Beginning in 1967 Platoon follows the story of Chris Taylor as he is sent among his other young fellow soldiers to Vietnam.

Platoon movie summary. The year is September 1967. Platoon is Based On Oliver Stones Own Vietnam War Experiences One thing that no commentator could fault is the genuine experience that Stone had in the theatre of war well before he became a writer and director. By Kim Newman.

One night as the groups are sent to as a night ambush control one of the men that are supposed to keep watch fall asleep. It is loosely based on. Platoon 1986 is a harrowing visceral ultra-realistic gutsy visually-shattering Vietnam-war film based on the writerdirectors own first-hand knowledge as a Vietnam combat-infantry soldier.

He and the other newbies pass by a group of battle-hardened veterans before being shepherded elsewhere. It is too easy to say that Platoon is simply an autobiographical film. The director and staunch anti-war activist was only 21 years old when he enlisted for combat duty in Vietnam.

Throughout the film we experience the platoons frustrations anxieties and fears of fighting an invisible enemy that the platoon seems to have little to no impact against. Its 1967 and a plane full of new soldiers has just arrived in Vietnam. The conflict with the enemy and the conflict between the men within his platoon.

From the looks of it as he enters the platoon there are two main groups. Writer-director Oliver Stone seeks to immerse the audience totally in the nightmare of the United. It stars Michael Dudikoff and Michael DeLorenzo and was filmed in South Africa.

Stone sets up his shots to deny us the feeling that combat makes sense. Platoon is an intense but artistically distanced study of infantry life during the Vietnam War. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.