But as yet there is no word on who will portray the pivotal character in the My Lai story.

Platoon movie my lai. One example of this the My Lai Massacre. Why did Taylor drop a grenade after the battle was over. The movie is narrated by a young soldier Charlie Sheen based on Stone himself.

He is a middle-class college student who volunteers for the war because he considers it his patriotic duty and who is told soon after he arrives in the combat zone You dont belong here. Platoon is the semi-autobiographical account of Oliver Stones experiences in Vietnam. My lai massacre platoon movie.

The reenactment of the brutal massacre in Mi Lai a village in South Vietnam perpetrated by American Military forces on 16th of March 1968. The most brutal sequence in the movie the one that most prompted those who walked out of the previews to leave takes place in a village. Platoon won the 1987 Academy Award for Best Motion Picture.

As stated in the trivia Charlie Sheen improvised this as he felt Chris would be suicidal by the end of the movie having murdered Barnes in cold blood and seen the horrors of what the men fighting on the same side as him would do to each other and innocent people during. Angry and out of control some members of the platoon. It was a well-earned victory with critics still to this day naming director Oliver Stones intense drama as one of war.

9 - Platoon 1986 BACK-STORY. October 23 2020 by No comments Uncategorized. The man who led the platoon by brutal example and would later be branded Americas worst war criminal -.

Any who remained had to either be VC or those who sympathized with North Vietnam. Sergeant David Mitchell leads the first squad followed by Lieutenant Calley and a. This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay andor viewings of Platoon.