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Cast: Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom
Berenger, Francesco Quinn, Kevin Dillon, Johnny Depp, Keith David, Forest
Whitaker, John C. McGinley, Richard Edson; Directed by: Oliver Stone
Synopsis:
Oliver Stone's breakthrough as a director, Platoon is a brutally
realistic look at a young soldier's tour of duty in Vietnam. Chris Taylor
(Charlie Sheen) is a college student who quits school to volunteer for the Army
in the late '60s. He's shipped off to Vietnam, where he serves with a culturally
diverse group of fellow soldiers under two men who lead the platoon: Sgt. Barnes
(Tom Berenger), whose facial scars are a mirror of the violence and corruption
of his soul, and Sgt. Elias (Willem Dafoe), who maintains a Zen-like calm in the
jungle and fights with both personal and moral courage even though he no longer
believes in the war. After a few weeks "in country," Taylor begins to see the
naïveté of his views of the war, especially after a quick search for enemy
troops devolves into a round of murder and rape. Unlike Hollywood's first wave
of Vietnam movies (including "The
Deer Hunter", "Apocalypse
Now", and "Coming Home"), Platoon is a grunt's-eye view of the war,
touching on moral issues but focusing on the men who fought the battles and
suffered the wounds. In this sense, it resembles older war movies more than its
Vietnam peers, as it mixes familiar elements of onscreen battle with small
realistic details: bugs, jungle rot, exhaustion, C-rations, marijuana, and
counting the days before you go home. This mix of traditional war movie elements
with a contemporary sensibility won Platoon four Oscars including Best Picture
and Best Director, and a reputation as one of the definitive modern war films.