http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Scotthttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001716/http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/08/20/tony-scott-partnered-with-brother-ridley-had-several-blockbuster-hits-but-never/ - (Damn, his wife is pretty hot!)
No one ever mistook Tony Scott for a great dramatist. He was a director critics loved to hate for his slick barrage of images at the expense of story. The filmmaker did not dazzle the imagination with visions of lost or alien worlds, like brother Ridley Scott.
Tony Scott was as populist as they come in Hollywood, a man of action films, pure and simple. From Tom Cruise as a daring fly boy in 1986's "Top Gun" to Denzel Washington mutinying against an unstable captain in 1995's "Crimson Tide" or trying to slow a runaway train in 2010's "Unstoppable," director Scott mastered sky, sea and earth in the name of movie adrenaline.
The 68-year-old Scott died Sunday after jumping from a Los Angeles County bridge, authorities said. His death was being investigated as a suicide, Los Angeles County Coroner's Lt. Joe Bale said.
It was a puzzling end for a filmmaker who had maintained a busy pace, with a sequel to "Top Gun," his biggest hit, in the works.
The Hunger (1983)
Top Gun (1986)Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
Revenge (1990)
Days of Thunder (1990)
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
True Romance (1993)
Crimson Tide (1995)
The Fan (1996)
Enemy of the State (1998)Spy Game (2001)Man on Fire (2004)
Domino (2005)
Déjà Vu (2006)
The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
Unstoppable (2010)I saw his last movie pretty recently, Unstoppable, also pretty damn good, but I'd say my favorite out of that list is between Top Gun and Spy Game (Brad Pitt, Robert Redford). If his name's familiar, it's because he's the younger brother of Ridley Scott, the Blade Runner/Alien/Gladiator director...
Anyway, bad news. Of most of the crap that Hollywood turns out, he was the exception in many cases. Sounds like he catches the same shit that Michael Bay does for emphasis on action over story though, but f*ck those people, I enjoyed many of his movies!
Topic: Tony Scott, one of the greatest Directors ("Top Gun"), jumped off a bridge! :( (Read 1010 times)