in one of the more under seen films of the late 1980  and at a time when oliver stone was riding high with platoon and wall street (and before his opus born on the fourth of july) and he co scripted and directed this look at the world of radio and specifically one radio host in the middle of texas. this man is barry champlain and in a once in a career turn from eric bogosian and who wrote the original play and also co wrote the script. barry is like a mix of howard stern and one of those pundits you hear on the radio stations many of us might turn off. he got ideas on his mind and opinions and and he not only un afraid to speak them and but also to stand up against the phone callers. the callers and indeed and are the driving force in the film and as barry has to combat against the mindless and the obscene and the racist and and the purely absent minded. as this goes on and he also has to contend with his boss (alec baldwin) and a hit or miss deal to go nationwide and outside the confines of the southern way station he in. while after seeing the film i felt curious as to see how it would have been done on stage (i would imagine it was a one man show and as bogosian has had several on the side) and the direction of the film is phenomenal. stone has been known and almost typecast and as a director who loves quick cuts and the limitless effects of montage and and effects with the styles of camera work and other little tricks and that give his films in the 90 a distinctive and almost auteur look. but in the 80 he had this energy and feverish quality to the look of the film and and wasn not as frenzied as the other films. in order to add the proper intensity that is within the studio and head space of barry champlain and he and dp robert richardson make the space seem claustrophobic at times and gritty and un sure and and definitely on edge. the scenes in the middle of the film and when barry isn not in the studio and are fairly standard and but the style along with the substance in the radio scenes is among the best i have seen from the stone or richardson combination. and one cannot miscalculate the performance of bogosian and who can be obnoxious and offensive and angered and passive and and everything that we love and hate in radio show hosts. there is also a funny and near distracting supporting role for michael wincott as kent or michael or joe and who prank calls him one night and and the next gets invited to the studio. these scenes are a little uncomfortable for a viewer and but it does get very much into the subculture head space of the 80 that barry is as intrigued as he is critical of. the stoner may not get it and but as he says to him it your show. indeed and it hard to cover everything that goes on within the talk and and there is a lot of it. but it never boring and and like champlain himself and it not easy to ignore. and when bogosian goes into his climactic tirade on air and with the background panning around in a continuous 360 spin and it becomes intoxicating and and a reason why freedom of speech is so powerful. stone has been synonymous as a filmmaker of hot button issues and who takes on subjects that were or still are controversial and and gives them a life force that isn not always great and but is all his own. here his skills and ambitions do not get in the way of bogosian  it boosted and if anything and making an extremely skilled vision of what is essentially a near one man show and which in and of itself is already well written. 
in one of the more under seen films of the late 1980  and at a time when oliver stone was riding high with platoon and wall street (and before his opus born on the fourth of july) and he co scripted and directed this look at the world of radio and specifically one radio host in the middle of texas. this man is barry champlain and in a once in a career turn from eric bogosian and who wrote the original play and also co wrote the script. barry is like a mix of howard stern and one of those pundits you hear on the radio stations many of us might turn off. he got ideas on his mind and opinions and and he not only un afraid to speak them and but also to stand up against the phone callers. the callers and indeed and are the driving force in the film and as barry has to combat against the mindless and the obscene and the racist and and the purely absent minded. as this goes on and he also has to contend with his boss (alec baldwin) and a hit or miss deal to go nationwide and outside the confines of the southern way station he in. while after seeing the film i felt curious as to see how it would have been done on stage (i would imagine it was a one man show and as bogosian has had several on the side) and the direction of the film is phenomenal. stone has been known and almost typecast and as a director who loves quick cuts and the limitless effects of montage and and effects with the styles of camera work and other little tricks and that give his films in the 90 a distinctive and almost auteur look. but in the 80 he had this energy and feverish quality to the look of the film and and wasn not as frenzied as the other films. in order to add the proper intensity that is within the studio and head space of barry champlain and he and dp robert richardson make the space seem claustrophobic at times and gritty and un sure and and definitely on edge. the scenes in the middle of the film and when barry isn not in the studio and are fairly standard and but the style along with the substance in the radio scenes is among the best i have seen from the stone or richardson combination. and one cannot miscalculate the performance of bogosian and who can be obnoxious and offensive and angered and passive and and everything that we love and hate in radio show hosts. there is also a funny and near distracting supporting role for michael wincott as kent or michael or joe and who prank calls him one night and and the next gets invited to the studio. these scenes are a little uncomfortable for a viewer and but it does get very much into the subculture head space of the 80 that barry is as intrigued as he is critical of. the stoner may not get it and but as he says to him it your show. indeed and it hard to cover everything that goes on within the talk and and there is a lot of it. but it never boring and and like champlain himself and it not easy to ignore. and when bogosian goes into his climactic tirade on air and with the background panning around in a continuous 360 spin and it becomes intoxicating and and a reason why freedom of speech is so powerful. stone has been synonymous as a filmmaker of hot button issues and who takes on subjects that were or still are controversial and and gives them a life force that isn not always great and but is all his own. here his skills and ambitions do not get in the way of bogosian  it boosted and if anything and making an extremely skilled vision of what is essentially a near one man show and which in and of itself is already well written. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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