\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Aliens, gladiators, women on the run, and now Napoleon — Ridley Scott is a master of the modern screen epic.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror was led by the tough-as-nails Sigourney Weaver playing Ellen Ripley who battles a terrifying break-out of aliens aboard a spaceship.<\/p>\n One famed scene, in which an alien bursts from the chest of a crew member played by John Hurt, has since become movie legend.<\/p>\n The space epic won an Oscar for best sound effects and inspired a string of sequels by star directors including James Cameron and David Fincher.<\/p>\n Scott’s visually arresting adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel drew mixed reviews at the time, the New York Times calling it “muddled yet mesmerising”, but over time it became a global cult classic.<\/p>\n “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe,” says an android, played by Rutger Hauer, the rain pelting down on his peroxide-blonde hair. “All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”<\/p>\n The speech concluded Scott’s two-hour classic set in a dystopian Los Angeles pitting man versus machine, with the human played by Harrison Ford.<\/p>\n A washed-out Ford Thunderbird became a symbol of feminist rebellion in Scott’s saga about two women on the run through the United States after murdering a rapist.<\/p>\n With the authorities in hot pursuit, the increasingly desperate pair fall prey to a handsome drifter (Brad Pitt in his breakout role) who steals all their savings.<\/p>\n In the memorable final scene the police catch up with the Ford but the two heroines, in a last act of resistance, drive their car off a cliff.<\/p>\n Multi-Oscar nominated, including for its lead actresses, the screenplay won a statuette while Scott missed out on his first of three best director nominations.<\/p>\n After space and future dystopia, Scott went right back to the Romans for this battle epic about a vengeful slave rising up against his emperor.<\/p>\n The blockbuster stunned audiences with its recreations of combat in the Colosseum in Rome, and a few years after its release the New York Times noted a “Gladiator Effect” — an uptick in books about ancient Rome since the film.<\/p>\n It was a hit at box offices worldwide and scooped best picture at the Oscars, which also crowned Russell Crowe best actor.<\/p>\n Scott next turned his camera to the reconstruction of the 1993 gunning down of two US Black Hawk helicopters in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu during an ill-fated operation to capture a violent warlord.<\/p>\n It sparked a chaotic rescue operation that resulted in hundreds of deaths, including 18 American servicemen and many Somali civilians.<\/p>\n Veteran British critic Philip French in The Observer called Scott’s military drama “one of the most convincing, realistic combat movies I’ve ever seen.”<\/p>\n The film won Oscars for best sound and editing and was also nominated for best picture and another best director nod, making it thrice unlucky for Scott.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Aliens, gladiators, women on the run, and now Napoleon — Ridley Scott is a master of the modern screen epic.\u00a0 – ‘Alien’ (1979) – Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror was led by the tough-as-nails Sigourney Weaver playing Ellen Ripley who battles a terrifying break-out of aliens aboard a spaceship. One famed scene, in which an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gulftimesint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gulftimesint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gulftimesint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gulftimesint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gulftimesint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gulftimesint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4978,"href":"https:\/\/gulftimesint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976\/revisions\/4978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gulftimesint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gulftimesint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gulftimesint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gulftimesint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}– ‘Alien’ (1979) –<\/h2>\n
‘Blade Runner’ (1982) –<\/h2>\n
‘Thelma & Louise’ (1991) –<\/h2>\n
‘Gladiator’ (2000) –<\/h2>\n
‘Black Hawk Down’ (2001) –<\/h2>\n