Yeah. But you can tell the failures of Blade Runner and Legend took the auteur out of him. His stuff after is much more commercial, and though there's ones I enjoy afterwards (Gladiator and The Martian aren't the most intelligent films, but they're fun to watch), I don't think he's really doing movies that only Ridley could have done again. You could reasonably swap him for a number of other directors on most of those later ones.
That's really fascinating! And what's interesting, to me, is how I don't think I have many traditional male friendships but maybe that's why I find this so fascinating. Like, I love watching my brother in law and his buddies be idiots, but from a safe distance! heh heh.
Yeah, Gladiator and Martian are definitely fun to watch, and I was a big fan of Black Hawk Down. Sometimes I felt like he may have been trying to channel his brother though.
Oh yeah, I think a lot of his filmography since Tony died has been in conversation with Tony's films as much as anything else. I don't know if Ridley would agree, but it certainly feels that way to me.
