The Oliver Stone Encyclopedia

摘要

Oliver Stone is a well-known American film director, so well known, in fact, most people would be able to name at least two or three of his films without pause for thought. Born on the Fourth of July, Wall Street, and Platoon instantly spring to mind, followed, with the briefest pause, by Midnight Express and Natural Born Killers. Stone is known for being "controversial" but James M. Welsh and Donald M. Whaley, coauthor-editors of The Oliver Stone Encyclopedia go further and describe Stone as a "puzzle". In the introduction to their work they ask "Why Oliver Stone?" When Stone first entered film making after having seen combat in the Vietnam War, he initially worked with directors, Michael Cimino and John Milius, which linked Stone with right-wing politics before he began to veer towards the left with Salvador (1986) which criticised American foreign policy.