配乐大师：约翰·威廉姆斯（2024）

一、二、三
One, two, three.
我第一次见到约翰时...
When I first met Johnny...
我心想:“写出如此出色音乐的人竟然这麽亲切”
I thought, "Oh, he's too nice of a guy to written such genius music."
他拥有一种神奇能力
It is a magical ability that he has.
第一次听到他的音乐,就令人难忘
You hear his music for the first time and you can't forget it.
喜欢他的人越来越多,即使他们没意识到
More people around the planet love him, even if they don't realize it.
有多少作曲家的音乐能让人一听开头
I mean, how many composers can you hear just the beginning
就会立刻知道是哪部电影?
and you instantly know what movie that is?
我认为他的音乐相当抚慰人心
His music for me is so comforting.
我立刻就能听出那是约翰的作品
I know... I know immediately that it's John.
这就是约翰带给人们的影响力
This is... ...John's effect on people.
你听到音乐时会说:“没错,就是他”
When you hear the music and say, "Oh, yeah. He's that dude.
辨识度很高的还有迈克尔·乔丹
Like Michael Jordan was that dude.
以及巴♥赫♥
And Bach was that dude.
约翰威廉姆斯就是辨识度很高的人
And John Williams is just that dude.
他的音乐无所不在
He's inescapable.
他总是能解决问题
He is the solution so many times.
约翰的音乐让观众产生最原始的感动
John's music connects with his audience on such a primal level.
这些电影主题曲似乎永远陪伴著我们
It seems like these themes have been with us forever.
他过去的音乐创作
At one point he sat down and figured them out
如今已成为我们一部分的集体回忆
and now they're just part of our collective psyches.
但他不只是作曲家
But he's more than just a composer.
他是才华出众的人
He's just a brilliant guy
他很瞭解影像和声音的关係
who really understands the relationship between pictures and sound.
他是古典和现代流行音乐的完美融合
He's the perfect marriage between old classics and modern pop.
对我来说二者都是
He's both to me.
他是一位潜心钻研各种音乐类型的杰出的音乐学者
He's an incredible musical scholar of every style that exists.
他是如何做到的?
How does he do it?
获奖的是《屋顶上的提琴手》，来自约翰·威廉姆斯
The winner is John Williams for Fiddler on the Roof.
《大白鲨》来自约翰威·廉姆斯
John Williams for Jaws.
《星球大战》来自约翰·威廉姆斯
John Williams for Star Wars.
《E.T.外星人》的约翰·威廉姆斯
John Williams for E.T.
《辛德勒的名单》的约翰威廉斯
John Williams for Schindler's List.
他总是不断在探索
He's always in a process of discovery.
他从自身经验中开始找灵感
It starts with what he experiences,
看电影,然后用钢琴谱曲
watching a film and then going to the piano and writing.
音乐就这样从天而降,包围住他
The music comes from the sky and envelops him.
这是我所体验过最纯淨的人为艺术形式
It's the purest form of art I've ever experienced from any human being.
《配乐大♥师♥约翰威廉斯》
(罗宏布杰侯执导)
很不错的乐句
Real good lick.
这是我的其中一架钢琴
This-This is one of my pianos.
(约翰威廉姆斯) (作曲家)
这架钢琴在福斯影片陪伴我二十五年了
And this one was at Fox with me for 25 years.
我用这架钢琴弹给 史蒂芬听的第一首歌♥是...
The first thing I played for Steven on this piano was this...
我弹给他听时 他说:“那是什麽?你打算怎麽...”
And I played that for him and he said, "What is that? What are you gonna do..."
那《第三类接触》的五个音符呢?
What about the five notes of Close Encounters?
五个...就是用这架钢琴
Five... Uh, this one.
我用这架钢琴弹奏所有音乐
This piano... I played everything.
为他弹奏《E.T.外星人》 和片中的所有音乐
这就是这个小美人的故事
So that is the history of this little darling.
听起来像结婚进行曲
It sounds like the wedding march.
但我们在多年前就结婚了
But we got married years ago.
就是说啊
I know.
这是真的
It's true.
陌生人,真高兴见到你
Oh, stranger. I'm so happy to see you.
(史蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格) (电影制♥作♥人)
我毁了强尼的动人时刻 - 这是我的成年礼
I'm crashing Johnny's moment here. - It's my bar mitzvah.
你的成年礼
Your bar mitzvah.
你好吗? - 我很好
How are you? - I'm fine.
新年快乐... - 你也新年快乐,宝贝
Happy New Year. Happy New Year. - And to you, baby.
我认为约翰威廉斯 和史蒂芬史匹柏的有趣之处在于
What's interesting to me about John Williams and Steven Spielberg is
他们合体时就是一个乐团
when they're together they are a band.
(克里斯马汀) (音乐家兼酷玩成员)
乐团很棒
And bands are great.
他们合体时所发挥的力量 甚至更胜于他们所集结的个人才华
When they're together they're greater even than the sum of their incredible parts.
音乐和影像一样重要
The music and the image are equally important.
(史蒂芬史匹柏车道) (约翰威廉斯车道)
彼此相辅相成
One is elevated by the other
两者缺一不可
and if you took either away, it wouldn't be what it is.
等到我真正拿到第一份工作 执导第一部剧情片时
By the time I actually got my first job directing my first feature,
大概已经收藏五百张电影原声带专辑了
I probably had already collected 500 soundtrack albums.
我就是电影配乐的粉丝
And I was one of those fanboys of motion picture scores.
(里亚托剧院)
但在1960年代和1970年代初期
But in the '60s and the early '70s,
电影配乐显得与时代格格不入
motion picture scores were becoming this magnificent anachronism.
换句话说,管弦配乐已经不再受到推崇
In other words, an orchestral score was no longer preferred.
那个年代有专属的音乐
They got music of the era.
那是一段可怕的时光
It was a scary time
因为我以为管弦配乐的伟大时代要结束了
because I really thought it was the end of that great era of orchestral scores.
我不要让那个年代 终结在我所经手的电影裡
And I was not going to let that era end on my watch with my movies.
(1969年《流氓好汉》 马克赖德尔执导)
我很喜欢一部电影的配乐
I had fallen in love with a score
就是《流氓好汉》
from a movie called The Reivers.
我对自己发誓 要是我能得到拍第一部剧情片的机会
And I made a promise to myself that if I ever get a first feature,
不管写配乐的人是谁
whoever wrote the score,
那个我以为是英国人的约翰·威廉姆斯
a man named John Williams, who I assumed was English,
一定要为我的电影配乐,只要他同意的话
was going to be my composer if he would agree.
(1972年《牛仔》,马克赖德尔执导)
后来我听到《牛仔》的配乐 那也是约翰写的
After that I heard The Cowboys, which John also wrote,
当时我更加下定决心
and at that point I was even more determined.
于是我问约翰
And so I asked John
他是否能为我的第一部电影 《横衝直撞大逃亡》写配乐
if he would write the score for my first movie, The Sugarland Express.
约翰非常喜欢剧本,甚至和我共进午餐
And John liked the script enough to have lunch with me.
我从一开始就很喜欢他
I adored him from the beginning.
他当时很年轻
He was very young.
而我已经40岁了
And I was already 40, you know.
一个在好莱坞打滚多年 白髮苍苍的资深前辈
A grizzled veteran from years of-of toil in Hollywood.
他一直都是优雅的人
He was an elegant man. Always has been.
但为人相当友善温暖
But very friendly, very warm.
他长得有点像威廉莎士比亚
He looked a bit like William Shakespeare.
留著一头红髮,还蓄著红鬍子
He had the red hair and he had a little bit of a red beard.
还有一双美丽的手
And beautiful hands.
我对他的手印象深刻
I remember... I just remember his hands.
我在短短五分钟内 就意识到从历史的角度来看
Within five minutes I realized that from a historical point of view,
他比我更懂电影音乐
he knew more about film music than I did.
为了证明我有多爱电影音乐
To prove how much I loved film music,
我大概哼了前两分钟的
I think I probably hummed the first two minutes
艾力克斯♥诺♥斯为 《斯巴达克斯》所做的片头曲
of the Alex North opening main titles from Spartacus,
那是我最爱的一首电影配乐
one of my favorite scores.
我认为约翰对于这件事 不是佩服我,就是假装佩服我
So I think John was either impressed by that or acted like he was.
然后以为我是某个疯子
And thought I was some kind of a nut.
然后我去看他的电影《横衝直撞大逃亡》
And then I-I went to see his film, Sugarland Express.
(1974年《横衝直撞大逃亡》 史蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格执导)
朋友,你要还给我吗?
Friend, you wanna give that back?
不然的话你就死定了
You got no idea what's gonna happen to you.
我心想:“天啊 这孩子是很棒的电影制♥作♥人”
And I thought, "My, God. I mean, this kid is really a great filmmaker."
所以他答应了
And so he said yes.
强尼用一把口琴创造出一种亲密感
And Johnny created an intimacy with one harmonica
把这部电影带到一个我未曾想像过的境界
that really brought the film to a place I never imagined it going.
强尼放慢主题曲的速度 藉由知名口琴手图茨帝勒曼斯的吹奏
Johnny deferred the main theme and a lot of the real evocative feeling
唤起许多共鸣感
through Toots Thielemans, the famous harmonica player.
(图茨帝勒曼斯)
(史蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格) (约翰·威廉姆斯)
等到约翰一完成 《横衝直撞大逃亡》的配乐
The second John finished scoring Sugarland,
我就打定主意 我的每一部电影都要找他来配乐
I simply intended to use him on every movie I ever would make.
(音乐社论)
提到电影音乐的原创性问题...
When it comes to this question of originality in film music
(亚历克斯·罗斯) (乐评兼历史学家)
...作曲家其实经常饱受压力
the composers are actually really often in a bind
因为他们在正式开工时就已经有临时音轨
because they come on the job and there's a temp track
那是导演和剪辑师为了组合电影毛♥片♥
which is pre-existing pieces of music, songs,
所需要的既有音乐、歌♥曲
bits and pieces of old film scores that the director and editors have laid down
以及旧电影配乐的零碎片段
in order to assemble the rough cut of the picture.
对作曲家来说这很痛苦
It's a bane for composers
只要我们一听到临时音轨...
(汤玛斯纽曼) (作曲家)
because the minute we listen to a temp track
...很多创意的点子就会消失
a lot of creative doors close.