10 Bizarre Filmmaker Rules You Never Knew

One of the greatest filmmaker-composer relationships in cinema history is unquestionably that of Sergio Leone and his recently departed collaborator Ennio Morricone.

The two paired together for all of Leone's movies from A Fistful of Dollars onward, and developed a unique working relationship which operated entirely counter to the way most movies are shot and scored.

Typically, film scores are created only after shooting has been completed, when the composer can see a rough cut of the film and tailor their music to the images they're seeing.

But Leone and Morricone did things quite differently, with the director typically having Morricone complete the score before he'd even shot a foot of film, and sometimes even before he'd actually written the script.

This allowed the filmmaker to play Morricone's score during shooting and set an appropriate mood for the cast.

This clearly paid off dividends on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in particular, with the film's iconic Mexican standoff being perfectly timed and edited to Morricone's existing musical piece, "The Trio."