Ridley Scott - Auteur?
Ridley Scott , (born November 30, 1937, South Shields , Durham, England), and is a British film director and producer whose films were acclaimed for their visual style and rich details [1]. Some of his most acclaimed titles include Blade Runner, Alien and Gladiator. Ridley Scott dedicated several of his films, including Blade Runner, to his deceased brother[4]. This may have influenced many of the themes of the film including how the replicants have a 4 year life span, to which after follows their death, directing to the fact that human beings in the real world have limited life and we all die eventually. Ridley Scott sketched many of the Blade Runner's design concepts himself along with the help from production designer Lawrence G. Paull , ‘visual futurist’ Syd Mead, art director David L. Snyder and special effects wizards Douglas Trumbull and Richard Yuricich . The team worked using old-school, pre-digit...
