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...EYES OF THE DRAGON...
Dino De Laurentiis promised that if I wrote the script for Year of the Dragon, he would produce Platoon. But he backed out because he couldn't get an American distribution deal, and I was in despair. Nothing was coming to me from the studios, and I decided to make a break from Hollywood. Richard Boyle, the guy a lot of the film is based on, was a friend. On the way to the airport one day, he gave me some notes. "Here, you might like this," he said. I read the sketches of his trips to El Salvador...
...wild man who becomes a witness: that was Oliver Stone reborn. As he scythed his way through the Hollywood jungle, Stone earned the rep of a specialist with a social agenda. Four of the scripts that bear his name -- Midnight Express, Scarface, Year of the Dragon and 8 Million Ways to Die -- cataloged the seductive evils of the drug trade. Stone's third feature as writer-director (after Seizure and, in 1981, The Hand) laced his usual hip rants on pharmacology with a smart, anguished newsphoto montage of one more Third World nation torn by civil war and shadowed...
These days Chinese students like to retell the fable of a prince named She who was fond of dragons. The prince had pictures of the mythical beasts on his walls and carved on the pillars of his house. One day a real dragon heard about the prince's obsession. But when the slithery monster poked its head through the window, Prince She trembled with fear and hid himself. The current Peking regime, say the students, is behaving much like the prince. For months, they say, the authorities encouraged political reform. But when democracy actually poked its head through the window...
...Nathan, a China expert at Columbia University. "To use a metaphor from pool, he takes a shot at the setup and sees where the balls go." Peking may have quieted the restive students for a while. But it is probably only a matter of time before, once again, the dragon of democracy pokes its head through Deng's window...