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Article: The man behind the strong women; 20 years of Scott's work Here are the films directed by Ridley Scott: "The Duellists" (1977) "Alien" (1979) "Blade Runner" (1982) "Legend" (1985) "Someone to Watch Over Me" (1987) "Black Rain" (1989) "Thelma and Louise" (1991) "1492: Conquest of Paradise" (1992) "White Squall" (1996) "G.I. Jane" (1997)
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 24, 1997
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Behind some of cinema's most vivid and heroic women characters in
recent years is a British director with a gray bristle of beard on
his chin and a Cuban cigar in his mouth.
He launched Sigourney Weaver's Ripley on the first of her battles
against rapacious aliens and later set Thelma and Louise loose on
their journey of female rebellion.
In "G.I. Jane," which opened Friday, he's unleashed a heavily
muscled, shaven-headed, gutter-talking Demi Moore on the most male of
preserves, the SEALS, the Navy's special-forces unit.
So earlier this month in Washington, where a retrospective of his
films was shown at the Kennedy Center by the American Film Institute,
Ridley Scott willingly accepted ...