{"product_id":"oliver-stone-charles-l-p-silet-9781578063031","title":"Oliver Stone: Interviews","description":"Throughout his career Oliver Stone (b. 1946) has broken traditions and challenged audiences with a series of daring, angry, violent, and often confrontational films. Politically charged movies such as \u003ci\u003eNixon\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), \u003ci\u003eJFK\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), and \u003ci\u003eWall Street\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), and his Vietnam trilogy of \u003ci\u003ePlatoon\u003c\/i\u003e (1986), \u003ci\u003eBorn on the 4th of July\u003c\/i\u003e (1989), and \u003ci\u003eHeaven and Earth\u003c\/i\u003e (1993) provoke and enrage critics and audiences from all ideological walks. In a short time, Stone has established himself as one of the most admired and most reviled directors in American cinema. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ranging from 1981 to 1997, the fifteen conversations featured in \u003ci\u003eOliver Stone: Interviews\u003c\/i\u003e reveal a man frustrated by what he sees as the hypocrisies of American politics, of conservatism, and of the Hollywood film industry. But the conflicts and tensions these issues generate spellbind him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the interviews, Stone comes off as a man as brash, outspoken, confident, and complicated as his movies. His obsessions--the 1960s, the ways in which Vietnam shaped the country, the nature of violence, and the role of the media in shaping it--resurface again and again, no matter what film Stone is discussing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Though the subjects of \u003ci\u003eNixon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJFK\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBorn on the 4th of July\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Doors\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), and \u003ci\u003eHeaven and Earth\u003c\/i\u003e are rooted in the turbulent 1960s, Stone as interviewee and filmmaker is firmly entrenched in the present. He fiercely discusses how the attitudes and political effects of the 1960s have defined later decades and generations, as he talks about his satire of the stock market (\u003ci\u003eWall Street\u003c\/i\u003e, 1987) and media exposure (\u003ci\u003eNatural Born Killers\u003c\/i\u003e, 1994). Bolts of the director's raw wit and enthusiasm for the cinema shine through all of Stone's ferocious rage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Stone loves writing as well as directing. Whether discussing his screenplays written for other directors -- which include \u003ci\u003eScarface\u003c\/i\u003e (1983), \u003ci\u003eMidnight Express\u003c\/i\u003e (1978), or \u003ci\u003eConan the Barbarian\u003c\/i\u003e (1982, with director John Milius)--or his own films, Stone emphasizes how crucial screenwriting is to making great movies. \"Directing is a natural extension of writing,\" he says in a 1987 interview with Michel Ciment. \"A director can always pull through with noise everywhere and his colleagues around. I don't think a good director can make a good film with a bad screenplay, but a bad director can deliver an acceptable film if he has a good screenplay. So for me, that's the number one priority.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles L. P. Silet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1578063035\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781578063031\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.97h x 5.93w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2001 pg. 897","brand":"Charles L. P. Silet","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48742594380031,"sku":"9781578063031","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/oliver-stone-charles-l-p-silet-9781578063031","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}