Oliver Stone (Oliver Stone)

Born September 15, 1946 in New York. In 1957 he enrolled at Trinity College, then went to Yale, but dropped out after one year. In the same year (1965 th), he went to Vietnam as a teacher of English. But a year later moved to Mexico. In the 1967-m Stone enlisted in the army, fifteen months served in the infantry, he returned with the Bronze Star and Purple Heart and enrolled at the University of New York in the studio by Martin Scorsese. In the same time he began to write scripts. The first film (horror film), Oliver Stone, set in 1973 year.. Three years later Stone moved to Hollywood: he was hired to adapt the movie "Midnight Express". As a scriptwriter, he was a success - he wrote the script for "Conan the Barbarian", "Year of the Dragon" and "8 Million Ways to Die". Him as a director began to speak only in 1986 after staging the film "El Salvador" with James Woods. This was the first attempt to put Stone's political film. But only "Platoon," released in the same year, made the audience and critics believe that the new director is really out of itself something is. "Platoon" Stone has brought string of Oscars and a good income from rentals. In "Platoon" followed by "Wall Street" and then Stone returned to the theme of war in Vietnam in the film "Born on July 4". In subsequent years, Oliver Stone has put a few fundamental films on the major political figures: "JFK" and "Nixon", and wrote the script for the film "Evita" on the First Lady Argenitiny Evita Peron. Created notorious tape "Natural Born Killers," a film "Doors", dedicated to the cult rock band. Currently, Oliver Stone is among the ten most famous film directors of the United States.