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Maybe the word feet is not best in the title of a love song.

或許「腳」這個字用在情歌的標題不太恰當。

Music has that ability, just with a few notes to take you somewhere and you go, oh, music has that shortcut.

音樂有這種能力，只要幾個音符就能帶你去某個地方，然後你會說，哦，音樂有這種捷徑。

I'm Alan Menken, and I've been in musical theater and film composer for over 50 years.

我是 Alan Menken，我在音樂劇和電影配樂領域已經超過 50 年了。

My work includes the Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Hercules, Tangle, and many, many more.

我的作品包括《小美人魚》、《美女與野獸》、《阿拉丁》、《風中奇緣》、《大力士》、《魔髮奇緣》等等，還有很多很多。

I'm going to walk you through some of the highlights from my songbook.

我要帶大家看看我歌本裡的一些精彩片段。

The Little Mermaid, Part of youf World, 1989.

《小美人魚》，Part of Your World，1989 年。

希望我能成為那世界的一部分。

I wrote the songs for the Little Mermaid with my brilliant collaborator, Howard Ashman.

我和我才華洋溢的合作夥伴 Howard Ashman 一起寫了《小美人魚》的歌曲。

Part of your world is obviously that genre of song that Howard Ashwood called the I want song.

Part of Your World 顯然是 Howard Ashman 所說的那種「我想要」類型的歌曲。

When Howard and I first wrote Little Shop of Horrors, Somewhere that's Green clearly was the I want song.

當 Howard 和我第一次寫《惡棍小英雄》時，《Somewhere that's Green》明顯就是那首「我想要」的歌。

It's that moment when your protagonist says, this is what I want in my life.

這是主角說出「我想要生命中有這些東西」的時刻。

And this case it's Ariel in her grotto saying, I want to be in that world.

在這個例子裡，是愛麗兒在她的洞穴裡說「我想要成為那世界的一部分」。

We jokingly called it Somewhere that's wet, but

我們開玩笑地稱它為「Somewhere that's wet」，但

really it's Somewhere that's dry is where I want to be.

其實是「Somewhere that's dry is where I want to be」。

What would I pay to spend a day warm on the sand?

我願意付出多少來享受溫暖沙灘上的一天？

這一切都是關於希望，你知道嗎？

Wouldn't you think my collection's complete?

Wouldn't you think I'm the girl, girl who has everything look at this trove Treasures.

你不覺得我就是那個擁有一切的女孩嗎？看看這些寶藏。

Unto every note is a reach upward to the surface.

每個音符都像是向上伸展到水面。

This sequence of notes is meant to capture the essence of moving water.

這段音符是為了捕捉流水的精髓。

One of the gifts that Howard had so abundantly was to give a contemporary, relatable voice to these classic characters.

Howard 其中一個非常寶貴的天賦，就是能為這些經典角色賦予現代、貼切的聲音。

A normal teenage girl who just wanted to be out of the ocean and lose her fins.

一個只想離開海洋、擺脫魚鰭的普通青少年女孩。

It's just built into the essence of the song, that innocence and that sense of.

這份純真和這種感覺，就融入了歌曲的本質裡。

《美女與野獸》主題曲，1990年。

One tale as old as time, true as it can be.

就像亙古不變的傳說，真實得不能再真實。

Beauty and the beast followed in 1991, but

《美女與野獸》緊隨其後於1991年推出，但

by that time, Howard Eshman already had a terminal AIDS diagnosis, but

那時，Howard Eshman 已經被診斷出愛滋病末期，但他

he worked through illness during its creation.

在創作過程中，仍然帶病工作。

Well, the essence of the song has a few essences in it.

嗯，這首歌的精髓裡有幾個重點。

One is that you have Mrs. Potts singing to Chip.

So it's a mother singing, like, a comforting lullaby to her son about the enduring power of love.

所以這是一位母親，像是對兒子唱著安撫的搖籃曲，訴說著愛的力量有多持久。

除此之外，你還能感受到一種。

Howard passed away before he was able to see the final Beauty and the Beast feature.

霍華德在他能看到最終的《美女與野獸》電影前就過世了。

Those moments of writing these songs were so infused with both the beauty of the moment and the pain of the ephemeral nature of life.

寫這些歌的時刻，充滿了當下的美好，以及生命短暫易逝的痛苦。

Aladdin Proud of youf Boy 1992 Proud of youo Boy was written for an early version of Aladdin when.

《阿拉丁》為早期版本的《阿拉丁》創作，當時。

When Aladdin had his mother, not atypical for Disney animation, the mother was God.

當時阿拉丁有他的母親，這在迪士尼動畫中並不罕見，母親是神。

我會讓你為你的兒子感到驕傲。

相信我，比我生氣的時候還要好。

And at the end, he's, you know, he's complaining about, well, since I wasn't born perfect like that, or you.

到最後，他，你知道的，他抱怨說，嗯，因為我不是天生就完美的，不像你。

And a lot of people think, since I wasn't born perfect like that, I go, no, it's really supposed to be a kid shrugging and going, well, Mom, I wasn't born perfect like you, but

很多人會覺得，因為我不是天生就完美的，我說，不，這其實是一個小孩聳聳肩說，「嗯，媽，我不像妳一樣天生完美，但是

When it was decided that Aladdin was going to be adapted for the stage, I said, let's please get back in the songs that Howard and I wrote for the movie.

當決定阿拉丁要改編成舞臺劇時，我說，拜託，我們把霍華和我為電影寫的歌找回來。

And everybody was totally in favor of that, and we made that work.

大家都很贊成，我們也做到了。

After Howard's passing in 1991, Disney asked me to team with lyricist Tim Rice in completing Aladdin.

霍華在1991年過世後，迪士尼請我跟作詞家提姆·萊斯合作完成阿拉丁。

我們一起寫了「A Whole New World」。

I can show you the world Shining, shimmering, splendid.

我可以讓你見識這世界 閃耀、奪目、燦爛。

We basically mapped out three new songs we were gonna write and prime among them was the Magic Carpet.

我們大概規劃了三首新歌要寫，其中最重要的就是魔毯。

但我給了他一段歌詞，一段暫時的歌詞。

我心想，啊，整個世界就在我腳下。

And Tim, in his wisdom, thought maybe the word feet is not best in the title of a love song.

提姆，以他的智慧，覺得「腳」這個詞用在情歌的歌名裡可能不是最好的。

So a whole new world, a new fantastic point of view.

所以，一個全新的世界，一個奇妙的新視野。

Structurally, he's drawing a picture for her about where he's taking her, and

在結構上，他為她描繪了一幅他要帶她去哪裡的畫面，

我是一個令人眼花撩亂的地方。

There is just that gut brain understanding of the emotional journey of a character, of a moment.

就是那種對角色情感旅程、對一個時刻的直覺理解。

We're on this magic carpet ride and we know it's taking them to a point where they're coming together for you and me.

我們就像坐著魔法飛毯，知道它會帶我們去一個你們和我都會心靈契合的點。

For Pocahontas, I collaborated with Stephen Schwartz, already a Broadway legend, years before he wrote Wicked.

為了《風中奇緣》，我跟史蒂芬·史瓦茲合作，他早在寫《魔法壞女巫》之前，就已經是百老匯的傳奇人物了。

Well, that was the first song Stephen Schwartz and I wrote together.

嗯，這就是史蒂芬·史瓦茲和我一起寫的第一首歌。

I think Stephen came in then with a You think youk own whatever land you land on have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon?

我覺得那時候史蒂芬進來時，就有了「你以為你擁有的土地，你腳踏實地，你曾聽過狼對著藍玉米月哭泣嗎？」

又或是問那隻笑臉盈盈的山貓。

I remember when we wrote it, there was a huge amount of excitement at Disney when you find that initial song.

我還記得我們寫歌的時候，迪士尼內部一片興奮，當你找到那首最初的歌時。

It gives such a lift to the whole project to give that vocabulary.

它為整個專案注入了活力，給予了那樣的詞彙。

Basically saying, that's the DNA we're going to build from the Hunchback of Notre dame out there.

基本上，這就是我們將從《鐘樓怪人》汲取的 DNA。

Stephen Schwartz and I continued our partnership with Hunchback.

史蒂芬·施瓦茲和我繼續了我們在《鐘樓怪人》裡的合作。

We were about to start Hunchback of Notre Dame.

So I just was at my house and I was just playing.

And Stephen listens to it and he goes, you know what that is?

史蒂芬聽了之後，他問我，你知道那是什麼嗎？

That's Quasimodo's song out there living in the sun.

那就是敲鐘人住在陽光下的歌。

And that was one of the few times where a piece of news that came first without a dramatic inception.

這是我少數幾次，一個消息出現，但沒有戲劇性的開端。

And it was absolutely perfect for that moment.

We pushed the envelope on Hunchback Adventure.

我們在 Hunchback Adventure 中突破了極限。