I realize it’s a movie, but it’s become a video game more than a movie.” And as a combat veteran, I gotta tell you, not one of them is believable. But kills, what, three, four hundred people in the fucking movie. I don’t know what people are thinking,” he said. I think the film is disgusting beyond belief. Whether Stone is out of touch is debatable, but he is nevertheless by his own admission flummoxed by the pop-culture zeitgeist. None of his films in recent years, however, has had quite the same impact.
It’s a perhaps uncharacteristic understatement for a notoriously outspoken director who during a torrid moviemaking run in the 1980s and ’90s was one of our most essential filmmakers, with a string of critical and commercial hits including “Platoon,” “Wall Street,” “Natural Born Killers” and “Born on the 4th of July.” “I’ve gotten along in the business,” he said.
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Stone has spent much of the past decade on the margins of the movie biz, although he insists he harbors no ill will toward Tinseltown. They just go with the trend, they just go with the fashion - it’s a fashion business.”) It’s crazy.” (At an appearance with festivalgoers the following morning, Stone went on to say: “People in showbiz are idiots. The director described the process of making “Nuclear Now” as a “fucking ballbreaker beyond belief,” after he was repeatedly turned down by anyone who would listen to his pitch. “But they don’t like nuclear energy because nuclear scares them.” Though it would be hard to characterize those fears as misplaced after the horrors of Hiroshima, Stone nevertheless insists that nuclear energy has been unfairly vilified and argues that it is not only clean, abundant and safe, but perhaps mankind’s best hope to avert the impending climate catastrophe. Before receiving the award, Stone sat down with Variety to discuss Hollywood’s long-running resistance to nuclear power, from fear-mongering movies such as “The China Syndrome” and “Silkwood” to the horror schlock of the 1950s, whose giant irradiated insects and mushroom clouds tapped into the subconscious fears of Americans in the nuclear age.
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