The music of "The Godfather" is mainly composed by Nino Rota, who is known as the "Godfather of Italian Film Music". Nino was the old partner of Fellini and Visconti, and was Fellini's many business cards. Soundtracks such as "The Road", "Sweet Life", "Eight and a Half" and "I Remember, Think Back then" and other soundtracks. His film soundtrack works have beautiful melody and strong classical flavor (such as "Leopard"); at the same time, they have very folk music characteristics (such as "The Road", "I Remember, I Want to Be Back"), and have strong audibility. In order to highlight the Italian characteristics of the film, Coppola deliberately chose Nino Rota as the creator of the "Godfather" music, and Nilo did not disappoint, writing a beautiful soundtrack with distinctive personality and meeting the requirements of the film, and won a great deal. Success. Carman Coppola, another creator of the film’s soundtrack, is the father of director Coppola. Although Francis Coppola sometimes has the disadvantages of nepotism, his father, as a well-known musician, does give play to his strengths. We brought a song Connie's Wedding, which is also very moving. Main Title (The Godfather Waltz) is the first piece of music that appears in the film. With the unfolding of black subtitles, the trumpet plays a sad and lonely melody, and then repeats the melody with the alto violin, and finally transitions to The main melody of the waltz led by the clarinet is over. As the theme song of the godfather, this song is a true portrayal of the fate of the two generations of godfather Kryon and his son. Although they have achieved great success through improper means, they have lost many things that ordinary people should have, including family, love and friendship. Can't get the recognition of the world, but can only live a lonely life. This melody is like a dying review of an old man who has gone through the world. The sense of perplexity that has been troubled by the sea is also very emotional and extremely emotional. This song was not written exclusively for the film "The Godfather". It was originally written by Nino Rota for the film Fortunella in 1957. For this reason, it was selected for the Oscars in 1973. Although the film’s music was nominated, However, it did not win the prize because it was not "original" enough, but Nino persevered and continued to use it after adding some new elements in "The Godfather 2", and finally won the Oscar, which is also an anecdote.
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