Quentin Tarantino on Tony Scott
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ม.ค. 2024
- Quentin Tarantino reacts to the work of Tony Scott.
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The Last Boy Scout is criminally underrated.
One of the GOATs for me. True Romance too.
Yes, The Last Boy Scout is so awesome
What does it rate on the finger scale?
The opening scene with Billy Blanks is the greatest scene in the history of cinema
Absolute fave
Tony Scott and Denzel was one of the all-time great actor director collaborations
I thought crimson tide was great but the whole scenario was so unrealistic. Then Putin "went for it" instantly became one of my favorite movies of all time.
Also, Tony Scott arguably is the best director of a Tarantino script
I Much preferred both “Reservoir Dogs” and “Pulp Fiction”, the first two Tarantino-directed Tarantino scripts.
Me too @@acidgroove101
@@acidgroove101 Me too. By far
Pulp fiction is the pinnacle of 90s. My all time fave. And I love reservoir dogs. It's awesome. But gonna put out an unpopular opinion.....true romance is awesome. I enjoy watching it more then reservoir dogs
True romance being awesome is far from.an unpopular opinion,it's a universal fact. And I feel like you but not,I put it above Pulp fiction but reservoir dogs is hard to beat. @@mattmiller4821
I worked on a few Tony Scott movies and I loved the guy. He was so excited, so prepared, and so much fun.
Directors who truly love movies and keep watching them with a fan's enthusiasm and a critic's discerning eye rather than focusing only on their own standing in the marketplace... are the shit.
That's why I'd rather listen to filmmakers wax lovingly about film than critics - filmmakers, usually, can and do love it all and see the value and art in cinema critics often dismiss or don't see.
Like, Scorsese cites Frankenstein Created Woman as one of his favorites...fucking chad move right there. That movie is incredible.
Now all of a sudden "critics" are re-evaluating things like that film all because Scorsese repped it when horror and exploitation fans knew the score from the get-go, lol.
I'm not one of those "fuck all critics" types, but I don't spend a lot of time on them like seemingly every other film fan online does. There are some I follow and like hearing from, but it's a small pool. And I do enjoy the occasional well written, passionate review/analysis. But you know what I could do with the time film fans waste on reading critics reviews? Watch more movies.
Crimson tide is one of the most brilliantly directed films I’ve ever seen.
Yeah, that's a fantastic movie.
Man on fire. All time classic
Great script, good performances ruined by terrible overly stylistic, filtering sunbursting directing.
favorite denzel movie… well maybe fallen!
Tony Scott made the best Tarantino movie, and it's a hill I will die on....hopefully from old age.
One of the best for sure.
I mean no but its still fantastic and a classic
Oliver Stone made the worst Tarantino movie.
100 percent agree. You won’t die alone on this hill.
@@DashingPunkSamurai Incorrect
Enemy of the State is the reason why I got involved in the world of IT. I have watched almost every T.S. movie at least 15 times each. I just love Crimson Tide, underrated True Romance, Revenge and of course - Man on Fire! Tony will always be my favorite director!! God I miss him so much! Rest in Peace, Maestro! ♥♥
Tarantino talking about Top Gun is making me laugh harder than ever. Super hard. Rock hard. Im basically inverted
I love how QT name drops Douglas Sirk with Tony Scott. He is a walking encyclopedia of film history. Revenge is my favorite Scott film.
Tony Scott always been the guy. Rest Easy beloved. You're missed
The Last Boy Scout is a great action movie.
and riddled with great lines...
@@Moveplaylift and they are not P.C. and I love it.
Agreed, it's just so damn entertaining, great dialogue, a real "guilty pleasure". It doesn't pretend to be "deep", it's just a great popcorn flick, sort of underrated if that's possible.
@@MoveplayliftWritten, of course, by "Lethal Weapon" scribe Shane Black.
was waiting for the sequel for 20 years
Alien is obviously a masterpiece, but Tony Scott has made more movies I love, and he never became a hack. Man on Fire and True Romance especially are two of my absolute favourites.
Alien is Ridley Scott
@@starwarsroo2448 yeah I know. I didn't make it very clear. I meant that Ridley Scott made Alien, which is fantastic, but Tony has made more movies I enjoy.
True Romance is one of my favourites, and I can’t imagine anyone else making that film look as good as it did. It was the perfect combination of Tarantino’s gritty script full of sleazy characters and Scott’s visual flair.
Ridley is more about "Grandiose" filmmaking. It's almost like he's going thru his own version of what Tony did before his unfortunate passing. I absolutely love Ridley's late career resurgence we are in right now, even though the box office doesn't agree.
Domino is pretty terrible
Unstoppable was terrific.
Enemy of the State isn't nearly respected enough. That's such a great film that still holds up. "You have something they want!"
I love Quentin's enthusiasm about film's and flim makers I can listen to a podcast about him breaking down each film and filmmaker style and approach
Man on Fire is criminally underrated, and is the best saving child from kidnappers type movie ever.
The first Taken was better. Liam Neeson crushed that role.
@@Wallyworld30 Taken was pretty silly.
Crimson Tide is my pick for greatest Tony Scott film. It’s tremendous and tense and morally compelling.
Incredibly prescient in the current climate. (especially the opening premise, involving the nationalist President desperate to re-establish Russia as a great power)
His BMW short film with James Brown, Gary Oldman and Clive Owen is so good.
Mr Brown, get out of the car....
@@stuco81 mannn I thought we had a deal!…
I love his use of that over-saturated almost cross-processed film look. Best example is Domino.
I'm a huge Tony Scott fan always famous for sunsets and smoke filled rooms I have every one of his movies on Blu-ray truly a sad moment to lose him in the way we lost him in his prime of movie making R.I.P.
Days of Thunder always draws me in with that sunrise over Daytona opening...
You goddamn right it does. The best of Tony’s and my all time favorite Tony/Cruise film.
Unfortunately that movie for some will always be buried in horse manure.
Some people get all smug and look down on that movie. Sure, it's cheesy in some ways and the love story is a little weak but it's a damn fun movie.
When Tony Scott died, many of us in the film community were heartbroken and wondered: why?
Was it because he felt overshadowed by his brother Ridley or Michael Bay thinking their filmmaking surpassed his frequency?
Of all the accomplishments and hard-work he's done with Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, was it all for nothing?
What I had always envisioned during the late 2000s was that someday The Scott Bros. would've directed their first film together; two minds joined as one.
Who knew what we could've received? But such enthusiasm now is left in the dust.
Tony's films alike Ridley's welcome the new wave of sophisticated stories with that pinch of gothic principal photography
With the help of great producers and a valuable and dedicated cast & crew, these films are now timeless classics and what Hollywood in America used to be. RIP Tony Scott and Don Simpson...thank you for redefining Blockbuster movies! 💐
I don't think he was overshadowed by Bay.
Cancer or some degenerative disease. Look it up
@@kdscool1536 I don't either, I don't think anybody seriously believes Bay is a better film maker than Tony Scott, to me it's laughably preposterous.
If I remember correctly, Tony always had a reputation for being clinically depressed, even in the eighties. I don’t think there was any main motivation or silver bullet to cure it. Some people just have an imbalance, sadly.
@@andrewhudson7108 I know it's a cliche, but it seems like artists are predisposed more to mental illness than typical "civilians". I think that's a price some pay for their genius. Many of them are hypersensitve and egotistical, and those are hard characteristics to keep on a leash for "creatives".
True Romance, Man on Fire, and Spy Game to me are criminally underrated! Scott definitely had some amazing shooting techniques and vision.
Unfortunately, we didn't get anymore films from him. He must have been in a lot of pain to end his life as he did. Very unfortunate! RIP Tony!
Man on fire is his Magnus opus
Honestly my favorite Tony Scott movie IS True Romance, although Crimson Tide is pretty great too.
Same, I think those movies especially are his two damn near perfect movies.
Beverly Hills Cop 2 is fantastic. First was is a classic, but BHC 2 with Tony directing is such a well shot film
yes!!! it is exceptionally well shot
Almost everything is better in the sequel except Murphy's own performance as the lead.
@@SalemGhassanHanna the follow your dick radar scene makes up for a lot of it, lets be honest :D
Both great moves but I think that I actually like the 2nd movie a little more.
its frightening how much Quentin know about film......going all the way back to the 50's.....he would be the ultimate film school professor....
He would be the ultimate film school prefessor I agree, not only because of his knowledge but because he's into so many different genres that he would not try to bend you to his own vision but help you to achieve your own style without being condescending, it's a very rare quality. And I'm not even talking about his enthousiasm.
Especially since he hated the 50s era of movies 😂
It’s always frustrated me that Ridley’s status overshadows Tony’s when Tony is the better of the two; more exciting, more artistic, more human and more consistent.
Hard to compete with Gladiator, pretty human aand artistic
@@deankruse2891 but it’s such an outlier in his filmography, Ridley’s so inconsistent
@@chrisparkes i think ridley's films are all visually exceptional.
Well said
The guy who made Blade Runner is always going to be the better of the two.
I know a cameraman who worked with Tony Scott a great deal. He loved Tony Scott. He loved working with Tony Scott.
He might not have made the best movies ever but his movies really epitomized and defined 80’s and early 90’s cinema. A lot of what you see now originates with him.
Tony is unsung
Thank you universe for this channel 😍
Tony was one of the greats. His death is tragic and it makes me sad that we'll never see a new Tony Scott movie. His brother has fallen on my radar ever since the turd called Prometheus. Alien and Blade Runner are still in my top 5. But True Romance, Top Gun, Crimson Tide, The last boyscout, The Fan, Man on Fire etc. Just an epic list of bad ass movies. RIP my man!
Everything he made was so much fun to watch. RIP T Scott.
The Hunger is really interesting also, if for no other reason than for seeing how the Scotts influenced one another
It's such a shame to have lost Tony Scott might very well be my favourite director Top gun, Unstoppable, Man on Fire and Crimson tide are some of my favourite movies of all time and i watch them regularly. Even though they didn't need remaking i read he had the rights To The warrior's and the wild bunch remakes i think he could have nailed both if given the chance.
Tony Scott was a great director. Loved so many of his movies growing up.
I could listen to Tarantino gush about movies all day
Unstoppable is a masterpiece. Amazing movies Crimson Tide, Man On Fire, Top Gun, Days of thunder, True Romance etc. Tony Scott was brilliant. Definitely a director when you see his name on the poster or dvd cover it is like 'hellyeah i'm watching that'
The last boy-scout is an absolute MASTERPIECE .
I dont feel like movies are made as good as they used to be the quality has gone down
The film of his that gets lost a bit because IMO it's not quintessentially in his oeuvre is the masterpiece Spy Game. It's brilliant on so many levels and it's almost totally forgotten. I love that film, but again, it's not going to grab you by the throat with over the top, obvious visuals. What a filmmaker that guy was, Top Gun, Last Boy Scout, Spy Game, Crimson Tide are my Tony Scott favorites.
Days of Thunder wasn't half bad, either. Man, that guy knew how to make a film.
I’ve always thought Spy game feels more Ridley and Thelma and Louise feels more like Tony.
@@One21Jiggawatts That's a very fair comment. I think Spy Game might be the most underrated film of all time, so many moments of brilliance in it. The film score is incredible, such an eclectic mix of music. And the visuals are unforgettable, there are several scenes that are so uniquely brilliant. The rooftop scene with Redford & Pitt, the way it zooms out at the end, and the scene in the car in East Germany when Pitt throws the defector out of the car and you see him "shrink" from the car perspective as it pulls away. I mean, who thinks of stuff like that? That's off the charts, the guy was a visual genius.
Spy Game is a bit incoherent though when you break it down.
The woman was an admitted terrorist. China had every right to imprison her. Redford agreed too. He also had a hard policy of abandoning assets.
Yet he suddenly decides to invert his values for a guy he's not seen in a decade (who is completely to blame for his own circumstances) throwing away his life savings, risking life in prison, and war with China?
Pitt's allies get left behind too, and a bunch of innocent prison guards are murdered. All to save a guilty terrorist!?
I'm with the CIA on this one. She deserved to be in that cell, and rescuing a rogue asset who screwed up on a personal mission is not worth sacrificing other lives, or risking dragging the nation into war.
@@zoomalfunction They were operating from emotion, outside of their normal duty "protocols", which made it compelling as a film for me. It was a story of redemption.
Sure, if you want to analyze it from a strictly logical standpoint, you can blow it up, but this is a film about humans, and they don't always follow the script.
Spy Game...was such a stylish movie, and then it had the Stylish Redford and Pitt too!
Huge underrated director in my opinion- stilly today !
Love nearly any of his movies 🔥
One of the great things about Unstoppable is all the risks he took with Chris Pine's character. He comes in as this young punk who was gifted a position he doesn't deserve. Then, once he's made you like the guy anyhow, he reveals an issue with violent jealousy when it comes to his girlfriend. That's a detail that didn't have to be there but it results in maintaining a perception of fallibility as he's attempting all these things to save the day.
The Hunger is my favorite Tony Scott movie
Well said Tarantino!
Tony Scott and Michael Mann are two of the most important directors for ME, alongside QT
1 thing about Tony’s movies, that nobody notices is that, when a scene involves characters talking, the camera is fixed in place, it’s not hand held or on someone’s shoulder, it is fixed to the ground and in doing so, you get a small bouncy up and down effect, but the camera is still in place, and even in the action scenes, Tony still used camera shots that were fixed to the ground. Also, Tony’s filming style, progresses over the years, in the late 80’s and 90’s, there would be some shots that were turned at an angle, then from 2001 to 2010, Tony would use zoom ins and zoom outs for certain scenes, but would still have the camera fixed to the ground, which he always used for scenes close up to the action or the characters. Tony’s filming style, was its own entire thing, literally no other director filmed movies like Tony did, and that style progressed with time, it evolved. I enjoy every single one of Tony’s films, there’s something about them, that I can’t help but love. We miss you Tony Scott, and we love you
The Hunger, Revenge, and True Romance are Tony Scotts best movies.
Tarantino loves to be heard.
great to watch, but i'm honestly SO gutted there's no mention whatsoever of 'the hunger'. i realise it was panned by the critics and even some of the people making it, but it remains in my top 10 ever films and i'm absolutely prepared to defend it in a 'what about' angle.
I completely agree!
The Hunger had so many stylistic elements of what later defined his style, but they were so subtle, so well tempered
I actually think its his very best film, followed by Man on Fire
But The Hunger is an absolute masterpiece, that is definitely in my top-10 list
HOW DID I NOT KNOW RIDLEY AND TONY WERE BROTHERS UNTIL RIGHT NOW!!!???
What's really amazing is that they both came into their own independently and both made iconic films (Ridley moreso). When has that happened before unless they both worked together like the Coen Brothers.
The Safdie brothers are a recent example I just heard about. Kind of @@djarcadian
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I don't know if Quentin Tarantino meant to say,
_kaleidoscope_ of characters and just settled for "calliope" (he does talk fast), but I think it works either way.
i noticed that, wasnt sure if he got caught between kaleidoscope and panoply. I know a calliope as a WWII Sherman tank with a bunch of rockets on top.
4/20
Thanks for warning,don't need to watch about unstoppable. But he was super influential. Sirk comp on point.
"Unstoppable" for me.
Guys, whenever you're starting to get serious about a girl, show her Tony Scott's 1990 movie 'Revenge'. You're as good as 'in'.
I always figured Quentin was on the set of True Romance every day because the whole thing has such a Tarantino feel, but I guess that’s just the strength of his writing. That makes me respect Tony Scott as a director all the more because he obviously understood what QT was going for and delivered in spades.
True Romance is amazing
Tony Scott= LEGEND
master quentin on tony scott
Tony Scott’s best film was 1983’s The Hunger.
Tony had the best style in his movies. cinematography wise.
“Yeah” - Chris Ryan
CR is the king. He is letting Tarantino talk and acknowledging that he is listening. Would you have liked Simmons talking over him instead? He would have dropped a "Tony Scott and Denzel in this movie are like Tatum and Brown" comparison.
I didn't realize how many Tony Scott movies I liked
I love DOMINO!
Tarantino probably couldn't have directed True Romance better than Tony. It was perfect.
Well, I know what movie I'm watching this weekend. 😅
i was definitely a tony scott disser back when it was cool like quentin says, and i still kinda gotta look down on his more popcorny flicks, but i always had full respect for true romance!
I would love to see a Quentin Tarantino cut of TRUE ROMANCE, where the scenes are put into the order they were written in the screenplay, which was done like RESERVOIR DOGS and PULP FICTION -- out-of-sequence -- yet they all tied together by the end. The theatrical release version of TRUE ROMANCE is terrific -- don't get me wrong -- but when I read the screenplay, it really made me want to see a cut of the film that followed Tarantino's scene-by-scene out-of-sequence method.
Maybe, if Tarantino himself doesn't seek out an option to do this, maybe some clever Editor out there in TH-camLand can do a 'fan-edit' of it . . . ?
He never even mentioned Spy Game??!! That was such a good film
Revenge was 💥
The bit about _Crimson Tide_ left out Tarantino's contribution to that movie - the argument over which Silver Surfer was the "true" Silver Surfer (Kirby vs Moebius) with a cute callback during the climactic action. Nice bit of script punch-up.
That top gun stuff IS good..right boss
Scott was great...QT was dead on on this one...crazy how exact.
I was always a bigger Tony fan over his brother. I put True Romance in my top 10 favorite movies of all time, I love Crimson Tide, Days of Thunder, The Last Boy Scout and BHC 2 were all great or a least entertaining.
Deja Vu is his greatest film.
Man On Fire second
Love a lot of Tony Scott's movies. But Crimson Tide is probably #1 for me.
not mentioning ‘the hunger’ and ‘man on fire’ is a travesty
They should rename the bridge he jumped off after him.
This is like what happened in Italy with Sergio Leone. While he was hold in high regard internationally for his movies, in Italy, at least among the critics, he was and still is considered irrelevant.
Come on! No mention of The Hunger!?
Time has proven that Tony was the genius and Ridley is a hack. And if you can only see one Tony Scott movie see Revenge (1990). It's both brutal and emotionally devastating.
If Tarantino decides to stop making films I'd love him to do a detailed multipart documentary on the history of film explaining why in his opinion what was great about the periods and the individual films. I can't think of another person who has the experience, love and enthusiasm for movie making.
Tony Scott was a legit filmmaking genius imo. His films are absolute paintings. Dismiss them as action/thriller schlock all you want, but nothing out of Hollywood today looks as gorgeous as say, the opening football in the rain scene of The Last Boy Scout. Thrillers are hardly ever as honed and taut and slick as Crimson Tide. Revenge-O-Matics are hardly ever as soulful and human as Man On Fire. Gothic horror is hardly ever as melancholy and tragic as The Hunger, etc.
I'm also a fan of Bay, but Scott is Bay with a human soul. Bay is cynical, which is why I find him so appealing. They're like yin and yang - stylistic brothers but tonal opposites.
80% of QT's brain is inundated with the most obscure film references.
Quentin "alllright" Tarantino
Sly swipe at Michael Bay lol
To me , Michael Bay emulates George Lucas more than Sir Tony . Also to me , Sir Tony is a more fun director than his brother Sir Ridley . Bladerunner is more of a serious movie , where you have to pay attention and seriously examine how well it was shot . Whereas Sir Tony seemed more fun and commercial like TOP GUN , Beverly Hills Cop 2 and DOMINO . Those are all fun movies .
Revenge
this channel is great, but the "oh no let's go" thing is annoying, just use a graphic
I disagree with Quentin saying Michael Bay style is the exact same to me his style is a similar vibe but there 2 way different filmmakers
Shots fired at Michael Bay. Wonder if Tarantino's career can withstand that.
Tony Scott was usually as good as his scripts/stories
Just like his brother
I wouldn't say Tony Scott is the greatest or even a great director, and I wouldn't say Unstoppable is a good film or even a great runaway train film, but God I love Tarantino for loving him and loving the film.
Please don't compare the great Tony Scott with little than average Michael Bay🤦
Made some incredible movies. I don’t like ‘Crimson Tide’ and ‘Unstoppable’.
I love Quentin’s enthusiasm, it’s infectious, but no amount of energetic praise is going to make me reevaluate Tony Scott’s work. He’s made some incredibly enjoyable films, but they’re all completely disposable. Yes, that even includes True Romance.
Last of the Mohicans does exist 🤷♂️