The Ethics and Aesthetics of Adaptation
Ethical questions often arrive when embarking on an adaptation. Why are you the one who can best retell this story? What are your motives? Will the work do justice to the original author, or to a discerning audience of a more demanding era?
Director/co-screenwriter Oliver Stone says that the influence he received from Hollywood film characters and actors to enlist in the military changed once he got to Vietnam and experienced war first-hand:
I think the militaristic John Wayne stereotype influenced many young men to enlist in the military and support the war … I was more influenced by Tarzan, Errol Flynn, and Clark Gable, and definitely Hemingway … I loved the rectitude of male heroes that, in that ...
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