This is also his first film about the war followed by Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven EarthThese three films are often said to form a trilogy although they merely share subject.

Platoon movie weapons. The handle is also not squarish like on a PK but is rather round. Most of the time this lingo is used in radio communications. Bravo 2 is Second platoon B company.

Released in 1986 Platoon was a massive hit with audiences and critics winning both Best Picture and Best Director at the Academy Awards. Chris Taylor a neophyte recruit in Vietnam finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants one good and the other evil. 11 rows The M60 machine gun sometimes affectionately called The Pig by US soldiers in Vietnam is carried.

In the final big battle scene Bunny is seen firing his shotgun at the enemy while Junior cowers in the fox hole. Platoon is widely acclaimed as one of the best war films in cinema history but how true to life is Oliver Stones incendiary movie. The year is September 1967.

The Stinger pen gun was designed to be disposable. Im going to assume that your question was a correct quote from the movie. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.

Directed by Oliver Stone. It was a well-earned victory with critics still to this day naming director Oliver Stones intense drama as one of war. The film was an adaptation of the memoirs written by James R.

In one house Taylor discovers a mute and mentally challenged teenage boy and his mother hiding in a hole beneath the floor. Upon arrival in Da Nang South Vietnam he sees dead. Platoon Leader is a 1988 Vietnam War film starring Michael Dudikoff as Jeffrey Knight a US Army lieutenant freshly graduated from West Point and who is assigned to a forward base in Vietnam.