Synopsis
The first casualty of war is innocence.
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
1986 Directed by Oliver Stone
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
Charlie Sheen Willem Dafoe Tom Berenger Kevin Dillon Forest Whitaker Mark Moses Keith David Richard Edson Francesco Quinn John C. McGinley Johnny Depp Reggie Johnson David Neidorf Chris Pedersen Tony Todd Corkey Ford Corey Glover Bob Orwig Kevin Eshelman James Terry McIlvain J. Adam Glover Ivan Kane Paul Sanchez Dale Dye Peter Hicks Basile Achara Steve Barredo Chris Castillejo Andrew B. Clark Show All…
Charles Grenzbach Greg Dillon Simon Kaye Vanessa Theme Ament David Campling James J. Klinger Gordon Daniel Richard D. Rogers Anthony Palk John Wilkinson Steve Bartlett Taffy Haines
Vzvod, Pluton, Pelotón, Peloton, A szakasz, Platoon - Os Bravos do Pelotão, Četa, Plutonen, Взвод, Müfreze, 野战排, Platoon - nuoret sotilaat, Platoon - kamp-patruljen, Вод, Čata, Πλατούν, プラトーン, 플래툰, פלאטון, 前進高棉, Būrys, พลาทูน, Trung Đội, ოცეული, 殺戮戰場
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Why is he called Willem Dafoe when in this movie it's obvious it should be Willem Dafriend
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Incident to incident. Snake slithering around foot. Lizard crawling on head of stone. Smoke against foliage against blood against the deepest cries of anguish. Screams in the dark. Flares and claymores. An environment and a moment in history which will not and cannot be explained to us. One of the few narrative war films that not only doesn't apologize for its slaughter (the Vietcong aren't simply Otherized, in addition abstracted among nature's wrath - humans retaliating because they need to), but doesn't offer the tools to comprehend the images laid out in silent, foreboding succession. Why should it? Vietnam happened. America let it happen. We're lucky Oliver Stone could display such a coherent political framework within the infantry depiction…
Doesn't have the fleshed-out characters of The Deer Hunter.
Doesn't have the satirical commentary of Full Metal Jacket.
Doesn't have the film-making mastery of Apocalypse Now.
And just quite a dull and uninteresting film overall.
“I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy; we fought ourselves. And the enemy was in us.”
If all war films were as good and sincere as Platoon it would probably be one of my favorite genres, but there are very few exceptions where the material is treated right as most directors tend to either be incredibly biased debating either in favor or against the war. It’s strange I make this claim since Platoon is obviously an anti-war film, but it treats the material with an honesty you don’t find in other films of the genre. It is much easier to make a statement like this in a war that everyone considers was a terrible mistake to…
i relate to charlie sheen in that i too, would do anything shirtless young willem dafoe asked of me, including but not limited to putting my mouth on the muzzle of a gun that he‘s pointing directly at my face
Beyond setting a great deal of the template for how movies would look at this conflict going forward or being a reportedly excruciatingly faithful recreation of "what it was really like", this manages to touch on so many slivers of context. Race and socioeconomic pressures on the grunts back home and in military heirarchy, intelligence and administrative failures, nuts-and-bolts technical stuff, on and on. Often further evidence of Stone's widely humanist intentions, too. What tends to be dismissed as a lack of subtlety is often an attempt to articulate the broadest possible experience. This time it even kind of reminded me of Sade's "Justine"*, aka "The Misfortunes of Virtue". Not taking pleasure in the torture but understanding it on the…
Apocalypse Now: Martin Sheen in a Vietnam movie that explores human duality in the war.
Platoon: Charlie Sheen in a Vietnam movie that explores human duality in the war.
Like father like son I guess...
For the 2 Iong hours of the movie's runtime I couldn't think of anything else but how unconvincingly Charlie Sheen tried to follow in his father's footsteps 7 years after Martin played Captain Willard in Apocalypse Now. This movie was a huge disappointment all around. Even the title is dull. They completely wasted Willem Dafoe and managed to pull off the most boring cliche ending.
Seriously, the only noteworthy scene was when the platoon raided the village and killed the civilian inhabitants. It really showed the dehumanizing effects the war had on the soldiers and how easily they lost their grip, becoming a killing machine, even if only for seconds.
Besides that scene there was 23-year old Johnny Depp speaking Vietnamese. Oh, and the poster looks swell. And that about concludes it.