It’s almost becoming a fun little game. See if you can automatically answer these questions. They’ll probably have the same answers no matter when you ask them. For example… if you were, at anytime, to ask me to finish this sentence:
“Tim Burton’s new movie will star….” Well, the answer will probably be Johnny Depp.
And there’s this one too:
“Oliver Stone‘s new movie will be about….” Vietnam. The man has already done 3 films based on ‘Nam and now he’s gearing up for his fourth that apparently is titled “Pinkville”. But don’t write off this project just because Stone is going back to familiar territory. The premise of the film sounds pretty powerful:
Stone arrived in Da Nang on Wednesday on a research trip for his next film project, Pinkville. The film will be based on the massacres in the village of My Lai, which US soldiers razed in March, 1968, killing between 300 and 500 civilians. The massacres led to a military investigation and trial, and helped break the American public’s support for the war.
Now, obviously I wasn’t alive when that happened, but I do remember hear stories about it. I remember hearing one historian saying the revelation of the event in My Lai was the end of America’s sense of innocence. And although most people in my generation or younger can’t really grasp it now almost 40 years later, I’ve been told it had a really jarring effect on people when they saw and heard about what they’re own military had done.
Stone served in Vietnam, so it’s not surprising that he often finds himself drawn back there for his stories and things he wants to express. I’ll be looking forward to this one. (source: m&c)
