Romeo + Juliet (Music From The Motion Picture, Volume 2)

Nellee Hooper was responsible for the BAFTA award-winning soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet in 1996. He worked alongside Scottish composer Craig Armstrong and English composer Marius van Wyk de Vries. It was Hooper's first and only motion picture score. Hooper armed the soundtrack with sequences of bombastic choral and flamboyant orchestral forces and fusing it with his well-known hip-hop, trip-hop and electronica genres. Hooper since has not been active in the motion picture industry. 如果说第一集是将出现在电影中的歌曲原汁原味地收录的话，那VOLUME2 其实就是把这些歌曲在电影中出现的方式给收录进来，再加上许多穿插在歌曲当中的弦乐，钢琴曲，与电影对白﹔简单的说，听完这张volume2 等于是闭著眼睛听完了这部电影。可以听到罗密欧出场时念的诗＋混音版的Talk Show Host，枪声大作的加油站戏＋带著点西部风味的电子乐，第一集当中没有收录的遗珠When Dove's Cry，甚至最后一场殉情戏都完完整整收录下来.....电影本来是影像＋声音的结合， 当影像整个被抽离掉，你只能靠音乐与演员的声音表情来融入剧情的时候，配乐的成功与否与演员的声音演技就是很重要的了．．，所以里面的每一段音乐与对白出现的时候脑子中就会直接出现那一幕的画面．．而且透过这种方式来"看" 这部电影，反而可以让你丢开这部电影炫目的影像风格，而真正体会这个传颂多年的爱情故事。 The score to Romeo + Juliet was composed by British music producer Nellee Hooper, Scottish composer Craig Armstrong, and English music composer and producer Marius de Vries. It was arranged, orchestrated, and conducted by Craig Armstrong using the London Session Orchestra and The Metro Voices. The score fuses bombastic choral sequences produced by The Metro Voices as well as flamboyant orchestral pieces by the London Session Orchestra. It also contains Hooper's favorite trip hop sequences, especially seen in the track "Introduction to Romeo". Some high-beat techno tunes were fused with the chorus and orchestra in the track "Escape from Mantua". Dialogue from the film was also inserted into several of the tracks. Justin Warfield of One Inch Punch as well the Butthole Surfers and Mundy also contribute vocals to the score. A cover of Prince's "When Doves Cry" by Quindon Tarver features on the album; it became a hit for him in Australia in 1997.[2] Craig Armstrong's Film Works 1995-2005 solo disc work contained several of these tracks. The score won BAFTA Award for Best Film Music for best film score in 1997. Composer Nellee Hooper was also awarded BAFTA's Anthony Asquith Award for Music for his composition of the score in 1998.