Tony Scott

Tony Scott (July 21st 1944 with Stockton-one-Tees, the United Kingdom -) is a Réalisateur, Scénariste, producing, Director executive producer, of the photography, Monteur and British Acteur . He is especially known for his action films where technology plays a big role, of which most notable is Top Gun .

Biography

Younger brother (of almost seven years) of Ridley Scott ( Alien , Blade Runner , Thelma and Louise , Gladiator , Hannibal ), Tony Scott discovers the cinema at 16 years, when he plays in the first short film of Ridley, Boy and Bicycle . Graduate in graphic art of the Sunderland Art School and the Royal College off Art of London, it off impassions for the cinema at the time of studies complementary to the Leeds College Arts . In 1973, the two brothers found their own company of advertizing production, RSA . During more than ten years, each one will carry out hundreds of Publicité S and will develop a clean style, which is however not free from similarities.

In 1982, Tony Scott passes to the feature-length film with Predatory the , film of hyper-stylized vampire éreinté by criticism. Success, it knows it afterwards in a fulgurating way four years with Top gun . Phenomenal success with the Boxoffice (more than 175 million USD of receipts for only the the United States), dedication of Tom Cruise to the Pantheon of the Hollywood high-speed motorboats, and the first association with the duet Gift Simpson - Jerry Bruckheimer. Scott finds them in 1987 for the Cop of Beverly Hills 2 and in 1990 for Jours of thunder which marks its meeting again with Tom Cruise. In 1990 always, it directs Kevin Costner in Revenge , before working with Joel Silver, the other film producer of action in vogue in Hollywood for the Last Samaritan in 1991.

Two years after the artistic and commercial failure of this last film, Tony Scott starts again himself by adapting True Romance starting from the script of Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary. It is probably about the least conventional film of the realizer, if its first feature-length film is excluded.

Return to the more traditional action, with US Alabama (produced by Jerry Bruckheimer) in 1995 and the Fan in 1996. Action always, but more directed towards high technology with Enemy of State realized in 1999 once again under the crook of Jerry Bruckheimer, then with Spy range, set of spies in 2001 when Tony Scott joins together Brad Pitt and Robert Redford.

It continues then its catalog of films by films violent one, more dramatic, and always impetuous like Man one Fire (2004) with Denzel Washington, film which enables him to finally acquire a great critical success which confirms it author and places it among the little of realizers having brought back more than one billion USD receipts. In 2005, it turns Domino with Keira Knightley, project which sommeille since ten years. The film is surprising it portrait of a bargain hunter, inspired by the life of Domino Harvey, (girl of the actor Laurence Harvey). Tony Scott, fascinated by this strange and deeply free being with which it was very close, dedicates his film to Domino Harvey, dead a few months before the exit of film.

Catalog of films

See too

External bond

  • Tony Scott on Internet Movie Database

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