History Main / EnnioMorriconePastiche

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''’s soundtrack is practically a love letter to Ennio Moricone, but special mention goes to Temple’s (unreleased) theme in Season 15. It’s textbook Morricone, but with a twist in that the instruments are all bass registers. Switch the bass for a guitar and the tuba for a trumpet and you’ve got yourself a perfect match

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* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''’s soundtrack is practically a love letter to Ennio Moricone, but special mention goes to Temple’s (unreleased) theme in Season 15. It’s textbook Moricone, but with a twist in that the instruments are all bass registers. Switch the bass for a guitar and the tuba for a trumpet and you’ve got yourself a perfect match

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Done in "The Silence Of The Clamps".

* PlayedForDrama in Music/PoetsOfTheFall's "[[https://youtu.be/il3c14eR9C8?list=PLjACqN5i5sDUEienDV52g85W6J7chzLXV The Ballad of Jeremiah Peacekeeper]]" a {{Western}} inspired tale about an implicitly {{Messianic|Archetype}}, ReluctantWarrior lawman that borrows Morricone's tone.
* Music/{{Sabaton}}’s song “To Hell And Back” (the one about Creator/AudieMurphy) features Morricone-style whistles.
* German {{Progressive|Metal}} BlackMetal band Nagelfar's song "[[https://nagelfar.bandcamp.com/track/meuterei Meuterei]]" ("Mutiny") is essentially an attempt to answer the question, "What if Morricone wrote a black metal song?" It's got all the requisite elements: the dramatic Old West-style acoustic guitar, the horns, the dramatic chanted vocals. And it is ''awesome''.

** Befitting the game's own SouthernFriedGenius is the song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NTfCbfvwM8 More Gun]]", the theme of the Engineer. It starts off as a cozy campfire ditty before transitioning to a tense ShowdownAtHighNoon-esque progression, the latter half carrying the genre's signature electric guitar and brass instruments.
** There's "[[https://youtu.be/A2QpThyVL8s The Calm]]", the theme to the Mann vs. Machine trailer. Towards the end, though, [[GenreShift it opts for a more theremin-heavy retro sci-fi feel]], which makes sense given the [[RobotWar nature of the]] [[TheWarSequence gamemode being announced]].
** The music of the official-fanmade update [[https://youtu.be/tXnPT0uyDoE?t=534 End of the Line]] has an Ennio Morricone segment near the end. Lots of whistling and brass is used for it.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}} Escape 2 Africa'' has the ''The Good, The Bad and the Ugly'' theme in a "standoff" between Alex and the [[WhenEldersAttack violent old woman]] - albeit instead of the gun showdown the song usually scores, it's a straight up physical fight.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxowfL5cl9s This]] remix of [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Sanae Kochiya's]] theme.

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* Secret Chiefs 3 took their already western-sounding song "The Exile" and rearranged it with heavy guitars to sound more Morricone-ish, retitling the result "The Western Exile". They also had an unintentional example with "Book T: Exodus"--Trey Spruance took Ernest Gold's main theme from ''Film/{{Exodus}}'' and rearranged it for "surf band and orchestra". Many, many reviewers thought the result sounded a lot like Morricone.

* The duel between Mister Fox and Rat in ''WesternAnimation/{{FantasticMrFox}}'' features a theme strongly reminiscent of the track from ''For A Few Dollars More''- complete with galloping pace and spring and whistle sounds.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'': In some episodes between Seasons 3 and 7, there is a music cue for when something is about to go wrong or there is a standoff between two characters. It sounds like something out of the Film/DollarsTrilogy.

* ''VideoGame/CadenceOfHyrule'': The "peaceful" arrangements[[note]]There are two different versions of this arrangement, one with an organ and one without, but they are otherwise identical[[/note]] of the Gerudo Desert theme[[note]]based on the Gerudo Valley theme from ''VideoGame/OcarinaOfTime'', which was originally arranged in a flamenco style[[/note]] goes down this route, and just in case you hadn't already figured out that it was a Morricone tribute, the arrangement quotes the first five notes of his main theme from ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'' near the end of each loop. The Morricone quote ''only'' appears in the peaceful arrangements, notably; the other arrangements, which aren't Morricone pastiches, don't have it.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''’s soundtrack is practically a love letter to Ennio Moricone, but special mention goes to Temple’s (unrealeased) theme in Season 15. It’s textbook Moricone, but with a twist in that the instruments are all bass registers. Switch the bass for a guitar and the tuba for a trumpet and you’ve got yourself a perfect match

** "The Front": When Granpa dreams about the Old West similar music is heard.

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* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', [[TropeOverdosed naturally]]:

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortressTwo'', [[TropeOverdosed naturally]]:

* Broken Bells' "Mongrel Heart" contains a very Morricone-like midsection.

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortressTwo'', [[TropeOverdosed naturally]], has one in the form of "[[https://youtu.be/A2QpThyVL8s The Calm]]", the theme to the Mann vs. Machine trailer. Towards the end, though, [[GenreShift it opts for a more theremin-heavy retro sci-fi feel]], which makes sense given the [[RobotWar nature of the]] [[TheWarSequence gamemode being announced]].

* Secret Chiefs 3 took their already western-sounding song "The Exile" and rearranged it with heavy guitars to sound more Morricone-ish, retitling the result "The Western Exile". They also had an unintentional example with "Book T: Exodus"--Trey Spruance took Ernest Gold's main theme from ''Film/{{Exodus}}" and rearranged it for "surf band and orchestra". Many, many reviewers thought the result sounded a lot like Morricone.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZVg9ZmP8PM Jake Marshall's theme]] in ''VideoGame/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney''.