Ridley Scott. In Gladiator Scott makes the murder of Marcus Aurileus very like the killing of Tyrell in Blade Runner close ups of the face during the killing of Marcus by his own son

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Ridley Scott was born in 1937 and was raised in unfashionable Northumbria (Tyne and Wear) England. Although Scott was a fair way from UCLA film school (California) He still managed to become a director! Scott learnt his skills in direction by attending the royal college of art and then began designing backgrounds for adverts; he then went on to directing adverts like “hovis.” After the adverts his first film was “the duellists” in 1977. Ridley Scott is one of the most talented and hottest directors working at the minute. He manipulates the camera to show more about the camera and story than dialog ever could.        

                                Scott has the ability to take on “epic” projects; he understands human nature enough to include intimate scenes or great power and beauty. Scott takes in great detail down to the smallest little thing, this makes a big difference, if he hadn’t have thought about little details the audience may not understand as much about the characters, time or place.

                                                        Ridley Scott develops a coherent vision of the future. The weather in “Blade Runner” is dull, rainy and grey. It shows that the place in which the film is set in is maybe a bad place or that it is very worn after time. “Blade Runner” shows a lot of crime and that the world is going to get worse if people don’t look after it. Buildings and housing are more like small flats made like town houses (on top of each other.) when Roy and Sebastian go to see Tyrell (G-d) to see if it was possible to give Roy more life. Tyrell replies by telling him you cant mess with fate. This results in Roy turning round and holding Tyrell up close “I want more life…fucker”

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                                   The death of Tyrell occurs because Roy did not get what he wanted. Ridley’s way of filming the death make it seem real the camera views make the audience imagine what is going on! Roy kills Tyrell by using his hands to screw up Tyrell’s face but whilst the death is occurring Ridley used his imagination to put in screen shots of an owl. This makes the death more mysterious.

        

        In “Gladiator” Scott makes the murder of Marcus Aurileus very like the killing of Tyrell in “Blade Runner” close ups of the face during the killing of Marcus ...

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