{"product_id":"oliver-stone-chasing-the-light-2020-paperback","title":"Oliver Stone: Chasing The Light [2020] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eI loved it. An amazing book.\"\u003c\/b\u003e - Louis Theroux \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \"A rip-roaring read. It left me breathless.\" - \u003c\/b\u003eChris Evans, Virgin Radio Breakfast Show \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \"Riveting.\" \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"... a Hollywood movie in itself.\"\u003c\/b\u003e - Spike Lee \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Raw, savagely honest, as dramatic as any of his movies.\"\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"A tremendous book - readable, funny and harrowing.\"\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eChasing The Light\u003c\/i\u003e he writes about his rarefied New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as \u003ci\u003ePlatoon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMidnight Express\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eScarface\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Before the international success of \u003ci\u003ePlatoon \u003c\/i\u003ein 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStone, 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 \u003ci\u003eScarface\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePlatoon\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBorn on the Fourth of July\u003c\/i\u003e; relive the harrowing demon of cocaine addiction following the failure of his first feature, \u003ci\u003eThe Hand \u003c\/i\u003e(starring Michael Caine); experience his risky on-the-ground research of Miami drug cartels for \u003ci\u003eScarface\u003c\/i\u003e; and see his stormy relationship with \u003ci\u003eThe Deer Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e director Michael Cimino.  We also learn of the breathless hustles to finance the acclaimed and divisive \u003ci\u003eSalvador;\u003c\/i\u003e and witness tensions behind the scenes of his first Academy Award-winning film, \u003ci\u003eMidnight Express\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe culmination of the book is the extraordinarily vivid recreation of filming \u003ci\u003ePlatoon\u003c\/i\u003e in the depths of the Philippine jungle with Kevin Dillon, Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Johnny Depp \u003ci\u003eet al\u003c\/i\u003e, pushing himself, the crew and the young cast almost beyond breaking point.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWritten fearlessly, with intense detail and colour, \u003ci\u003eChasing the Light\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Stone, Oliver","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50522197918035,"sku":"9781913183547","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":53552970826067,"sku":"XG81913183547","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":50522197950803,"sku":"XV81913183547","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/stone-oliver-oliver-stone-chasing-the-light-2020-paperback-1144623744.jpg?v=1776945034","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/oliver-stone-chasing-the-light-2020-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}