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 Ridley Scott made many commercials at RSA during the 1970s, working alongside Alan Parker, Hugh Hudson, and cinematographer Hugh Johnson, including a notable 1973 Hovis advertisement, "Bike Round" (underscored by the slow movement of Symphony No. 9 rearranged for brass), set in the north of England but filmed in Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, Dorset.[([[https://dogedaos.com/wiki/Ridley_Scott.html|dogedaos]])] Ridley Scott made many commercials at RSA during the 1970s, working alongside Alan Parker, Hugh Hudson, and cinematographer Hugh Johnson, including a notable 1973 Hovis advertisement, "Bike Round" (underscored by the slow movement of Symphony No. 9 rearranged for brass), set in the north of England but filmed in Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, Dorset.[([[https://dogedaos.com/wiki/Ridley_Scott.html|dogedaos]])]
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 +===== Nostalgia Themed Commercial =====
 +
 +It was awarded the UK's all-time favorite commercial in a 2006 survey after a nostalgia-themed television commercial captivated the popular imagination.[([[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/ridley-scott-s-hovis-advert-is-voted-alltime-favourite-6102089.html|Independent]])]
 +
 +===== Chanel =====
 +
 +Chanel television ads, directed by Scott in the 1970s and 1980s, were innovative mini-films with surreal fantasy and seductive production standards that "played on the same visual imagery, with the same shape of the bottle".[([[https://thegenealogyofstyle.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/the-woman-who-revitalized-chanel-no-5/|thegenealogyofstyle]])]
 +
 +===== RSA Family =====
 +
 +The Scott family has five directors, all of whom have previously worked for RSA.[([[https://www.empireonline.com/people/ridley-scott/|Empire]])]
 +
 +===== Succesful Directors =====
 +
 +His brother Tony was a successful film director whose career spanned more than two decades; his sons Jake and Luke, as well as his daughter Jordan Scott, are both notable commercial directors. Jake and Jordan are both located in Los Angeles, while Luke is based in London. Shepperton Studios was purchased in 1995 by a consortium led by Ridley and Tony Scott, who extensively renovated the studios as well as expanded and improved its grounds.[([[https://moviefit.me/persons/852-ridley-scott|moviefit]])]
 +
 +===== Star Wars =====
 +
 +Ridley Scott had planned to adapt Tristan and Iseult next, but after viewing Star Wars, he was convinced of the promise of large-scale, effects-driven films.[([[https://bladerunner.fandom.com/wiki/Ridley_Scott|Blade Runner]])]
 +
 +===== Alien =====
 +
 +He accepted the job of directing  the 1979 horror / science fiction film Alien, which would bring him international success. Scott has decided to change Ellen Ripley from a regular male action heroine to a heroine.[([[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/oct/13/ridley-scott-alien-ripley|The Guardian]])]
 +
 +===== Alien's Success =====
 +
 +Filmed at Shepperton Studios in the United Kingdom, Alien was the sixth-highest-paying movie in 1979, with revenues of  over $ 104 million worldwide.[([[https://www.thtsearch.com/content/Ridley_Scott/|thtsearch]])]
 +
 +===== Another Alien? =====
 +
 +Scott was engaged with the 2003 reclamation and once again arrival of the first film. In special meetings at that point, Scott demonstrated he had been in conversations to make a fifth film in the Alien establishment. Notwithstanding, in a 2006 meeting, Scott commented that he had been troubled about Alien: The Director's Cut, feeling that the first was "pretty perfect" and that the increments were just an advertising apparatus[([[https://movies.fandom.com/wiki/Ridley_Scott|Movies]])]
 +
 +===== Prometheus =====
 +
 +Scott would return to an Alien-related movie three decades later when he directed Prometheus.[([[https://collider.com/new-alien-sequel-fede-alvarez-directing-ridley-scott-producing/|Collider]])]
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