2nd Lieutenant Platoon Leader.
Platoon movie medic. Writerdirector Oliver Stone based his movie on his own experiences and attempted to make a more realistic Vietnam movie simpler and more grounded than things like Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter and more ambitious than the Rambo movies -- and he. Back to the Future Pulp Fiction Young Einstein and of course Platoon. Chris Taylor is a volunteer for the US.
However the real leaders of this platoon are two enlisted men Staff Sergeant Barnes and Sergeant Elias. Platoon is an acclaimed war film written and directed by Oliver Stone based on his experiences as an American soldier in The Vietnam War. Yes it is true.
I know I know I still need to get the cast names in there and Ill be eternally tweaking it so if you have any corrections feel free to drop me a line. We were supposed to wear helmets but they let us get away with wearing jungle hats especially in the summer months when it was normally 90110 with high humidity. The full film poster.
Seen in foxhole with Rhah just before. He finally gets his wish and joins a Platoon as its Doc. Platoon 1986 cast and crew credits including actors actresses directors writers and more.
Grodin was a soldier in the Vietnam War. In the New Zealand Army an infantry platoon is commanded by a 2nd lieutenant or a lieutenant with a platoon sergeant a platoon signaller and a medic where relevant composing the platoon headquarters. The image of a soldier on the grassy jungle battlefield of Vietnam arms thrown above his head as he meets his tragic fate at the hands of the Viet Cong it tells an entire story in one frame.
This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay andor viewings of Platoon. Restrepo a documentary directed by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington which will open on June 25 in Los Angeles and New York is a 94-minute tutorial on life at. Army in 1967 the midst of the Vietnam War.