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yestolerancepro · 6 months ago

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Tolerance Project extra Thank you for the music Part 2 Classic Cowboys to Classical music

Introduction

Hello there Ben Brown here and welcome to the 2nd Chapter of a blog that looks at how we created the soundtrack for the Tolerance film as we join part 2 Robert is trying to get to a Job interview and Julie has an ungrateful boss to deal with

4 minutes 13 seconds Robert has to get to a job interview, but finds it hard work getting there. He misses his taxi, then a bus and he narrowly avoids getting run over. He is saved by a passer-by, played by Dan McTiernan, who was also our first Assistant Director. When Robert is about to be run over you can hear the Jaws theme for the first time. You hear it again when Robert meets the infamous Mr Grosenberg.

Again we went with the John Williams original the famous theme which we all know and love is called main title/first victim.

To learn more about the original Jaws 1975 click here

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I always felt a bit sorry for John Williams his record companies always seemed to a bit slow when releasing single versions of his hit themes. He missed out on a sure hit with his Star Wars theme in 1977, when a disco cover version of the main theme by a band called Meco entered the UK charts at number 7 and a number 1 hit in the US

You can find a video about that version by clicking here https://href.li/?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAjuvI6sX2U&list=PL17vqAEJv6CV1syq4_fFKgBwSqGdJzH9z&index=264&t=135s

His original version used in the film spent 2 weeks in the US charts reaching the top ten

To learn more about the original Star Wars click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8_7IAP-biU

Like wise a cover version of his Jaws theme became a UK top 30 hit in 1975 John wouldn’t have a hit under steam till his Superman theme entered the UK top 40 in 1978

As Robert makes his way to the Bus stop we here People are strange a song by the Doors from their 2nd album Strange days The song peaked at number 12 in the BillBoard hot 100 US charts in 1967.

it later featured in the Horror film the lost boys from 1987.

When it was covered by Echo & The Bunnymen reaching #29 in the UK charts. The song was produced by Ray Manzarek, who as part of the Doors played Keyboards on the original track and on the cover version, its this version from the lost boys that we used in the Tolerance film

To learn about the making of The Lost Boys film click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4wGnXH4DOI&t=4s

8 minutes 24 seconds On her way to work Julie is past by a car which parks in a disabled space. Julie is not happy when she realises that the person parked in the space is not disabled, but is in fact her boss, Mrs Jones, played by Kate Faulkner. Julie daydreams about what she would like to do to her boss, leading to a spoof of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

The Version used in the Tolerance film is a cover from an an unknown artist and was not by Ennio Morricone or Hugo Montenegro.

In 1968 Hugo Montenegro released a cover version of the good the bad and the Ugly recorded on a Moog synthesizer it was big hit on both sides of the Atlantic a number 1 in the UK and a top 10 single in the US hitting number 2 in the US hot 100 It was held off from the top spot by another cinematic song: Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson." from the film The Graduate

To listen to the original Good the Bad and ugly main theme by Ennio Morricone click here (6) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly • Main Theme • Ennio Morricone - YouTube to listen to the cover version by Hugo Montenegro click here "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" by Hugo Montenegro and His Orchestra

The film's soundtrack was also a big hit reaching number 4 in the US album charts

To learn more about the Good the bad and the ugly click here

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11 minutes 19 seconds We cut to Julie, who is unhappy in her work. Mrs Jones tells her that she wants five copies of the work action plan and she needs them now. She later tells Julie that she can have the morning off, but first Julie has to tackle the monster photocopier. We chose the classical music, Car O Fortuna - Carmina Burana, by Carl Orff for the background music to this scene. This track is taken from my mums CD collection thanks mum !

Carmina Burana is a cantata composed in 1935 and 1936 by Carl Orff, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection Carmina Burana. Its full Latin title is Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanae cantoribus et choris cantandae comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis ("Songs of Beuern: Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments and magical images"). It was first performed by the Oper Frankfurt on 8 June 1937. It is part of Trionfi, a musical triptych that also includes Catulli Carmina and Trionfo di Afrodite. The first and last sections of the piece are called "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" ("Fortune, Empress of the World") and start with "O Fortuna".

14 minutes 29 seconds Robert goes into town to try and get a birthday card for Julie, but finds some of the shops and cash machines inaccessible. Does anybody know what the drum and bass music is here? Please let me know, so I can add it to the soundtrack playlist

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Odeon Cinema sequence and the last of our film spoofs - this time to An Officer and a Gentleman. So it was only right when spoofing that film we use Up where we belong from the 1982 film. The song a duet by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes it plays out in all its glory on its original chart release it was a top ten smash in the UK a number one in the US and it also won a Golden Globe A Grammy Award and an Oscar for best song.

19 mins 12 seconds as Julie and Robert make there way into the Odeon Cinema the instrumental track Green Onions can be heard recorded in 1962 by Booker T. & the M.G.'s. Described as "one of the most popular instrumental rock and soul songs ever, its also one of "the most popular R&B instrumentals of its era", the tune is a twelve-bar blues with a rippling Hammond M3 organ line by Booker T. Jones that he wrote when he was 17.

It started life as a B side the instrumental will become a soul standard when its first released on the US charts on the 11 August 1962 where it reaches no 3

It first appeared on the UK Singles Chart on December 15, 1979, following its use in the film Quadrophenia; it peaked at No. 7 on January 26, 1980, and stayed on the chart for 12 weeks

So Robert gets the job at the cinema and we see a montage of shots of him enjoying his new role to the music of The Professionals theme by Laurie Johnson The popular TV show ran on the ITV network for six series between 1977-1983 I like the scene but I would have used the classic Pearl and Dean Cinema Music.

Laurie Johnson passed away recently you can read the obituary by clicking here Laurie Johnson: The Avengers theme composer dies - BBC News

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Notes

This blog has been compiled from various sources including deep breath Ability not Ability a Producers Commentary Part 1 in the Beginning Ability not Ability a Producers Commentary Part 2 Transport Ability not Ability a Producers Commentary Part 3 Employment Ability not Ability a Producers Commentary Part 4 Accessability Tolerance Project goes into Lockdown and Happy Valentines day from the Tolerance project

Thanks to Wikipedia for some of the musical background notes

This new edition also includes new making of documentaries for Star Wars Lost Boys The Good the bad and the ugly thanks to Minty’s comedic arts

Some material has been included from the Justin Lewis book Don’t Stop The Music Thanks to Google images for the pictures and Ian Medley for the Tolerance film screen grabs

Pictures

Jaws poster from 1975

The Meco artwork for the Star Wars theme cover version

Artwork for the Doors album Strange Days

Artwork for People are Strange covered by Echo and the Bunnymen for the lost boys in 1987

Poster for the Good the Bad and the ugly

Artwork for Mrs Robinson by Simon and Garfunkel

Artwork for the Good the Bad and the ugly Soundtrack

Carl Orff

Screengrab Julie (Clare Abbot) about to face the monster photocopier

Artwork for Up where we belong from 1982 from an Officer and a Gentleman

Artwork for the Booker T and the MGs single Green Onions

Quadrophina Poster

Publicity photo for The Professionals

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yestolerancepro · 2 months ago

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Tolerance Project Extra

The Good The Bad and the Ugly Part 3

Introduction

Welcome to to the 3rd and final chapter in the epic blog that looks at the classic western the Good the Bad and ugly this final chapter looks at the best way to watch the trilogy the lost the Good the Bad and the ugly sequel and what links it to the Tolerance project

The Best Way to watch the Dollars Trilogy ?

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

For a Few Dollars More

A Fistful of Dollars

While Leone never intended his three Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns to be a trilogy, there are events in the movies that establish a timeline. The unofficial order for Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy is The Good, The Bad and The Ugly at the forefront, acting as a prequel to For a Few Dollars More, and then finishing with A Fistful of Dollars. Remarkably, despite the director's intentions, or lack thereof, the three films do not contain any major continuity errors when viewed as a continuous series.

Given its expansive reliance and commentary on the American Civil War, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is chronologically the earliest movie, despite being produced last. Leone implemented the infamous American conflict into his film in order to deliver some stark commentary against the brutality of war, primarily using Eastwood's character. In terms of events, Blondie slowly picks up the pieces of his iconic outfit throughout before finally donning the whole get-up in the end.

For a Few Dollars More takes place after The Good, the Bad and the Ugly not only because Colonel Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef), the vengeful bounty hunter, is a veteran of the Civil War, but also because a newspaper can be seen in the film containing the year 1872. The only factor that puts For a Few Dollars More before A Fistful of Dollars, however, is that Manco and Mortimer engage in a bravado shooting contest where the target is the Man with No Name's hat. The holes from that squabble can be seen in A Fistful of Dollars.

The Good the Bad and the ugly 2 the lost sequel

The Unmade The Good Bad and The Ugly 2

would have brought back Clint Eastwood in a surprising way. Clint Eastwood had spent years on a classic western series Rawhide

before landing what would turn out to be a star-making role in 1964's A Fistful of Dollars

This low-budget Italian western was a remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo and saw Eastwood's Man with no Name playing two gangs against each other. The movie's style and Eastwood's iconic turn saw the movie become a surprise success and it helped establish the spaghetti western subgenre

The popularity of westerns began to wane during the '60s and '70s, and later outings usually took a darker, more cynical view of the west. Clint Eastwood's westerns tended to be more violent, and the lines between heroes and villains were very blurred. Eastwood directed some of his most famous outings in the genre himself, including High Plains Drifter - which has a supernatural angle - Pale Rider and 1992's acclaimed Unforgiven

The Man with no Name is still Clint Eastwood's most famous western antihero, and following A Fistful Of Dollars, he reprised the character twice, for 1965's For A Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly. This latter entry is actually a prequel to the events of the previous films and followed three characters hunting for buried gold against the backdrop of the American Civil War. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly is the most acclaimed of director Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy and has been hailed as a masterpiece. The movie ends with Eastwood's "Blondie" riding off with half of the gold, and co-writer Luciano Vincenzoni later revealed he had plans to make The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 2, with Clint Eastwood returning as narrator.

For context, The Good, The Bad And The Ugly ends with Eastwood's Man with No Name having killed Lee Van Cleef's Angel Eyes and seeming to leave Eli Wallach's Tuco to hang. In the final moments, he shoots Tuco's noose to free him, with Tuco cursing out Eastwood's character as he rides away. Vincenzoni's The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 2 was to take place 20 years later, with Tuco tracking down the grandson of Blondie for the gold. Reportedly, Clint Eastwood - who has directed many movies - was interested in serving as narrator for a potential The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 2, though it's unknown if the Man with No Man would have actually appeared in the story.

Sadly, there's little solid information available on The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 2, including when it was being developed, though the late '80s seems likely. Vincenzoni confirmed Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach were interested in returning too, and it appears Joe Dante was being courted as director. It was Leone who killed The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 2, as he didn't want any more sequels to happen or his name linked to it. Vincenzoni put this down to a rift between the two men, but without Leone's consent, The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 2 quickly died. It's hard to know if the sequel could have worked without Clint Eastwood.

The Good The Bad and the Ugly The Tolerance Connection

So why are we talking about the Good the Bad and ugly in terms of the Tolerance project well we featured a spoof of the film music and all in the Tolerance film to highlight disabled badge abuse where Julies Boss parks in a disabled space and Julie day dreams what she would like to do to her boss by turning into Clint Eastwood’s Man with No Name and blowing her away .

A subject we will be covering in a blog called When I’m feeling Blue

Remember If you have read this blog and liked it please consider giving a donation to the Tolerance project by clicking on the above link thank you

Pictures

1 to 3 Claire Abbot playing Clint Eastwood to Kate Faulkners bad guy in the Tolerance project the Good the Bad and the ugly film spoof.

4 and 5 Shooting the Good the Bad and the ugly Spoof photographs taken by Rob Martin

The Good the Bad and the ugly or the Dollars trilogy as a whole has featured quite a lot in the Tolerance project blog meaning that any links that I haven’t managed to fit into the blog will be included in this rather large Further Reading section