Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game - Hardcover
Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
Author: Stone, Oliver
Publication Date: 07/21/2020
Format: Hardcover
An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspokenĀ Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his complicated New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films asĀ Platoon,Ā Midnight Express, andĀ Scarface.
Before the international success ofĀ PlatoonĀ in 1986, Oliver Stone had been wounded as an infantryman in Vietnam, and spent years writing unproduced scripts whileĀ driving taxis in New York, finally venturing westward to Los Angeles and a new life. Stone, now 73, recounts those formative years with in-the-moment details of the high and low moments: We see meetings with Al Pacino over Stoneās scripts forĀ Scarface,Ā Platoon, andĀ Born on the Fourth of July; the harrowing demon of cocaine addiction following the failure of his first feature,Ā The HandĀ (starring Michael Caine); his risky on-the-ground research of Miami drug cartels forĀ Scarface; his stormy relationship withĀ The Deer HunterĀ director Michael Cimino; the breathless hustles to finance the acclaimed and divisiveĀ Salvador;Ā and tensions behind the scenes of his first Academy Awardāwinning film,Ā Midnight Express.
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Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
Author: Stone, Oliver
Publication Date: 07/21/2020
Format: Hardcover
An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspokenĀ Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his complicated New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films asĀ Platoon,Ā Midnight Express, andĀ Scarface.
Before the international success ofĀ PlatoonĀ in 1986, Oliver Stone had been wounded as an infantryman in Vietnam, and spent years writing unproduced scripts whileĀ driving taxis in New York, finally venturing westward to Los Angeles and a new life. Stone, now 73, recounts those formative years with in-the-moment details of the high and low moments: We see meetings with Al Pacino over Stoneās scripts forĀ Scarface,Ā Platoon, andĀ Born on the Fourth of July; the harrowing demon of cocaine addiction following the failure of his first feature,Ā The HandĀ (starring Michael Caine); his risky on-the-ground research of Miami drug cartels forĀ Scarface; his stormy relationship withĀ The Deer HunterĀ director Michael Cimino; the breathless hustles to finance the acclaimed and divisiveĀ Salvador;Ā and tensions behind the scenes of his first Academy Awardāwinning film,Ā Midnight Express.
