The culmination of the book is the extraordinarily vivid recreation of filming Platoon in the depths of the Philippine jungle with Kevin Dillon, Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Johnny Depp et al, pushing himself, the crew and the young cast almost beyond breaking point. We also learn of the breathless hustles to finance the acclaimed and divisive Salvador and witness tensions behind the scenes of his first Academy Award-winning film, Midnight Express. Stone, now 73, recounts those formative years with vivid details of the high and low moments: we sit at the table in meetings with Al Pacino over Stone's scripts for Scarface, Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July relive the harrowing demon of cocaine addiction following the failure of his first feature, The Hand (starring Michael Caine) experience his risky on-the-ground research of Miami drug cartels for Scarface and see his stormy relationship with The Deer Hunter director Michael Cimino. In Chasing the Light he writes about his rarefied New York childhood, volunteering for combat and his struggles and triumphs making such films as Platoon, Midnight Express and Scarface.īefore the international success of Platoon in 1986, Oliver Stone had been wounded as an infantryman in Vietnam and spent years writing unproduced scripts while taking miscellaneous jobs and driving taxis in New York, finally venturing westward to Los Angeles and a new life. In August 1944, the Allies made their D-Day landing in western Europe and liberated Paris.In this powerful and evocative memoir, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter, Oliver Stone, takes us right to the heart of what it's like to make movies on the edge. The Red Army began pushing the Germans back across Russia into eastern Europe, while the Allies bogged down in Italy. #4 The tide of war began to shift in 1943 with the shocking Soviet victory at Stalingrad.
She was a coquette, and she enjoyed the attentions of several sophisticated men. She finished her baccalaureate at age eighteen and went on to attend the prestigious Racing Club of Paris. #3 My mother, Jacqueline Goddet, was a natural rebel. She must have wondered who were these barbaric creatures who built these granite towers so high into the sky. #2 In the harbor, I can imagine my mother’s eyes, coming from a terrible war that nearly destroyed human civilization, sailing past on that icy deck. I was drifting through the crowd to the bottom of the island, past the barbeque families waving little flags back at the ships, lugging their ice chests and folding chairs. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was coming up on thirty, and I was broke, but I didn’t want to think about that anymore. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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