“Watch The Problem and Fix It Before It Gets Near You” | Ridley Scott on Directing

[@ThirdSpectrum]

This is so much more useful and helpful than the amateur film school youtube channels where you have people who have directed nothing giving advice

[@directorchris2]

Got Script Like Rush Hour. Any Buyers here?

[@ChrisGeden]

Ridley is all about teamwork and collaboration which is the best lesson in getting things done.

[@readhistory2023]

Watch the making of Blade Runner. The film crew didn't agree with your assessment of Ridley and Harrison Ford hated working on that movie.

[@alexlml8334]

I don't feel so bad working on commercials anymore lol. Great videos guys thank you!

[@endoftheroadprodutions6598]

Commercials are where cutting edge starts.....big budgets and a desire to create the next new look or technology. Telling a story in a minute cut to :30 then :15 is an art in itself.

[@Gintoki0507]

Sir Ridley Scott is always my favourite Director 🥰🥰

[@edgabrielocay3376]

Mine too

[@istandalone1969]

With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film. - Akira Kurosawa

[@art_means_artificial]

There is only one problem: HOW TO GET $200 000 000 for a film! That's it!

[@pab1972]

plenty of good scripts filmed by great directors and very few masterpieces, so no.

[@radicalreactions1633]

Too bad none of that's true.

[@METALUNICORNLTD]

I think he’s right. Ridley has a great visual style. But when you consider all the movies he has made, most of them have been turkeys because he doesn’t understand writing and believable characters. His background is in advertising, making pretty pictures. Give him a great script like Gladiator, Bladerunner, and Alien, he makes superb, genre defining films that become milestones in history.

[@METALUNICORNLTD]

@@Sidowse well said sir. Very good points about Bay and Tarantino.

[@karlhungus5436]

We are so lucky to have Ridley still making movies. He's one of last guys around, capable of making big budget films for adult audiences.

[@jothishprabu8]

He should choose better scripts tho

[@TheButterMinecart1]

Charlie Kaufman?

[@karlhungus5436]

@@jothishprabu8 good scripts are hard to come by, I bet. It's not as if he's known for his writing; he's gotta take what's available. People often make such a criticism in reference to his Alien prequel movies, but I don't think they understand that it was Ridley's concept. It wasn't a passion project of some screenwriter, like the first was. I admit, it all starts with the writing, but what do you do when you have a story concept and you're not a writer? You gotta hand it off to someone else and hope for the best. So, in that sense, I appreciate the prequels for what they are. You can't tell me the concept of an android floating somewhere in our universe in a spaceship carrying colonists and the eggs of a maniac organism he created from a stolen bioweapon of an advanced alien race, while listening to Wagner, isn't badass sci-fi. The fact that we actually got a story on film that got us to that point is miraculous. This is purely because Ridley's got clout!

[@yw1971]

Not so anymore.

[@Danlovar]

Sometimes the best movie directors can make the worst movies.

[@walkermorgan1710]

Even if you don’t like any of his films. You must show respect to Him. He knows and understands what it takes to make a film. He knows where the sausage is made.

[@matthewwhitehead2102]

Who out there doesn’t like at least one of his films?

[@endoftheroadprodutions6598]

I worked with Ridley and most of the top Directors in my years........Ridley is a visual master.

[@AlterCineYT]

Wow what kind of work did you do with them and Ridley?

[@endoftheroadprodutions6598]

@@AlterCineYT Art Direction for commercials and first generation music videos.......I started With RSA/USA,LA as the first staff Production Assistant and climbed from there.

[@AlterCineYT]

@@endoftheroadprodutions6598 Awesome! Must have been a great experience

[@endoftheroadprodutions6598]

@@AlterCineYT lol to say the least!

[@helenagiszter1910]

Honestly, Ridley Scott made ONE great movie "Blade Runner" (probably by chance) and has a luck to competently direct greatly scripted "Alien" . He's always been overrated and he probably knows that. He doesn't even value his own work. He is literally dying and killing (careers) to win an Oscar, but he doesn't deserve it. And now it's over for him anyway...

[@Danlovar]

His visual style is so powerful that it feels like he does fantasy movies.

[@dannywhite9975]

D gr8 Ridley Scott directed some of gr8est cinematic masterpieces of all time. Any time we watch 'em it's like a wonderful journey just can't get enough of d sublime camera work n' marvellous visual FX. I mean at d end of d day it's a matter of what really lights u up: music literature comics paintings video games etc etc RS Cinema is able 2 capture d beauty of all these artistic areas in 1 breathtaking xperience. Thanq Maestro just thanq very much 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@thebaldone7453]

I went to Ridley's college, Cleveland College of Art & Design, or as it is now known, Northern School of Art, and my tutor Chris was unbeatable. I later went to their Higher Education course in Hartlepool and was utterly disappointed with the course and my tutor Francis on the graphic design course - talk about favoritism and lack of experience in the real world! Apparently, he was replaced, so hopefully, the course got better! For any young artists out there, go to college, avoid university and go straight into an apprenticeship or directly into work if possible because the best way to learn is to do!

[@LFPAnimations]

Ridley knows how to make a striking image. Some of his films are misses, but the visuals always hit. He also knows how to make powerful character moments and Gladiator was the peak of that for me. Ridley Scott is one of the best directors of all time.

[@robertobuatti7226]

Blade Runner though it didn't do well upon it's release in 1982 has gathered a huge following through VHS rentals which is where I discovered in the early 90's at my local video store. When I first watched Blade Runner it blew me away and it still does. A visually stunning sci-fi with an amazing score by Vangelis that is mesmerizing.

[@AlterCineYT]

A legendary film indeed! It was a head of its time for sure, now it's regarded as one of the greatest of all time. I wonder how it looked on VHS!

[@robertobuatti7226]

@@AlterCineYT It was low resolution and the picture was degrading through customer use but the movie still impressed me and became one of my all time favorites.

I CAN SEE HOW COMMERCIALS WOULD COME INTO PLAY DUE TO THE DIVERSITY OF THE WORK. STORY, STORY, STORY. THANK YOU ENORMOUSLY SIR FOR THIS HIGHLY VALUABLE INPUT.. TRUE ENLIGHTENING VIDEO.

[@oniriscope]

Once again thanks a ton for this peace of experience! I think that you guys help a lot with this form of knowledge transmission experience. From your editing to the value provided along the way, it simply felt like being around him! Thanks a ton guys & and keep up the helpful work!

[@AlterCineYT]

Thank you so much for your feedback! It's really helpful to know that this was useful and a good experience for people :)

[@funkyflicksfilmreviews1535]

I've never seen a bad Ridley Scott film. I've seen bad screenplays he's garnished with his brilliant visual world building. But never an entirely bad film. Also Bladerunner is the Citizen Kane of science fiction.

[@erikramaekers63]

Which version?

[@StreetHierarchy]

Blade Runner is the Chinatown of science fiction 😂

[@halsinden]

when tarantino sits next to you, shuts up and LISTENS - you know this damn well matters. scott is my directing hero. he's certainly made some dross, but my GOD when he's good he's INCREDIBLE.

[@AbirTarafdar]

Fascinating gentleman

[@furtherback6131]

"Whats your toughest challenge on the martian?" "None!" Yeah, that's exactly what that movie felt like to me. Too slick, too easy, zero grit. Now I know why.

[@insanejughead]

Damn, what a solid guy! This has opened my eyes to Ridley! "I may not have cared much for Prometheus, but I'm loving his philosophy and approach to filmmaking."

[@dougieladd]

Enjoyed this. One of my favourite directors.

[@RakibErick]

Legend!

[@jazsebastian]

Excellent advice indeed, this is the sort of stuff we cover on Creative Constitution! Gotta absorb the learnings from all the greats and add that to your own power, fantastic!

[@victorseastrom3455]

I spoke with Ridley at some length at a DGA dinner. A really great nice guy.

[@DestinyAwaits19]

He's a dick. A highly talented and competent person, but still a dick.

[@nikolausbaker3856]

Time vs Creativity is the answer to film success plus character driven stories. Vision vs wordy is the balance & that takes a great director to make hard decisions. Keep an open mind at the table because here is where ideas take seed.

[@petermot645]

Ridley different genres of work is right up there with Kubrick‘s. It’s all about the attention to detail. Period.

[@Mauidemigod249]

One of the greatest directors ever. Mad respect for The Man Ridley Scott!!

[@mrkool9009]

what great advice. thank you

[@Filmmaker809]

Master filmmaker and proud he is British and after all, filmmaking started in the UK and not USA.

[@othoapproto9603]

AH, Yes the Great Barney Fife "Nip It, Nip It in the Bud"

[@knowthispodcast9182]

I really loved Tony Scott. He directed some amazing films, like true romance, crimson Tide. Ridley has had some good films to like gladiator, Blackhawk down, alien. But I think with films like Prometheus and covenant, they felt like cash ins.

[@TheBroz]

Prometheus could have been great but it was a product of a complete mess of indecision. Good intentions got lost in the mire of Scott’s changes of heart. Covenant was a shitpile from start to finish.

[@alltheflavors9673]

I'm still pissed about the stupidity of Prometheus and the downright insulting writing, only a nepo baby like scott could have done that and covenant and still get a job. those movies where only saved by the sub zero IQ of the general public.

[@cremersalex]

The Duellists (1977) is still one of his very best.

[@alexalexis7899]

Commercials are indeed the best way to master the cinematic language - but I mean proper commercials, not “Joe Mambo wants a video to promote his business on Instagram and Facebook”.

[@endoftheroadprodutions6598]

lol...how right you are.

[@Charles12]

the commercials that are essentially short films with big budgets and usually under 1 minute runtimes

[@Papaghost8902]

A bit of trivia for film buffs - See if you can spot the cameraman wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans in the scene from Gladiator. He's on the far left hand side of the screen, amongst the crowd, and has a camera atop a tripod next to him. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2jLdol-eM2lp9E (the scene starts here, pause the film). It made it into the release. I didn't spot it when I first watched the film, nor any subsequent viewing, I had to be informed that it existed. Great film, entertaining.

[@snehasishmondal7905]

Kingdom of heaven: director's cut is a masterpiece, cinematically. But it's underrated.

[@realreview1285]

Tremendous

[@EpicBeard815]

"we're dealing in pictures...DUDE"

[@reddjinn911]

Coffee is the unsung hero on every set.

[@emceha]

Good quote about stamina, explains why Napoleon is so bad.

[@TheConstructiveCritic888]

Yes, but also… Ridley Scott literally made things up as he went on “Gladiator.” Russell Crowe said he was about to bail on production because it was so stressful.

[@IllusionSector]

_"Watch The Problem and Fix It Before It Gets Near You."_ Thus, Kevin Spacey never got near *_All the Money in the World._*

[@radicalreactions1633]

Actually he did, but when all shit came to light about him, he was booted from the movie and replaced with Christopher Plummer - they had to reshoot everything.

[@IllusionSector]

@@radicalreactions1633 Oh, yes, I'm aware of that. I was referring to Spacey as the proverbial _problem_ that was rooted before it got a chance to taint the product.

[@malcolmgoldie]

Ridley should have watched Prometheus before he made it and fixed it before it got near him.

[@psyKater2000]

Ridley Scott: what a way to destroy your own legacy

[@BhorayChannel]

NICE👍👍

[@joeherbert4329]

The King

[@cristinacolucci1121]

Why do your videos always cut out?

[@MB-rq4ss]

It’s time to make an epic movie of Emir Abdelkader, with Tahar Rahim.

[@vincevirtua]

He's a brilliant film maker, but like anyone he's not infallible & wished he;'d take his own advice sometimes with some of his film choices.

[@alltheflavors9673]

sure hes not infallible whenever the talent is not there, he just rides on the talent of others.

[@Hammy5641]

I’ve got some advice for Ripley…

[@lazarus2629]

#3, make the actors comfortable??? hahahah, bladerunner crew and cast would like to have a word

[@coastofkonkan]

Napoleon was a good film by him but it didnt deserve explicit scenes.

[@c.s.hayden3022]

Sound advice, but with Prometheus the entire thing was the problem.

[@Dorfl62]

Don't get your hopes up ,if Ridley Scott is involved he is going to make it woke and really shitty ! Just look at EVERYTHING else he has made, he made a good first film and has been milking it ever since. At this point I would not trust him to be able to sit the right way on a toilet seat!!!

[@chuzzbot]

How does he know what you get taught at film school? He wasn't in any of my classes. Love a lot of his work, but that was a nonsensical and inaccurate statement.

[@jothishprabu8]

He has made more bad movies than good ones lol. "Good eye" don't mean nothing unless the script is good lmao.

[@meateater6958]

ill make 1000 bad movies to make 1 movie like gladiator.

[@radicalreactions1633]

Keep saying that, yet your favorite Zack-the-Hack can't make a "good" movie to save his life even if the scripts are dipped in GOLD.

[@jothishprabu8]

@@radicalreactions1633 umm dafuq?

[@proto-geek248]

Here's a bit of advice. When you create an amazing film like Alien, don't ruin it by making a convoluted pile of crap like prometheus.

[@adrianandhika2629]

Prometheus still good if the movie separated from the alien franchise but yeah it's getting even worse when alien convenant comes out

[@radicalreactions1633]

Better than Man O' Shit by your favorite.

[@alltheflavors9673]

thats the fun part he didn"t create anything in Alien. he just rode upon the massive talent involved and people praise him like he came up with these things, hes a brilliant cinematographer but whenever he's allowed to write omg, just no. Scott and Lindeloff took a perfectly good Spaiths script and turned it into Lost: promeheus and covenant. The original story? Dan O"Bannon, he worked with John Carpenter "master of horror", Alien is basically a killer let loose but in space. The chestburster scene was Shusett's idea. The facehugger? again O'Bannon and of course Giger. look at prometheus and its mountain of nonsensical bits, Lindeloff and Scott writting mistery boxes, retconing blindly anything that they cant fit, the good part of prometheus, the alien abort, written by Spaiths whose script would have made a far better movie and covenant lol what the hell was that but a scott trying to aproppiate the alien franchise as his own and failing even more miserably than prometheus. hes a brilliant cinematographer when he allows the hired talents to shine otherwise you get napoleon'd.

[@readhistory2023]

I would have taken his advice before the Alien sequels. Afterwards? Not so much.

[@radicalreactions1633]

Still better than Zack-the-Hack and his FOUR-HOUR commercials ALL IN SLOW-MO, the speed your brain works apparently.

[@africanhistory]

I got some advice for him also. Leave Alien franchise alone.

[@crapshot]

No

[@radicalreactions1633]

Why should anyone take advice from a nobody that probably thinks that Snyder is a great director? Sounds like delusions to me.

[@alltheflavors9673]

yes, he's the xenothieve stealing other people's ideas.

[@alltheflavors9673]

@@crapshot shut up "I'll do the fingering" Riddley Scott, Covenant (2014).

[@alltheflavors9673]

@@radicalreactions1633 another "leave the nepo baby scott alone" he's not going to call you poser.

[@yw1971]

The question is - can he identify a good script? Not sure anymore after Alien: Covenant...

[@30yearsoldiam1]

Ugh what a lame take

[@yw1971]

@@30yearsoldiam1 please explain

[@trull122]

He should take his own advice, Prometheus was terrible.

[@karmapolice3335]

no prometheus was fantastic and damn atmospheric, it kept me waiting for sequel but they dint follow the storyline

[@dornravlin]

He's a hit or miss director

[@radicalreactions1633]

Still better than anything Snyder's made.

[@radicalreactions1633]

@@dornravlin Just like every other director, stooge. You honestly think that Spielberg, Scorsese, or Cameron hasn't made bad films? If you believe that, you're delusional.

[@alltheflavors9673]

@@dornravlin means if they let him do, its a miss, if he just sticks to the cinematography the film may stand a chance.

[@VictorMaxol]

Like I'll take advice from Napoleon director.

[@VictorHarderHesel]

Too bad he didn't watch Napoleon before it got near him. It very well might be the worst film I've ever watched :)

[@orangewarm1]

He's talking about putting the film together. Technical stuff. Napoleon suffered from a bad script. Often these things are out of a director's control. Also, bear in mind he's old -- he's never going to do anything great again. BTW if you're talking about bad films, try Kong: Skull Island or The Haunting.

[@escapist502]

I had a hard time with Napoleon as well, I simply couldn’t get past the accent used by Mr. Phoenix I certainly tried, I really wanted to like it!! But I’m also open to experimentation with films for English audiences about other cultures. I certainly would not have enjoyed three hours of subtitles. And hearing historically, French characters speaking British English would have been laughable. I don’t know the answer, but what they did just didn’t work in my opinion. I’m hoping gladiator 2 is a good outing!

[@anthonydavis4829]

He's roof quanity doesn't make a director great.

[@endoftheroadprodutions6598]

Not sure I understand your statement.

[@readhistory2023]

@@endoftheroadprodutions6598 Ridley is up and down as far as movies go. His last two Alien movies were turds that destroyed the Alien francise.

[@endoftheroadprodutions6598]

@@readhistory2023 to each his/her own...make a film that builds a franchise in 1979 but kills it as you say in 2017? HARDLY A FAILURE.

[@SgtZima]

What does "He's roof quanity" mean?

[@radicalreactions1633]

@@endoftheroadprodutions6598 That's because he doesn't have a clue what he's talking about.

[@DestinyAwaits19]

0:33 the only war movie that matters.