A
writer turned
director and sometimes
producer who has released a great number of movies. Some of the more popular ones are
Platoon(1986),
JFK(1991), and the incredibly controversial and ultra-ultra-
violent Natural Born Killers(1994).
This last wound up getting Stone, the movie's
producer, the
studio, and so forth sued because some
punk kids killed some people after evidently being
inspired by the movie. The case against Stone was championed by, of all people,
John Grisham. A friend of his was one of the people killed.
Grisham wrote an article that suggested that the
creators of
movies,
books, and other forms of
entertainment should be held accountable for possible
repercussions from their works. Stone, who I believe is a much better writer than
Grisham, replied by writing a fairly eloquent refutation.