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The Spectacle Blog
Director Tony Scott committed suicide yesterday by jumping off a bridge in Los Angeles Harbor. He was 68.
Apparently, Scott had received a diagnosis of terminal brain cancer.
Scott, the younger brother of director Ridley Scott, is best remembered for directing Tom Cruise in Top Gun. He also directed Cruise in Days of Thunder. Some of his other credits include Beverly Hills Cop II, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 and Unstoppable.
My personal favorite would be Crimson Tide co-starring Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman. Set aboard a nuclear submarine, my favorite line from that film was from Hackman whose character said, “We’re here to preserve democracy, not to practice it.”
Scott also co-produced two hit series with brother Ridley for CBS - Numb3rs and The Good Wife.
Oddly enough, The Fan with Robert DeNiro and Wesley Snipes was on late Saturday night. Under other circumstances, I might have watched a baseball movie but I had to get up early and went to bed after the first twenty minutes.
Here’s Scott being interviewed in 2009 about his remake of The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3.
UPDATE: Both Scott’s family and the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office have stated that Scott did not have brain cancer. So why did he end his life so violently?
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Occam's Tool| 8.20.12 @ 2:12PM
Ahhh. Well, that makes more sense, then. G-d Bless his tortured spirit.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 8.20.12 @ 2:46PM
I had a friend in high school who wrote the screen play to a movie directed by Tony Scott. One of the lead characters had been named in honor of a girl we knew then who had taken her own life a few years after we graduated (the writer liked using ethnic names, and several characters bore names of school colleagues). By the time the film was cast, the character had been re-named (the last name was Croatian, and the actress cast to play her was black).
I was talking to my friend about it, and he told me that when he told Tony Scott of the reason behind the particular name being used, that he changed the name back to the original name used, and cast a white actor to play her father (albeit an actor of Mexican rather than Croatian heritage, perhaps foreseeing the categorization created for George Zimmerman of “White Hispanic).
When I heard of Mr. Scott’s demise this morning, it occurred to me that perhaps his quick accession to the request to change back the name of a character done as a tribute to a woman who took her own life was an indicator that he felt one day he might have more in common with her.
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