With “Chasing the Light,” the 73-year-old Oscar-winning director and screenwriter has finally found a historical figure he can portray with all the bias he desires: himself.Īnd yet, Stone’s 330-page memoir, covering his life and career up to his first milestone achievement - winning an Oscar for his 1986 Vietnam drama, “Platoon” - turns out to be a surprisingly sober and cleareyed portrait of a rabble-rouser as a young man.
Whether the subject is Richard Nixon or Alexander the Great, there’s always some critic nit-picking about factual inaccuracies or perceived political agendas. Whenever Oliver Stone makes movies about real people, he ends up in hot water. CHASING THE LIGHT Writing, Directing, and Surviving “Platoon,” “Midnight Express,” “Scarface,” “Salvador,” and the Movie Game By Oliver Stone
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