Scott, Ridley

The tone of hyperdrama has to embrace both the ritualistic and the fantastic—the opposite of realism. Even the poetic tone of the Western is insufficient to capture the tone in hyperdrama. Hyperdrama is a form that simulates the children s fairy tale, and as such it has to be filled with an excess (without the pejorative connotations of the word) that embraces the fantastic. "Operatic" is a description that comes to mind "florid" is another. The key is essentially an over-the-top tone that allows a story to seem plausible in which anything goes. Ridley Scott s Legend is a good example of this "anything goes" tone, and so are Boorman s Excalibur, Schlondorff s The Tin Drum, and Frankenheimer s Seconds. 

Scott, W. M., Ridley, R. G. Computer techniques at the mass spectrometry data centre. In The applications of computer techniques in chemical research (ed. P. Hepple). Inst. Petrol. 1972, 148—154. 

The Adare Peninsula was first visited by Carsten Borchgrevink and his men who wintered over in two huts on Ridley Beach (Section 1.3). In 1911/12 the huts were used again by Scott(s Northern Party led by Victor Campbell (Section 1.4.3). The remains of these huts still stand on Ridley Beach (McIntosh and Kyle 1990b). Descriptions of the geology of the Adare Peninsula and of the petrology of the volcanic rocks were published by Harrington et al. (1967), Hamilton (1967,1972), Jordan (1981), and by LeMasuiier et al. (1983). 

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