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I don't get it. What does 'vaffanculo' mean, and what is this about?
It means F**k You.
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Could a french speaker give us a rough idea of the story?
Presumably Morricone got ratty with a journo for asking - in his mind - stupid questions?
This is not uncommon and has happened previously.
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Sep 23, 2016 - 1:20 PM
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CédricD
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Like most Morricone controversies I have heard about, it all comes down to translation and context. Journalists used to be journalists, now they follow the pattern of tabloids - "headline making". You must concoct a headline that will get the most amount of people to open up that article or it won't be read. Accuracy is secondary, if that. The quote a year or so ago about Tarantino that Ennio made in a music class is a prime example. Tons of people believed that headline and brought it up when Morricone did a score for him, as if it were gospel.
In this case it has nothing to do with context and translation. He just said "fuck you" to a journalist who asked legitimate questions, not dumb ones, all journalists interviewing him have the obligation to call him "Maestro"... Goldsmith was sometimes grumpy, but he would never had done that. Barry was absolutely charming, so is Williams. It's not because you're a genius that you also have to be an asshole.
When I met Morricone, Delerue was here and they did a master class. Delerue said that he was helped by some orchestrator to finish his score on time for some film (Platoon if I emember correctly), then Morricone interrupted him and said : "Composers who work with orchestrators are not real composers"...
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Sep 23, 2016 - 1:32 PM
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governor
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Like most Morricone controversies I have heard about, it all comes down to translation and context. Journalists used to be journalists, now they follow the pattern of tabloids - "headline making". You must concoct a headline that will get the most amount of people to open up that article or it won't be read. Accuracy is secondary, if that. The quote a year or so ago about Tarantino that Ennio made in a music class is a prime example. Tons of people believed that headline and brought it up when Morricone did a score for him, as if it were gospel.
In this case it has nothing to do with context and translation. He just said "fuck you" to a journalist who asked legitimate questions, not dumb ones, all journalists interviewing him have the obligation to call him "Maestro"... Goldsmith was sometimes grumpy, but he would never had done that. Barry was absolutely charming, so is Williams. It's not because you're a genius that you also have to be an asshole.
When I met Morricone, Delerue was here and they did a master class. Delerue said that he was helped by some orchestrator to finish his score on time for some film (Platoon if I emember correctly), then Morricone interrupted him and said : "Composers who work with orchestrators are not real composers"...
Delerue ? Working with an orchestrator ? Are you kidding ?
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The reason i asked if a french speaker could give us a paragraph with the salient points of the piece was for the very reason of what happens with those internet translations - it is invariably laughable gobbledegook, and as Thor says, leaves you none the wiser afterwards.
Reminds me of those awful liner notes on the old italian western CDs explaining the plot of the film. Insane claptrap.
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"The maestro will end by almost cum just outside the journalist."
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"...Yes, on no account during the interview must you ask the maestro about his porn films...!!"
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Sep 23, 2016 - 2:28 PM
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Morricone
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Like most Morricone controversies I have heard about, it all comes down to translation and context. Journalists used to be journalists, now they follow the pattern of tabloids - "headline making". You must concoct a headline that will get the most amount of people to open up that article or it won't be read. Accuracy is secondary, if that. The quote a year or so ago about Tarantino that Ennio made in a music class is a prime example. Tons of people believed that headline and brought it up when Morricone did a score for him, as if it were gospel.
In this case it has nothing to do with context and translation. He just said "fuck you" to a journalist who asked legitimate questions, not dumb ones, all journalists interviewing him have the obligation to call him "Maestro"... Goldsmith was sometimes grumpy, but he would never had done that. Barry was absolutely charming, so is Williams. It's not because you're a genius that you also have to be an asshole.
When I met Morricone, Delerue was here and they did a master class. Delerue said that he was helped by some orchestrator to finish his score on time for some film (Platoon if I emember correctly), then Morricone interrupted him and said : "Composers who work with orchestrators are not real composers"...
Since Morricone did not say that in English, again, we are relying on your translation and hence wording, let alone total context of HOW he "interrupted" him.
You say he said "fuck you" to a journalist who asked legitimate questions. Assuming you have access to all the questions he asked and have deemed them legitimate, even the bad google translation does say he was "heard" to say fuck you. Not the same thing. And was it as he was leaving? To himself? We are approaching Gobbledegook" time again.
I have never met you and definitely do not know you. But I have known 3 individuals who have called Morricone more or less an asshole. To a man all 3 have certain egocentric self serving qualities that come close to the label they gave him. No one else of the dozens of others who I have met who knew him have come close to that description. I myself have encountered him over a dozen times and the most I can claim about him is a certain aloofness. Considering the vastness and number of musical worlds he has created I expected something more eccentric. He is definitely no Bernard Herrmann (who made some of the same above statements way more vociferously).
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I don't get it. What does 'vaffanculo' mean, and what is this about?
It means, 'F*ck you up the a**'. The Maestro must have been REALLY mad.
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