To give ourselves a chance, that's all good of a while.

To give ourselves a chance.

Hello friends, I'm Will Mennaker and welcome to the inaugural episode of my new podcast

that I'll be doing with my fellow movie Sikko Hesadeni.

Hello.

To crisp this voyage into movies, we've selected for our first episode two films that highlight

one of the most powerful partnerships between a director and a leading man of our times.

Today we're talking about Tony Scott and Denzel Washington and two of their collaborations,

Deja Vu from 2007 and Man on Fire from 2004.

The ultimate otter of the action thriller meets the ultimate American leading man.

Now Tony Scott is often talked about in connection to his older brother Ridley.

In the past he's been considered the more sensationalistic, less mature version of his older brother.

But for our purposes, Tony's films stand on their own and we don't need to engage in the canned debate about which brother is better.

Tony!

Indeed, critical consensus on Tony Scott has evolved beyond the shadow of Ridley and certainly since his death in 2012,

people rightly have come around to regarding him as one of the true otters of big Hollywood action entertainment.

Unfortunately, any discussion of his body of work is bittersweet and colored by his suicide and the question of just how much more he could have done.

On a personal note, I've visited Tony Scott's grave at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles several times.

His grave stone is a remarkable slab of marble that on its rough, uncut plane features a sculpted figure of a mountain climber

scaling the face of an enormous cliff with just one rope tethering him to his ascent.

It's a striking memorial that also features on the smooth side chiseled into the slab of marble itself a full list of his directing credits.

Beginning with one of if not the first sexy modern vampire movie, The Hunger in 1983.

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