“Man on Fire” is a masterpiece that combines a love story and a revenge drama through the heroic life of the main character and the various productions of a master craftsman.

Intuitive casting brought about by chance reunion

``Man on Fire'' is based on the original story written by A.J. Quinnell in 1980. In the 1980s, when Tony Scott was approached with the idea of ​​adapting this original novel into a film, he seriously considered the idea, but for some reason the idea fell through. ), this work truly became a ``phantom director's work.'' After that, he received an offer to star in `` Top Gun '' (1986), which led to his big break.

20 years later. When Scott received another offer from the same producer asking if he would like to try it, he immediately replied, ``Of course I'd do it.''

A few days The Day After, when Scott was at a clinic to get acupuncture treatment for an old injury, Denzel Washington happened to show up for treatment, and the two had a long talk for the first time since `` Crimson Tide .'' From then on, the idea that Scott had already begun to ponder was, ``What kind of movie would it be if Denzel starred in it?'' At the same time, the name of Dakota Fanning, who was attracting attention as a genius child actor, came to mind as the partner. I had a hunch that casting the two of them would create a strange love story.

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To borrow the words from the DVD audio commentary, when Tony Scott is asked about casting, he always gives the same answer: ``Painters judge everything by intuition. That kind of painter's intuition produces the best results.'' .

This "painter" is a very important point in understanding him. Originally aspiring to be a painter, he eventually made a name for himself as a director of commercial films and eventually became a film director. These are probably not different professions or different possibilities, but extremely consistent paths that can be declared as ``connected paths'' within him.

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