Sizing up Ridley Scott's decades-long career — scott_tobias writes
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros, Universal Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer For over 40 years, director Ridley Scott has been opening the frame to visions of peerless grandeur, from the historical landscapes of Rome, the Middle Ages, and biblical Egypt to the vast emptiness of outer space and open water to the smog-choked cities of Los Angeles and Osaka, Japan.
Available to stream on Amazon Prime Video and Paramount+ Amazon Paramount+ 25. A Good Year Best known for Life in Provence and other best-selling memoirs about the eccentricities and splendors of southeastern France, Peter Mayle collaborated with Scott on the idea for A Good Year, a novel that more or less celebrates the same virtues.
Available to rent on Amazon and iTunes Amazon iTunes 21. Black Rain After playing the dickish hero in Romancing the Stone, The Jewel of the Nile, and Fatal Attraction, and before playing the dickish hero in Basic Instinct, Falling Down, and Disclosure, Michael Douglas played a supremely dickish hero in Scott’s thriller about a disgraced NYPD officer who takes on the Yakuza in Osaka, Japan.
Available to rent on Amazon and iTunes Amazon iTunes 17. All the Money in the World When news broke about Kevin Spacey’s sexual misconduct less than two months before All the Money in the World was due to be released, Scott hustled to replace him, casting Christopher Plummer as J. Paul Getty and hastily reshooting all of his scenes. What’s particularly remarkable about the move is that Plummer’s Getty dominates the film even when he’s not onscreen.
Available to stream on Peacock Peacock 13. Kingdom of Heaven Several of Scott’s films have “Director’s Cut” editions, but he’s the rare case where all of them are improvements on the theatrical cut, a couple of them significant.
Available in theaters Showtimes 9. Gladiator The only Scott film to win Best Picture — he’s never won Best Director, losing this time to Traffic director Steven Soderbergh — Gladiator is a throwback to giant sword-and-sandal spectacles like Ben-Hur and Spartacus, updated for the age of CGI.
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