Four years and 45 film scores later , the composer took on two more Hollywood assignments. One was John Carpenter’s remake of the sci-fi horror classic, for which Morricone composed an eerie, unusual synth score Carpenter subsequently elaborated upon.
All the same, some civil rights groups had problems with the project. As a result the film, which was generally well reviewed by the few critics who managed to see it, barely opened, generated minimal grosses and, after years in oblivion, came out on the Criterion DVD.
In fact, the only problem emerged when it was time for lunch. My request to interview the maestro forhad been granted days before, but when we were due to sit down in the commissary, Morricone gave me a startlingly hard time. “What do you know about music?,” he barked, via a translator, foregoing any niceties. “I don’t know if I can talk to you.
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