Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game â The Controversial Oscar-Winning Director's Intimate Memoir

Stone, Oliver

ISBN 10: 0358522501 / ISBN 13: 9780358522508

Published by Mariner Books, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game â The Controversial Oscar-Winning Director's Intimate Memoir
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0358522501
• ISBN 13: 9780358522508
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

An intimate memoir by the controversial, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter Oliver Stone

Before moving to Los Angeles and the international success of Platoon in 1986, Oliver Stone had been wounded as an infantryman in Vietnam, and spent years writing unproduced scripts while working odd jobs in Manhattan. Stone, now 73, recounts those formative years with in-the-moment details of the highs and lows: meetings with Al Pacino over Stone’s early scripts; the harrowing demon of cocaine addiction; the failure of his first feature; his risky on-the-ground research of Miami drug cartels for Scarface; and much more. Chasing the Light is a true insider’s guide to Hollywood’s razor-edged years of upheaval in the 1970s and ’80s with untold stories of decade-defining films from the man behind the camera.

About the Author

OLIVER STONE is the multiple Oscar-winning writer and director of Platoon, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Natural Born Killer, Midnight Express, and many other films.