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Walter Hill (born January 10, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is widely known for his action films and revival of the Western genre. He has directed such films as ''The Warriors'', ''The Driver'', ''Southern Comfort'', ''48 Hrs.'' and its sequel ''Another 48 Hrs.'', ''Red Heat'', ''Last Man Standing'', ''Undisputed'', and ''Bullet to the Head''. He has also directed several episodes of television series such as ''Tales from the Crypt'' and ''Deadwood'' and produced the ''Alien'' films. Hill said in an interview that "every film I've done has been a Western", and elaborated in another that "the Western is ultimately a stripped down moral universe that is, whatever the dramatic problems are, beyond the normal avenues of social control and social alleviation of the problem, and I like to do that even within contemporary stories". ==Early life== Hill was born in Long Beach, California, the younger of two sons. His paternal grandfather was a wildcat oil driller; his father worked at Douglas Aircraft as a supervisor on the assembly line.〔(Interview with Walter Hill Part 1, ''Directors Guild of America'' 2007 ); accessed June 11, 2014.〕 Hill said that his father and grandfather were "smart, physical men who worked with their heads and their hands" and had "great mechanical ability".〔 Hill's family had originally come from Tennessee and Mississippi, "one of those fallen Southern families, shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations".〔The storyteller French, Philip. The Observer (1901- 2003) ((UK) ) 01 Nov 1981: 30.〕 Growing up in southern California, Hill was asthmatic as a child and, as a result, missed several years of school. What it did for me, despite the discomfort, it made you comfortable being alone with yourself. You weren't as surrounded by your peers as everybody else your age was. You learn to amuse yourself. In my case it meant tremendous amount of reading at an early age... I read, listened to radio... I became utterly besotted with daytime serials. In the later afternoon, when kids were meant to be home, there were more adventures... it enabled me to live in an imaginary world where one is comfortable with abstract ideas, dominated by stories, narrative, and characters.〔 Hill became a film fan at an early age, and the first film he remembers seeing was ''Song of the South''. He later described his taste as "juvenile", stating: "I liked adventure, westerns, but I liked everything. Musicals. But the general, I remember not liking kid movies... still don't, I think that's hung on."〔 His asthma receded when he was 15 and he began to think about becoming a writer.〔 He worked in the oil fields as a roustabout on Signal Hill, California during high school and several more years while in college. During one summer, he ran an asbestos pipe-cutting machine and worked as a spray painter. As a teenager, Hill contemplated being a comic book illustrator and studied art at the Universidad de las Américas, Mexico City.〔 He then transferred and majored in history at Michigan State University.〔〔 He said that, during this period, he was a particular fan of Ernest Hemingway's writing and came to believe that "the hardest thing to do is write clearly and simply, and make your point in an elegant way".〔 Upon graduation, Hill was called up for the army in 1964 but childhood asthma saw him ruled ineligible. This forced him to think about what he wanted to do for a career. "When you are that age, you think you are going to be in the army two years, it's a huge amount of time. You don't bother worrying about what you are doing. Suddenly, this whole thing was upon me."〔 Through a friend Hill got a job in Los Angeles researching historical documentaries made by a company that was associated with Encyclopædia Britannica. He began writing scripts and developed the urge to direct.〔 Hill: The other thing that had been happening had been my film going and appreciation, it had risen and risen. Seeing so many of the European films, Japanese films, I was part of this isolated community in east Hollywood. I remembered thinking just a little further west they are making the films I want to see. I'm going to do this. Sink or swim... I wanted to be a writer on my way to being a director. Directors were already my heroes. Kurosawa, number of Italian directors... Movies from England, France, Sweden, Italy. Poland... One wanted a chance to tell stories in an open, loose, not constricted Hollywood kind of way. At the same time you wanted to work in Hollywood... I was tremendously interested in genre films. Wanted to work within genre films.〔("Interview with Walter Hill Part 2" ''Directors Guild of America'' 2007 ) accessed 11 June 2014〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walter Hill (director)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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