Talk:Ridley Scott

Scott's World view!
Scott's Worldview ? ==

Would someone be able to tell me what Ridley Scott's worldview is? who shaped his mind? Where did he study? What was he taught by his parents, teaches, university proffessors / lecturers and his peers? What does he really believe? For this film did he research the historical facts? Who does he represent in making this film?

He went to this Brittish arts academy thanks to a school teacher of his who helped him get there, i cant remember any of it, but Scott talks about it in this Directors special, he also stated that his success is largely thanks to his brother, who helped him found RSA. He doesnt seem to research historical facts often, as he usually works close (or fights a lot) with the writter of the script, the worst situation of a script was in Blade Runner, in wich he had to fight with the 2 screen writters almost everyday, as all 3 of them had different views on what the movie should be. However, Scott is an avid reader of history. In representations, he really doesnt seem to have a statement per se, although there was this left-wing message in Kingdom of Heaven, some critics named him the "Leni Riefenstal of America's Army" for his work on Black Hawk Down.

Sir
Why is Sir?


 * Once you are knighted by the Queen, you are refered to Sir before your name ("Dame" if the honour goes to a lady). Its pretty much in the same way we call those who have doctorate: Doctors (usually a medic or lawyer there).

re-work of the movie section
Even though Scott is far from being an autheur director, he seems to have been have several different phases in his directorial career, beginning from what it could be called his years of being heavily influenced by Kubrick (from The Duelist to Blade Runner) to then taking a more visual aproach on his movies, thus a "middle age" in his career in wich movies turned out to be perfect in visuals, yet lacking acting and script (from Legend to 1492, with the exception of Thelma & Louise, wich although still has a visual aproach of what Scott refered as "americana", as all is sharp clean and very bright). To then a small intermezzo in wich he directed White Squal and G.I. Jane to then pass to a resurection perhaps, starting with Gladiator to Kingdom of Heaven. Of course, these are only ideas, as i feel much is lacking from the page, as theres also no clear separation between his commerials director to his movie director career. Thoughts?

Memorable scenes from Black Rain
Sato Steals the Plates

Conklin Meets Sugai

The Oyabun meet

So which one will be his upcomming feature?
According to IMDB, it will be Body of Lies (Penetration) and Blood Meridian (though that one seems unlikely for a number of reassons). But aparently thats not the only picture hes making... since hes also directing Tripoli, Nottingham (?), the invisible world and Shadow Divers. What amazes me the most is that in all these future productions either he's working with William Monahan or Russell Crowe (sometimes even both). Is there any chance to clean this pre-production mess?

P. K. Dick Novel Retitled
In the section Alien the article says that Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was retitled as Blade Runner after the success of the movie. I believe this to be false, or at least misleading. Dick declined to write a novelization of the film. Instead, the novel Androids was reissued as a paperback under the title Blade Runner, although it was made clear that the real title was still Androids and the text was still that of the original novel. So the title of the book was not permanently changed. The article text on this point should be revised. Grantsky 13 April 2008 (I would have used the four tildes if my keyboard were working properly.)

Final cut
On which films did he have Final Cut Privilege???????????