information about the late director, Tony Scott

1. By Jade Jelley

2.  Tony Scott was a
British-born film
director and producer.
 He was born in North
Shields,
Northumberland,
England.
 Born: June 21st 1944
 Died: August 19th
2012 (aged 68)

3. His films come from a wide variety of genres,
including the action drama ‘Top Gun’ (1986), action
comedy ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ (1987), auto racing film
‘Days of Thunder’ (1990), action comedy ‘The Last
Boy Scout’ (1991), romantic dark comedy crime film
‘True Romance’ (1993), submarine action film
‘Crimson Tide’ (1995), psychological thriller ‘The Fan’
(1996), spy thriller ‘Enemy of the State’ (1998), spy
film ‘Spy Game’ (2001), action thriller ‘Man on Fire’
(2004), sci-fi action thriller ‘Déjà Vu’ (2006), thriller
‘The Taking of Pelham 123’ (2009), and the action
thriller ‘Unstoppable’ (2010).

4.  Tony Scott worked with Denzel Washington in
five of his movies; ‘Crimson Tide’ (1995), ‘Man on
Fire’, ‘Deja vu’ (2006), ‘The Taking of Pelham 123’
(2009) and Scott’s final film ‘Unstoppable’ (2010).
 During an interview with ‘The Times’, “More than
any other actor, he always surprises me,” Scott
said. “He always manages to pull out a different
aspect of Denzel.”
 During an interview Denzel said that he loved
Tony’s ‘passion and energy’, he also referred to
him as a ‘wonderful, wonderful man’.

5.  Tom Cruise
 Tim Robbins
 Kelly McGillis
 Denzel Washington
 Christopher Walken
 Dakota Fanning
 Chris Pine
 Rosario Dawson
 Denzel Washington
 John Travolta
 Luis Guzman
 Denzel Washington
Man on Fire
Top Gun
Unstoppable
The Taking of
Pelham 1 2 3

6.  Quote from David Bowie (an actor in Scott’s first film – Hunger), “the
visual was nearly all of what he was doing. He did not have great ideas
about the through-line of the story. It was about moving one interesting
visual against another.” Tony Scott was only interested in the visual, he
would take detail to things such as, the light reflecting on the hood of a
vehicle or a human face.
 ‘Scott’s camera mimicked the gaze of the consumer. Vehicles, weapons,
bodies and buildings were all equalised as objects of aestheticism.’
 Tony Scott uses fast editing to make his films more thrilling and exciting
for the audience.
 He uses a range of different shot types to capture all of the action and
build suspense.
 The type of music which Tony Scott used in his movies was dramatic and
tense, this was used to build suspense, particularly during action scenes
and important parts of the films.

7. TOP GUN
‘As students at the
United States Navy's
elite fighter weapons
school compete to be
best in the class, one
daring young pilot
learns a few things from
a civilian instructor that
are not taught in the
classroom.’

8. MAN ON FIRE
‘In Mexico City, a
former assassin swears
vengeance on those
who committed an
unspeakable act
against the family he
was hired to protect.’

9. UNSTOPPABLE
‘With an unmanned,
half-mile-long freight
train barrelling toward
a city, a veteran
engineer and a young
conductor race against
the clock to prevent a
catastrophe.’

10. THE TAKING OF
PELHAM 1 2 3
‘Armed men hijack a New
York City subway train,
holding the passengers
hostage in return for a
ransom, and turning an
ordinary day's work for
dispatcher Walter Garber
into a face-off with the
mastermind behind the
crime.’