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Chasing the Light
Oliver Stone
其他書名
Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
出版
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
, 2020
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Performing Arts / Film / Direction & Production
ISBN
0358346231
9780358346234
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=n8rBDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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
Platoon
,
Midnight Express
, and
Scarface
.
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.