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Designation:
Director
True Designation:
Ridley Scott
Incept Date:
30 Nov 1937
Incept Location:
South Shields, Tyne and Wear, UK
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Take
a look at the Ridley
Scott Associates site. It is very flashy,
but content is a bit lacking. Perhaps more will be added in
the future.
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Ridley
Scott, the man himself. Blade
Runner is Scott's creation more than anyone else. Having heavily
influenced the screenplay creation process, he created the final
version from earlier scripts by both of the scriptwriters. Famous
as one of the best of the visual directors, he managed to create
a film that two decades later not only influences many science fiction
films, but influences real life itself. He has continued to make
wonderful films and few people who ever watch movies could possibly
never have seen one of his!
Scott
is busy producing two more films already in 2002, having finished
off Black Hawk Down. But
hopefully most of all, he is creating his definitive version of
what he always wanted Blade Runner to be, (within the constraints
of what was actually filmed, of course).
Tony
Scott said of his brother in a CBS
60 minutes interview, when asked of a fair criticism of Ridley,
"We're...
both tarred with the same brush, and that is style over content.
We can hopefully educate the community in...reevaluating that...
you can mix both style and content and produce something which is
one doesn't hurt the other. You look at films like Blade Runner
and it was, you know, Ridley's vision of this world. To be honest,
that vision was a lot to do with where we were brought up in, you
know, Newcastle and West Hartlepool, where it rained constantly
and was dark and overcast. And there was always...a pessimistic
vision of the world."
In
the same interview, when asked if Ridley has a signature film Tony
says, "Blade
Runner for me is...Ridley's movie. Cause Blade Runner took a
piece of his soul as well. Yeah. It was very hard. He did Blade
Runner at a time when the film community, Hollywood was not ready
for...that sort of obsession with detail. He became an animal because
he was trying to educate the community in terms of how he made film
in terms of how they made film, which was very different then. We
brought from... England something to the...industry which wasn't...
there at the time. Which is our attention to detail, which came
really from advertising....But people didn't understand it. They
thought ... he was mad."
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