This is the time the platoon clearly begins to disintegrate and Barnes takes control while the platoons factions become far more open.

Platoon movie best scenes. By nature the movie industry has been a notorious cheat when it comes to confronting serious subjects and on Vietnam in particular there was a rare schizophrenic attitude on the part of the industry. Scene in Color Film Series. It made war look so scary.

Chris Taylor Charlie Sheen is a young American who has abandoned a privileged life at a university to enlist in the infantry volunteering for combat duty in Vietnam. There are the obvious notions the impassiveness of brutality the guilt of carnage the segregation of brothers in arms the hidden enemy that make it difficult to stomach but for me the horrors depicted in Platoon are epitomized in one very brief but no less effective scene. The Boys in Company C follows the lives of five Marine inductees from their training in boot camp through a tour of duty in Vietnam.

During this time the cast was subjected to an intense military training regime supervised by Vietnam Veteran Dale Dye. Platoon is an intense but artistically distanced study of infantry life during the Vietnam War. Writer-director Oliver Stone seeks to immerse the audience totally in the nightmare of the United.

Platoon Filming Locations. The movie really stuck with me as a kid. Platoon is filled with one fine performance after another and one can only wish that every.

5042018 - With masterful performances and cinematography Platoon is probably the best Vietnam war movie ever made. 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. Peter B Super Reviewer.

There are some very good acting scenes in this movie although the movie is disjointed. Although the story is based in Vietnam filmmakers actually captured the gritty war scenes in the Philippines. The shooting started in February of 1986 and lasted for 54 days.