This paper is meant to examine the Vietnam War using the movie Platoon as a portal.

Platoon movie controversy. It took more than a decade after the end of the Vietnam War for Hollywood in the Oscar-winning film Platoon to prompt a nationwide debate about the societal scars of that conflict. One of Platoon s most controversial elements was the depiction of US soldiers meting out wanton violence on native populations and often murdering innocent Vietnamese civilians. He played Christ in Martin Scorseses The Last Temptation of Christ 1988a film based on Níkos Kazantzákiss.

The film won Academy Awards for Best Picture Best film editing best sound and best director. Foliage Monsoon Insects The houses of the vietnamese people were also accurately depicted. Furnishings clothing Weapons M16 Frequent drug use Platoon.

Dafoe was critically lauded for his performances in a number of controversial films released in the late 1980s. Richard Corliss of Time Magazine states that Stones film is a document written in blood that after almost 20 years refuses to dry Yet behind all of the prestige and awards it was given Platoon holds an underlining message. The paper will look at the struggles presented in war from the outlook of the grunt.

The Vietnam War was one the most controversial wars in America. Stone won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as writer of Midnight Express 1978 and wrote the gangster film remake Scarface 1983. Stone achieved prominence as writer and director of the war drama Platoon 1986 which won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture.

The controversy is mostly in that its lead character Raymond Aibelli Jeremy Davies who is looking after his injured mother is always trying to find time to relieve himself which is constantly interrupted by things like the dog barking before he ends up just sleeping with her. Platoon turns 25 this year and the film is coming to Blu-Ray. The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S.

The most critically acclaimed and commercially successful film surrounding the events of Vietnam is Platoon a 1986 film by director Oliver Stone. Stone himself was a veteran of the war and hoped to create films showcasing the realities of war. The platoon commits war crimes against the village as a means of releasing frustration for the deaths of the members in their platoon.