Released in 1986 Platoon was a massive hit with audiences and critics winning both Best Picture and Best Director at the Academy Awards.

Platoon movie facts. OLIVER STONE WAS SO TIRED ON THE SET THAT HE STARTED MAKING CRAZY ACCUSATIONS. In the final big battle scene Bunny is seen firing his shotgun at the enemy while Junior cowers in the fox hole. Platoon won the Academy Award for best picture and the Golden Globe Award for best drama.

Platoon is generally regarded as one of the strongest anti-war films of all time. Bunny carries a shotgun throughout the entire film. It is unknown whether he would have been cast had he lived.

This is from the units nickname Tropic Lightning due to our speed in deploying to far flung places. The unit that the movie is about is the 25th Infantry Division Light based out of Schofield Barracks Hawaii. Upon arrival in Da Nang South Vietnam he sees dead soldiers of American soldiers in body bags being loaded into his plane.

Platoon was shot in the Philippines which had the advantage of looking a lot like Vietnam. Oliver Stone wrote the first draft of Platoon in 1971 and sent it to Jim Morrison in hopes that he would play the part Charlie Sheen would ultimately play. While this is certainly true whats often overlooked -- at least after only one run through the film -- is that its chiefly a tale of God vs.

When Junior runs out of the hole and Bunny turns around to yell at him Bunny is suddenly holding an M-16 rifle. McGinley We believe the following trivia is all legit. Stone has been described as difficult.

Platoon American war film released in 1986 that was written and directed by Oliver Stone and was regarded by many critics as one of the best of the movies about the Vietnam War. The patch the soldiers wear is a taro leaf with a lightning bolt superimposed on it. Film facts for the 1986 Drama movie starring Charlie Sheen Willem Dafoe Forest Whitaker John C.