SCOTT: Oh, yeah, how about every f-вЂ“g time? And IвЂ™ve stewed about films later even more because when you tell the same joke 20 times the jokeвЂ™s no longer funny. And thereвЂ™s nothing worse than a preview to diminish the original intent.ДEADLINE: That happens more often than not IвЂ™d guessвЂ¦ Frequently, films get cut down because of that curse in which the studio felt or feels that they have to preview. SCOTT: It was great, yeah.В The great thing about these platforms now is that, one way or another, theyвЂ™ll seek out and then put out the best possible form and the long form. War between two men, in that case, who fight on thought they both eventually canвЂ™t remember the reason why.ДEADLINE: That sounds like quite a pleasant surprise, like getting a valentine from your past. I was really f-вЂ“g pleased with what it was and how the engine still worked within the equation and that engine was the insanity and stupidity of war. So, while I rarely look up my old stuff, I stopped to give it 10 minutes.

I came across The Duellists on Netflix and I was absolutely stunned to see that it was exquisitely graded. Ironically, I was checking through stuff the other day for technical reasons. I always remember that at the end of it, even the victor is going to find that thereвЂ™s some fallout. SCOTT: No, I do think the stupidity of war still stays the same. Have you found that the essence of war itself is unchanging over centuries? Or is its nature more elusive than that? Jane, Kingdom of Heaven, and, of course, Black Hawk Down. Scott was involved directly (and he signed off on the new remastering from the original camera negative) and on a recent Saturday he talked about revisiting the complicated legacy of the film and the 25th anniversary of the military raid that was originally called OperationВ Gothic Serpent but is better remembered as the Battle of Mogadishu.ДEADLINE: You depictedВ soldiers in battle since your very first feature film, TheВ Duellists back in 1977, and youвЂ™ve circled back again and again to war and military characters of different eras with Gladiator, Robin Hood, G.I. Sony Home Entertainment last week released the first 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray edition of Black Hawk DownВ and bundled it in an impressively expansive retrospective package. In the movie, the American troops were portrayed by a deep cast that was crowded with young talent on the rise: Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Eric Bana, Jason Isaacs, Orlando Bloom, Sam Shepard, Ty Burrell, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Tom Sizemore, Ewen Bremner, Ioan Gruffudd, Jeremy Piven, Hugh Dancy, and, making his feature-film debut, Tom Hardy.

UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters in Mogadishu and the protracted efforts to rescue their crewmen вЂ“ efforts that escalated into the most intense close combat involving U.S. The filmВ was based on Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern WarВ (Signet Books), the 1999 non-fiction bestseller by journalist Mark BowdenВ thatВ detailed the infamous downing of two U.S. 11 heightened the stakes for Black Hawk Down, there had never been anything meek about the project. Ridley Scott To Be Honored With Cinema Audio Society's Filmmaker Award

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