Before becoming a recognized director, Oliver Stone wrote the screenplay for the cult film "Scarface", released in 1983. The filmmaker, famous for "Platoon" and "Wall Street", told Michel Denisot's microphone about the genesis of this project , born in Paris in the winter of 1982.
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It is a cult film that has crossed the generations.
Scarface
, which recounts the rise then the fall of the gangster Tony Montana, continues to unleash passions since its release in 1983. But what is less known is that the script of Brian de Palma's feature film has was written by Oliver Stone.
At that time, he was not yet the acclaimed director of
Platoon
and Wall Street (1986), or even
Born July 4
(1989).
In 1982, Oliver Stone was still only a young screenwriter, who had just made his debut behind the camera.
Guest of Michel Denisot on Europe 1, he told about the writing of the screenplay for
Scarface
, which took place ... in Paris.
Against a background, of course, of cocaine.
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"At the time, I was taking cocaine"
"
Scarface
was a very exciting project. In Miami at the time, I was on cocaine and I was able to do a lot of research on the subject (of the film). I was very close to reality and to elsewhere I stopped using coke so that I could write the screenplay with a clear head, "recalls Oliver Stone.
"I moved to Paris during the winter of 1982-1983. I came here on purpose to write this script, to surround myself with French people who did not take coke, precisely to taste good French cuisine and come back to the life I cherished with my wife and my mother. The three of us lived in Paris for six months. That's where I wrote the screenplay, "said the director.