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Oliver Stone (born William Oliver Stone) is a Réalisateur, Scénariste and producer of American cinema

Youth

Oliver Stone is born the September 15th 1946 with New York (the same day as Tommy Lee Jones which will become one of his/her best friends). He is the son of Louis Stone, a financier of Wall Street - which will inspire later to him Wall Street . His/her Jacqueline mother is French what explains the ease of Oliver Stone with the French language. She met her father with the Cabinet of Dwight Eisenhower during the Second world war. Oliver will be high under privileged conditions even if, because of the many voyages of her mother in France, a nanny will generally replace her two parents.

It makes its classes with Yale, university very famous of the USA which also accommodated men like Bush or Clinton. But Oliver Stone develops an adventurous and provocative spirit. It for example is stopped in possession of marijuana in Mexico at 21 years and will not finish its second half-year within this prestigious university. Like many American, it engages in the war of the Vietnam: this major event will have an impact in its career, marking its works of a print of revolt and dislike vis-a-vis the State and contemporary violence.

It leaves to be involved with its battalion at the height Jackson in South Carolina then is sent to Vietnam the September 14th 1967: it will be used in the 25 {{E}} division of infantry and the 1 {{E}} division as cavalry in place close to the Kampuchean border . The weather will then be made call Bill, the Oliver first name being too effeminate near the military body… It will return to the country provided with prestigious decorations: Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. But it is especially to Vietnam that it will develop the visual aspect of its films, having tried out during the conflict its talents of photographer.

He resumes his studies in addition but turns from now on to the cinema. He integrates the University of New York. He meets there Lloyd Kaufman, founder of the Trauma company, specialized in the film of horror, and especially, Martin Scorsese, which becomes its professor, advising to him to draw from his personal experience and his life to write. Consequently, it will concentrate on the episode marking of its young life: the war of Vietnam. Thus, it leaves the University diploma out of pocket thanks to its very noticed film of end of the year, a 11 minutes short-measuring baptized Last Year in Vietnam . Consequently, it will try out the cinema by diversifying its methods of writing and realization and while passing in turn of the role of realizer to that of producer and even actor.

Career

It really begins as a scenario writer: he will write moreover during his career all the scenarios of his works (put aside U-Turn ). Thus, it is confined of stylized scripts which the producers like and will be thus with the film credits of the largest realizers: De Palma for Scarface , Alan Parker with Midnight Express train and Avoided or for Cimino with the Year of the Dragon . It carries out a few Series B of horror as the Hand of the nightmare then appears under the fire of the projectors in 1986 with two resounding films and protestors: El Salvador and Platoon . This last gains four Oscars in 1987 of which those of the better film and the better realizer. It is about the first opus of its trilogy on the Vietnam with Né one July 4th and Between quasi autobiographical Ciel and Ground . Né one July 4th is worth to him in 1990 new a Oscar for its realization and the recognition of its pars.

Its with dimensions criticizes develops more and more throughout its cinematographic course, so much so that it is compared with Robert Altman or Samuel Fuller, other American protestors. It scratches thus many elements of the Civil society and soldier: the Yuppie S in Wall Street , the State in Born one July 4th or the CIA and the complex militaro-industrialist in JFK .

Already attacked by good number of American because of its sights on the assassination of Kennedy, Stone is straightforwardly attacked in justice for its film Tueurs Born , shown to have encouraged by this film a fact various strapping. This film, assembled in manner epileptic, in addition becomes worship, compared with O arranges Mécanique . Large mushroom hallucinogens amateur, Stone will be interested in drug in his biopic on the group rock'n'roll The Doors , belonging to his cinematographic period wisest, with inter alia Nixon or Talk Radi O.

Always present with some lengths in advance, Oliver Stone anticipates the crises of doping in the medium of the sport with her film centered on American football the Hell of Sunday . It marks then a pause by the realization of two documentary, one on Palestine and Arafat ( Persona non grata ) and another very discussed on Fidel Castro ( Ordering ). This documentary is synthesis a 30 hours of interviews between Stone, large admiror of the cuban leader and Fidel Castro. Diffused in May 2003 on the American screens, it has being gone up because of the pressure of anti-castristes.

Lastly, Oliver Stone sets out again with new discussed films: the film epic Alexandre in 2005 which, extremely of a budget of more than 150 million euros, will not have found its public and remains for Stone a failure, him which wanted to carry out largest film of its career. It attacks without idle period another burning subject, concerning the USA - and it is a constant in its career (except Alexandre) - the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. Baptized The 11 September a long time' S Oliver Stone Project , the film takes the name of World Trade Center and will stick to the helps deployed by the authorities during these attacks and the firemen in particular.

Regarded as one of the best realizers in activity, it was classified 43ème Plus Large Realizer by the magazine Entertainment Weekly.

Catalog of films

Realizer

Scenario writer

Producer

External bond

  • Oliver Stone on Internet Movie Database
  • site of the Circle Venezuela Oliver Stone prepares a film on the coup d'etat missed against Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, in 2002. To follow the topicality rich and full with hope of the political process Venezuelan, vistez this site.

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