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Chasing The Light - How I Fought My Way into Hollywood - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER (Hardcover)
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Chasing The Light - How I Fought My Way into Hollywood - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER (Hardcover)
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*** "I loved it. An amazing book." - Louis Theroux "A rip-roaring
read. It left me breathless." - Chris Evans, Virgin Radio Breakfast
Show "Riveting." - The New York Times "... a Hollywood movie in
itself." - Spike Lee "Raw, savagely honest, as dramatic as any of
his movies." - Mail on Sunday "A tremendous book - readable, funny
and harrowing." - The Sunday Times 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.
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