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Overview
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Director:
Writer:
Oliver Stone (written by)
Release Date:
24 December 1986 (USA)
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Tagline:
The first casualty of war is innocence.
Plot:
A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Won 4 Oscars.
Another 18 wins
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9 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(52 articles)
People Unveils Sexist Man Alive - And It's Not RPatty
(From PopStar. 18 November 2009, 11:52 PM, PST)
Taking Woodstock and cinema's love of trippy scenes | Anne Billson
(From The Guardian - Film News. 12 November 2009, 2:30 PM, PST)
(From PopStar. 18 November 2009, 11:52 PM, PST)
Taking Woodstock and cinema's love of trippy scenes | Anne Billson
(From The Guardian - Film News. 12 November 2009, 2:30 PM, PST)
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One Of The Best Movies Of The 1980s
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Keith David | ... | King |
 | Forest Whitaker | ... | Big Harold |
| Francesco Quinn | ... | Rhah |
 | Kevin Dillon | ... | Bunny |
 | John C. McGinley | ... | Sgt. O'Neill |
| Reggie Johnson | ... | Junior |
 | Mark Moses | ... | Lt. Wolfe |
| Corey Glover | ... | Francis |
 | Johnny Depp | ... | Lerner |
| Chris Pedersen | ... | Crawford |
| Bob Orwig | ... | Gardner |
| Corkey Ford | ... | Manny |
| David Neidorf | ... | Tex |
 | Tom Berenger | ... | Sgt. Barnes |
 | Willem Dafoe | ... | Sgt. Elias |
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Runtime:
120 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Germany:16 |
Canada:PA (Manitoba) |
Canada:R (Nova Scotia/Ontario) |
Iceland:16 |
Singapore:NC-16 (cut) |
Australia:MA (Special Edition DVD) |
Brazil:14 |
India:A |
Argentina:18 |
Australia:M |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Chile:18 |
Finland:K-16 |
France:-12 |
Hong Kong:IIB |
Ireland:15 |
Israel:PG |
Japan:PG-12 |
Netherlands:16 |
New Zealand:M (DVD rating) |
New Zealand:R (original rating) |
Norway:18 |
South Korea:15 |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
USA:R (PCA #28241) |
Vietnam:(Banned) |
West Germany:16
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Trivia:
The dog tags which make up the double O's in the poster for the film are those of Willem Dafoe's character Sgt. Elias Grodin. His service number is 3365664125.
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Goofs:
Continuity: After the first firefight, the blood "M" the medic puts on Private Gardner's forehead disappears.
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Quotes:
[first lines]
Pvt. Gardner: [seeing body bags] Aw, man, is that what I think it is?
Sergeant: All right, you cheese-dicks, welcome to the 'nam! Follow me.
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Pvt. Gardner: [seeing body bags] Aw, man, is that what I think it is?
Sergeant: All right, you cheese-dicks, welcome to the 'nam! Follow me.
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Soundtrack:
TRACKS OF MY TEARS
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FAQ
How much sex, violence, and profanity are in this movie?Excluding the WIA's, who is left behind to fight from the Platoon?
What happened to the men of the platoon?
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The 1980s in general and the mid 1980s in particular aren't highly regarded where pop culture is concerned , this is most especially true in cinema where films seemed to be written around their soundtrack in much the same way as Hollywood movies nowadays seem to be written around their special effects . PLATOON is one of the very few films from that period that has an emotional impact , an impact that it still retains while watching it in 2003.
Everyone else seems to have mentioned what makes PLATOON a classic anti-war ( Note it's anti-war , not anti American or anti soldier ) movie along with being a classic movie , so I won't go over old ground except to say THAT death scene is up there with all the other tear jerking scenes from 20th century cinema , don't be ashamed to say you cried
If PLATOON has a flaw it's in its duality , there's the good Sarge/bad Sarge , good officer/bad officer , good white guy/bad white guy , good black guy/bad black boy etc which is maybe a bit clichéd and possibly leads me to believe Stone is making an excuse/reason that the Americans lost in Vietnam because that spent so much fighting each other rather than the VC ( Though I do concede I'm possibly misinterpreting that as an excuse or even a reason since no one will confuse the politics of Stone with the politics of John Wayne ) while Taylor's character comes across as being more of a literary device rather than a real human being , but these are minor flaws
It's a shame to see war films from the last few years devoid of scathing anti-war sentiments like the ones seen here . PLATOON screams at you " War is hell and whatever the rights and wrongs of conflict you need a bloody good reason to wage war . Vietnam wasn't a good enough reason to sacrifice human lives "