- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Virgin Books; illustrated edition edition (5 Dec 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0753507315
- ISBN-13: 978-0753507315
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.8 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This indispensable guide provides a thorough chronological examination of Ridley Scott's directorial career. All of Scott's films are included, along with information on his frequent collaborators, his thoughts on his own films, and a section on his unrealised projects. This is the essential reference guide to one of mainstream cinema's most diverse directors.
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'I'm one of those people who find the real world of no particular interest.'
With the dystopian sci-fi of Blade Runner, the feminist road movie Thelma & Louise and the Roman epic Gladiator, Ridley Scott has demonstrated that he is an astonishingly versatile director, equally at home with ancient history as he is with the distant future. Combining vivid imagery with rich drama, Scott's films are the epitome of intelligent cinema, a powerful marriage of style and content. Scott has worked with many of Hollywood's most accomplished stars, including Sigourney Weaver, Brad Pitt, Russell Crowe, Anthony Hopkins, Susan Sarandon and Tom Cruise. Alien, only his second feature as a director, remains one of the most enduring and influential examples of the science fiction and horror genre and, with Black Hawk Down, Hannibal and the magnificent Gladiator, Scott's career has regained the prominence it had in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
This indispensable guide provides a thorough chronological examination of Ridley Scott's directorial career. All of Scott's films are included, along with information on his frequent collaborators, his thoughts on his own films, and a section on his unrealised projects. This is the essential reference guide to one of mainstream cinema's most diverse directors.
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I have quite a few of the Virgin Film director books; Spielberg, Stone, Coens, Kubrick, and this one on Ridley Scott. This volume is by far the worst, it is inconsistent, badly written and in a couple of instances plain wrong. I don't care how much of a film geek you are, but listing Citizen Kane as being made in 1951? That this got past the book's editors is shameful. There are other gaffes too, inconsistent references to Scott's collaborators, missing trivia like the fact Scott's wife has appearead in several films (instead listing her as an actress), given the amount of insight available on DVD when this book came out, it is really disappointing that this author did not do his research.
Compared to Ian Freer's peerless volume on Steven Spielberg, James Clarke's insight and summation of one of Britain's greatest living directors feels more like a student text run amock. I ended up flicking through this book looking for tidbits of info. And even then it comes up short.
Compared to Ian Freer's peerless volume on Steven Spielberg, James Clarke's insight and summation of one of Britain's greatest living directors feels more like a student text run amock. I ended up flicking through this book looking for tidbits of info. And even then it comes up short.
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