Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like a general getting his troops psyched for battle, Oliver Stone glared across the littered landscape of buy and sell orders, coffee cups, telephones and blinking green computer monitors. "Remember," the director of Platoon ordered the brigade of button-down young actors, "you're supposed to be making money." Loads of it, in fact. The Viet Nam soldier turned Oscar- winning filmmaker was on location in New York City to film Wall Street, a $15 million 20th Century-Fox production about the rise and fall of an ambitious young stockbroker, starring Charlie Sheen, his father Martin, Daryl Hannah and Michael...
While it may seem like a long leap -- both culturally and conceptually -- from the steaming jungles of Viet Nam to the concrete canyons of Manhattan, Stone had his problems with both. "I don't like to work in an office," he complains. "Being under fluorescent light for two weeks is almost equivalent to being under 105 degrees sun in the Philippines." Stone is not the only Platoon veteran who thinks so. Charlie Sheen traded his M-16 for an M.B.A. to play an overeager stockbroker named Bud Fox. The actor found the white-collar trenches of Gotham "much worse. When...
...exigencies that the Constitution's framers could not possibly have foreseen. Yet, amazingly, they could foresee this character at the center of their work: the basic Enlightenment man with a capacity for explosions and a touch of dreams. Much like themselves, he was capable of sitting still as a stone and of changing utterly...
...ideals to defend, just their asses; the accompanying music is not Samuel Barber but inane party rock of the '60s like Wooly Bully and Surfin' Bird. In this second section the movie becomes a notebook of anecdotes, always compelling, but rarely propelling the story toward its climax. Unlike Oliver Stone's Platoon, with which it will unfortunately be compared, Kubrick's film does not want to say every last word about Viet Nam. It wants to isolate a time, a place and a disease...
...honor guard at Arlington National Cemetery. All show, no go. But in Private First Class Jackie Willow (D.B. Sweeney), Clell can see a surrogate son and his best younger self. He knows Jackie will shine in war or go down in flames -- an epitaph for Icarus. Alas, Gardens of Stone goes down in smoke; unlike other, more delirious failures by its director, Francis Coppola, the new picture goes not far enough. This requiem for a young man lost to war sleepwalks like a family mourner; it plays taps to its own best intentions...