It was a well-earned victory with critics still to this day naming director Oliver Stones intense drama as one of war cinemas finest.

Platoon movie king. Hey I broke a hundred the other day 92 left to go. It is still his most acclaimed and effective film probably because it is based on Stones firsthand experience as an American soldier in Vietnam. With morale lagging after Elias death Barnes Tom Berenger solidifies his authority by giving a monologue about military orderBUY.

Back to the world. A lion of a black man but with a sleepy gentle face not to be roused is painfully trying to scrawl a letter home with the pencil held awkwardly mouthing the words. 39 and a wake-up a pause for the cause and Im a gone motherfucker.

Chris Charlie Sheen is an inf more. While cleaning the latrines Im too short for this shit man. With Charlie Sheen Tom Berenger Willem Dafoe Keith David.

Directed by Oliver Stone. Platoon 1986 Keith David as King. His violent and disorienting images have a terrifying immediacy a you-are-there quality that gives you a sense of how things may have felt to an infantryman in the jungles of Vietnam.

Platoon put writer-turned-director Oliver Stone on the Hollywood map. King King is played by Keith David in Platoon. The moral center of Platoon is King Keith David introduced early in the script.

Platoon is widely acclaimed as one of the best war films in cinema history but how true to life is Oliver Stones incendiary movie. Released in 1986 Platoon was a massive hit with audiences and critics winning both Best Picture and Best Director at the Academy Awards. Platoon 1986 is a harrowing visceral ultra-realistic gutsy visually-shattering Vietnam-war film based on the writerdirectors own first-hand knowledge as a Vietnam combat-infantry soldier.