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In "Platoon," there is the constant fear that any movement offers a 50-50 chance between a safe place or an exposed one. Stone sets up his shots to deny us the feeling that combat makes sense. The Vietnam War is the central moral and political issue of the last quarter-century, for Americans. It has inspired some of the greatest recent American ...
Tony C Love this film, just brilliant. Great cast and filming. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/20/24 Full Review Howard H A great war film. Sheen and Dafoe deliver a great deadly ...
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Feb 6, 1987 · Platoon: Directed by Oliver Stone. With Keith David, Forest Whitaker, Francesco Quinn, Kevin Dillon. Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil.
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Until Dec. 19, though, when Platoon opened, Hollywood had thought the picture a matter of indifference. It had taken Stone ten hungry years to get the project going. “For two years in the late ...
Platoon (1987) is a war epic following Chris Tayler and his platoon through a harrowing transformation of their innocence. The film is at times very upsetting and although the violence isn't gratuitously bloody or gross, almost every victim dies slowly and mercy is rare on the battlefield. Also, expect lots of strong language and elements of rape.
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Platoon. (film) Platoon 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 ...
