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Chasing The Light

How I Fought My Way into Hollywood - From the 1960s to Platoon
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“Riveting.” – The New York Times

“Raw, savagely honest, as dramatic as any of his movies, Oliver Stone's memoir defies all the Hollywood cliches.” – Mail on Sunday

“Chasing the Light is a deep book, illuminated and relentless, prose at its best… What Oliver Stone has written will last, because I have never seen anything like his insights into the way the film industry works…” – Werner Herzog

“A tremendous book – readable, funny and harrowing.” – The Sunday Times

“I cannot recommend it highly enough. It's a rip-roaring read. It left me breathless.” – Chris Evans, Virgin Radio Breakfast Show

“He provokes outrage. He stirs up controversy. He has no respect for safe places. Oliver Stone is larger than life. Chasing the Light says it all.” – Sir Anthony Hopkins

“Oliver Stone's narrative, his life story about the heartbreaks, the near misses, and finally the triumphs is a Hollywood movie in itself.” – Spike Lee

“Oliver Stone's story is the story of my generation writ large.” – Paul Schrader, screenwriter of Taxi Driver

“No one writes a Hollywood memoir with such candour as Oliver Stone.” – Mail on Sunday

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 fi

Author Biography

Oliver Stone is an Academy Award-winning director, screenwriter and producer. He has written and directed some of the most iconic Hollywood films of all time, from Midnight Express and Platoon to Scarface and Natural Born Killers. Stone is also the co-author of The Untold History of the United States.

Author Biography:

Oliver Stone is an Academy Award-winning director, screenwriter and producer. He has written and directed some of the most iconic Hollywood films of all time, from Midnight Express and Platoon to Scarface and Natural Born Killers. Stone is also the co-author of The Untold History of the United States.
Release date Australia
July 21st, 2020
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Pages
368
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
Includes colour plates.
Dimensions
152x232x28
ISBN-13
9781913183547
Product ID
33339180

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