Oliver Stone Shoots Castro [Documentary in Cuba]

Reuters ^ | Feb 20, 2002

[f.Christian]

Oliver stoned--cracked!

[Frances_Marion]

Oliver Stone is probably one of the most pretensious and overrated directors since Spike Lee....or is that the other way around? When's the last time he made a decent movie, anyways? Did he EVER make a decent movie? In retrospect, Platoon was very poorly written. And don't get me started on Any Given Sunday and the Doors (aka the Bores). My prediction is "Oliver Stone's career to end soon..."

[My Identity]

My prediction is "Oliver Stone's career to end soon..."

Don't underestimate the power of the entrenched lefties in the cultural media (hollywood-sycophants). Stone has a career because a favorable press say he does. Same goes for Michael Moore.

[oyez]

I don't get it either. A lot of people think Bill Clinton was a great president, as well. Castro is only a third world dictator. He displaced wealth and people to please his own whim. People who admire Castro must think it is good to imprison people with out due process, divide families, exclude races where desirable, control personal movement, and allow a selected part of the population ride on the backs of a working few.

[oyez]

Opps, I forgot one. Murder is OK as long a the Party approves, and from what I've seen the Castro is the Party. If Cuba was run like the old USSR, he would have been booted out years ago for poor performance. The way it is, ole Fidel is the sole measure of performance.

[Fintan]

I'm anxiously awaiting his "biography" of Joe Stalin.

What a misunderstood mass murderer...

Heck, maybe Papa Joe screwed Marilyn Monroe too.

[weegee]

The newspaper said Stone was a favorite of Cuban cinema- lovers "since 'Platoon', a film which criticizes the lamentable U.S. military adventure in Vietnam."

...this Cuban adoration of Stone continued with his film JFK which showed on the big screen real footage of the death of the "evil" JFK and pinned the blame on a vast right wing conspiracy (unjustly blamed on communists in Cuba).

[weegee]

I wouldn't expect this film to be a hachet piece like the documentary Uncle Saddam that was made by a French man who went to Iraq.

He wasn't honest about the real intent in filming his interviews there and now is faced with death threats.

It would be asking too much to expect Oliver Stone to make a critical film of Castro after dining with him and all...

[weegee]

If Stone can't get over the 1960s (which obviously did a lot to create his worldview), then he should turn his camera lens on people like Jerry Rubin and David Horowitz who rejected their spoiled youth revolutionary chic days. Let him come to terms with that.

[weegee]

I didn't mean to compare their filmmaking talent, just their willingness to make movies lionizing dictators. However, to Riefenstahl it was just a job, Stone actually is a true believer in Castro.

I don't know, there are rumors that Leni Riefenstahl were an "item", the same may be true of Oliver and Fidel...

[weegee]

At least Stone is now openly admitting that he produces communist propaganda. :)

Oliver has never denied that his films are propaganda, it is just a detail that the Hollywood PR boys seem less than thrilled to promote.

As former President Bush was approaching re-election, Oliver Stone was busy trying to hustle backers for a feature on George Bush's involvement in Iran-Contra (possibly the book basis was "Brought To Light").

As it got to be too late to make the film prior to the election, Oliver lost interest.

If a movie is irrelavent after a certain date, then it wasn't worth making in the first place.

'Nuff said on Oliver Stone's motives.

[weegee]

Castro most likely would not be a true believer in Oliver Stone. Oliver dosen't understand that if he produced a movie as a Cuban citizen, his work would be done exactly as Castro and The Party said it would be done or not at all.

Not to mention that the government would receive the profits and not the director.

[weegee]

Here's the first design for the movie poster:

Looking For Fidel

[nickcarraway]

Especially after recent revelations about Hitler's orientation, it doesn't seem likely. Riefenstahl is still alive, and at least a few years ago was seeing a man about 70 years younger than herself.

[weegee]

Was Eva just a beard?

[nickcarraway]

There were a few threads in the last month about Hitler.