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Oliver Stone describes how he became a soldier in the Vietnam War. The Academy Award winning director describes dropping out of Yale and requesting a position as an infantry soldier on the front lines. “I don’t like the group I had at Yale..the elistists, the privileged kids…I wanted to see the wider world,” Stone tells author Clara Bingham.

He discusses how his experience influenced his later work, especially the Academy Award winning film Platoon. “I became more of a jungle animal.”

Check out more great stories from Vietnam and the 1970 Protest Movement in Clara Bingham’s remarkable book:  Witness to The Revolution

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Legendary film director Martin Scorsese recalls what it was like to have Oliver Stone, another acclaimed film director, in one of his introductory film classes at New York University. Scorsese comments on the first impression he had about Stone’s personality, describing him as quiet and gentle. He also reminisces about the first project that Stone ever did for the class. Scorsese, giving Stone an ‘A’ on the short film, described it as emotional and very well done.

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