Oliver Stone: Interviews by Charles L.P. Silet (.PDF)
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Oliver Stone: Interviews by Charles L.P. Silet
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Overview: Throughout his career Oliver Stone has broken traditions and challenged audiences with a series of daring, angry, violent and often confrontational films. Politically charged movies such as Wall Street (1987), JFK (1991), The Doors (1991), Natural Born Killers (1994,) Nixon (1995) and his Vietnam trilogy of Platoon (1986), Born on the 4th of July (1989) and Heaven and Earth (1993) provoke and enrage critics and audiences from all ideological walks. In a short time, Stone established himself as one of the most admired and most reviled directors in American cinema.
Ranging from 1981 to 1997, the fifteen conversations featured in Oliver Stone: Interviews reveal a man frustrated by what he sees as the hypocrisies of American politics, of conservatism and of the Hollywood film industry. But the conflicts and tensions these issues generate spellbind him.
In the interviews, Stone comes off as a man as brash, outspoken, confident and complicated as his movies. His obsessions, the 1960s, the ways in which Vietnam shaped the country, the nature of violence and the role of the media in shaping it, resurface again and again, no matter what film Stone is discussing.
Though the subjects of Born on the 4th of July, JFK, The Doors, Nixon and Heaven and Earth are rooted in the turbulent 1960s, Stone as interviewee and filmmaker is firmly entrenched in the present. He fiercely discusses how the attitudes and political effects of the 1960s have defined later decades and generations, as he talks about his satire of the stock market (Wall Street) and media exposure (Natural Born Killers). Bolts of the director’s raw wit and enthusiasm for the cinema shine through all of Stone’s ferocious rage.
Stone loves writing as well as directing. Whether discussing his screenplays written for other directors, which include Midnight Express (1978), Conan the Barbarian (1982) and Scarface (1983), or his own films, Stone emphasizes how crucial screenwriting is to making great movies.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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