Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game - Softcover

Stone, Oliver

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0358394201 ISBN 13: 9780358394204

Publisher: Blackstone Pub, 2020

Synopsis

<div><b>An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his complicated New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as <i>Platoon</i>, <i>Midnight Express</i>, and <i>Scarface</i>.</b><br><br> Before the international success of <i>Platoon </i>in 1986, Oliver Stone had been wounded as an infantryman in Vietnam, and spent years writing unproduced scripts while&#160;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 Stone&#8217;s scripts for <i>Scarface</i>, <i>Platoon</i>, and <i>Born on the Fourth of July</i>; the harrowing demon of cocaine addiction following the failure of his first feature, <i>The Hand </i>(starring Michael Caine); his risky on-the-ground research of Miami drug cartels for <i>Scarface</i>; his stormy relationship with <i>The Deer Hunter</i> director Michael Cimino; the breathless hustles to finance the acclaimed and divisive <i>Salvador;</i>&#160;and tensions behind the scenes of his first Academy Award&#8211;winning film, <i>Midnight Express</i>.<br><br><i>Chasing the Light</i> is a true insider&#8217;s look at Hollywood&#8217;s years of upheaval in the 1970s and &#8217;80s. Narrated by the author.</div>

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About the Author

<div>OLIVER STONE is the multiple Oscar-winning writer and director of <i>Platoon</i>, <i>JFK</i>, <i>Born on the Fourth of July</i>, <i>Natural Born Killers</i>, <i>Scarface</i>, <i>Midnight Express</i>, and many other films.</div>

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackstone Pub
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0358394201
• ISBN 13: 9780358394204
• Binding: Tapa blanda