What happened to Ridley Scott after Alien and Blade Runner?
>>214485544Tony was the better director
>>214485544he directed Legend, a beautiful fantasy adventure
>>214485544He peaked and is now just coasting along as a competent director with a reputation.
Gladiator?
>>214485544He made some more great films. Alas, it's hard to top two of the best films ever made.
quick bump
blade runner is so fucking overratedoutside the gorgeous visuals it's mostly retarded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvbEnWLRo1sSomething strange happened with Bladerunner and Alien. I've been trying to wrap my head around it for several minutes now. There are several ideas I am trying to reconcile and I'm not sure where to start. I'm also trying to be sympathetic as I write this. I imagine, if I were in Sir Ridley Scott's position, I'd be as frustrated as I would be proud of these two films. Bladerunner and Alien, along with a few other 80's sci-fi films, went on to inspire so much. In fact I could probably spend hours......fuck I could honestly probably write a book summarizing and tracing the lineage of sci-fi media post-Bladerunner. There were of course pieces of mainstream western media that stand on the shoulders of Bladerunner ... some big examples being The Matrix and the Star Wars Prequels. Even in the "western mainstream", you have lesser known and niche stuff like the Wachowski's film Cloud Atlas, which I quite liked.Stanley Kubrick himself seemed to have been upset by Bladerunner to the point where he spent 10 years of his life developing the script and concept art that would become Stephen Spielberg's AI: Artificial Intelligence, which seems to be lesser known. If you've followed Western sci-fi films you know I am not scratching the surface with this pitiful handful of examples. But the real explosion happened in videogames, both western and eastern, and in Japanese anime. In addition to the probably hundreds of decent quality western post-Alien/Bladerunner sci-fi films, there are thousands on thousands of hours of frankly fairly high quality videogames and anime which in many ways are conceptual children of these films. A few hundred of those hours are quite extraordinary. 1/2
>>2144866872/2There is so much good stuff inspired by Bladerunner, Alien, and the templates laid out by 80's sci-fi that we're at a point where something like what I linked above is merely a piece of marketing for a game currently in development: a game which looks like it will struggle to compete in an over-saturated market.This is not to say the market is over-saturated with stuff of the caliber of this short film, this stands out, but the company that produced this short film and is creating the game it's advertising is struggling to penetrate culture.It's like Ridley created, or contributed to the creation of this vast underground subculture of art and artists who are doing really great stuff, which simply goes unsung for all but the people tuned into it. I count myself lucky to have been. Difficult to even begin to describe. I could make a really corny reference here to Roy Batty's final speech at the end of Bladerunner, but I will choose restraint. In the occult, there is the issue of astral travel. To use this merely as a metaphor if not to suggest its literal reality, I wonder who else on Earth knows what worlds we've been creating and exploring in the wake of Ridley's films. I hope I don't idolize Ridley Scott too much, but he really did the groundwork for something quietly extraordinary.
>>214486555Absolutely wasted trips.
>>214485631Ahistorical nonsense with modern libtard sensibilities
>>214486555Absolutely based trips.
>>214486706>AhistoricalNoooooo, I need my movies to be historically accurate!
>>214485544>Alien and Blade RunnerThe Duelists is just as goodWatch The Duelists
I feel sorry for people who can't make sense of Bladerunner. Honestly I think that includes most of its fans. I don't even really see it as a sci-fi film as much as a kind of dream film.It is under rated.
>>214485544Producers stopped tard wrangling him probably. The Duellists and Legend are decent as well but his other films aren't worth watching.
Black Hawk Down was good
>>214486861Thelma & Louise is good
>>214485566one of the dumbest /tv/ memes ever
>>214488436>He and his brother, Tony, still have a company that produces commercials. I am bound to add that Tony has also directed feature films—but I feel no need to say more.
FINISH RAISED BY WOLVES BEFORE YOU BITE IT OLD MAN
>>214488477Simping for the objectively inferior director who happened to be gay and made a jet fighter movie which was mogged by its own sequel by the now geriatric original actors is about as /tv/ coded as it gets.
>>214485544he secretely transfered ownership of his familial kino powers to tony and all they vanished with himno critics or studio execs noticed
