RIP Tony Scott

RAJ

Dude jumped off a bridge and committed suicide. True Romance is one of my favorite flicks. RIP.

rootlesscosmo

it's gotta be hard when your brother directed Blade Runner and Alien.

but I appreciate Tony's catalogue. I'm a big fan of Spy Game.

ketan

really sad - suicide is a such a head trip. i hope his family (including young kids) can cope with this.

true romance is classic.

4YearGraduate

damn, this happened right where i live.
so sad.

bassie

rootlesscosmo said:

it's gotta be hard when your brother directed Blade Runner and Alien.

Kind of a weird statement given the guy had his own major successes.

He had inoperable brain cancer.

rootlesscosmo

bassie said:

rootlesscosmo said:

it's gotta be hard when your brother directed Blade Runner and Alien.

Kind of a weird statement given the guy had his own major successes.

He had inoperable brain cancer.

the statement had nothing to do with his suicide. I've been a fan of dude's for a long time and I've always wondered if he felt like he was in his brother's shadow. ridley scott is a household name, while many have/had never heard of Tony.

maybe he's bigger in Canada.

bassie

I wouldn't know. I hardly ever travel outside of Toronto.

DocMcCoy

bassie said:

I wouldn't know. I hardly ever travel outside of Toronto.

Jimster

His wife says she was unaware he was suffering from terminal brain cancer.

She told police that any information that her husband suffered from a brain cancer or a tumour were "absolutely false" and that he did not suffer from any serious illness.

Obviously he was in a very dark place, mentally, to end it like this. Saddening.

lamas

rootlesscosmo said:

bassie said:

rootlesscosmo said:

it's gotta be hard when your brother directed Blade Runner and Alien.

Kind of a weird statement given the guy had his own major successes.

He had inoperable brain cancer.

the statement had nothing to do with his suicide. I've been a fan of dude's for a long time and I've always wondered if he felt like he was in his brother's shadow. ridley scott is a household name, while many have/had never heard of Tony.

maybe he's bigger in Canada.

I don't think his brother is casting that much of a shadow. A quick search shows Ridley is the 16th highest grossing director of all time, while Tony is 20th. Tony's films average more per. I don't think the average movie goer has any idea who either of them are.

Junior

lamas said:

rootlesscosmo said:

bassie said:

rootlesscosmo said:

it's gotta be hard when your brother directed Blade Runner and Alien.

Kind of a weird statement given the guy had his own major successes.

He had inoperable brain cancer.

the statement had nothing to do with his suicide. I've been a fan of dude's for a long time and I've always wondered if he felt like he was in his brother's shadow. ridley scott is a household name, while many have/had never heard of Tony.

maybe he's bigger in Canada.

I don't think his brother is casting that much of a shadow. A quick search shows Ridley is the 16th highest grossing director of all time, while Tony is 20th. Tony's films average more per. I don't think the average movie goer has any idea who either of them are.

You're probably right about Tony but I would wager that Ridley's name is well known to a fair proportion of those that go and watch his films. They may not be familiar with his entire backlog but he's definitely a director who makes up part of the "package" sold in trailers.

I haven't read any of the obituaries so not sure whether I'm rehashing a common assumption here but, to me, regardless of how I feel about a lot of his films, Tony's legacy is the structure and style of the modern blockbuster. The films of people like Michael Bay are basically an extended template of what Scott started with Top Gun: Gleaming mechanics and humans, unnecessary tints on the camera, power tunes accompanying everything.

Jimster

Basically, 2hr adverts ;)

rootlesscosmo

Junior said:

lamas said:

rootlesscosmo said:

bassie said:

rootlesscosmo said:

it's gotta be hard when your brother directed Blade Runner and Alien.

Kind of a weird statement given the guy had his own major successes.

He had inoperable brain cancer.

the statement had nothing to do with his suicide. I've been a fan of dude's for a long time and I've always wondered if he felt like he was in his brother's shadow. ridley scott is a household name, while many have/had never heard of Tony.

maybe he's bigger in Canada.

I don't think his brother is casting that much of a shadow. A quick search shows Ridley is the 16th highest grossing director of all time, while Tony is 20th. Tony's films average more per. I don't think the average movie goer has any idea who either of them are.

You're probably right about Tony but I would wager that Ridley's name is well known to a fair proportion of those that go and watch his films. They may not be familiar with his entire backlog but he's definitely a director who makes up part of the "package" sold in trailers.

I haven't read any of the obituaries so not sure whether I'm rehashing a common assumption here but, to me, regardless of how I feel about a lot of his films, Tony's legacy is the structure and style of the modern blockbuster. The films of people like Michael Bay are basically an extended template of what Scott started with Top Gun: Gleaming mechanics and humans, unnecessary tints on the camera, power tunes accompanying everything.

Exactly re: the name recognition.

Ridley's trailers are more likely to have the voiceover saying "from Director Ridley Scott..."

while Tony's are more likely to say "From the Director of Man on Fire...."

I don't think they had the same level of name recognition at all.