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Chasing The Light de Oliver Stone

Chasing The Light

Autor Oliver Stone
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 iul 2020

Deși publicul larg îl percepe adesea pe Oliver Stone ca pe un provocator neînduplecat al sistemului politic american, volumul de față dezvăluie o latură surprinzător de vulnerabilă și introspectivă. Considerăm că această antiteză între imaginea de „copil teribil” al Hollywood-ului și fragilitatea unui artist aflat în căutarea propriei voci transformă lectura într-o experiență senzorială intensă. Textul nu este doar o cronică a succesului, ci o relatare viscerală despre eșec, dependență și foamea de autenticitate. Subliniem modul în care Stone descrie mirosul junglei din Filipine în timpul filmărilor pentru Platoon sau tensiunea întâlnirilor cu Al Pacino, oferindu-ne o perspectivă „brută”, aproape fotografică, asupra anilor '70 și '80.

Complementar lucrării The Oliver Stone Encyclopedia de James M. Welsh, care oferă o analiză academică și sistematică a filmografiei sale, Chasing The Light funcționează ca un contra-punct subiectiv și pasional. Dacă enciclopedia cataloghează temele controversate, Stone le descrie aici prin prisma sângelui și a transpirației depuse pe platou. De asemenea, spre deosebire de The Apocalypse Now Book de Peter Cowie, care documentează obsesia lui Coppola de la distanță arhivistică, memoriile lui Stone ne plasează direct în mintea scenaristului care conducea taxiuri în New York în timp ce visa la Midnight Express. Această operă se distanțează de tonul analitic din The Untold History of the United States, înlocuind rigoarea istorică cu onestitatea brutală a propriei supraviețuiri în industria cinematografică.

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ISBN-13: 9781913183547
ISBN-10: 1913183548
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: Includes colour plates.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 232 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Octopus Publishing
Colecția Monoray

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Oliver Stone este un regizor, scenarist și producător american, triplu laureat al premiului Oscar, cunoscut pentru abordarea unor subiecte politice și sociale extrem de controversate. Cariera sa a fost marcată de experiența directă ca voluntar în războiul din Vietnam, temă care a devenit pilonul central al trilogiei sale celebre: Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July și Heaven and Earth. Autor al unor capodopere precum Wall Street sau JFK, Stone a redefinit limbajul cinematografic prin stilul său vizual agresiv și dorința de a contesta versiunile oficiale ale istoriei americane.

Descriere scurtă

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"I loved it. An amazing book." - Louis Theroux

"A rip-roaring read. It left me breathless." - Chris Evans, Virgin Radio Breakfast Show

"Riveting." - The New York Times

"... a Hollywood movie in itself." - Spike Lee

"Raw, savagely honest, as dramatic as any of his movies." - Mail on Sunday

"A tremendous book - readable, funny and harrowing." - The Sunday Times

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 finance the acclaimed and divisive Salvador; and witness tensions behind the scenes of his first Academy Award-winning film, Midnight Express.

The culmination of the book is the extraordinarily vivid recreation of filming Platoon in the depths of the Philippine jungle with Kevin Dillon, Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Johnny Depp et al, pushing himself, the crew and the young cast almost beyond breaking point.

Written fearlessly, with intense detail and colour, Chasing the Light 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.

Recenzii

“…the Oliver Stone depicted in these pages — vulnerable, introspective, stubbornly tenacious and frequently heartbroken — may just be the most sympathetic character he’s ever written… neatly sets the stage for the possibility of that rarest of Stone productions: a sequel.” —New York Times Book Review   “Fantastic…the dual theme of chasing and being chased by the light is central to Oliver’s life story…there are luminescent passages throughout this book to crack open the reader’s consciousness to a second reality…Chasing the Light is not a superficial trip down memory lane like so many memoirs by famous people; Stone is a wonderful writer, and as with his films, he takes you deep to places you may wish to avoid but are essential for true sanity. The great thing about this memoir is his passion for truth and life that courses through its pages.  He seizes the reader by the throat and shouts: Consciousness!  Wake up!  Don’t let sleep and forgetfulness make you into one of the living-dead!”—Edward Curtin, Global Research     "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   “Oliver Stone is a giant provocateur in the Hollywood movie system.  His autobiography is a fascinating exposure of Stone’s inner life and his powerful, all devouring energy and genius that drove him to become one of the world's greatest filmmakers. Stone rattles cages. He pricks the bubbles of the namby-pambies. 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. I thank Oliver for writing Chasing the Light, especially for my NYU grad film students—or anybody else with artistic dreams of working in this thing called the movie business. Oliver, in honest and sometimes brutal fashion, lays it out—what it took for him to get to where he hoped to be—a  successful writer/director working in Hollywood; the road it took is hard AF. Bravo.Bravo.Bravo.” —Spike Lee “…riveting… a gripping read, and it is made all the more compelling by Stone’s incredible honesty about himself as a person; about his feelings, including embarrassing feelings that most people would leave to the therapy couch; and about his triumphs and failures. Oliver Stone, first and foremost, is an amazing human being, and to learn about him in his own words, with all his humor and candor, is a delight.”—Dan Kovalik, CounterPunch   "Oliver Stone's story is the story of my generation writ large." —Paul Schrader, screenwriter of Taxi Driver   “Oliver takes you on a journey of desire, success and failure and ultimately success, deeply personal, with an uncanny self-effacing vulnerability that is not necessarily associated with Oliver; this is a companionable book of profound, usable insights." —Julian Schnabel      "In his gripping memoir, Chasing the Light, Oliver Stone continues to blaze with the light he did so often catch. Even though I already knew a bit how it turns out up to now, I found it hard to put the —

Notă biografică

OLIVER STONE is the multiple Oscar-winning writer and director of Platoon, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Natural Born Killer, Midnight Express, and many other films.