Is Platoon Based on a True Story.

Platoon movie based on book. He is a middle-class college student who volunteers for the war because he considers it his patriotic duty and who is told soon after he arrives in the combat zone You dont belong here. Dye a Vietnem veteran himself and is based on the screenplay by Oliver Stone. With Keith David Forest Whitaker Francesco Quinn Kevin Dillon.

The protagonist is a young idealist and patriot called Chris Taylor. The story is mostly based on his own experience when he went there. Two members of the platoon Sandy J.

In fact the movie recounts the very real and life-altering incidents that the director faced when he volunteered to serve in 1967 as a 21-year-old infantryman. Adam Glover and Sal Richard Edson are killed when they stumble upon a booby trap attached to a box of documents. That same year the rights to a movie based on the book were optioned by Sony Pictures.

What this book is is a chronological and factual account of his platoon as shown in the movie at least how he saw things as an officer. There were no large dope parties at the time no villager was murdered or raped and two of his sergeants were not trying to kill each other. In the movie Platoon the author Oliver Stone tells us a story about an American soldier in Vietnam during the war.

Hemphill lets you know that he has three problems with Stones movie portrayal. The biggest contribution that Dye makes to the Platoon experience is a a closer examination of Barnes not present in the movie. I knew that there is a movie called Platoon based on the Vietnam War and decided to give the novel a try.

By December 2017 a script had been written and a director was assigned to the film. Platoon won the Academy Award for best picture and the Golden Globe Award for best drama. Directed by Oliver Stone.