccidete Il Vitello Grasso e Arrostitelo reviewed here is the 2007 release from Italian label Digitmovies, but there are several options to choose from, including a shorter version released by CAM Records in 1992 which pairs the score with music from the 1968 film Grazie Zia.

Track Listing: 1. Lungo la Stradina (3:03), 2. Al Confini Della Follia (4:41), 3. Uccidete Il Vitello Grasso (Titoli) (2:21), 4. Ricordi Tanti Fiori (3:30), 5. Al Confini Della Follia (Versione 2) (10:26), 6. La Fredda Lama del Coltello (2:12), 7. Echi del ‘700 (1:33), 8. Scivolando Nel Buio (5:20), 9. Lungo La Stradina (Versione 2) (2:46), 10. Ricordi Tanti Fiori (Versione 2) (3:25). Digitmovies CDDM-083, 39 minutes 17 seconds.
Feb.13, 2021
Film Appreciation on This Website
Online music audition
001
Uccidette il Vitello (04:15)
002
Piccolo Canone Perpetuo (03:03)
003
Lasidore (03:09)
004
Ricordi Tanti Fiore (03:29)
005
Per Bimba e Organo (05:21)
Attachment: About Jonathan Broxton
Jon is a film music critic and journalist, who since 1997 has been the editor and chief reviewer for Movie Music UK, one of the world’s most popular English-language film music websites, and is the president of the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA). Over the last 20+ years Jon has written over 3,000 reviews and articles and conducted numerous composer interviews. In print, Jon has written reviews and articles for publications such as Film Score Monthly, Soundtrack Magazine and Music from the Movies, and has written liner notes for two of Prometheus Records’ classic Basil Poledouris score releases, “Amanda” and “Flyers/Fire on the Mountain”. He also contributed a chapter to Tom Hoover’s book “Soundtrack Nation: Interviews with Today’s Top Professionals in Film, Videogame, and Television Scoring”, published in 2011. In the late 1990s Jon was a film music consultant to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, and worked with them on the films “Relative Values” with music by John Debney, and “The Ring of the Buddha” with music by Oliver Heise, as well as on a series of concerts with Randy Newman. In 2012, Jon chaired one of the “festival academies” at the 5th Annual Film Music Festival in Krakow, Poland. He is a member of the Society of Composers and Lyricists, the premier nonprofit organization for composers, lyricists, and songwriters working motion pictures, television, and multimedia. (Here)
2023.12.10
2023 Mobile version

VIP
Philately The site standby Collection transfer
Started running in 2003. The site http://morricone.cn standby http://em.hty66.com 信息产业部备案序号（2014）: 苏ICP备11039856号 © 2015 hwg 版权所有