News Brief - Hollywood and the Pentagon: A Follow Up Conversation with Oliver Stone
Added 2020-10-14 14:51:07 +0000 UTCAs a follow-up to our three-part series on Hollywood's symbiotic relationship with the Pentagon and CIA, we spoke with director and screenwriter Oliver Stone about his experience making mainstream motion pictures about often taboo subjects like the American imperialism and war crimes.
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Guest
Oliver Stone is an award-winning writer and director, whose films include Salvador (1986), Platoon (1986), Wall Street (1987), Talk Radio (1988), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), The Doors (1991), JFK (1991), Heaven and Earth (1993), South of the Border (2009) and Snowden (2016). He wrote the screenplays for Midnight Express (1978), Conan The Barbarian (1982) and Scarface (1983). He recently released a new memoir, "Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game."
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For a full transcript of this News Brief, go here.
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Comments
Wow! This was great !
Imani Branch
2020-11-01 05:33:28 +0000 UTCWow, great get guys!
Ned Schafer
2020-10-15 01:17:50 +0000 UTCGreat get and great interview! Didn't know about some of the stuff he made back in the 80's like Salvador. Definitely some stuff to watch somehow.
Queer and Pleasant Banger
2020-10-14 22:12:18 +0000 UTCadam might fuck around and become millenial noam chomsky
2020-10-14 18:44:36 +0000 UTCGreat interview
Brian Steblay
2020-10-14 17:25:49 +0000 UTCyuge flex wow.
Orion
2020-10-14 16:48:16 +0000 UTCHoly shit, you guys got Oliver Stone! Way to downplay it too... I mean, there's hearing an insider's perspective and there's hearing THE insider's perspective. The man is a titan. I don't know how you both weren't starstruck the whole time. His answers were a bit rambly in the beginning but got more pointed over the interview and I certainly appreciate their thoroughness. Great news brief!
Alex
2020-10-14 15:51:46 +0000 UTC
