[PJ-Comix]

The music which you hear as you watch Tuco running around in circles in the cemetary until his vision melds into a sort of a golden circle is nothing more or less than a slight transmogrification of Richard Wagner's ring theme.

Tuco as a Wagnerian? Now there is something that NEVER occurred to me until now.

[merak]

Tuco as a Wagnerian? Now there is something that NEVER occurred to me until now.

I once heard a German music director explain the thinking behind the ring music in Rheingold, i.e. the manner in which the ring itself represents greed, which leads people in circles without ever getting anywhere (the ring theme thus runs in circles), and Moriccone's "Ecstasy of Gold" does precisely the same thing and works entirely the same way. The music itself wasn't copied; the thought behind it was.