Why Did Tony Scott Kill Himself?

by NowPublic Staff | August 20, 2012 at 09:17 am
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Tony Scott Suicide: Brain Cancer Diagnosis?

Acclaimed director Tony Scott jumped to his death from the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro, California on August 19, 2012. Tony Scott left suicide notes in his car and office, but the content of those notes has not been made public.

However, a likely reason for Tony Scott's suicide has emerged: According to Sky News, Tony Scott had been diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. [Update: Tony Scott's wife said that the director was not diagnosed with brain cancer, or any other serious illness.]

Tony Scott brought us such memorable films as:

  • True Romance
  • Beverly Hills Cop
  • Top Gun
  • Unstoppable
  • Days of Thunder
  • Man on Fire

As a producer, Tony Scott had nine TV and film projects in various stages of production at the time of his death.

The note left in Tony Scott's car was apparently a list of people to contact after his death, while the note in his office was more detailed.

Director Ridley Scott  flew to Los Angeles after learning of his brother's suicide.

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Tony Scott at 2010 BAFTA Britannia Awards

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Hollie

Illness or not, his children are without their father now, to loose him like thins jumping off a bridge is even more devastating that  dying from an illness, people still suffers but at lest they get a little time to prepare themselves.Mr. Scott was an amazing director and his memory will live thru his family and incredible movies.Found a little bio on Tony's Wife Donna with pics and all here  fandaily.info/?p=30573.

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Scrivener

THIS JUST IN...  'ENEMY OF THE STATE' FILM DIRECTOR TONY SCOTT DID NOT HAVE BRAIN CANCER: FAMILY

The disinformationists again capture the news cycle to spread lies -- WHY?

http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/tony-scott-did-not-have-brain-cancer 

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Scrivener

MORE LIKELY THAT HE WAS SUICIDED IN A PROLONGED SLOW-KILL ELECTROMAGNETIC ATTACK

The goon squad had to knock the director Tony Scott alleged suicide out of the top entertainment story slot today, so they zapped Phyllis Diller? Am I getting warm, psyops agents? Or does that just happen in the movies? 

Tony Scott directed one of the most important Hollywood movies of modern times, "Enemy of the State" (1998), a movie that presciently warned of the civil liberties abuses of the post- 9/11 era -- and even offered a prescient harbinger of the significance of that date, the birth date of one of the film's chief government villains. They are calling Scott's death a "suicide." I would venture to say it's just as likely that he was SUICIDED. 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120660/
http://viclivingston.blogspot.com/2011/12/u.html 

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Scrivener

BTW:  This "story" reeks of planted military contractor psyops neurolinguistic programming. The headline declares the cause of death even before the coroner's report has been issued.  The "author" goes with the presumption of inoperative brain cancer before the autopsy report.  And then, at midday on the East Coast, legendary comedianne Phyllis Diller is found dead in her bed, reportedly with a "smile on her face," according to her son.  So now the supposed suicide of the director of "Enemy of the State," the movie that foreshadowed the Nazification of America, is knocked off the top of the entertainment story rundown list.

Mission accomplished?

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Katie Yost

I don't think this is anything more than a suicide. I don't give crazy conspiracy theories much thought.

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john minati

That's why the government loves people like you.  Keep your eyes closed, your mouth shut and you will have  a normal life.

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batvette

Typical delusional thinking of the average conspiracy theorist, the views of those who you disagree with are driven by their ignorance or indifference to the evils of the world. Only you can see the man behind the curtain and have the courage to reveal it, right? 

Scrivener as usual takes conspiracy theory to a level of parody, positing Phyllis Diller's death was premature or unusual and due to "zapping", to distract from the supposed death of another entertainment industry figure. 

Using the deaths of celebrities to forward an agenda like this is in very poor taste, if some obvious evidence was reported that would be appropriate but nothing of the sort was heard. The end result is those with intelligence and decorum turn an ever more deaf ear to your agenda. 

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Berlinda

Sadly to hear that the loss of hope would direct a person to take his own life or a someone else's life.  When the answer is to seek Jesus Christ instead, because he is the only one that can give true hope.  His family will need our prayers. 

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batvette

Well that's all religion is is hope, which man does need to get him through his day. However all indications to me are that religion is simply a tool used by men to oppress and control other men, and it's likely to be a false hope and restrain humanity from its true potential. 


The philosophy of prayer is good enough on paper, groups of people getting together and channeling their energies of positive thought. However it's accompanied by the concept God involves himself in petty matters of our individual destinies, and this leads me to conclude if that is the case God can just go to hell for all the misery he allows and creates for us, let alone allows man to perpetrate in his name. 

Thus the rational mind concludes religion and everything other men tell us about God, is nonsense, but this has no bearing on the existence of God. If you find hope believing in Jesus Christ, good for you, I wouldn't discourage that until it gets to the point where you might tell me what he wants of me. 

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Rod T

I think the most relevant movie he ever made was '' Man on Fire''  .  Great director and producer .  Lets not pretend to understand what he can or can not deal with.  His brain cancer may have had something to do with his thinking process .  Lets not be judgmental .  He and his family are the only one that have dealt with this .   I don't think it was a huge surprise to his brother . I had no idea he was ill with brain cancer but the second I heard he killed himself , the first thought that came to my mind was that he must of been terminally ill? Some people like to go out on their own terms and since he is not a relious man I respect that he didn't all of a sudden start trying to find God once he knew he was dying since he had never tried before .  Sad for him but at least he was not a phoney

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San Pedro Citizen

I don't think it was a suicide.  That is not the way anyone would do it.  I live near that bridge.  And Tony lived far away.  Everything about this is suspicious. 

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Scrivener

My thoughts exactly.  The goons may have given Tony Scott a send-off worthy of the plotlines of "Enemy of the State."  They do seem to enjoy turning tables on their targets -- live by psyops, die by psyops, one might say.  THESE ARE THE TRUE AMERICAN DOMESTIC TERRORISTS, AN ALPHABET SOUP OF EVIL, N'eSt pAs?

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Gipper

He found out that his wife cheated on him and he felt humiliated. She had no remorse.

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Hmmmmm.....
  • "Typical delusional thinking of the average conspiracy theorist, the views of those who you disagree with are driven by their ignorance or indifference to the evils of the world. Only you can see the man behind the curtain and have the courage to reveal it, right?"      -batvette in an earlier comment
  • www.nowpublic.com/world/gangstalking-perps-action-empowerment-and-adventure     (The following statements are batvette's.  I have highlighted certain portions for emphasis.   Do you still stand by the following, batvette?  If not, what has changed?)
  •  Batvette's comment to his video:
  • As for my state of mind, I'm quite lucid and there are a lot more things going on than this- and without getting into unnecessary details I can think of several things that some fundies or dudley-do-rights would look at and want me out of their world.
  • I get the brighting by vehicles in that parking lot you can see in the video, it's quite obvious, and we have snitches all over our neighborhood. One sunday morning a few months back, I get three different guys in about 15 minutes, walk by and give me the eye while I'm under the hood of my truck on the street. All three, when they pass by the front window of this bully type exfirefighter down the block, come to a dead stop, look toward his window, yawn, then stretch their arms above their head in this really forced, comical motion.
  • While we've all gone back to our lives after 9/11, the government created programs that were a lot like the Stasi- and ideologues joined up and targeted anyone doing something that they don't like. This ACLU report covers it all:
  • www.aclu.org/FilesPDFs/surveillance_report.pdf
  • It's 47 pages which may seem like a lot just to hear my story, but consider it your story too and anyone else reading this because it's really shocking what they are doing across the country.
  • More:
  • www.gangstalkingworld.com/Resources.html
  • We're all sleepwalking right into the abyss of Stasi-land. You know in 2003, the DEA, fearing they were about to be on the losing end of the funding going to fight terrorism, issued a big report drawing tenuous links between recreational drug use by Americans- pot, coke, anything- and the funding of terrorists overseas. Since then the line between the war on drugs and the war on terrorism has been blurred and crossed in many ways but it comes down to this: if you have a neighbor who's in the snitch patrols, and he sees a bong on your coffee table, or smells a pungent aroma wafting from your windows, and decides three friends coming over on friday night and a couple more during the week is "traffic"- you are an enemy of the state.  A threat to the homeland.
  • In 1995 the Council on Foreign Relations, the think tank who many believe is the "star chamber" that runs America- purportedly issued a report which justified and proposed a plan to torture and otherwise harass with directed energy weapons, people suspected of being involved with terrorism, drug traffickers, and drug users, in American cities. I haven't seen that report, I'd like to if it's out there.
  • End of batvette's remarks
  • Will the real batvette please stand up???
  •  ("Keep your eyes closed, your mouth shut and you will have  a normal life."  -john minati    Yep.)
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kotek soska

He committed suicide after finding out about his wife relentless and remorseless infidelity. She humiliated him.

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Odious Murch

Tony Scott directed Beverly Hills Cop II, not Beverly Hills Cop.

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Sam Costa

Wasn't he an Adrenaline Junkie? Maybe he was depressed. That jump was his final high.

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