Anthony David Leighton "Tony" Scott (1944 - 2012) created a dynamic thriller / action film genre for over two decades and became a distinct film master among the action film fans.
As a Sri Lankan, Tony Scott films was not the iconic films that the locals would get to see in the local television channels or in the movie theatres. His films was the few actions films that I personally took time to find by walking around in shops to purchase.
Why I loved Tony Scott is he made "B" movies.
He made good "B" movies.
"B" movies are made solely on the purpose of commercial gains and attracting audiences to Cinema.
Sometimes commercial filmmakers tend to diversify films according to the global and social changes to satisfy audiences and to earn financial success in box office.
The difference with Tony Scott and his films is he managed to maintain his style throughout his career.
In 2012 August 19 he committed suicide by jumping off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro, California.
The trademarks of his films can be listed below.
(01) Constantly wore a faded red baseball cap. It often appeared in his films.
(02) He often casted Denzel Washington and Christopher Walken.
(03) [Director's trademark - camera pan across a large tower] the "top of the world" tower at the casino in Domino and beat the devil, the tower in Mexico City at the start of "Man on Fire".
(04) Has used dogs in many of his movies including Top Gun (1986), True Romance (1993), Crimson Tide (1995), The Fan (1996), Enemy of the state (1998), Man on Fire (2004) and Domino (2005).
(05) Kinetic, choppy editing
(06) Frequently had sunlight flashing at characters to make the picture more effective.
(07) Often ended a film with a shootout. See True Romance (1993), The last boy scout (1991) and Enemy of the state (1998).
(08) An advocate of "Chiaroscuro" cinematographic style (Contrasting lighting).
Tony Scott was a younger brother of director Ridley Scott, partner in Scott Free productions.
And to conclude this tribute to my personal favourite action filmmaker, his films come from a broad range of genres, including the action drama Top Gun (1986), action comedy Beverly Hills Cop 2 (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 DeJa Vu (2006), thriller The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009) and the action thriller Unstoppable (2010).
References
Images
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Tony Scott (2017). Format: (Jpg.). Available at
: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001716/mediaviewer/rm3670313984
(Accessed date : 8/4/2017)
Websites
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Wikipedia.com, Article title – Tony Scott
[Online]. Available at : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Scott
(Accessed date : 2017/08/04)
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