Chasing The Light - Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
Language: English
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 2020
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- Hardcover
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First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. 242 pages with index and photographs. A goundbreaking memoir. As new. Unread. Ships in box.
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- Title
- Chasing The Light - Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
- Author
- Stone, Oliver
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company, New York
- Publication year
- 2020
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0358346231
- ISBN 13
- 9780358346234
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
Before the international success of Platoon in 1986, Oliver Stone had been wounded as an infantryman in Vietnam, and spent years writing unproduced scripts while 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’s scripts for Scarface, Platoon, and Born on the Fourth of July; the harrowing demon of cocaine addiction following the failure of his first feature, The Hand (starring Michael Caine); his risky on-the-ground research of Miami drug cartels for Scarface; his stormy relationship with The Deer Hunter director Michael Cimino; the breathless hustles to finance the acclaimed and divisive Salvador; and tensions behind the scenes of his first Academy Award–winning film, Midnight Express.
Chasing the Light is a true insider’s look at Hollywood’s years of upheaval in the 1970s and ’80s.
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