Post by Stu on Aug 7, 2005 0:16:56 GMT
Dir: Oliver Stone
Probably the most critically acclaimed war movie ever made. Oliver Stone’s Platoon is a portrayal of the Vietnam War and it’s mindless violence and pointless bloodshed. The defining factor here is that Platoon is actually told from a soldier’s perspective, Stone himself who was involved in the war in Southeast Asia. Winner of 3 Golden Globes and 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture this film successfully shows the reality and sadness of this conflict.
Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a college dropout who, against the wishes of his parents, volunteers for the US army. He is then subsequently despatched to Bravo Company 25th Infantry based near the Cambodian border Vietnam to support a very unpopular and expensive American war effort.
Contrasting thoughts and beliefs between the company’s two Sergeants, Barnes (Tom Berenger) and Elias (Willem Dafoe), leads to segregation within the unit and helps to push Taylor into his own world of self doubt, provocation and despair. Burning villages, senseless murders of innocent civilians, horror and anguish follow reflecting, for the first time, the true images of Vietnam.
Stone brilliantly directs and Robert Richardson’s cinematography adds to this haunting portrayal of war. A great cast including Johnny Depp, Keith David and Kevin Dillon as the disturbing and brutal ‘Bunny’ along with its award-winning screenplay are just other outstanding contributions to this picture.
There have been other critically acclaimed war movies: Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket and the not so inspiring Hamburger Hill to name but a few. For me Platoon was the one that moved me most breaking boundaries no one would dare break before.
Probably the most critically acclaimed war movie ever made. Oliver Stone’s Platoon is a portrayal of the Vietnam War and it’s mindless violence and pointless bloodshed. The defining factor here is that Platoon is actually told from a soldier’s perspective, Stone himself who was involved in the war in Southeast Asia. Winner of 3 Golden Globes and 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture this film successfully shows the reality and sadness of this conflict.
Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a college dropout who, against the wishes of his parents, volunteers for the US army. He is then subsequently despatched to Bravo Company 25th Infantry based near the Cambodian border Vietnam to support a very unpopular and expensive American war effort.
Contrasting thoughts and beliefs between the company’s two Sergeants, Barnes (Tom Berenger) and Elias (Willem Dafoe), leads to segregation within the unit and helps to push Taylor into his own world of self doubt, provocation and despair. Burning villages, senseless murders of innocent civilians, horror and anguish follow reflecting, for the first time, the true images of Vietnam.
Stone brilliantly directs and Robert Richardson’s cinematography adds to this haunting portrayal of war. A great cast including Johnny Depp, Keith David and Kevin Dillon as the disturbing and brutal ‘Bunny’ along with its award-winning screenplay are just other outstanding contributions to this picture.
There have been other critically acclaimed war movies: Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket and the not so inspiring Hamburger Hill to name but a few. For me Platoon was the one that moved me most breaking boundaries no one would dare break before.