Oliver Stone returns to sacred ground with new Vietman movie
By Behind The Scenes TV on Sep 15, 2007 in Directors, Filmmaking, Hollywood
Oliver Stone honestly thought he was finished with the Vietnam War. With Best Director Oscars for Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989), and with 1993’s Heaven & Earth to round out his Vietnam trilogy, the director had moved on to more current topics. Last year’s World Trade Center centered around rescue workers on 9/11. Any Given Sunday (1999) was set on American football fields, not battlegrounds. So what was the 61-year-old filmmaker doing sitting in an airport lounge in Danang this week, watching himself lighting incense during a temple visit on local television news?
Researching another Vietnam movie, of course. His latest project, Pinkville, focuses on the investigation into the 1968 My Lai massacre, in which U.S. troops slaughtered as many as 500 unarmed Vietnamese villagers. He spoke to TIME
(Source: Time)
