Ridley Scott on How He Got Into Directing | On Directing

Director Ridley Scott on how he got into directing, dealing with actors, and why he storyboards everything.
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[@baftaguru]

What's your favourite Ridley Scott film?

[@lyciusmartin4660]

BAFTA Guru Gladiator!

[@Neb30925]

Alien

[@saddamjorx]

alien

[@visuellemontage]

ALIEN

[@valdaniels4078]

Kingdom of Heaven.

[@TheRubberStudiosASMR]

I wish I had this man’s drive to work

[@EagerSnake]

I can listen to Ridley all day long. He's just awesome

[@iamnepolian4992]

The greatest director of all time And my favorite of all time😎😎😎😎😎😎

[@DanHollyoak]

(9:47) "If your doing 30, 40 takes you don't know what your doing" -- yeah, David Fincher

[@Phil_Mitchell]

Which is one of the reasons why Fincher 5 times the director Ridley ever has been. Ridley Scott directs for the sake of directing whereas Fincher always wants to make the best film possible. Scott keeps directing every few years and yet his good films are few and far between the trash he often makes. And the trash he's made in the last two decades is overwhelming. The last bad film Fincher made was Alien 3 in the 90s, which wasn't entirely his fault either.

[@travisbickle9756]

Imagine saying that to Stanley Kubrick

[@eatlights]

@@Phil_Mitchell Oh dear...

[@marcusosterholm3755]

Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪. A fantastic close in countering to the mind of so much force of cinematic wonders ❤

[@eliveizaj8155]

Great!

[@skysedgeproductions6170]

Fincher and Kubrik have left the chat.

[@BaldingEagle51]

The only director to credit Giger. This makes him the de facto best director of any Alien franchise movie. Without Giger, the entire franchise would have been absolutely nothing, and he's the only one who understand that. The other lot are too full of themselves to notice.

[@callmesnake3785]

Giger was grateful to Ridley all his life for it. He always lit up when discussing working on Alien with Ridley. I think he understood Ridley was an artist like him

[@all1nerd377]

Christ Id have so many questions for him!

[@Neb30925]

Master

[@visuellemontage]

(09:48) you cannot generalize your theory doing many takes means you are not knowing what you are doing as a director. David Fincher seems to know what he is doing as well as Stanley Kubrick. Sometimes you are looking for something in the actors‘ particular performance, which you cannot articulate in a good way; you got to find out by various versions. Mr. Fincher repeats the action up to 100 times, doing one take after the other, up to a point the text and action of the scene is totally internalized by the actor; then the actor becomes the character in his view (e.g. THE SOCIAL NETWORK‘ dialog in the bar in the beginning). (Never the less, ALIEN is on my personal TOP 10 list for the island for all times!)

[@warrenmeszaros9698]

👍

[@hanniffydinn6019]

This is why he’s very hit or miss, he doesn’t get actors and does many takes. He relies on screenplay and casting. Unlike say Kubrick who would do millions of takes to get what HE NEEDS! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤡🤡🤡🤡🌍🌍🌍🌍

[@ToMgRoEbE]

What the fuck are you talking about, guy

[@pingwong117]

Don't be stupid here

[@hanniffydinn6019]

Tom Groebe you clearly don’t know any thing about Kubrick clearly! 🤯🤯🤯🤡🤡🤡🌍🌍🌍

[@hanniffydinn6019]

Ping Wong you are clearly the stupid one, look up some videos on Kubrick dumb ass! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤡🤡🤡🤡🌍🌍🌍🌍

[@ToMgRoEbE]

@@hanniffydinn6019 I know he abused his actors and crew and made 3 maybe 4 good movies