Adagio for Strings plays during the ensuing scene as the wounded Elias emerges from the jungle.

Platoon movie elias death. Platoon1986 - The Death Of Elias - YouTube American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone starring Tom Berenger Willem Dafoe Charlie. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. There is a lot of speculation whether he lives or dies confused even more by the fact Depp mentions Lerner dies in a documentary about this movie.

But Elias is only wounded. PLATOON Clip - Elias Death 1986 Willem DafoePLOT. Noting Barnes anxious manner Taylor realizes that he was responsible.

After being wounded and left for dead by Staff Sergeant Barnes Tom Berenger. He is literally running for his life from the pursuing NVA. Chris Taylor Charlie Sheen leaves his university studies to enlist in combat duty in Vietnam in 1967.

Taylor and the rest of his unit watch as Elias dies and Taylor completely loses his innocence at this time and begins to form an intense hatred toward Barnes for killing his friend. In the jungle with no witnesses Barnes Tom Berenger shoots Elias Willem Dafoe and then blames it on the Viet CongBUY THE M. Barnes orders the rest of the platoon to retreat and goes back into the jungle to find Elias group.

Elias Grodin had already been killed in action the platoon can only watch from the chopper as he is shot repeatedly by Viet Cong troops. Later on in the film Taylor gets in a fist fight with Barnes and then at the very end of the movie Taylor shoots Barnes when no one else was around. Elias Willem Dafoe emerges from the jungle running from a large group of NVA soldiers.

This is the iconic scene from the 1987 movie Platoon which shows the death of Sgt. Wounded while walking point the front of the line while the platoon was patrolling the forest seen stretchered after church battle. While the platoon is extracting via helicopter they glimpse Elias mortally wounded emerging from the treeline and being chased by a group of North Vietnamese soldiers who kill him.