Platoon

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Country of production United States of America
1986
Duration 120 min
Ratio 1.85: 1
Genre war, dramatic
Directed by Oliver Stone
Subject Oliver Stone
Screenplay Oliver Stone
Producer Arnold Kopelson
Photography Robert Richardson
Editing Claire Simpson
Special effects Gionilda Stolee, Derek Howard, Ccecille Baun
Music Georges Delerue, Budd Carr
Set design Bruno Rubeo, Chris Lombardi, George Rosales, Caloy Salcedo
Costumes Roy Lachica, Martin Raygon, Dwight Gaston
Trick Tess Quismundo, Maria Cecina




Performers and characters

Charlie Sheen: soldier Chris Taylor
Willem Dafoe: Sergeant Elias K.Grodin
Tom Berenger: Sergeant Major Robert "Bob" Barnes
Kevin Dillon: Bunny soldier
John C. McGinley: Sergeant Red O'Neill
Keith David: King soldier
Reggie Johnson: Junior Martin soldier
Forest Whitaker: Big Harold soldier
Bob Orwig: Gardner soldier
Francesco Quinn: corporal Rhah
Mark Moses: Lieutenant Wolfe
Corey Glover: Francis soldier
Johnny Depp: soldier Gator Lerner
Chris Pedersen: Crawford soldier
David Neidorf: Tex soldier
Corkey Ford: Manny Washington soldier
Richard Edson: soldier Sal
Tony Todd: Sergeant Warren










[b][size=12pt]Platoon is a 1986 film, directed by Oliver Stone which deals with his stay in Vietnam as a volunteer during the war and is inspired by the real experiences lived by the director in 1967-1968.

The film won 4 Academy Awards out of 8 nominations and Oliver Stone was also awarded the Silver Bear in Berlin for Best Director. In 1998 the American Film Institute added him to the 83rd place in the ranking of the best hundred US films of all time, [1] while ten years later, in the updated list, it fell to eighty-sixth place


Chris, a young American, volunteer for the Vietnam war, not finding it right that it always touches economically disadvantaged men and black minorities to risk their lives for their country. Once in a platoon, picturesque for variety of composition, dehumanized by the brutal experience of the jungle war, in a short time Chris is ruthlessly initiated to the needs of that violent life, not excluding the use of drugs to defend himself from nostalgia. During a reconnaissance in the jungle, the inhuman sergeant Barnes, who commands the platoon, discovers an inhabited village and decides its massacre and destruction. The massacre is violently executed by Sergeant Elias, who attacks Barnes and assures him of a relationship with his superiors on the atrocities he committed. Shocked by the horrors of the massacre he witnessed, Chris is on the march with the platoon to take action against a Viet Cong bunker, in torrential rain. Due to the mistake of an American lieutenant who gives wrong coordinates, the platoon is partially destroyed. While Chris rescues the wounded, Barnes encounters Elias isolated in the jungle and strikes him for revenge. From the top of the rescue helicopter, Chris and the survivors see horrified Elias wounded, fleeing in front of the Vietcong, who subsequently kill him. In the last war action of his volunteer stop, escaping a deadly ambush by the Viet Cong who completely annihilated the platoon, Chris, encountering the ruthless Barnes, who wounded tries to save himself, kills him with lucid determination.











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