Transcript: Oliver Stone's `Heaven and Earth' Completes Trilogy

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BOB EDWARDS, Host: Filmmaker Oliver Stone has written and directed two highly successful movies about the Vietnam War and its aftermath. One was Platoon; the other, Born on the Fourth of July. In both films, Stone depicted the war from the American point of view. His latest movie, Heaven and Earth, sees the same period through the eyes of a Vietnamese peasant woman, a perspective that Hollywood has neglected. Iris Mann reports.

IRIS MANN, Reporter: Heaven and Earth is based on two autobiographies by Lali Haislip [sp], a Vietnamese woman who was born when the French occupied her country, and who fled as the bride of a United States military officer ...

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