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Topic: Director Tony Scott dead at 68
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Ross Oba
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 181
From: Kailua Kona, HI
Registered: Oct 2005
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posted 08-20-2012 01:45 AM
quote: British film director Tony Scott, known for such Hollywood blockbusters as "Top Gun," "Days of Thunder," "Beverly Hills Cop II" and "The Taking of Pelham 123," jumped to his death Sunday from the Vincent Thomas Bridge spanning San Pedro and Terminal Island, according to Los Angeles County coroner's officials.
Scott, 68, climbed a fence on the south side of the bridge's apex and leapt off "without hesitation" around 12:30 p.m., according to the Coroner's Department and port police.
A suicide note was found inside Scott's black Toyota Prius, which was parked on one of the eastbound lanes of the bridge, said U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Jennifer Osburn.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_21349685/breaking-man-who-jumped-from-vincent-thomas-bridge
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
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Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 08-20-2012 09:52 AM
I was channel surfing yesterday afternoon and saw that Unstoppable was playing on one of the Cinemax channels (I guess the Max channels had a free weekend preview). Later when seeing posts on Facebook about Tony Scott's death I thought it was a joke at first. Pretty shocking that someone with such a successful film career would end it all.
Obviously, none of us know what drove Tony Scott to take his own life. It must have been something that made going on unbearable, be it a very grim medical diagnosis, a personal life catastrophe or any number of other things.
One of my friends in high school killed himself. I didn't know he had serious problems with depression, which included one or more previous suicide attempts. That only came out after his suicide. A girl he had been seeing dumped him and that basically added a little too much to what was already a grim situation. I had a tough time dealing with it since I thought I knew this friend pretty well. He did a good job of hiding his pain.
Hopefully Tony Scott will be remembered most for his best films rather than how his life came to such a tragic end. I liked Top Gun, The Hunger, Crimson Tide and a number of his other movies. I did get pretty annoyed by some of his other efforts, such as Spy Game and Domino due to his over-zealous "style over substance" methods of filmmaking. Parts of Enemy of the State were a laugh riot due to some ridiculous stretches the story made with what could be done with electronic images and video (like being able to rotate some crappy video surveillance footage in 3D). Nevertheless, Tony Scott helped make a lot of money for studios in Hollywood. Just on that point alone I imagine more than a few key players in LA are mourning Scott's loss.
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