Movie Info Chris Taylor Charlie Sheen leaves his university studies to enlist in combat duty in Vietnam in 1967.

Platoon movie plot. Storyline Chris Taylor is a young naive American who gives up college and volunteers for combat in Vietnam. The story is mostly based on his own experience when he went there. Adam Glover and Sal Richard Edson are killed when they stumble upon a booby trap attached to a box of documents.

In the movie Platoon the author Oliver Stone tells us a story about an American soldier in Vietnam during the war. This is done as a means of releasing the tension and frustration that has built up from horrific ordeals he and his platoon have recently experienced. The platoon raids a village in revenge for one of their men getting killed and Sgt Barnes goes a bit overboard and most of the men follow him.

The film shows the Vietnam experience from the average soldiers point of view. Most of the soldiers breakdown in fear of their next battle. When Junior runs out of the hole and Bunny turns around to yell at him Bunny is suddenly holding an M-16 rifle.

After Wolfe calls in the wrong coordinates resulting in an American artillery strike on the platoons position Elias takes Taylor and two other men on a mission to intercept flanking enemy troops. They fail to rescue Elias and after being shot several times Elias falls to the ground and dies. The Vietnam War is the central moral and political issue of the last quarter-century for Americans.

Hes about to kill the village chiefs daughter before Elias stops him and attacks him. One night as the groups are sent to as a night ambush control one of the men that. Mostly due to the fact he has neither fought as long as the rest of them nor felt the horrors of war.

During one patrol on New Years Day January 1 1968 the platoon finds what appears to be an abandoned bunker. Upon arrival he quickly discovers that his presence is quite nonessential and is considered insignificant to the other soldiers as he has not fought for as long as the rest of them and felt the effects of combat. Elias is missing in the jungle Chris sets out to find him until hes stopped by Sgt.