Oliver Stone poll

so Ollie talked to Matt Seitz about his Showtime series interviewing Putin:

I’m not offering a defense of Putin. I’m going there out of curiosity, and I’m letting him speak for himself. I’m saying to the American people: Listen, if he is so dangerous, as they say, let’s listen to the man and see if you understand what he wants, because you’re giving a hell of a lot of your taxpayer money to this Defense Department to build its muscles up with steroids against a perceived Russian threat, and we point out, and as Putin points out, his defense budget is about 10 percent of ours. Less, probably, given all the hidden ops and black ops we run. No, I don’t defend Putin. He defends himself. I put a camera on him....

We know that Putin is an important figure in Trump’s imagination.

I think Trump probably likes him. And I’m assuming that what he sees in Putin is what he’d like to be: a strong person with the ability to organize a country and push it in a particular direction.

So it’s hero-worship?

He has the instinct of a real-estate broker. If you talk to these sorts of gentlemen, and there are a lot of them in New York, they’re movers, they’re shakers. They go to parties, they’re always looking over their shoulder to see if there’s somebody more important they could be talking to instead, they’re interested in meeting the top people. They’re on the go, man. They’re not people who read philosophy books, or for that matter, read. It’s very depressing to hear that Trump doesn’t read very much, and that he doesn’t sleep.

But how could I be in Trump’s mind? You’re stretching it, man. Now, you’re really stretching it!

http://www.vulture.com/2017/06/oliver-stone-putin-interviews-conversation.html

I liked W. but Stone's career deterioration has been p sad

his untold history series was actually p good, for the most part

Snowden had it's moments, the final confrontation in his mind with the big floating head of his father figure was pretty well done.

that's a fascinating interview, despite the interview trying to make it all about Trump. im looking forward to that documentary.

mzs is on my FB feed, he's certainly into russiarussiarussia

My god, this piece of shit:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/oliver-stone-asks-vladimir-putin-to-be-his-daughters-godfather

(the only movie of his I find watchable is his filmed version of Eric Bogosian's play, anyway)

Born on the Fourth of July is big and clunky, so I was surprised to still like it 30 years later. I'll try to read Kael (pan) and Kauffmann (praise) again. Too much speechifying, of course--but I find it more bearable here than coming from Costner in JFK. There are parts I find moving, especially when Cruise visits the two parents in Georgia. I don't know if the music here ever gets mentioned, but Stone uses pop really well: "Soldier Boy" early on, "Moon River" at the prom (great), the 5th Dimension at a parade (perfect), and he even gets a convincing cover of "Born on the Bayou" from a fictional bar band.

New documentary out next month:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c5RPk8FlIk

Nuclear Now takes viewers on a thought-provoking journey with director Oliver Stone as he explores the powerful impact of nuclear energy.