If you want historical accuracy in a Vietnam War movie We Were Soldiers is a good place to start.

Platoon movie historical accuracy. Drug and alcohol use wasnt nearly as prominent as the film makes out--that was mostly done if at all in rear units and not by the actual troops in the field with their lives on the line. One teenage warrior explains how he likes it in Vietnam okay except for the part about getting killed. The film is loosely based on the director Oliver Stones experience while serving with the 25th Infantry Division in The actor Charley Sheen.

I wish they used the entire title of the excellent book it was based off We Were Solider Once and. His mutilated body is found tied to a post close by. In the final big battle scene Bunny is seen firing his shotgun at the enemy while Junior cowers in the fox hole.

Platoon shows how the War affected the soldiers and how none of them felt that they were fighting for a reason. Historical Accuracy of Platoon Plot Accuracy About Oliver Stone Basic Information Portrayal of the landscape was accurate. Anachronisms Set in 1967 features Bunny listening to Merle Haggards Okie from Muskogee not released until 1969.

Furnishings clothing Weapons M16 Frequent drug use Platoon. When Junior runs out of the hole and Bunny turns around to yell at him Bunny is suddenly holding an M-16 rifle. Of the Vietnam vets that Ive spoken to Platoon is one of the only films they mention that accurately shows the war.

When the men are playing cards one of the men is looking at a Playboy from March 1971 despite. This seems to be displayed rather accurately in the movie at least with regard to how its described in Tappers book. Foliage Monsoon Insects The houses of the vietnamese people were also accurately depicted.

Adam Glover and Sal Richard Edson are killed when they stumble upon a booby trap attached to a box of documents. A former Marine and technical adviser to military movies James Dever claimed that Stones movie is unerringly accurate in its depictions of real-life Vietnam battle sequences. The following analysis reveals a comprehensive look at the Storyform for PlatoonUnlike most of the analysis found herewhich simply lists the unique individual story appreciationsthis in-depth study details the actual encoding for each structural item.