Oliver Stone on Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon

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🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Oscar-winning writer/director Oliver Stone (Platoon, Wall Street, JFK) discusses why he dropped out of Yale and volunteered to go fight in Vietnam, some of the horrors that he witnessed during that war, and how the black soldiers in his platoon opened his eyes to injustice and saved his life. He talks about how writing a screenplay about the experience helped him process what he had been through in Vietnam, why it took him 16 years to get Platoon made, and how the ouster of Filipino strongman Ferdinand Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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