It won four Oscars including Best Director and Best Picture.

Platoon movie facts. It is unknown whether he would have been cast had he lived. Chris Taylor Charlie Sheen is a young American who has abandoned a privileged life at a university to enlist in the infantry volunteering for combat duty in Vietnam. The year is September 1967.

McGinley We believe the following trivia is all legit. It was a well-earned victory with critics still to this day naming director Oliver Stones intense drama as one of war cinemas finest and most realistic. In the final big battle scene Bunny is seen firing his shotgun at the enemy while Junior cowers in the fox hole.

Platoon was shot in the Philippines which had the advantage of looking a lot like Vietnam. THAT SCENE WHERE. This is from the units nickname Tropic Lightning due to our speed in deploying to far flung places.

If its bogus or you have additional info please. Bunny carries a shotgun throughout the entire film. Upon arrival in Da Nang South Vietnam he sees dead soldiers of American soldiers in body bags being loaded into his plane.

12 Intense Facts About Platoon 1. THEY USED IMPORTED DIRT. 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.

Satan and the war is there to set a perilous backdrop. When Junior runs out of the hole and Bunny turns around to yell at him Bunny is suddenly holding an M-16 rifle. Morrison had the script on him when he was found dead in Paris.