P A G E 1 OLIVER STONE I think you have to look within to your heart, soul, to your experience, and render that. Out of the specific come the universal. A poet is a man or a woman, who can write about anything; it could be a butterfly or an ashtray. It doesn't matter as long as it has a strength and a truth and that it means something to other people universally. ~ Oliver Stone in "History and the Movies -- A Discussion with Stone at Berkeley" P A G E 1
P A G E 2 "As a filmmaker I have always responded as a dreamer, not as a doer. I don't build houses, I don't make the waters run, pump electricity, explore the universe, doctor people... all I do is dream. I make some semblance of those Hindu wall paintings that I hope people like because it reflects a dream of theirs. I try to go to the secret heart we all have, the collective unconscious." ~ Oliver Stone in a May 10th, 1994 Commencement Address at Berkeley "...what is important is that you lived a life. I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists." ~ Oliver Stone in "History and the Movies -- A Discussion with Stone at Berkeley" "You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that's great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we'll see." ~ Oliver Stone in "History and the Movies -- A Discussion with Stone at Berkeley" "People who are dramatists, at least I can speak for myself, tend to be rebellious, tend to go against the grain." ~ Oliver Stone "History and the Movies -- A Discussion with Stone at Berkeley" (WIKIPEDIA ) Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier. Platoon (1986) Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Heaven & Earth (1993). Heaven and earth that tells the story of a young Vietnamese girl that grows up during the Vietnam war is adapted from Le Ly Hayslips two memoirs. Oliver Stone intended to shoot the film Pinkville about the My Lay massacre 2008, but the film was postponed due the American scriptwriters strike. P A G E 2
P A G E 3 Oliver Stones work continues to focus frequently on contemporary political and cultural issues, often controversially. His work has earned him three Academy Awards. His first Oscar was for Best Adapted Screenplay for Midnight Express (1978). He won Academy Awards for Directing Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989), both of which were centered on the Vietnam War. A notable feature of his directing style is the use of many different cameras and film formats, from VHS to 8 mm film to 70 mm film. He sometimes uses several formats in a single scene, as in JFK (1991) and Natural Born Killers (1994). Some of Stone's films have been criticized for promoting conspiracy theories and for glorifying violence. (WIKIPEDIA ) Films * Last Year in Viet Nam (1971, short) * Seizure (also known as Queen of Evil, 1974) * Madman of Martinique (1979, short) * The Hand (1981) * Salvador (1986) * Platoon (1986) * Wall Street (1987) * Talk Radio (1988) * Born on the Fourth of July (1989) P A G E 3
P A G E 4 * The Doors (1991) * JFK (1991) * Heaven & Earth (1993) * Natural Born Killers (1994) * Nixon (1995) * U-Turn (1997) * Any Given Sunday (1999) * Comandante (2003) * Alexander (2004) * World Trade Center (2006) * W. (2008) * Pinkville (postponed) * Wall Street 2 (2010) Other work * Midnight Express (screenwriter) (1978) * Conan the Barbarian (screenwriter) (1982) * Scarface (screenwriter) (1983) * Year of the Dragon (screenwriter) (1985) P A G E 4
P A G E 5 * 8 Million Ways to Die (screenwriter) (1986) * Dave (cameo) (1993) * Evita (screenwriter) (1996) * Escobar (producer) (2009) (announced) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/oliver_stone http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mylai/mylai.htm http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/trenches/my_lai.html http://www.eastmeetswest.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/east_meets_west_foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/global_village_foundation P A G E 5
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