“Jarhead has more in common with Beckett, Sartre and Banuel than it does with Oliver Stone,” in the view of director Sam Mendes. “In America, they assumed I was trying to make an Oliver Stone movie and that I’d failed.” I don’t think that was the problem. The problem was that nothing really happened. Not to sound too primitive, but that was it.

January 5, 2006by Jeffrey Wells1 Comment