In a well-known corner of Ciudad de Los Andes, in Chile, something unusual happened: A street artist musicalized a fight between two drivers with the main theme of the film saga Mission: Impossible.
In the viral video you can see and hear the saxophonist improvising a performance while the other two hit each other and grabbed each other’s clothes. In the background you can hear the laughter of the witnesses due to the strangeness of the situation.
Another driver and a window cleaner tried to intervene, but the scene was stolen by the musician.
The video had more than a million and a half views on Xwhere the majority of users highlighted the saxophonist’s speed in turning a moment of tension into one of laughter.
Why these things only happen in Chile:
A young man who played the saxophone on a corner musicalizes a fight between drivers to the rhythm of «Mission Impossible.» Here you have the next Nobel Peace Prize winner. 🤣🇨🇱 pic.twitter.com/XL7d3UhxYH
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A melody that remained in history
The main theme of Mission: Impossible is one of the most recognizable melodies in film and television. It was composed in 1966 by the Argentine Lalo Schifrin at the request of the producer Bruce Geller for the original series.
Schifrin, who came from jazz and had a classical training, created a piece with a 5/4 rhythm—rare in popular music—that provided constant tension and a sense of imminent danger, perfect to accompany the spy team’s impossible missions.
The composition was first performed by a studio ensemble in Los Angeles and became an instant cultural phenomenon. Its rhythmic structure inspired according to Schifrin in a heart beating under pressurehelped define the tone of mystery and intelligence that characterized the saga since its television beginnings..
The composer Lalo Schifrin, during a presentation at the Lincoln Center in New York (USA) Photo: EFEDecades later, when Tom Cruise relaunched the franchise in the cinema in 1996, the theme was reinvented without losing its essence. The film version, remixed by Larry Mullen Jr. y Adam Clayton by U2, combined electric guitars, percussion and synthesizers, updating the sound for a new generation.
Since then, each installment of Mission: Impossible reused Schifrin’s melody as a hallmark, adapting it to new styles and tempos.
The death of Lalo Schifrin
The musician died on June 26 at the age of 93, in Los Angeles.
The prestigious Argentine composer and pianist, author of more than one hundred soundtracks for film and television, died today at the age of 93 in the city of Los Angeles,» the Argentine Ministry of Culture reported that day. It said that «he was considered a living legend for his compositional genius.»
Schifrin achieved international fame when he composed the music for Mission: Impossible in 1966, but he also composed for films such as Dirty Harry, Bullitt y The Cincinnati Kidand for series like Mannix y Starsky y Hutchamong others.
Schifrin was 93 years old when he died. Photo: AFPBorn in Buenos Aires on June 21, 1932, he studied piano since he was a child and later composition at the Paris Conservatory.
In the 1950s, he met the jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespiewho invited him to work in the United States. That collaboration marked the beginning of his international career, which would have several seasons of tours and concerts with legends such as Count Bassie, Ella Fitzgerald and Miles Davis.
Throughout his career, Schifrin was awarded five Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Max Steiner Award.
After having been nominated six times by the Hollywood Academy for the Oscar, when he finally won the statuette in 2018, at the hands of Clint Eastwood, he celebrated it with a speech that concluded with the phrase «Mission accomplished!», in reference to the composition for which he is known worldwide.
