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Analysis: Ridley Scott's film "Kingdom of Heaven" is criticized for being historically inaccurate and offensive to both Muslims and Christians
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MELISSA BLOCK
All Things Considered (NPR)
05-06-2005
Analysis: Ridley Scott's film "Kingdom of Heaven" is criticized for being historically inaccurate and offensive to both Muslims and Christians
Host: MELISSA BLOCK
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
MELISSA BLOCK, host:
Director Ridley Scott has brought some memorable films to the screen, including "Blade Runner" and "Gladiator." In his latest movie, "Kingdom of Heaven," Scott takes on a topic that has a special resonance in today's world, the Crusades. "Kingdom of Heaven" opens today and, as NPR's Lynn Neary reports, it's already been criticized for ...
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Analysis: Ridley Scott's film "Kingdom of Heaven" is criticized for being historically inaccurate and offensive to both Muslims and Christians
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; ...05-06-2005 Analysis: Ridley Scott's film "Kingdom of Heaven...BLOCK, host: Director Ridley Scott has brought some memorable...Soundbite of "The Crusades") Unidentified Man #1: How much will you...Christian (unintelligible)? Unidentified Man #2: Forty dinars. ...
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DATING RIDLEY SCOTT
Magazine article from: Metro : Media & Education Magazine
; ...confess I am deeply infatuated with Ridley Scott at the moment. If I were writing this...Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) in Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979), seriously the greatest kick...would be because of Thelma and Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991), but now it's the man himself...
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The dream team, Crowe, DiCaprio and Ridley Scott.(Entertainment)(Movie review)
Newspaper article from: Pretoria News (South Africa)
; ...Theresa Smith Body of Lies DIRECTOR: Ridley Scott CAST: Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe...RUNNING TIME: 126 minutes RATING: HHHII Ridley Scott wraps up how spies manipulate information...save the world from itself. Director Ridley Scott's distinctive multiple camera set-up...
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Ridley Scott in the running
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times
; New Straits Times 02-04-2002 Ridley Scott in the running Edition: The City Advertiser; 2* Section: Entertainment RIDLEY Scott, an Englishman who has become one of the most influential directors in Hollywood, has been nominated by the Directors...
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Cage set for Ridley Scott film.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England)
; ...Cage is being lined up to appear in a new movie directed by Ridley Scott. The 64-year-old director, whose films include Black Hawk...said: Work on the project is due to begin in the summer. Ridley Scott has had a few months off because he had to work so hard to...
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NEW YEAR HONOURS: SIR ALIEN; Sci-fi movie master Ridley Scott is 'humbled' by award.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England)
; Byline: STEPHEN WHITE and BRIAN ROBERTS RIDLEY SCOTT DIRECTOR, KNIGHTHOODFILM director Ridley Scott, the creative force behind Alien, Blade Runner and Gladiator...Thelma and Louise; 2000: Gladiator with Russell Crowe; CREATIVE: Ridley Scott
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ALAN BATES, RIDLEY SCOTT KNIGHTED BY THE QUEEN.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
; ...good knight for the movies. Actor Alan Bates and director Ridley Scott received knighthoods today in a New Year's list honoring...services to film-making. As a knight, he will be known as Sir Ridley Scott. Bates, 68, burst onto the London stage in Look Back in Anger...
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Ridley Scott casts a boy, 11, in new film.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...guidance of award-winning director Sir Ridley Scott, whose latest film Tristan and Isolde...forthcoming film of Thunderbirds. Sir Ridley Scott, who has directed or produced films...Gladiator) when he is directed by Sir Ridley Scott (below)
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Hollywood on Crusade; With His Historical Epic, Ridley Scott Hurtles Into Vexing, Volatile Territory
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...themselves into the breach. Swords slash. Blood gushes. Sir Ridley Scott has invaded the Middle East. Can this be a good thing for...history -- and the bloody 12th century meets the bloody 21st. Ridley Scott's original idea wasn't to make a controversial Crusades film...
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Men at arms First he predicted our dark and soulless future in 'Alien' and 'Blade Runner'. Then he opened our eyes to a new, softer kind of man and a harder kind of woman. Now Ridley Scott has turned his attention to the Middle East with a film set during the Crusades. But if his work has always been prophetic, says Mark Simpson, what is he trying to tell us this time?
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; ...everyone else). But the British director Ridley Scott, whose new Crusades epic The Kingdom...terrifying things about our future, Ridley Scott's first blockbuster Alien (1979) seems...none of us has actually escaped. And Ridley Scott, who was born in 1937 and grew up in...
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