His movies, which include Natural Born Killers, Platoon, Wall Street, JFK, Nixon, and W will be viewed by hundreds of millions of people, not just in the US, but all over the world. The people who see his movies, see the world through his world-view.
What is his world-view? What does the man think?
See: Oliver Stone: US should nationalize oil resources
LONDON – The Gulf of Mexico oil spill shows that the United States should follow the example of South American socialists in nationalizing its energy industry, filmmaker Oliver Stone said Tuesday.
The Academy Award-winning director of "Born on the Fourth of July" and "JFK" said that America's country's natural wealth was too important to be left in private hands, telling journalists in central London that oil and other natural resources "belong to the people."
"This BP oil spill is typical" of what happens when private industry is allowed to draw revenue on what should be a public good, Stone said.
"We shouldn't make this kind of profit on oil or on health or on war or on prisons. All these industries should be public industries."
Stone, 63, is in the British capital to promote his documentary, "South of the Border," which tells the story of firebrand Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his left-wing Latin American allies.
This man makes movies. His movies shape people's understanding of reality. What kind of world will his viewers make for our future?
Sure thing, Ollie......because the government's done a bang-up job with the response to the Deepwater Horizon going *glub glub glub* that we should make them the ultimate arbiter of who gets how much energy.
ReplyDeleteIt's not like they'd withold or tax energy as a punitive measure against parts of the country that were behaving in a double plus ungood manner.....