Subject: Stone applauds pop with a message like "Avatar" Posted By: Jeff, Certified Gold Club Member ( veetus@earthlink.net) Date Posted: 1/25/2010 3:51:23 PM Number Of Times Message Viewed: 94

Stone spoke at the Foreign Correspondent's Club of Thailand with a 25 minute speech called "Filmmaking and Peace Building" in which he acknowledged the current record shattering movie: "I hope that ("Avatar") is crawling into the unconscious of the world" and says that popular movies can be the "guerrillas of the mind". I happen to be doing some research for posts about science-fiction projects Stone has been involved with ("The Demolished Man", "Wild Palms", "Planet of the Apes") so this brings up a good point. Why doesn't Stone take a break from the heavy duty dramas (which are getting hard to finance) and try coming in through a side door? He's said he wants to try different genres but he rarely does ("The Doors" could be seen as a musical, maybe "Natural Born Killers" and "U-Turn" as comedies). He also called this "a dark time - darker than anything I've ever known in my 60 - plus years". "Filmmaking and Peacebuilding" This message currently has had 1 reply messages posted. RE: Stone applauds pop with a message like -- 1/26/2010 2:58:16 AM posted by Alci