Re: a disnyland for paranoids

Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Mon, 08 Jun 1998 18:50:58 +1000

> (for lack of a better example, Oliver Stone) Top on my list
> > without a doubt would be F. and Z.  

You really think so? Sure he wouldn't go back 10 years and do old D.B. on
the battlefield instead ? (: He's an interesting proposition but certainly
not one I would have thought - for one, Stone's films tend to be very
surfacey - even the deepness is a superficial kind of deepness. I agree he
would not be at all well served by a Speilberg or Cameron, but I hardly see
either director as dabbling in this sort of material.

My suggestions? Hmm ... perhaps Lasse Halstrom, Richard Linklater, even
Kevin Smith. No! I have the perfect one !!! Todd Solondz, who directed
`Welcome to the Dollhouse'!

Most importantly I see Stone lacking in one thing and oversuperfluating in
another thing that would definitely put him out of the running in my mind.
The first is compassion. The second is ego.

Camille 
verona_beach@geocities.com
@ THE ARTS HOLE
www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
 
> Just my two cents, oliver stone would probably be the best director to
> convert a salinger to movie, although I would never want to see a
> salinger on the big screen.  I'm sure most of you are all familiar with
> what happened the last time salinger allowed a story to be converted to
> the big screen. The problem was that you didn't get a stone tye director
> to do it.  DeLillo calls Stone's work "a disnyland for paranoids".  What
> better way to describe a salinger film.  The layering that would be
> needed could not be captured by a cameron or speilberg.  You need the
> craziest of the crazies to try and understand the master.