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Mark Moses. Actor: Platoon. Mark Moses was born in New York City, and grew up in Evanston, Illinois. His parents Philip and Patricia met in the West Village, his father worked in sales on Madison Avenue and his mother was an interior decorator. After playing football and basketball in high school and a few years at Ithaca College, Mark stumbled ...
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Sgt. Barnes : O'Neill, your short-timers stay in, but you go out. I need veterans out there. [walks away, Wolf follows] Lt. Wolf : Sergeant Barnes. Sergeant. I think, in front of the men, it's necessary for me to give the orders. Sgt. Barnes : [intimidatingly moves in close] Yes sir. Lt. Wolf : Two-five-two actual. Move it out.
- The Actors Wrote Their Own Messages on Their Helmets
- The Film Was Almost Made in The 70s by Sidney Lumet and Al Pacino
- Keanu Reeves, Mickey Rourke and Nick Nolte All Turned Down Leading Roles
- Political Unrest in The Philippines Almost Shut Down Production
- Keith David Saved Charlie Sheen’s Life When A Helicopter Shot Went Wrong
- The Actors Actually Smoked Illicit Substances Before Shooting The Drugs Scene
- The Film’S Most Iconic Image Was Based on A Real Photograph Taken in Vietnam
- Stone Used Imported Earth from Vietnam For Greater Authenticity
- Willem Dafoe Became Ill Drinking River Water
- Tom Berenger’s Make-Up Took Three Hours Every Day
Movies about the Vietnam War have often highlighted the practice of soldiers writing personalised messages on their helmets. This was done in Platoon, and for a more authentic personal touch, the actors wrote messages they came up with themselves. For his, Charlie Sheenwrote: ‘When I die, bury me upside-down so the world can kiss my a**.’ This can ...
By Oliver Stone’s own admission, the early script for what became Platoon was very far removed from the film he ended up making. As Stone recalls,there was a fantasy element: “The character dies in Vietnam and goes to the Underworld… I couldn’t deal with Vietnam yet in a completely realistic way at that point.” Stone later rewrote it into something...
Once the wheels finally got in motion on Platoon, Oliver Stone and company met with plenty of notable actors. However, not everyone that the director liked for the project said yes to the roles they were offered. Stone originally wanted Mickey Rourke for the role of Barnes, and Nick Noltefor Elias. However, both actors turned the roles down, cleari...
Platoon is one among a great many Hollywood movies set in Vietnam which were instead shot in the jungles of the Philippines. However, while this South-East Asian republic was more welcoming to American filmmakers, it was not without its own troubles. Production on Platoon came close to being scrapped when a revolution broke out in the Philippines i...
As with any film that involves stunts and combat sequences, production on Platoon was not without its risks. Charlie Sheen recalls that one hairy moment almost saw him thrown out of a helicopter. The cast were filming in an open-door gunship high off the ground, when the vehicle unexpectedly banked hard to one side. Sheen lost balance and fell towa...
Another aspect of the Vietnam war that has been widely documented in movies is drug use among American soldiers. This also comes up in Platoon, and one sequence sees several of the soldiers smoking a certain illicit substance. Of course, it’s also well known that plenty of people in Hollywood aren’t averse to that kind of behaviour either. It may n...
The release of Platoon was announced to cinemas around the world with one of the most famous posters ever. The image, which can also be seen in the movie itself, shows a soldier on his knees with his arms stretched in the air in desperation. This has gone down in history as one of the most iconic and powerful movie images of all time. However, whil...
As he had served in Vietnam himself, director Oliver Stone was anxious to make Platoon as true to life as he could. The level of attention to detail went perhaps a bit further than you might have expected, however. Platoon was shooting in the jungles of the Philippines, which had doubled for Vietnam in many movies before and since. However, Stone f...
In one scene, a character is warned not to drink water from the river lest they contract malaria. Unfortunately, actor Willem Dafoe chose to disregard this advice whilst shooting on location in the Philippines. Dafoe was feeling thirsty in between shots whilst shooting near a river, and drank directly from the open water. What Dafoe didn’t know at ...
Tom Berenger’s Sergeant Barnes is made all the more distinctive and imposing by his severe facial scars. As Platoon was striving for authenticity, efforts were made to ensure Barnes’ scars looked as realistic as possible. As a result, Berenger had to spend close to three hours in make-up every day of the shoot. The time getting the make-up applied,...
Years active. 1985–present. Spouse. Annie LaRussa. Children. 2. Family. Burke Moses (brother) Mark Moses (born February 24, 1958 [1]) is an American actor, best known for his roles as Paul Young in the ABC comedy-drama Desperate Housewives (2004–2011) and as Herman "Duck" Phillips in the AMC period drama Mad Men (2007–2015).
YearTitleRoleNotes2022–2024Harry4 episodes2022President George W. BushEpisode: "That White House"2020Undersheriff Jerry LondonMain role2019President3 episodesPlatoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Keith David, Kevin Dillon, John C. McGinley, Forest Whitaker, and Johnny Depp. It is the first film of a trilogy of Vietnam War films directed by Stone, followed by Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Heaven & Earth ...
Mark Ebenhoch ... assistant military technical advisor (as Mark K. Ebenhoch) Diosdado Figueroa ... assistant armorer Sylvia Gajardo ... bookkeeper Robert 'Rock' Galotti ... assistant military technical advisor (as Robert M. Galotti Jr.) Anne G. Garcia ... production secretary Eusebio Garcia ...
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Platoon is a war film set during the Vietnam War, directed by Oliver Stone. The film was released to the cinemas in the USA on 19 December 1986.[1] Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a young American who has abandoned a privileged life at a university to enlist in the infantry, volunteering for combat duty in Vietnam. The year is September 1967. Upon arrival in Da Nang, South Vietnam, he sees ...
