![]() ![]() While perhaps best known as a director of political dramas such as ‘JFK’ and ‘Nixon,’ one of the projects Stone says he was most excited about as a young screenwriter was ‘Conan The Barbarian.’ Stone wrote the script for the film that ultimately starred Arnold Schwarzenegger. Watching both antagonist and protagonist against each other, the civil war that I saw in every platoon, every combat platoon I was in in Vietnam.” His own experience in Vietnam also led him to help tell veteran Ron Kovic’s story in ‘Born on The Fourth of July.’ ![]() ![]() His experience there inspired the film ‘Platoon.’ Stone says, “the Charlie Sheen character, that’s me, more or less. That path included enlisting in the army during the Vietnam War. All of a sudden it fell apart in one day.” Stone says his parents’ divorce caused him to question what is the truth and led him on a path to discover it for himself. “It was devastating,” he says, of their separation. Stone tells Mitchell that he had a rather conventional upbringing until his parents divorced when he was a teenager. Stone won a screenwriting Oscar for ‘Midnight Express’ and two as a director of ‘Platoon’ and ‘Born on The Fourth of July.’ This week on The Treatment, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter Oliver Stone sits down with host Elvis Mitchell to discuss his new memoir, ‘Chasing the Light,’ which covers the first 40 years of his life and career as a filmmaker. ![]()
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