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Tony Scott is dead...
13 years ago
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Oh, shit. I mean, oh fuck.
http://movies.yahoo.com/news/top-gu.....041553449.html
Tony Scott has been a director I have admired and appreciated for the longest time. He isn't always respected or considered a genius, but he managed to make a lot of really good popcorn films and big blockbusters like Top Gun, Days of Thunder, and Crimson Tide, along with more interesting and personal films like True Romance, Domino and The Hunger.
The brother of Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Prometheus), he spent a long time in the commercial world doing groundbreaking work in the British and international advertising scene, and he was very gifted visually, his training as a painter coming in good stead. His early work seemed to corral him into high-end hack work, but later on in the 90s he began to pursue more fascinating projects, while still balancing it out with very successful advertising campaigns at RSA and producing efforts through Scott Free, his and Ridley's production companies.
I'm going to miss the hell out of him. The last project he had been trying to get off the ground was a remake of Walter Hill's The Warriors. His concepts for it sounded really stunning and messed up, I wish he had gotten the chance to do that. I'm going to be in a funk for some time...
R.I.P. Tony. You were one in a million.
http://movies.yahoo.com/news/top-gu.....041553449.html
Tony Scott has been a director I have admired and appreciated for the longest time. He isn't always respected or considered a genius, but he managed to make a lot of really good popcorn films and big blockbusters like Top Gun, Days of Thunder, and Crimson Tide, along with more interesting and personal films like True Romance, Domino and The Hunger.
The brother of Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Prometheus), he spent a long time in the commercial world doing groundbreaking work in the British and international advertising scene, and he was very gifted visually, his training as a painter coming in good stead. His early work seemed to corral him into high-end hack work, but later on in the 90s he began to pursue more fascinating projects, while still balancing it out with very successful advertising campaigns at RSA and producing efforts through Scott Free, his and Ridley's production companies.
I'm going to miss the hell out of him. The last project he had been trying to get off the ground was a remake of Walter Hill's The Warriors. His concepts for it sounded really stunning and messed up, I wish he had gotten the chance to do that. I'm going to be in a funk for some time...
R.I.P. Tony. You were one in a million.
There has been an outpouring of sympathy from the public and the movie industry, so at least he will be missed. So many aren't.