Platoon (Special Edition)

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Maybe this film is unrealistic in the fact that this wasn't the average soldier's experience. I would think "That is one hardcore SOB." Nowadays he can't talk about Vietnam without breaking down and sobbing and crying. Many will not really talk about it (just like my dad who served 4 years in WWII and saw heavy action. This crap did happen though. Only after his death have I realized how scarred he was by that experience). I do have numerous friends who were. The war mercifully ended weeks before I would have been.

I wasn't over there. I think about 50,000 or so just got killed. Duh, it's a movie. 10 years ago he would tell these stories like jokes and laugh like crazy. I can see now that he has been living in hell for 30+ years. Of, course only the most sensational aspects of the war are portrayed. I've read a couple of reviews that downgraded this film as being unrealistic.

I know a guy who used to tell me horror stories similar to those portrayed in this movie.

Real life and real people are about shades of grey. The war also changed over time. What a real film about vietnam would show is ordinary people doing a tough job day after day and doing the best they could. In real life, things don't break down into "good" soldiers and "evil" soldiers. Its like a postmodernist John Wayne movie with different politics. The characters and plot are almost cartoonish. About the only thing this film got right were the uniforms.

Its not about archtype evil officers, good/evil "father" figures and long political monologues. Despite endless comments to the contrary, there is nothing "realistic" about the film. Rather than being about the Vietnam war as it really was, this film is basically an exercise in what America wants the vietnam war to be. Oliver Stone served in 1967 but the movie is often showing situations that were more out of 1971 with which he had no personal experience.

All star cast, great story, truly moving in an emotional sense (watch the Bunker Scene, with Smokey Robinson's "Tracks of My Tears"). Gonzo Actually, a must have for anyone who enjoys a good picture. WATCH THIS MOVIE.

Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ (Director's Cut) [Import, All-region] (Dvd) (1988). Charlie Sheen is of course the son of actor Martin Sheen, who also appeared in an epic film about Viet Nam, Apocalypse Now. It is dedicated to the soldiers who fought there, but it depicts a horrible morass, a moral quagmire, that questions the mission, and our whole involvement in that sorry chapter in our nation's history. 'Charlie Sheen' 's helmet reads, "When I die, bury me upside-down, so the world can kiss my ***", while Johnny Depp's simply reads, "Sherilyn", a tribute to Sherilyn Fenn, whom Depp was dating at the time. Sgt. Mark Moses (Lt. The cast also includes future Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, Johnny Depp, Francesco Quinn, Kevin Dillon, John C. He is the Alpha Company major in bunker.

Platoon also did well at the box office. Apocalypse Now was loosely based on Conrad's Heart of Darkness, but Platoon was written by Stone based on his own experience in Nam. I don't know what's right or wrong anymore. Sheen is seen every day on Two and a Half Men, which is now in syndication. FILMS DIRECTED BY OLIVER STONE. JFK - Special Edition Director's Cut (1991). Oliver Stone has an unaccredited cameo here, but I recognized him.

Ward. Red O'Neill, is the obnoxious Dr. Chris Taylor: Day by day I struggle to maintain not only my strength but also my sanity. Stone wanted to tell what it was really like to counter the false image portrayed in John Wayne's The Green Berets. Heaven & Earth (1993). McGinley, and Mark Moses.

there's no right or wrong in them. McGinley, who played Sgt. Willem Dafoe plays Sgt. He is a very shocking character who seems completely without a moral compass.

It is a black wall, something that tore our country apart, and something as incomprehensible as a black wall. Major League and Major League II starred both Tom Berenger and Charlie Sheen. Kevin Dillon is the younger brother of Matt Dillon. Wall Street (1987). Nixon (1995).

They're just there. A monumental clash of the titans ensues, a battle between good and evil. Several of the actors wrote messages on their helmets worn throughout the movie. Salvador (Special Edition) (1986). I saw the Viet Nam memorial in Washington, D.C., and it is very moving, and a fitting monument to that war.

The stars. It's all a blur. I can't believe we're fighting each other, when we should be fighting them. Lock and load. Wild At Heart (1990).

Shooting someone in the face with a shotgun could be Dick Chaneying. Getting drunk and disorderly could be Andy Dicking around, and drunk driving is Shia LaBeoufing. Neuman with the phrase "What, me worry." and, according to Tom Berenger, this caused Oliver Stone to laugh hysterically once during filming. But in the chaos and violence of Viet Nam, it is hard to tell which is which. I didn't recognize Johnny Depp at all, but John C.

Why is that so fitting. Natural Born Killers (1994) . In the game of making someone's name into a verb, after a faux pas or something, how about tax evasion being known as Wesley Sniping. Hell.

Sgt. Half the men with Elias, half with Barnes. Platoon was an early success, winning the Oscar for best picture, and best director for Oliver Stone. Platoon is therefore the first major film about Viet Nam directed by a veteran. Later on, after struggling to survive for what seems like an eternity, he has this to say:.

It is just a black stone wall with lots of names, the numerous soldiers who died there. military leadership classes, the character of Lt. The Doors (Special Edition) (1991). Elias, and Tom Berenger is Sgt.

Bobby Peru is like the opposite of Christ, if not quite the Antichrist. Chris Taylor: Somebody once wrote: "Hell is the impossibility of reason." That's what this place feels like. Wolfe) had on his helmet a drawing of MAD magazine mascot Alfred E. Barnes: Saddle up.

Cox from the TV program Scrubs. Oliver Stone served in Viet Nam, where he was awarded a Bronze Star for Gallantry and a Purple Heart. Both Willem Dafoe and Tom Berenger received nominations for playing the two Sergeants who are polar opposites, good and evil, or evil and good. Barnes.

There's a lot of suspicion and hate. I have no energy to write. Another reference to Sherilyn Fenn can be seen on Johnny Depp's guitar in the scene where they are smoking dope: the carved initials S.F. Elias: I love this place at night. Wolfe is used as an example of how not to behave as a junior officer. Mark Moses has been on Desperate Housewives.

A young Charlie Sheen plays Chris Taylor, an idealistic youth who has volunteered to fight in Viet Nam, but who never bargained for what he got there. The morale of the men is low, a civil war in the platoon. The entire cast was reunited for the sequel except Wesley Snipes, who thought he was too big for his part by then, and was therefore skewered mercilessly by director David S. Willem Dafoe portrayed Jesus. [Referring to Vietnam]. Oliver Stone directed this powerful film about the Viet Nam War.

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