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Chasing The Light - How I Fought My Way Into Hollywood From The 1960s To Platoon (Paperback) Loot Price: R504
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Chasing The Light - How I Fought My Way Into Hollywood From The 1960s To Platoon (Paperback): Oliver Stone

Chasing The Light - How I Fought My Way Into Hollywood From The 1960s To Platoon (Paperback)

Oliver Stone

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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.

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.

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 taking miscellaneous jobs and driving taxis in New York, finally venturing westward to Los Angeles and a new life.

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. 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.

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.

Written fearlessly, with intense detail and colour, Chasing the Light is a true insider's story of Hollywood's years of upheaval in the 1970s and '80s, and Stone brings this period alive as only someone at the centre of the action truly can.

General

Imprint: Monoray
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 2020
First published: 2020
Authors: Oliver Stone
Dimensions: 232 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 978-1-913183-54-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Film, television, music, theatre
Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Individual film directors, film-makers
Books > Biography > Film, television, music, theatre
LSN: 1-913183-54-8
Barcode: 9781913183547

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