![]() ![]() ![]() The reason is because when you realize the dream, which I did, finally, it’s a wonderful feeling. “That’s why it ends when I’m 40 years old. ![]() “This book is about realizing your dream,” says Stone, now 73. He’s talking about his memoir “Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game,” which covers the writer-director’s first four decades.īut that a-ha moment of waking up to the truth is also a recurring theme in the book - from his parents’ divorce when he was a teen to the futility he felt as a grunt in Vietnam from the thrill of his Oscar for the “Midnight Express” screenplay to the despair of the failure with “The Hand,” his Hollywood directorial debut. “He used to pound it into the blackboard, ‘Consciousness! Consciousness, gentlemen! Wake up,’” Stone says recently from his home in Brentwood. It was a lesson Stone had retained from his days at NYU when a classics professor used to hammer home the message to the students. ![]() The protagonist of what was then titled “The Platoon” was like Odysseus in Homer’s epic, he saw, a young man who’d traveled into hell and who would only find the path home if he opened his eyes to the truth around him. In Oliver Stone‘s new memoir, he writes about when he first understood that his screenplay about a lost soldier in Vietnam connected back to the oldest tales of humankind. ![]()
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