
Carter Burwell
1955年11月18日,出生在美国纽约市,作曲家,电影配乐师。早年相继毕业于康涅狄格州的斯坦福德国王学院和哈佛学院。1999年和美国影像艺术家Christine Sciulli相爱结婚。
作为电影配乐大师,Burwell与科恩兄弟有着长期的合作关系,几乎每部由Coen
brothers指导的电影都能聆听到burwell的音乐,除此之外,他也很喜欢与非主流导演合作,曾为斯派克琼兹的电影配乐。悉数他的最有名的非科恩兄弟电影配乐作品有:《阴谋论》(1997年),《哈姆雷特》(2000 年),《西班牙囚徒》(1997年),《魔鬼知道你死之前》(2007年)。2008年他创作了"Bella's Lullaby"即热映的影片《暮光之城》当中,男主人公Edward对Bella表达深深爱意的钢琴曲。
除配乐以外,Burwell曾一度与Stanton Miranda组成一个名为厚鸽的乐队。 共发行了两张唱片:《Too Crazy Cowboys》 和《Miranda Dali》。Miranda的特色也因为在burwell为Psycho III的配乐中被充分展现出来。
Carter Burwell的自述--制作《Twilight: The Score》
"Bella's Lullaby," as it appears in this film, was not written to be a lullaby but to speak of love - ecstatic, tormented love. Here's that story.Years ago I was in love with an amazing and challenging woman named Christine Sciulli. She left me, I was heartbroken, and I wrote a piece of music that tried to express the thrill and pain of having my heart pierced. She wouldn't speak to me, so I sent her the music to speak in my place.Years later (April 2008 to be exact) I came to Oregon to meet Catherine Hardwicke and see some of the film she was shooting, Twilight. She mentioned that the producing company, Summit Entertainment, had just requested that a new scene be added to the film. The scene existed in the novel but hadn't originally been part of the screenplay (films are not one-to-one translations of books). In this scene Edward would play piano for Bella. I wasn't officially working on the film at that point and they didn't know what Rob Pattinson (Edward) should play during the shoot. This is not an unusual situation - many films have an actor sitting at a keyboard, swaying back and forth, pretending to play music that was only written after the film has been shot and edited. This case was unusual in that Rob is a fine musician, and fully capable of playing the piano or probably any other instrument.When I finally began writing music for Twilight, in early July, I moved myself, my family and my studio from New York to Los Angeles to work more closely with Catherine and the editorial team - Nancy Richardson the film editor and Adam Smalley the music editor. I began the score with Bella and Edward, specifically the scene in which he carries her into the treetops. I wanted to capture the excitement but also the challenge of this love which spans barriers of time and species. The film had been edited so that the piano scene followed the treetops scene, and the whole montage had very little dialogue so it was a good canvas on which to paint Bella and Edward's love theme.

Carter Burwell制作/参与制作的部分电影原声
1986:Psycho III(惊魂客栈) 1991:Barton Fink(巴顿芬克)
1994:The Hudsucker Proxy(影子大亨) 1995:Fear(恐惧)
1996:Fargo(冰雪暴) 1997:Conspiracy Theory(阴谋论)
1998:Velvet Goldmine(天鹅绒金矿) 1998:The Big Lebowski(谋杀绿脚趾)
2000:Before Night Falls(夜幕降临前) 1999:Being John Malkovich(傀儡人生)
2000:Hamlet(哈姆雷特) 2002:Adaptation(改编剧本)
2003:Intolerable Cruelty(残酷难忍) 2004:The Ladykillers(师奶杀手)
2007:No Country for Old Men(老无所依)2007:Before the Devil Knows You're Dead(在魔鬼知道你死前)
2008:In Bruges(杀手没有假期) 2008:Burn After Reading(阅后即焚)
2008:Twilight(暮色之光)
Carter Burwell制作的电影原声(点击封面download)
《阅后即焚》
《再战边缘》
《女巫布莱尔2》
《暮光之城》
《杀手没有假期》
《连锁阴谋》
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