Tony Scott, director behind some of the most iconic and commercially successful films of the ’80s and ’90s, died yesterday in Los Angeles. He was seen by witnesses jumping off the Vincent Thomas Bridge, with a note left behind, an apparent suicide. His body was found, deceased, by the Los Angeles Port Authority. Scott was 68 years old.
For the last three decades, the UK-born Scott has been one of Hollywood’s most reliable directors of action blockbusters. He had his biggest stretch of success from the late ’80s to the early ’90s, helming such smashes as Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II and Crimson Tide, as well as cult favorites The Last Boy Scout and True Romance. He remained bankable through the 21st century, striking up a professional partnership with star actor Denzel Washington, who starred in four of Scott’s later movies, including the recent remaking of The Taking of Pelham 123, and 2010′s Unstoppable.
Scott’s early movies were notable for their adaption of MTV-style fast-paced editing and music video-like montages, most notably in 1986′s Top Gun, the soundtrack for which featured such megahits as Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away” and Kenny Loggins’ “Danger Zone”—Scott even directing the action-packed music video for the latter. Scott didn’t direct many other videos in his time, though he did also film the memorable clip for George Michael’s “One More Try,” striking in its laconic pace and lack of rapid-fire editing (with some shots lingering for entire minutes), a noted contrast to Scott’s feature-film style.
Check out Scott’s two music videos below, both big MTV hits, and be sure to flip around your deluxe cable package for a Tony Scott movie tonight—at least one of The Last Boy Scout, Enemy of the State or Deja Vu is guaranteed to be playing somewhere.
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