When I have issues with historians, I ask: ‘Excuse me, mate, were you there? No? Well, shut the fuck up then.

the soyjak "i studied this for my entire career"

vs. the chad "did you see the big bang? didn't think so"

“When I have issues with historians, I ask: ‘Excuse me, mate, were you there? No? Well, shut the fuck up then.’”

Ridley Scott talks like a Redditor.

Also we fucking have so many personal accounts of the guy. Everyone who shook his hand wrote a memoir about it

From another of his recent interviews

‘I think we’ve been monitored for years!’ roars Scott. ‘How did the Egyptians build the pyramids? Rolling 20-tonne stones on logs? F*** off!’

‘We’ve got to step on this shit now, and move forward with incredibly tight constraints. If I design an AI, then tell it to design another one even smarter, what’s next? It could close down England, the internet, [drop] a hydrogen bomb. The compound interest is scary.’

The Duellists is up there with Barry Lyndon as one of the all time historical movies. I love the scene where the two characters meet during the retreat out of Russia and they can’t even be fucked duelling because of how miserable the situation is. And the last duel, where the old legionaries turn up wearing their hats and uniforms and seem like some relic from the distant past. I think a lot of film directors are like rock stars, once they lose the hunger and are just doing their job rather than creating art their work really suffers.