Has Any Other Filmmaker Experienced Such a Steep Fall in Relevance?

I read part of an article(or more likely, a tell all book) where Stone had some key people that worked on most of his early successes(other writers, producers, DOP, etc). Eventually, Stone's success went to his head, he started using, manipulating these talented people in many different ways. For instance, he'd play one against another and then when caught, totally deny it and think because he's Oliver Stone he gets whatever he wants. One by one those talents his team, and Stone has never been the same since.

i'm not sure if stone was ever out to become one of the next big auteur directors. i think he just made the movies he wanted to make. sometimes they were good, sometimes they weren't good.

personally, i think his most underrated film is any given sunday. probably the best football movie ever. definitely not a conventional film, and another director probably would've tried to weave a more conventional story into it. oliver stone didn't care, and just made it a really raw film.

Stone is censored. Particularly today for his Putin Interviews, which is actually pretty good. The extent to which the US is propagandizes, especially in this Ukraine business is startling. Few Hollywood directors are as political as Stone or have taken such such risks. They don't get the chance, and when they do they are banned or censored. I don't really care for Stone's movies, but I like his writing and his documentaries. He was way relevant when he made Salvador. The movie industry would be a lot worse without Oliver Stone.

> In fact, hardly anybody ever mentions his name at all

Maybe that is because most Hollywood movies these days are total crap, super-hero movies, remakes, sequels. What directors do get talked about? The ones who make action movies or big fantasy productions. Ridley Scott seems to get a lot of discussion, but his movies are mental most of the time. The Alien series, Prometheus and Covenant, are completely nuts.

He ignores established wisdom on JFK, 9/11 and Putin and promotes conspiracy theories from the lunatic fringe.

He's a useful idiot for Putin, right TrentnQuarantino? Three documentaries full of lies. This is what people think of Stone:

https://moviechat.org/tt6840134/The-Putin-Interviews/5940b58b5e37870011ceed20/Oliver-Stone-defended-Vladimir-Putin-to-Stephen-Colbert-The-audience-laughed-at-him

I like that he basically only does true stories.

His downfall proves that some people are too leftist even for Hollywood, lol.

New movie "Nuclear" is pretty fucking relevant, I'd say.

Documentary by Oliver Stone about how nuclear power is the solution to Global Warming.

Can't wait.

Oliver Stone's documentary, presented out of competition in Venice during the 79th Venice Film Festival , is a long narrative (one hour and forty-five minutes) on how essential and urgent the use of nuclear energy is as an alternative and sustainable energy. Based on the book A bright future by Joshua Goldstein , the work has a dual function: to wake up consciences numbed by thirty years of bad information and demonstrate, data in hand, what we're really talking about when we talk about nuclear energy.