John Carpenter

John Howard Carpenter se narodil 16. ledna 1948 v Carthage, New York, USA. Rodina se prestehovala do Bowling Green, Kentucky, kde se jeho otec Howard Ralph Carpenter stal profesorem hudby na Western Kentucky University. John Carpenter na Western Kentucky University vystudoval hudbu a pozdeji film na USC film school v Los Angeles. Uz od roku 1962 zacal tocit kratke filmy a v roce 1970 ziskal Oscara za The Resurrection of Bronco Billy. To vedlo k natoceni prvniho celovecerniho snimku - nizkorozpoctove cerne sci-fi komedie Dark Star.

Do filmove historie se zapsal v roce 1978, kdy natocil doposud nejuspesnejsi nezavisly film - horor Halloween. Film, zalozeny na jednoduchem pribehu o psychopatovi, ktery v detstvi zabil svou sestru a po deseti letech utece z psychiatricke lecebny, aby se vratil do rodneho mestecka vrazdit, se stal zanrovou klasikou. Na desive atmosfere ma samozrejme svuj podil i hudba, kterou sam reziser Carpenter slozil. V podstate jednoducha a opakujici se hudebni temata koresponduji s primocarym vypravenim deje a stupnuji pocit strachu i v momentech, kdy obraz pusobi klidne a normalne.

Carpenter se stal specialistou na desive a akcni filmy. S Jamie Lee Curtis, hvezdou filmu Halloween, natocil jeste horor Mlha (The Fog), s dalsim svym oblibenym hercem Kurtem Russelem Utek z New Yorku (Escape from New York), Vec (The Thing), Velke problemy v Male Cine (Big Trouble in Little China), nebo Utek z L.A. (Escape from L.A.). Adaptoval take Christine Stephena Kinga. K vetsine svych filmu si sklada hudbu sam, obvykle zalozenou hlavne na syntetizatorech. Jeho zatim posledni film Vampires se tomu trochu vymyka, hlavni slovo ve skladbach podbarvujicich uprirsky pribeh dostaly kytary.

John Carpenter je nejen reziser a skladatel, ale i scenarista, herec, strihac a producent. Aby se pri takove spouste profesi, ktere ovlada, neobjevovalo v titulcich jen jeho jmeno, pouziva spoustu pseudonymu - Frank Armitage, James T. Chance, John T. Chance, Rip Haight nebo Martin Quatermass. V osobnim zivote zvlada i dalsi role. Je otcem Johna Codyho, s jeho matkou hereckou Adrienne Barbeau byl zenaty pet let (1979 - 1984). Od roku 1990 je zenaty s producentkou Sandy King.

Nekolik vyroku Johna Carpentera v originale

"There is a point in making a movie when you experience the final result. For me, it's always when I see an interlock screening of the picture with the music. All of a sudden a new voice is added to the raw, naked-without-effects-or-music footage. The movie takes on its final style, and it is on this that the emotional total should be judged. Someone once told me that music, or the lack of it, can make you see better. I believe it."

"In France I'm an auteur, in Germany a filmmaker, in England, UK a genrefilm director, in USA a bum."

Filmografie (jako skladatel)

The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970)
Dark Star (1973)
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
Halloween (1978)
The Fog (1980)
Escape from New York (1981)
Halloween II (1981)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Christine (1983)
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Prince of Darkness (1987)
They Live (1988)
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) ("Halloween" theme)
Body Bags (1993) (TV)
In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
Village of the Damned (1995)
Escape from L.A. (1996)
Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later (1998) (theme)
Vampires (1998)

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