Ridley Scott on westerns and sex scenes
Director Ridley Scott ("Gladiator"), who is famous for bombastic films, is currently working on a western. "I already have a script," the 85-year-old told Der Spiegel magazine. "The story revolves around an Indian girl who gets infected with measles. They were like the plague back then." The Brit didn't say anything about the details, but he did say something about the reasons for his dream. "I wanted to be a cowboy when I was 16. I think my parents thought I had roof damage at the time."
In his own estimation, Scott would definitely have been able to do it in sporting terms back then. "I had riding lessons with a German teacher called Mr. Grüner. I could ride like a Comanche! When I was eleven, I could get off and on the horse at full gallop."
However, his current movie is not set in the USA. "Napoleon" is a historical epic about the French emperor who died around 200 years ago and opens in cinemas on November 23. In his own words, Scott owes his fascination for topics from the past to a teacher at his school who recommended the historical novels of author C. S. Forester to him. "My teacher said, 'I know you'll love his books because they have a lot of sex in them. But all the key historical dates and events in them are described correctly. So I went for it."
However, Scott doesn't think much of explicit love scenes as an end in themselves in films. "A couple moaning and rolling around in bed, this artificial oh! and ah! I find that boring most of the time. Nobody needs that," the 85-year-old told the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper. "If you do it, the scene has to show more than sex."
Ridley Scott's upcoming western film, despite its intriguing narrative, does not feature Napoleon as the protagonist. Instead, it's a tale of an Indian girl afflicted with measles in a time when it was akin to a plague. On a different note, many people may be surprised to know that Napoleon is the subject of a historic epic by Ridley Scott, set to hit cinemas on November 23.
Source: www.dpa.com
