1 month ago 10th Oct 10:45
So here we are at the top of our chart for the search for the best war movie and taking that top spot is Oliver Stone's 1986 Academy Award Best Picture winning Vietnam picture Platoon.
Director Oliver Stone draws on his harrowing experiences in Vietnam as he wrote and directed this insight into brutality of guerrilla warfare in the heat of the jungle.
It is also the first of Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, followed by Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Heaven & Earth (1993).
Charlie Sheen stars as Chris, a raw recruit, or "new meat," who also serves as the film's narrator, it was the actor's first major role.
Actor Charlie Sheen who landed the role as Chris launched his career with this role as we see the war through his somewhat innocent eyes. At first he wilts under the rigorous conditions of jungle life, freezes up in a fire fight, and wonders whether he'll be able to survive.
But he gradually adapts and, as time goes by, begins to see that the platoon is divided into two groups.
One consists of lifers, juicers, and sub-intelligent whites, the other of blacks and heads. Sgt. Barnes, a combat-loving burnout (Tom Berenger), is the informal leader of the lifers, and Sgt. Elias, a free spirit (Willem Dafoe), leads the latter group.
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