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"Oliver Stone has said that he likes to make movies about underdogs and &amp;quot;tortured&amp;quot; men in power. Speaking to AV Club, the acclaimed director highlighted his presidential biopics Nixon and W. as pictures that are representative of his larger body of work. &amp;quot;I also do films about a lot of underdogs, I hope you realise,&amp;quot; he said, citing Natural Born Killers and Born On The Forth Of July as examples. Stone continued: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not only interested in power, per se. I&amp;#039;m interested, I suppose, in tortured power. The tortured power of Richard Nixon and Alexander [the Great] fascinate me. I can&amp;#039;t say the tortured power of George Bush, because [W.] is exactly the opposite. He&amp;#039;s not self-tortured, so I guess my thesis doesn&amp;#039;t hold up on that one. &amp;quot;W. interested me because he so affected our time, the 2000s, and I just felt we had to have some kind of dramatic interpretation of what happened. It was so shocking that this fella could become president.&amp;quot; The Wall Street filmmaker added that he was disappointed when &amp;quot;hollow, superficial&amp;quot; comparisons were made between Bush and Alexander when W. was first released. &amp;quot;[W.] doesn&amp;#039;t qualify as an Alexander-type movie, although at the time it came out, in 2008, if you remember, there were these hollow, superficial comparisons between him and Alexander, unfortunately because of Baghdad,&amp;quot; he commented. &amp;quot;And nothing could be further removed from the truth.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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