He was a film fan, and when he returned Stateside a friend suggested the NYU Film School and he was like: you can get a degree watching movies? 352.) I have read just about all there is to read on his work and life including his scripts and interviews. What Oliver Stone has written will last, because I have never seen anything like his insights into the way the film industry works.."-Werner Herzog "Oliver Stone is a 330 pp. Stones screenplay for Midnight Express won him a Golden Globe and an Oscar, which made him a commodity in demand. However, he made errors in judgment with Seizure and The Hand, and he also had a devil in my closet, cocaine, which he later kicked. He was at that point that all young men have to go through, when they kill their father and become their own man, just like that moment in The Doors song The End (Stone would go on to make The Doors film, and he references Jim Morrison a lot in the book). Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club thats right for you for free. There are plenty of great moments documented along the way, such as the story about how Stones Golden Globes acceptance speech opposing incarceration of low-level drug offenders was received. Stone rattles cages. adapted by What hes given us here, though, feels neither truncated nor incomplete. I had no idea he was half French and his parents met in Paris during WWII. Ultimately, the content that Stone creates, in the form of film directing and producing, is subjective, as all art is. Id achieved nothing. $28. I understand that this consent is not a condition of enrollment or purchase. Its all interesting. CHASING THE LIGHT WRITING, DIRECTING, AND SURVIVING PLATOON, MIDNIGHT EXPRESS, SCARFACE, SALVADOR, AND THE MOVIE GAME by Oliver Stone RELEASE DATE: July 21, 2020 The celebrated and controversial filmmaker chronicles his journey from the bottom back to the top of the Hollywood mountain. Reality becomes loneliness. Some critics accuse him of promoting unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, and of misrepresenting real-world events and figures in his works. How do you die like this? Stone's candid, sensitive observations are supremely funny--as they are probing of his own insecurities, blowhard behavior, drug use and the colossal mistakes made during his early years as a screenwriter. Categories: Emblematically arranged into three sectionsCaged, Keys, Freedomthe narrative offers, among other elements, vignettes about the soulful authors girlhood, when she was bulimic and felt like a zoo animal, a caged girl made for wide-open skies. 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