luka

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Turner: do we have plans to invade the Middle East?

Turner: Do we have plans to invade the Middle East?
Higgins: Are you crazy?
Turner: Am I?
Higgins: Look, Turner…
Turner: Do we have plans?
Higgins: No. Absolutely not. We have games. That's all. We play games. What if? How many men? What would it take? Is there a cheaper way to destabilize a regime? That's what we're paid to do.
Turner: So Atwood just took the games too seriously. He was really going to do it, wasn't he?
Higgins: A renegade operation. Atwood knew 54/12 would never authorize it, not with the heat on the company.
Turner: What if there hadn't been any heat? Suppose I hadn't stumbled on their plan?
Higgins: Different ballgame. Fact is, there was nothing wrong with the plan. Oh, the plan was all right, the plan would've worked.
Turner: Boy, what is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?
Higgins: No. It's simple economics. Today it's oil, right? In ten or fifteen years, food. Plutonium. And maybe even sooner. Now, what do you think the people are gonna want us to do then?
Turner: Ask them.
Higgins: Not now — then! Ask 'em when they're running out. Ask 'em when there's no heat in their homes and they're cold. Ask 'em when their engines stop. Ask 'em when people who have never known hunger start going hungry. You wanna know something? They won't want us to ask 'em. They'll just want us to get it for 'em!
 

luka

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I haven't watched this film but it looks like the best film ever made. I love Oliver Stone he's a genius.
 

luka

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Look how angry it makes Oliver. It must be good. He didn't even bother crafting an elegant sentence. Just exploded in rage.
 

version

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I thought about making an Oliver Stone thread recently. I want to see Salvador and JFK. I rewatched some of Scarface the other day and only just learned he wrote the script.
 

version

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I've seen Platoon, Natural Born Killers, Wall Street and The Doors. I've seen Midnight Express, Conan the Barbarian and Scarface too which he didn't direct, but he did write.
 

luka

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I might have seen natural born killers actually. Or some of it. Him trying to compete with Tarantino.
 

version

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I might have seen natural born killers actually. Or some of it. Him trying to compete with Tarantino.
Natural Born Killers was based on a screenplay written by Quentin Tarantino, in which a married couple suddenly decide to go on a killing spree.[6] Tarantino had sold an option for his script to producers Jane Hamsher and Don Murphy for $10,000 after he had tried, and failed, to direct it himself for $500,000.[7] Hamsher and Murphy subsequently sold the screenplay to Warner Bros. Around the same time, Oliver Stone was made aware of the script. He was keen to find something more straightforward than his previous production, Heaven & Earth (1993), a difficult shoot which had left him exhausted.

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After Quentin Tarantino attempted to publish his original screenplay to Natural Born Killers as a paperback book, as he had done with his scripts for True Romance and his own directorial efforts, Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, the producers of Natural Born Killers filed a lawsuit against Tarantino, claiming that when he sold the script to them, he had forfeited the publishing rights; eventually, Tarantino was allowed to publish his original script.[61]

Tarantino disowned the film, saying, "I hated that fucking movie. If you like my stuff, don't watch that movie."[62]
 
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