Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game Irritable Bowel Syndrome crippled by gambling debts

crippled by gambling debts

and enchantment

Using real-life stories

ISBN13: 9780809248414 ISBN10: 0809248417 Material Type: paperback

Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game Irritable Bowel Syndrome crippled by gambling debtsAn intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken Oscar winning director and screenwriter about his complicated 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 driving taxis in New York, finally