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** ''Alien: Covenant'': {{Spoiler|David wins to ensure the events of ''Alien'' come to pass}}. |
** ''Alien: Covenant'': {{Spoiler|David wins to ensure the events of ''Alien'' come to pass}}. |
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* [[Duel to the Death]]: ''The Duelists'' and ''The Last Duel'' obviously. |
* [[Duel to the Death]]: ''The Duelists'' and ''The Last Duel'' obviously. |
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* [[Enforced Method Acting]]: Used for the chest buster scene, where actors weren’t fully informed of how it would happen, leading to genuine surprise. |
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* [[Executive Meddling]]: ''Blade Runner'' and ''Kingdom of Heaven'' feature alternate cuts by Scott because he was forced to make edits and even change the ending for the former. |
* [[Executive Meddling]]: ''Blade Runner'' and ''Kingdom of Heaven'' feature alternate cuts by Scott because he was forced to make edits and even change the ending for the former. |
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* [[Japan Takes Over the World]]: Weyland-Yutani is partially owned by the Japanese, and several fictional Japanese Mega corps took over the world of ''Blade Runner''. |
* [[Japan Takes Over the World]]: Weyland-Yutani is partially owned by the Japanese, and several fictional Japanese Mega corps took over the world of ''Blade Runner''. |
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Highly accomplished commercial director, doing some of the early Apple ads and one with a young John Waller for Cadbury's short lived Amazin' Raisin bar (inadvertently a major turning point for medieval reenacting and HEMA), turned auteur, Sir Ridley Scott (he doesn't use the title as it makes him "sound like an old man") is a British director. Known for an obsession with visual detail rivaling Stanley Kubrick, if not Alfred Hitchcock. Several of his early works helped establish the popularity of the Used Future trope. Older brother of director Tony Scott. He has worked with an incredibly wide variety of genres and budgets, yet somehow maintains his own special touch through it all.
Russell Crowe is one of his favorite actors, appearing in many of his films.
Director:
- The Duellists (1977)
- Alien (1979)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- 1984 commercial that introduced the Apple Macintosh - now recognized as the first Super Bowl Special ad.
- Legend (1985)
- Someone to Watch Over Me (1987)
- Black Rain (1989)
- Thelma and Louise (1991)
- 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)
- White Squall (1996)
- G.I. Jane (1997)
- Gladiator (2000)
- Hannibal (2001)
- Black Hawk Down (2001)
- Matchstick Men (2003)
- Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
- A Good Year (2006)
- American Gangster (2007)
- Body of Lies (2008)
- Robin Hood (2010)
- Prometheus (2012)
- The Counselor (2013)
- The Martian (2015)
- Alien: Covenant (2017)
- All the Money in the World (2017)
Announced upcoming directing projects:
- a film version of The Prisoner (announced in 2016)
- a film version of Wraiths of the Broken Land (announced in 2016)
- a film about the Battle of Britain (announced in 2017)
- a film sequel to Alien: Covenant (announced in 2017)
- a Disney film version of The Merlin Saga (announced in 2017)
- a television version of The Terror (2018; announced in 2017)
Producer or Executive Producer:
- Numb3rs (2005-2010)
- The A-Team (2010)
- The Good Wife (2009–2016)
- The Man in the High Castle (first season, 2015–2016)
- Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
- Action Girl: Mostly averted. Ridley in Alien is just your average worker stuck on a horrible situation, and the protagonist in G.I. Jane is just working towards being one but isn't one yet.
- Artificial Human: The replicants of Blade Runner, and the androids of Alien
- Cyberpunk: Blade Runner is a great influence on the genre, being based on a story by the genre's father Philip K. Dick
- Downer Ending:
- Thelma and Louise: Ends with the villain protagonists killing themselves instead of facing justice.
- Alien: Covenant: David wins to ensure the events of Alien come to pass.
- Duel to the Death: The Duelists and The Last Duel obviously.
- Enforced Method Acting: Used for the chest buster scene, where actors weren’t fully informed of how it would happen, leading to genuine surprise.
- Executive Meddling: Blade Runner and Kingdom of Heaven feature alternate cuts by Scott because he was forced to make edits and even change the ending for the former.
- Japan Takes Over the World: Weyland-Yutani is partially owned by the Japanese, and several fictional Japanese Mega corps took over the world of Blade Runner.
- Mega Corp: Serves as the Bigger Bad of Alien and Blade Runner.
- Nothing Is Scarier: The alien in Alien is not seen by most of the movie. Also paranoia is frequent source of suspense in Blade Runner, because it's hard to detect who is a replicant.
- Recut: Even when he didn't actually want them.
- Unicorn: Legend and, oddly enough, Blade Runner.
- Used Future: Alien and Blade Runner.