大衛·克拉克（Davy Crockett，本名David de Crocketagne，1786年3月17日－1836年3月6日），美國政治家和戰鬥英雄。他曾當選代表田納西州西部的眾議員，因參與德克薩斯獨立運動中的阿拉莫戰役而戰死。 Continue reading
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Category Archives: 音樂世界
The Alamo邊城英烈傳
美國歷史上曾稱之為“Alamo精神”即Spirits of The Alamo。這也是全片的主旨。 電影講述的是美國德州歷史中可能最精彩也最難忘的一段，一個以13日圍城，13日守城失敗為題的戰爭故事。 Continue reading
A Fistful Of Dollars荒野大鏢客
美國西部電影曾於50年代風靡一時，成為好萊塢最具特色的片種之一，當代幾位代表性的好萊塢音樂家也為西部電影音樂建立了獨特的管絃配樂風貌，如Dimitri Tiomkin為＜日正當中－High Noon＞譜寫的經典主題曲，Elmer Bernstein英氣瀟灑的＜豪勇七蛟龍－The Magnificent Seven＞，Jerome Moross磅礡遼闊的＜錦繡大地－The Big Country＞，以及Alfred Newman氣勢如虹的＜西部開拓史－How The West Was Won＞等，都是擲地有聲，歷久彌新的管絃經典，美國音樂家慣以美國傳統民謠，以及柯普蘭式的管絃手法做為配樂的元素， Continue reading
The Bridge on the River Kwai桂河大橋
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British World War II film by David Lean based on The Bridge over the River Kwai by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–43 for its historical setting. It stars William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness and Sessue Hayakawa. The movie was filmed in Sri Lanka (credited as Ceylon, as it was known at the time). The bridge in the movie was located near Kitulgala. Continue reading
The Magnificent Seven 豪勇七蛟龍
The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American western film directed by John Sturges. It is a western-style remake based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai. The film stars Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, and Horst Buchholz who play a group of seven American gunmen who are hired to protect a small agricultural village in Mexico from a group of marauding native bandits. The film’s musical score was composed by Elmer Bernstein. Continue reading