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Willem Dafoe & Charlie Sheen were incredible in PLATOON

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Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.

Director
Oliver Stone
Writer
Oliver Stone
Stars
Charlie SheenTom BerengerWillem Dafoe

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@timcook6566 2 years ago

One day my parents were out driving in the Ozarks of Missouri. All of a sudden dad slammed on the brakes and said No Fkn way! Backed up to the mailbox he’d just passed. Jumped out and ran to the door to knock. When an old man opened the door dad leapt forward and bear hugged him. It was his best friend from Vietnam.

@gutz1981 2 years ago

"The kids can't be VC."
Mary, sometimes you are too innocent for your own good.

@dvrmte 1 year ago

The explosions in the village were caused by hidden VC weapons. The village was helping the VC.

@AnthonyMartin6 2 years ago

The Vietnam draft did work that for "rich" and "poor". Since there was such a large field of baby boomers to draft from there was a college deferment that would delay eligibility for the draft if they were in college and making good grades. This lasted until graduation or the age of 24. Of course that meant that the draft pool was heavily skewed toward poorer people.

@sammyingersoll8870 2 years ago

People overlook Tom Berenger's performance in this movie. He plays one of the great villians in a war movie. The actor who plays Francis who stabbed myself in the leg at the end is Corey Glover. He is the lead singer of Living Colour, a terrific band from the 80s and 90s.

@CallOfCutie69 2 years ago

Now you’re now why Frank and Jane were laughing while leaving the cinema after watching Platoon in Naked Gun. 💅

@cliffwheeler7357 1 year ago

I get the impression that the raid on the village in Platoon was inspired by the My Lai massacre in March 1968, when a platoon shot dead over three hundred innocent villagers, mostly women, children and elderly men.

@simianinc 2 years ago

Mary won't remember, but Frank Drebin and Jane came out of Platoon laughing their heads off on their first date in The Naked Gun. Gotta love a Vietnam comedy

@dukerollo1116 2 years ago

My dad was in Vietnam and he said this is the most realistic Vietnam War movie he saw according to his tours. He only watched it once because he said it reminded him so much of his time in country

@Daveyboy100880 2 years ago

Re. The village raid. Unofficially, they were called Zippo Raids, as the GIs would use their lighters to start the fires (as is shown in the movie). A big US policy in the war was concentrating the southern Vietnamese into larger settlements, forcibly resettling them. This was done because the smaller villages were easy targets for the VC to use as bases, recruit from, or force into helping them. Usually the villages would be destroyed to stop them being used as VC bases after the villagers had left. It was a practical solution to a big problem, but it didn’t exactly do much to win the hearts and minds of the people. You can imagine how being forced from your home would push so many southern Vietnamese into the arms of the VC.

@edmundherrera3055 2 years ago

My old friend who served in Vietnam (1965-1967) said this movie was the most relatable and captures the vibe and essence of his experience

@AriR6R 1 year ago

That was Johnny’s second movie, he was just starting

@rollmops7948 2 years ago

Charlie Sheen was also with Tom Berenger (sgt Barnes) 3 years later in the baseball movie "Major League" (1989)

@gutz1981 2 years ago

I remember once in the barracks I had to wake up the next person to take my shift. I was a "fish" and he was an oldie, I woke him up, said get up, he said "I'm up, shut up." I left him the keys to the arms locker and the roster for that night. He fell asleep and then an hour or so later I get woken up yelled at by our officer in charge. I was yelled at for falling asleep on "my shift" cause the oldie didn't sign in and fell asleep and said I didn't wake him. We spent then next hour looking for the keys and the roster which the Officer hid to teach us a lesson. He eventually confessed and told me "Next time, you get him to sign in." It was from that moment on I never trusted anyone again.

@o0pinkdino0o 2 years ago

The documentary Platoon: Brothers in Arms is amazing. In it the actors stated that there were scenes when they looked at Stone and his eyes were glazed. He was not there with them anymore... he was back in 'NAM.
The platoon of actors were dressed and in character out in the jungles of Indonesia with proper army guys for two solid weeks before they descended and filmed their first scene. They really worked like a combat unit.
The US military fund and assist in the making of war movies as long as the film hits certain "quality" controls regarding how the military is portrayed (look at Top Gun which is basically a recruitment video). This movie failed all of these controls and was refused assistance so was independently financed. Veterans have stated that this is the most realistic version of a combat platoon ever shown on film.

@Robert_Douglass 2 years ago

8:28 "The shots are different colours..."

Tracer rounds are loaded into magazines for directing fire at night, one for every other four rounds of regular ammunition. When fired they give off a bright light. US and NATO forces use red tracers while most non-NATO forces use green tracer rounds.