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Ridley Scott

Posted inGeneral, Media

What makes for a good life: Scott’s ‘A Good Year’

Bert Olivier by Bert Olivier 30 October 201730 October 2017

On the way to and back from Tokyo, I treated myself on two viewings (after seeing it once, I could not resist watching it again) of Ridley Scott’s uplifting film, ‘A Good Year’ (20th Century Fox, 2006), and was impressed, once again, by the director’s ability to work convincingly in different genres. After all, judging […]

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Ecosocialism can rescue us from ecocatastrophe

Bert Olivier by Bert Olivier 3 May 20163 May 2016

In Ridley Scott’s recent film, The Martian, there is a scene near the end that sums up the often ignored value of the earth. Astronaut and botanist Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is sitting on a bench in a park, shortly after having been rescued from a very lonely existence on the red planet, Mars. He […]

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Guns, patriarchy and violence against women

Bert Olivier by Bert Olivier 9 March 201318 March 2013

In Ridley Scott’s (for a male director) astonishingly feminist film, Thelma and Louise (1991), there is a scene-sequence that graphically captures the indissoluble connection between patriarchal men and guns. And, at the same time, it shows how much the vaunted power of patriarchal men depends on their guns. The scene-sequence commences at that point in […]

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