in a film career that spans six decades, sir ridley scott s made some of the biggest blockbusters of all time. he cut his teeth making high profile adverts, like this one for hovis. it was a grand ride back, though. just do a spin and walk backwards there without sliding and falling over. ..before turning his attention to the big screen. the duellists in 1977 was his first film and was set in napoleonic france. his second feature alien made a star of its lead actor sigourney weaver, and opened doors in hollywood for its director. blade runner, thelma and louise, gladiator, black hawk down are just some of the film credits to his name. and now, in his 80s, ridley scott has returned to napoleonic france for his 28th movie, the epic napoleon. don t listen to advice, is that your advice? yes. you can only be your own critic. you can t say, what do you think? that s a disaster. i m the bbc s culture editor, katie razzall, and i sat down with the acclaimed director ahead of t
this is the first time actors were able to be in the cockpit and have actual visual effects in front of them on the screen so they can see themselves going into lightspeed and the lights from the space element reflecting off of the actors while they were playing those scenes was back in the day they would use green screen. it is really cool to watch and they had the millennium falcon on a gimbal that moved so they can feel themselves flying. is the movie great? it does work at times was the action is fantastic. i love donald glover and woody harrelson. the script has some issues, some very poorly dialogue scenes at
teamed up with a gentleman named stan friedman to take on an incredible case the defined both of their careers, shirley brown play the character accused of rape, kate hudson the accuser and essentially the story of trying to see if they can get him a not guilty verdict. an interesting story. the courtroom drama is incredible. i love a great courtroom film. i love being in a courtroom, the way the dialogue is delivered in these scenes, like watching an out they take dialogue scenes and make them feel like you are watching action. that is something the director does. it is a very well done story, an important film as well as i give it four five, i recommend seeing it. cool to see thurgood marshall early on in his career and the