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Tony Scott

4 titles · american genre

Tony Scott shot like the commercials he started in: smoke, orange light, long lenses and a cut on every beat. Top Gun sends a reckless Navy pilot to the elite fighter school. In True Romance, from a Quentin Tarantino script, Clarence and Alabama run off with her pimp's cocaine. The Hunger is a vampire film with Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie, and Spy Game has a retiring CIA officer remember how he recruited his protégé in Vietnam.

Signature

  • A Quentin Tarantino script (True Romance).
  • Men who live for speed and risk (Top Gun).
  • Lovers on the run (True Romance).
  • Espionage and old loyalties (Spy Game).
Top Gun (1986) poster

Top Gun

1986
True Romance (1993) poster

True Romance

1993
Spy Game (2001) poster

Spy Game

2001
The Hunger (1983) poster

The Hunger

1983

Influenced by Nosferatu, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, The Godfather, The Conversation, Flashdance, Scarface.

Went on to influence Near Dark, Touch of Death, Society, Cronos, Kika, Interview with the Vampire, Showgirls, Frisk, Vampires, Trouble Every Day, In My Skin, Body of Lies.

Also on moral ambiguity, coming of age, organized crime, revenge & justice, psychological horror, identity crisis.

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