Editing Ennio Morricone (section)

==== Other notable Hollywood scores ====

During his career in Hollywood, Morricone was approached for numerous other projects, including the [[Gregory Nava]] drama ''[[A Time of Destiny]]'' (1988),<ref>{{cite book |last=De Rosa |first=Alessandro |title=Ennio Morricone: In His Own Words |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2veFDwAAQBAJ |chapter= 6. Looking Ahead:A Silent Nod Towards the Future |translator= Maurizio Corbella |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2019 |isbn=978-0-19-068103-6}}</ref> ''[[Frantic (film)|Frantic]]'' by Polish-French director [[Roman Polanski]] (1988, starring [[Harrison Ford]]), [[Franco Zeffirelli]]'s 1990 drama film ''[[Hamlet (1990 film)|Hamlet]]'' (starring [[Mel Gibson]] and [[Glenn Close]]), the [[neo-noir]]<ref>{{cite book |title=Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style |edition=3rd |date=28 November 1988 |publisher=The Overlook Press |location=Woodstock, New York |isbn=978-0-87951-479-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/filmnoir00alai/page/438 438] |chapter=Filmography of neo-noir |editor=Alain Silver & Elizabeth Ward| chapter-url-access = registration| chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/filmnoir00alai/page/438}}</ref> [[crime film]] ''[[State of Grace (1990 film)|State of Grace]]'' by [[Phil Joanou]] (1990, starring [[Sean Penn]] and [[Ed Harris]]),<ref>{{Cite news|last=Maslin|first=Janet|author-link=Janet Maslin|date=14 September 1990|title=Review/Film; Bach in Hell's Kitchen, and the Gang's all There|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/14/movies/review-film-bach-in-hell-s-kitchen-and-the-gang-s-all-there.html|access-date=7 July 2020}}</ref> ''[[Rampage (1987 film)|Rampage]]'' (1992) by [[William Friedkin]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=Sharf|first=Zack|date=6 July 2020|title=Ennio Morricone Dies at 91: Edgar Wright and More Honor the Legendary Film Composer|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2020/07/ennio-morricone-dies-edgar-wright-honors-film-composer-1234571406/|access-date=7 July 2020|website=IndieWire|language=en}}</ref> and the romantic drama ''[[Love Affair (1994 film)|Love Affair]]'' (1994) by Warren Beatty.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Maslin|first=Janet|author-link=Janet Maslin|date=21 October 1994|title=Film Review; A Romeo Plays a Romeo. Hmm.|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/21/movies/film-review-a-romeo-plays-a-romeo-hmm.html|access-date=7 July 2020}}</ref>
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None of the aforementioned films were box office successes, but fortunately, Morricone was also commissioned for more successful motion pictures such as ''In the Line of Fire'' (1993) by [[Wolfgang Petersen]], starring Clint Eastwood and [[John Malkovich]], the horror film ''[[Wolf (1994 film)|Wolf]]'' (1994, Mike Nichols), which featured [[Jack Nicholson]] and [[Michelle Pfeiffer]], and ''Bulworth'' by Warren Beatty.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}

In 1997, Morricone composed the music for ''[[Lolita (1997 film)|Lolita]]'' (by [[Adrian Lyne]]) and [[Oliver Stone]]'s ''[[U Turn (1997 film)|U Turn]]'', starring [[Sean Penn]] and [[Jennifer Lopez]]. A year later, Ennio Morricone wrote a complete score for the 1998 drama ''[[What Dreams May Come (film)|What Dreams May Come]]'', but [[Vincent Ward (director)|Vincent Ward]] found the music too emotional and replaced Morricone with [[Michael Kamen]].<ref>[http://users.telenet.be/soundtrack-fm/Reviews/Ennio_Morricone/what_dreams/what_dreams.htm "They rejected it because it was too emotional?"], soundtrack review. Retrieved 23 January 2013.</ref>

One of his last complete scores for an American-related project includes the 2002 thriller ''[[Ripley's Game (film)|Ripley's Game]]'', starring [[John Malkovich]], by [[Liliana Cavani]].
Noted background music from the shooting scene "target practice" in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained was also featured in Kung Fu theatres movies.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}

==== Extensive reuse of his music ====

Besides the 500 original film scores composed by Morricone for movies and television series in a career of over six decades, his music is frequently reused in more than 150 other film projects. Morricone's compositions appeared in the German TV series ''[[Derrick (TV series)|Derrick]]'' (1989), the live-action comedy film ''[[Inspector Gadget (film)|Inspector Gadget]]'' (1999), ''[[Ally McBeal]]'' (2001), ''[[The Simpsons]]'' (2002), ''[[The Sopranos]]'' (2001–2002) and more recently in ''[[Dancing with the Stars]]'' (2010).{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}

In 2014, Morricone's song "Giù La Testa" was featured in [[Florian Habicht]]'s feature film ''Pulp: a Film about Life, Death & Supermarkets'', an unconventional rockumentary about British group [[Pulp (band)|Pulp]] which premiered at SXSW that year.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}} good topic but needs sources-->