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Platoon movie lerner. With morale lagging after Elias death Barnes Tom Berenger solidifies his authority by giving a monologue about military orderBUY. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict. With this movie Oliver Stone became the first Vietnam veteran to direct a major motion picture about the Vietnam War.

On their next patrol the platoon is ambushed and pinned down in a firefight in which numerous soldiers including Lerner and Big Harold are wounded. The platoon gets caught in an enemy ambush and the Viet Cong causes the platoon to suffer serious casualties. Elias when they are alone in the jungle.

See the full list of Platoon cast and crew including actors directors producers and more. JOHNNY DEPP originally had a larger part in Oliver Stones Platoon before his run on the TV series 21 Jump Street as the translator Lerner but much of the material he shot was cut from the. Chris Taylor a neophyte recruit in Vietnam finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants one good and the other evil.

During one patrol on New Years Day January 1 1968 the platoon finds what appears to be an abandoned bunker. He was an interpreter assigned to Bravo Company 25th Infantry Division. During the war he was a part of the heads a group of soldiers who were using drugs and listening to soul music in a hutch they call underworld.

During the interrogation of a village chief after the platoon finds hidden weapons Pvt. Lerner is taken back to the helicopter landing area while LT. Adam Glover and Sal Richard Edson are killed when they stumble upon a booby trap attached to a box of documents.

Wolfe accidentally orders an air strike on the platoons location resulting in more casualties in the platoon. Share Gator Lerner was a soldier who fought in the Vietnam war. Wolfe calls in a mortar strike on incorrect coordinates resulting in friendly fire casualties.