From the looks of it as he enters the platoon there are two main groups.

Platoon movie summary and analysis. Platoon opens up with a shot of body bags organized in preparation to make their final journey home to America. In the beginning Chris Taylor is very ignorant and his chances of survival are slim. Platoon American war film released in 1986 that was written and directed by Oliver Stone and was regarded by many critics as one of the best of the movies about the Vietnam War.

Stone sets up his shots to deny us the feeling that combat makes sense. The platoons most important figures are two NCOs each an exhausted self-aware veteran of earlier Vietnam tours. It is a new and effective approach by Oliver Stone furthermore based on his personal life experiences as infantryman in Vietnam war.

In Platoon there is the constant fear that any movement offers a 50-50 chance between a safe place or an exposed one. It is too easy to say that Platoon is simply an autobiographical film. Platoon is a 1986 film written and directed by Oliver Stone in an attempt to use the war as a medium to express anti-war message.

The film shows the Vietnam experience from the average soldiers point of view. Platoon was released in 1986 and follows the Vietnam War through the eyes of Bravo Company in 1967. Beginning in 1967 Platoon follows the story of Chris Taylor as he is sent among his other young fellow soldiers to Vietnam.

The film closes with hundreds of dead bodies fallen everywhere with no particular organization and no body bags. One cynical and toughened that are below Sergeant Barnes and a hopeful idealistic group below Sergeant Elias. Mostly due to the fact he has neither fought as long as the rest of them nor felt the horrors of war.

He and the other newbies pass by a group of battle-hardened veterans before being shepherded elsewhere. Upon arrival in Da Nang South Vietnam he sees dead soldiers of American soldiers in body bags being loaded into his plane. Chris Taylor Chris Taylor is to some extent the hero in the beginning of the movie as well as being the narrator and the main character.