Ridley Scott: A Genius of Visual Worlds. From Alien to The Martian

Ridley Scott is a man of great contradictions. He studied with Francis Bacon and paints in oil to relax. He prefers the company of NASA scientists or medieval historians among the crème of Hollywood society. He creates thrilling, spectacular blockbusters in which he discusses the existence of God and the next directions of human development.

Scott always fights for his vision of the world on screen. His films—“Alien,” “Blade Runner,” “Gladiator,” “Hannibal,” “The Martian,” and many others—draw the boundaries between the fantastic and the real: crossing new continents and planets; overcoming the line between legal and criminal, living and artificial, religious and scientific, inner and outer. The director is convinced that if you only dare a little—or even force the audience to flinch—attention from viewers will follow. And for his long career, he has almost never been wrong.

This book is a unique chronicle of the director’s creative life, telling his path from his first commercials to “The Martian.”

The book is narrated with the help of artificial intelligence.