VINCENT BUGLIOSI AND OLIVER STONE
David Von Pein
www.google.com/group/alt.assassination.jfk/browse_thread/thread/4d7772c5e0d65de6
>>> "Oliver Stone...is said to be in talks with Vincent Bugliosi, to put the latter's book "Helter Skelter" onto the big screen." <<<
>>> "I imagine we will soon be hearing from David Von Pein about this subject." <<<
This thread took me by total surprise. It's the first I've heard about
it.
I, too, have a hard time believing that Vince Bugliosi would want to
work with Oliver Stone, a person Vince so totally ripped apart in
"Reclaiming History".
But, I guess stranger partnerships have occurred.
I do know that the 2004 "Helter Skelter" TV movie was originally
supposed to be made for the "big screen". Bugliosi inasmuch confirmed
that fact in some pre-2004 interviews I have heard (unless Vince
simply misspoke when he said the film was intended for the "big
screen", vs. just a TV production).
Anyway, I think that both of the "Helter Skelter" TV films are very
good, particularly the 1976 multi-part TV miniseries, with Steve
Railsback as a very effective (and eerie) Charles Manson, and George
DiCenzo as a nearly-perfect Vince Bugliosi, IMO.
lazu...@webtv.net
Stone was ripped as a lefty..conspiracy theorist blah blah blah was
supposedly..(I didn't see the film) not nearly hard enough on Bush,
being one of the main criticisms of the film.
I did think his World Trade center was quite good, though limited in
scope it really showed what those firefighters did. Obviously, it would
probably take a 5 hour film to give you all the historical stuff leading
up to 9/11 and be extremely hard to make...and you have to have an
audience, critics, and historians that want to know what happened. I'd
give Historians an F- on the JFK Assassination and their groupthink on
Stone's film, critics were by and large much fairer, more objective, and
more knowledgeable. There's a galaxy between Stone and Bugliosi on the
JFK case, but most people are still closer to Stone on this ...lest we
ever forget.