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Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examinati...
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Aug 3, 2017 · Platoon - The Death of Sgt. Elias: Chris (Charlie Sheen) and the other soldiers watch helplessly from the helicopter as the wounded Elias (Willem Dafoe) is g...
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Platoon - I Am Reality: With morale lagging after Elias’ death, Barnes (Tom Berenger) solidifies his authority by giving a monologue about military order.BUY...
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Feb 6, 1987 · Platoon: Directed by Oliver Stone. With Keith David, Forest Whitaker, Francesco Quinn, Kevin Dillon. Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil.
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Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Keith David, Kevin Dillon, John C. McGinley, Forest Whitaker, and Johnny Depp. It is the first film of a trilogy of Vietnam War films directed by Stone, followed by Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Heaven & Earth ...
“Platoon fully deserved its reputation as the proper American admission of pain over Vietnam. It had a command that reminded one of the Norman Mailer of The Naked and the Dead.” David Thomson, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002 A young soldier played by Charlie Sheen (son of Apocalypse Now star Martin Sheen) relates his experience of the war in Vietnam in a series of letters home.
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Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) leaves his university studies to enlist in combat duty in Vietnam in 1967. Once he's on the ground in the middle of battle, his idealism fades. Infighting in his unit ...
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