Oliver Stone, the farm boy who went off to Vietnam, didn't like what he saw, came back to write a movie script, struggled 10 years to pull the resources together to produce PLATOON, is now worth $200 million. PLATOON, a penetrating analysis of the Vietnam war, won the ACADEMY AWARD for best picture of the year and was a top box office draw. Helping to generate the funds for this start up success were the proceeds from the writing of the screen play for the Brian DePalma movie, SCARFACE, an equally penetrating analysis of narcotics corruption at the highest levels of law enforcement, banking and international government.
Every Stone movie has been a resounding box office success ))) EL SALVIDOR, BORN ON THE 4TH OF JULY, WALLSTREET, THE DOORS and others. AIRAMERICA, a comedy with an historical basis portrayed General Secord's planes taking off in Laos with the red and white poppies blowing in the prop wash. General Van Pao and the PEPSI bottling factory (which never bottled a single soft drink but instead served as a heroin refinery) are two features taken from the unwritten pages of history. Stone's historical realism is starting to rival that of Francis Ford Cappola, whose last work GODFATHER III included the poisoning of the previous Pope (reference IN GOD'S NAME by David Yallop). Perhaps Stone will finally overtake Cappola with his $50 million dollar super movie, JFK, due to be released Dec. 20th.
JFK will for the very first time, show the American public exactly how President Kennedy was murdered. In order to accomplish this, Stone has contracted as consultants the very best researchers in the country. I can not criticize his judgement since he selected the very same people as my speakers agency, INTELLIGENCE CONNECTION, selected for engagements on university campuses.
The primary basis of Stone's movie is taken from the books, ON THE TRAIL OF THE ASSASSINS, by the current Louisiana Federal Appeals Judge, James Garrison, and A SAIGON SOLUTION by Col. L. Fletcher Prouty. ON THE TRAIL OF THE ASSASSINS details the government's effort to penetrate and destroy Garrison's 1967 prosecution of 2 men for the murder of John Kennedy.
The reader is probably saying what prosecution? A nation wide news black)out of this trial was just one of the difficulties with which Garrison contended. The co)option of his best friend by the government was his most serious problem. One would have thought that the murder of the second person indicted, David Ferrie, on the very day of Garrison's indictment, would have alerted the press that something significant was happening in New Orleans.
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