Still one of the better Vietnam War movies. I assume this was based on My Lai.
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And yes, that notorious village scene was certainly a stand-in for the My Lai killings
Platoon was excellent AND frightening in terms of what young men are capable of under pressure
Yes, the Village scene was based on My Lai..Taylor(Charlie Sheen) was supposedly Private Oliver Stone and the other grunts were based on soldiers in his platoon. One person commented that not all the events that happened in Platoon could happen to a real life platoon. It looks like Stone took a bunch of dramatic/traumatic incidents from the Vietnam War and put them all in one movie. It's obiously a very powerful movie but honestly, if you took 10 different soldiers experiences from 10 different Platoons during that era you'd probably come up with more differences than similarities.
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shareVery powerful film, and a little hard to watch. Both Berenger and Dafoe can play good and bad, so watching TB so absolutely horrible and WD (usually not a handsome lead but did not need to be here) is trying so hard to make the best out of a bad situation, we identify with him so strongly, then to have him left behind in a war zone. It's heartbreaking. There must be other scenes that are close to being as powerful, but I'm not sure I could think of many. Even the end of Titanic wasn't this sad.
shareThis was Stone at his best. Yes, there were very powerful scenes that were sad and depressing but there were also many hilarious scenes where the guys were just playing around with each other, talking sh!t. Bunny, Junior, King, Rhah, Elias, Red, all had funny(and often insightful) lines "She don't read no good no how", "That redneck music is just noise", "I got him in the O'Neal death Grip, see?", "We gonna get high, high, high!", "I gotta be in this foxhole with you?", "and I ain't even cheatin', yet", "The beast is hungry tonight", "Rhah.Rhah..Rhah!!!". There were so many great scenes and quotable lines they almost had to give Oliver Stone the Oscar. Even the score was fantastic!
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