While his platoon pillages a small village Chris rescues a young village girl from being raped by some of the men in his platoon.

Platoon movie scenes. Chris Taylor a neophyte recruit in Vietnam finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants one good and the other evil. Barnes when Barnes confronts him and others about killing Sgt. Although the story is based in Vietnam filmmakers actually captured the gritty war scenes in the Philippines.

Platoon is a hard film to watch for a number of reasons. During this time the cast was subjected to an intense military training regime supervised by Vietnam Veteran Dale Dye. This is done as a means of releasing the tension and frustration that has built up from horrific ordeals he and his platoon have recently experienced.

Dafoe unaware of this fact in the heat of the moment continued to writhe and act as if being riddled with bullets. Platoon - Barnes Crosses the Line. Platoon Filming Locations.

A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict. 1951 Robert Aldrichs Attack. When he finds Chris Charlie Sheen trying to make sense of things King Keith David shares his thoughts on life and on.

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. Platoon is widely acclaimed as one of the best war films in cinema history but how true to life is Oliver Stones incendiary movie. Edit An unarmed Vietnamese woman is shot in the head at close range as her husband and daughter look on in horror.

Stg Barnes takes away the movie with these two scenes. Platoon falls into the latter category. The original idea for Platoon came to Oliver Stone when he was a.