{"id":2910,"date":"2012-08-22T21:03:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T09:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2012-08-23T07:44:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T19:44:51","slug":"tony-scott-1991-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/tony-scott-1991-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Scott, 1991-1995"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/0\/0d\/Last_boy_scout.jpg\" title=\"The Last Boy Scout (1991)\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"295\" height=\"442\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I heard that director <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tony_Scott\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Scott<\/a> took his life, I paused more than I expected.  I&#8217;d long written off his films as overcooked excuses in directorial excess <b>but<\/b>&#8230; there was something about his oeuvre that nagged at me, something I suspect I didn&#8217;t want to acknowledge.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/d\/d6\/True_romance.jpg\" title=\"True Romance (1993)\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"296\" height=\"457\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then I read <b>Dominic Corry<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/entertainment\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&#038;objectid=10828618\" target=\"_blank\">love post<\/a> in the <i>New Zealand Herald<\/i> and I realised the mark Scott had left on me as a filmgoer.  Despite inflicting <i>Days of Thunder<\/i>, <i>Deja Vu<\/i>, etc, on the world, between 1991 and 1995, he defined action films with muscle <i>and<\/i> panache with three films:  doing justice to <b>Shane Black<\/b>&#8216;s multimillion dollar script with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Last_Boy_Scout\" target=\"_blank\">The Last Boy Scout<\/a>, showing a deft restraint with <b>Quentin Tarantino<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/True_Romance\" target=\"_blank\">True Romance<\/a>, and showing a hitherto unknown knack for intelligent, buttock-clenching tension  with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crimson_Tide_(film)\" target=\"_blank\">Crimson Tide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/f\/ff\/Crimson_tide_movie_poster.jpg\" title=\"Crimson Tide (1995)\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"296\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Those films are among my touchstones.<\/p>\n<p>And for that, I&#8217;m grateful to Mr Scott.<\/p>\n<p>Travel safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I heard that director Tony Scott took his life, I paused more than I expected. I&#8217;d long written off his films as overcooked excuses in directorial excess but&#8230; there was something about his oeuvre that nagged at me, something I suspect I didn&#8217;t want to acknowledge. Then I read Dominic Corry&#8216;s love post in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/tony-scott-1991-1995\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tony Scott, 1991-1995&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[597,599,600,593,594,598,592,596],"class_list":["post-2910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-crimson-tide","tag-days-of-thunder","tag-deja-vu","tag-dominic-corry","tag-new-zealand-herald","tag-the-last-boy-scout","tag-tony-scott","tag-true-romance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}