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	Platoon (film) Summary
		Platoon is a 1986 Vietnam war film, written and directed by Oliver Stone and starring Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger and Forest Whitaker.
		The film shows many controversial aspects of the war in Vietnam, such as drug abuse, the unfair stigma placed on new recruits by older and more experienced soldiers (known as the FNG syndrome), deliberate killing of unpopular officers by soldiers (known as fragging), and others.
		Platoon was filmed on the island of Luzon in the Philippines.
	www.bookrags.com /Platoon_(film) (3375 words)

	platoon (1986) film cell
		In PLATOON, Oliver Stone draws on his experience as an infantryman in Vietnam to convey the brutality of guerrilla warfare: the heat of the jungle, the brushes with such wildlife as snakes and leeches, and, most powerfully, the presence of the unseen enemy.
		Film cells are strips of 35mm film from the movie which are framed together with a photograph or a movie postcard.
		Each film cell is unique, so the film supplied may be different to the one pictured, however we do not use unrecognisable street scenes, long shots or minor characters unlike some other suppliers.
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	The Vietnam War in Stone's 'Platoon'
		It's meant as praise to say the film appears to express itself with the same sort of economy that used to be employed in old, studio-made action movies -B-pictures in which characters are largely defined through what they do rather than what they say.
		At the center of the film is Chris Taylor, a new arrival who dropped out of college to enlist, a fact that strikes the rest of the platoon as profoundly comically irrational.
		The platoon's most important figures are two NCO's, each an exhausted, self-aware veteran of earlier Vietnam tours: the facially scarred Sergeant Barnes (Tom Berenger), who has somehow become committed to the war, which is all he has left, and Sergeant Elias (Willem Dafoe), whom the war has made as eerily gentle as Barnes is brutal.
	www.nytimes.com /1986/12/19/arts/platoon-oscars.html (881 words)

	PLATOON (20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) - 2-DISC DVD COLLECTOR'S SET DVD
		Platoon, as Stone puts it in the special features of the current DVD release, is a warning to those who would "buy somebody else's used war," not the silly appeals to primordial Kennedys and Byronic rock stars as he slid into hopeless (if entertaining) camp.
		Platoon is the work of someone ambitious enough to go for the grand gesture but laid low enough to maintain a sense of proportion.
		On the production of the film: Charlie Sheen reports that Stone was a demanding button-pusher, "but he was the first to admit it." Meanwhile, editor Claire Simpson reports one of her big contributions: the famous use of Samuel Barber over the village massacre scene.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/platoon.htm (1452 words)

	Platoon (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Platoon is a 1986 Vietnam war film, written and directed by Oliver Stone and starring Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe.
		The film shows many controversial aspects of the war in Vietnam, such as drug abuse, the stigma placed on new recruits by older and more experienced soldiers (known as the FNG syndrome), deliberate killing of unpopular officers by soldiers (known as fragging), and others.
		Platoon was filmed on the island of Luzon in the Philippines between March and May of 1986.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Platoon_(film) (4175 words)

	DVD In My Pants - Review: Platoon: Two-Disc 20th Anniversary Edition
		The platoon he is assigned to is entirely made up of drafted soldiers completely unconcerned with their new addition.
		It’s an ensemble film, where every single one of the actors is an integral part of that whole – much like a true platoon would be – regardless of how long any particular character remains on screen.
		Platoon’s dark blue/fl cinematography is perfectly captured and with the rare exception of some film grain, I can’t find anything to complain about.
	www.dvdinmypants.com /reviews/O-V/platoon.php (1391 words)

	FilmMaker Director Oliver Stone Biography
		The film was released in 1978 and it received controversial reviews by numerous reporters, the biggest criticism being given to Stone himself for the screenplay.
		John Milius was hired on as the film's director and wrote a third script for the film.
		The film was originally produced in 1932 by Howard Hawk, and was a gangster film.
	www.filmmakers.com /artists/oliverstone/biography/page2.htm (1411 words)

	The Flick Filosopher \| Platoon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		From that bitter howdy-do, he's sent into the jungle with his new platoon, where "nobody cares about the new guy" -- the veterans aren't going to waste time training the raw recruits when they'll likely be killed in the first week, anyway.
		We have no context for the platoon's movements -- we don't know where they're going or why, and we are offered no explanation of the larger picture.
		Platoon is a savage, candid film, full of searing images and ideas.
	www.flickfilosopher.com /oscars/bestpix/platoon.shtml (502 words)

	PLATOON (20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) - 2-DISC DVD COLLECTOR'S SET DVD
		Platoon, as Stone puts it in the special features of the current DVD release, is a warning to those who would "buy somebody else's used war," not the silly appeals to primordial Kennedys and Byronic rock stars as he slid into hopeless (if entertaining) camp.
		Platoon is the work of someone ambitious enough to go for the grand gesture but laid low enough to maintain a sense of proportion.
		On the production of the film: Charlie Sheen reports that Stone was a demanding button-pusher, "but he was the first to admit it." Meanwhile, editor Claire Simpson reports one of her big contributions: the famous use of Samuel Barber over the village massacre scene.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/platoon.htm (1452 words)

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		In the film, the two characters that represent these concepts are: Rockwald, goodness and humanity, and Barnes, savagery and viciousness.
		The troops in the platoon are divided between each side but when Rockwald is killed no one objects to Barnes until Sheen kills him in the end.
		Later in the film when the war is over for him, Sheen kills Barnes and represents the end of savagery when the war, or the need for savagery.
	www.seedwiki.com /wiki/english_15/platoon.cfm?wpid=229392 (385 words)

	movie reviews.
		The Platoon leader who was more a frightened enlistee than commander in the past decides its time to be a soldier.
		Platoon Leader presented the state of affiars of Platoon leaders with a glimmer of humor.
		But most of all the film's star was not the Platoon leader but was "Roach," the character that could always be counted on to get any job done no matter what.
	www.movieprop.com /tvandmovie/reviews/platoonleader.htm (439 words)

	Platoon: Special Edition (1986) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The issues related to the debris in the image and the shadow detail caused me to lower my grade to a "B", but be advised that much of the movie looks a lot better than that; had the first half been as strong as the second, this picture definitely would have entered "A" territory.
		On the positive side was the film's soundfield, which seemed surprisingly active for a movie from 1986.
		Platoon earned its "B" through the quality of the score and the ambition of the mix, but the reproduction of speech and effects sounded slightly disappointing.
	www.dvdmg.com /platoonse.shtml (2362 words)

	kamera.co.uk - film review - Platoon directed by Oliver Stone - reviewed by Adrian Gargett
		When the platoon enters a Vietnamese village they suspect aided in the killing of one of their men, Bunny explodes, savagely beating a peasant with the butt of his rifle - Bunny is modelled on a real person and the village scene is based on real events.
		Platoon is a study of human nature and the potential for both good and evil acts in us all and is to my mind very ambigous in it's portrayal of both.
		The climax of the film is the murder of Elias.
	www.kamera.co.uk /reviews_extra/platoon.php (3206 words)

	The New York Times: Best Pictures
		Stone, ''We took a lot of pains with details.'' The film, with a modest budget of $6.5 million, was shot in the Philippines between March and May, monsoon and summer.
		A film maker can suggest or evoke this ugliness and chaos, but he cannot capture the effect of a year of unrelenting terror and tedium on 113 minutes of film.
		Although the film is rooted in his experience - that is, it portrays events that either he or his unit took part in and characters he knew as comrades - ''Platoon'' might be taken by many as typical of what every soldier experienced in Vietnam.
	www.nytimes.com /packages/html/movies/bestpictures/platoon-ar1.html (2017 words)

	Oliver Stone: Our Greatest Film Director
		However, that film was overshadowed that same year when Stone created a national controversy, unlike almost any other in the history of cinema, with his film JFK, a three hour stylistic journey into the nightmare of one of this country's most tragic events, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
		The film mixed history with conjecture, as Stone presented the facts and questions of the case, and tried his best to provide an alternative hypothesis to the Warren Commission hypothesis of a lone assassin.
		The film was actually about the media and its glorification of violence and murder, and how we as a public elevate killers to the level of hero.
	www.oscarworld.net /ostone/default.asp?PageId=4 (1268 words)

	Platoon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Previous to Taylor, film scholars we have read have focused in on the process of genre, of examining these films as individual cases within a broader generic process.
		The film’s reference to complex, anticolonialist rage and anguish, expressed in a fl pride movement, symbols of racial identity, Black Panther units, mutinies, officer-fragging and shoot-outs with white unites, is the parodistic mask of Junior’s antics.
		Platoon cannot escape the paradigm of the colonialst warrior narrative.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~film41/Platoon.html (343 words)

	GameSpy.com - Preview
		One such game is Strategy First's small-unit strategy title Platoon, which is loosely based on the Oliver Stone film of the same name.
		While Platoon is officially licensed and has a similar theme to the 1986 film, it doesn't really follow the storyline too closely.
		Platoon covers the time period from late 1965 (as U.S. soldiers began to arrive in Vietnam in mass numbers) through the height of the fighting in 1968.
	archive.gamespy.com /previews/october02/platoonpc (485 words)

	CRASH 50 - Platoon
		In this multisection licensed version of the film, a unit of five must make its way through six sections of Vietnamese landscapes, along jungle paths, secret funnels and mazes, and survive skirmishes in a bunker and a foxhole.
		Platoon was one of the most highly acclaimed films of 1987, rewarded not only by the critics - earning four Academy Awards (Oscars) for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Sound - but also by the American public, which flocked to see how it dealt with a still-sensitive subject.
		So Platoon, filmed in the atmospheric jungle of the Philippines, pushes the fighting to one side and explores the emotions felt by the young soldiers of the decade-long war in which America, which eventually withdrew its forces in 1973, helped defend South Vietnam against the Communist Vietcong of North Vietnam.
	www.crashonline.org.uk /50/platoon.htm (1443 words)

	Platoon (MGM Reissue) DVD Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		"Platoon" was the first word that came out of their lips, with the exception of the Marine who cited "Full Metal Jacket" in particular because of the basic training sequence, but Vietnam had a funny impact on my relatives.
		That fear is one of the most humanizing elements in "Platoon," a film that not only makes one identify and become familiar with the characters, but captures a feeling that I guess only a person who had been their like Oliver Stone could have written and directed.
		The transfer presents the film in an anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) aspect ratio, but the transfer at times looks too bright making some of the greens look blue and the skin tones are too red while the night scenes look too dark and at times grain can be clearly visible.
	members.aol.com /RiveraW5/platoon.html (669 words)

	Spirituality & Practice: Film Review: Platoon, directed by Oliver Stone
		The two most dominant men in the platoon are Sergeant Barnes (Tom Berenger), a psychopathic veteran who gets high on combat, and Sergeant Elias (Willem Dafoe), a sensitive leader who looks out for his troops even though he thinks the war has already been lost.
		The film is meant to convey the multi-dimensional reality of the Vietnam War to those who did not fight there and to those who were born after it ended.
		Platoon is a tour de force with excellent ensemble performances by the full cast.
	www.spiritualityandpractice.com /films/films.php?id=8815 (414 words)

	Platoon (Film) - Wikipedia
		Der Film zeigt die Auswüchse des Vietnamkrieges und seine Wirkung auf Soldaten und Offiziere und die Perversion des militärischen Auftrages, der mit dem vereinsamten und verzweifelten Rückzug der Überlebenden endet.
		Platoon erzählt eine Initiationsgeschichte, in der der Protagonist existenzielle Lebenserfahrungen ergründet: Drogen, die Todesfurcht und den Blutrausch.
		Platoon versteht, was die Architekten des Krieges nie sahen: Wie das Laub, die Krankheiten des Dschungels die technische Überlegenheit der USA hinwegfegten.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Platoon_(Film) (814 words)

	movie reviews.
		The Platoon leader who was more a frightened enlistee than commander in the past decides its time to be a soldier.
		Platoon Leader presented the state of affiars of Platoon leaders with a glimmer of humor.
		But most of all the film's star was not the Platoon leader but was "Roach," the character that could always be counted on to get any job done no matter what.
	movieprop.com /tvandmovie/reviews/platoonleader.htm (316 words)

	The DVD Journal: Platoon: Special Edition
		Platoon was released in 1986, back when American filmgoers were naming their dogs and offspring after the brawny hero of Rambo: First Blood Part II, intoxicated by that film's dizzying bubblegum action, while concurrently beset by endless Chuck Norris Missing in Action sequels on cable television.
		Platoon is more valuable considered when observed within this cultural context, rather than as the sometimes dull, sometimes overindulgent, occasionally powerful film that it is. Sheen stars and narrates as Chris Taylor, a privileged white kid (and Stone alter ego) who enlisted because he felt that the draft was unfairly targeting poor minorities.
		The film follows Taylor's tour of duty in a platoon led by the heavily scarred and vicious Lt. Barnes (Tom Berenger) and the stoic and principled Lt. Elias (Willem Dafoe).
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/p/platoon_se.shtml (778 words)

	News: Platoon coming in November - GamersHell.com
		Platoon’s gameplay focuses on the 1st Airborne Cavalry Division in the early days of the Vietnam conflict in 1965 to the height of the war – and rapidly mounting casualties – in 1968.
		Platoon is being developed by Hungary-based Digital Reality, famed for Imperium Galactica I and II and Haegemonia.
		Platoon will be published for PC by Monte Cristo in November 2002.
	www.gamershell.com /news/3444.html (657 words)

	Assignment on the film “Platoon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Written and directed by Oliver Stone, himself a Vietnam Veteran, it is one of the few films respected and lauded by both critics and supporters of that war.
		Chris Taylor is the primary character in the film with whom the audience is expected to identify and empathize.
		Note that the platoon consists of ethnically diverse men and yet there appears to be no racial prejudice among them.
	www.mc.cc.md.us /Departments/hpolscrv/Platoon.htm (270 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Platoon (1986)
		And while Platoon was not the first anti-war movie to come along by any means, it remains one of the strongest statements made against war ever to be put on film.
		The film is a strongly personal one for director Oliver Stone as it draws upon his own experiences of the war in 1967.
		Films like this don't come along often enough in my opinion; the ones that in thirty years will be looked upon as one of the most influential films of its time.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=399 (1321 words)

	Platoon - Rotten Tomatoes
		A terrific film from a filmmaker long absent from his art, Platoon is a frightening and challenging look into the battlefield operations of Vietnam.
		A film that says...that before you can make any vast, sweeping statements about Vietnam, you have to begin by understanding the bottom line, which is that a lot of people went over there and got killed, dead, and that is what the war meant for them.
		Platoon is one of those movies that, once seen, will never be forgotten, and, at least for those who were not in Vietnam, will forever alter the way in which the war is considered.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/platoon (939 words)

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