{"id":15384,"date":"2013-07-18T00:38:30","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T23:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=15384"},"modified":"2013-07-18T00:38:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T23:38:30","slug":"ridley-scott-omnibus-bbc-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2013\/07\/18\/ridley-scott-omnibus-bbc-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridley Scott Omnibus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Ridley-Scott-on-Omnibus-in-1992.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15385\" alt=\"Ridley Scott on Omnibus in 1992\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Ridley-Scott-on-Omnibus-in-1992.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000631\/?ref_=tt_cl_t15\">Ridley Scott<\/a> was the subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Omnibus_(UK_TV_series)\">BBC arts programme Omnibus<\/a> in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0435250\/\">Eye of the Storm<\/a>, it was first shown on UK television around the release of 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992).<\/p>\n<p>Although there is a certain irony that Scott&#8217;s career suffered a dip soon after (until his renaissance with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gladiator_(2000_film)\">Gladiator<\/a> in 2000), it is a solid profile filled with various collaborators, including David Carradine, Sigourney Weaver, Mimi Rogers, Michael Douglas and his two sons Jake and Luke.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BBjdLQU2Sso\" height=\"420\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Amongst the things discussed are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">His first short film\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boy_and_Bicycle\">Boy <\/a><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boy_and_Bicycle\">and Bicycle<\/a> (1962)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">BBC years<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The Advertising Years (including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nHP4W1GuXts\">the Michelob ads<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visual-memory.co.uk\/amk\/doc\/0077.html\">Stanley Kubrick loved<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6Mq59ykPnAE\">famous Hovis commercials<\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The Duellists (1977)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Alien (1979)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Blade Runner (1982)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=axSnW-ygU5g\">The Famous Apple Commercial<\/a> (1983)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Someone to Watch Over Me (1987)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Black Rain (1989)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Thelma and Louise (1991)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ridley_Scott\">More on Ridley Scott at Wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/11\/03\/ridley-scott-searchlab-lecture\/\">Sundance Labs interview with Ridley Scott from 2002<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video of the BBC Omnibus profile of Ridley Scott that first aired in 1992.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[413,16],"tags":[417],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}