"Magic Calculations"

Aric 2022-10-22 23:26:06


Alain Delon, 1969 film . The original name is literally translated "Sicilian family", which is more appropriate.
The soundtrack at the beginning of the film is very interesting, and the soundtrack is everyone - the Italian national treasure-level soundtrack master Ennio Morricone. Specifically, it is introduced at the end of the article.



This is a crime action movie. It abandons the old-fashioned plot of being arrested after a bank robbery is unevenly distributed, and arranges the scene of the treasure robbery to be carried out on the plane. All Sicilian tribes were arrested.
The layout of the film can be described as clear layers, with wonderful twists and turns.
From the opening, a family in Sicily rescued Sadan in a prisoner's car, and there have been many dramatic climaxes, such as Alan. How Delong went out to hire prostitutes to cause trouble; how the wife of the insurance company's attache found out that her husband was not on the plane and recognized Alan Bing when she called the police. Delong; how the detective spy on Alan. Delong's sister, the arrest of the Sicilian brothers, etc., these designs can be echoed back and forth.
Even better, we finally know back in the day it was thought that jumbo jets could land on highways. And the evil robber played by Alain Delon was also unable to withstand the bullets of the mafia boss. He died so crisply, completely unlike most of the protagonists, who was hit several times and still flirted with the tide.

Knowledge points:
a. Security check.
Some viewers are curious, how did the criminal gang carry out the hijacking in the film?
In fact, this is looking at old things with the eyes of the present.
From the perspective of the development history of civil aviation, the development history of security inspection did not occur with the emergence of the civil aviation industry. At the beginning of the development of civil aviation in the world, the number of planes was small and the passenger capacity was small, and the resulting accidents did not have a great impact on the society. However, after the Second World War, the international civil aviation industry developed rapidly, and the East and the West were in a state of cold war. The hijacking of enemy planes was not only a means of terrorism, but also a tool for personnel to flee and exert political pressure on the government. In the 1960s, plane hijacking incidents occurred frequently, which seriously affected and restricted the development of world civil aviation. To this end, ICAO signed the Convention on Offences and Certain Acts on Board Aircraft and the Convention on the Suppression of Unlawful Hijacking of Aircraft in Tokyo, Japan, The Hague, the Netherlands and Montreal, Canada in 1963, 1970 and 1971. and the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation. The signatory countries have implemented safety technical inspections on passengers and luggage on civil flights.

As far as our country is concerned, this security inspection system was only adopted in the 1980s!
Since my country was still in a closed period at that time, and the country also had strict requirements on the personnel who take the plane (must have a letter of introduction from the unit above the county and regiment level), the air defense security situation of China's civil aviation during this period was still relatively stable. Therefore, the civil aviation safety inspection work has not been established for many years. In June 1977 and April 1979, there were two incidents in which the current counter-revolutionaries attempted to hijack domestic airliners and defected abroad. Report". On April 1, 1981, my country's civil aviation international flights began to implement security inspections, which were carried out by the frontier inspection stations at the airports of the General Administration of Frontier Defense of the Ministry of Public Security. Then, civil aviation domestic flights also began to implement security inspections on November 1 of that year, which were carried out by the airport public security and security departments of the Civil Aviation Administration of China. The formation of my country's civil airport international and domestic flight security technical inspections are carried out by the Armed Police Border Defense Force and the civil aviation public security security department respectively. The dual management system model.
In July 1983, the State Council decided that the General Administration of Frontier Defense of the Ministry of Public Security should set up security checkpoints at various airports to be fully responsible for the security check of civil aviation.

b. Soundtrack.
Ennio Morricone, the Italian national treasure music master, is the most famous music master in film history. We don't know how many soundtracks he has written and created, probably more than 500. Almost any style of film has his creations. footprint.
Its style spans jazz, pop, avant-garde, classical and the most famous spaghetti western style. For more than 40 years, the accumulated film/TV music works and cooperation objects include the most famous contemporary master European and American directors. Mollicknay's musical composition has earned him five Oscar nominations for Best Original Film Music, and has also won him numerous accolades, including 2 Golden Globes, 1 Grammy, 5 BAFTAs, 6 Italian Film Awards, 8 Italian National Film Critics Association Awards.
In the early 1960s, he joined the film industry, and in 1961, he made his soundtrack debut "The Fascist/Ⅱ Federale", which made him immediately prove to the world that he is a natural composer of film music.
For each film work, where music is composed by Ennio Morricone, the musical atmosphere must be strengthened to varying degrees. This is felt even by ordinary viewers who have never been aware of the presence of the musical element in the film.
----I was really attracted by the soundtrack at the beginning of this film, especially the pluck-like "dissonance" that appeared at intervals.
His melody has a strong appeal that penetrates people's hearts in an instant because of its broad musical thinking, simple and smooth, and extremely singing; Endless; his soundtrack technique greatly enriches the vocabulary of film music due to the variety of genres and originality, thereby greatly broadening the audience (including professionals) film music thinking. These characteristics are particularly prominent in his works from the 1960s to the 1980s.

There are three such early ones that are worth a look.
The 20 years of cooperation between Ennio Morricone and Italian director Sergio Leone (1921-1989) from 1964 to 1984 was a golden age in their artistic careers. The two geeks have written a shining page together in the history of world cinema. In 1964, Leone filmed his first trilogy, the first of the "Bounty Trilogy": "A Fistful of Dollars", followed by a trilogy in 1966 The second part: "For A Few Dollars More". For the first time in the history of film music, the rough, dashing trumpet theme and the empty, distant and careless whistle solo were refreshing and left a deep impression on audiences from all over the world.

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The Sicilian Clan quotes

  • Vittorio Manalese: Well, personally, I trust the engineer. He sounds okay to me. This is a professional job.

    [Turns and looks at Roget Sarte]

    Vittorio Manalese: You're the one I don't trust!

    Roget: Me?

    Vittorio: Yeah, you! All your brains are below your belt! You almost got us all in cold storage last night playing games in a whorehouse!

  • Rovel: I was sound asleep, and they burst into my room and turned everything upside down!