
Chasing the Light
Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
Oliver Stone(Author)
Mariner Books (Publisher)
Published on 4. May 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-0-358-52250-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
322 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-358-52250-8 (9780358522508)
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Oliver Stone
Chasing the Light
Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
E-Book
07/2020
Mariner Books
€21.99
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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.