Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen and Tom Berenger in "Platoon".
I don’t even listen to people when they come to me and say that.
It could be argued, I suppose, that Stone didn’t need to depict the battle for his surrogate’s soul as epitomized by the Dafoe/Berenger conflict — that the events of combat themselves were defining enough. Sometimes, as in the recent Snowden (2016) it fairly pops off the screen. Platoon is a triumph for Oliver Stone, a film in which a visceral approach to violence, which has always set him apart, is balanced by classical symmetries and a kind of elegiac distance. : “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (1969), Make it three and we’ll call it square: “Five-Star Final” (1931), Father knows best?
They try it; they want to me stop them or something.”. The process resulted in the rawness, tension and camaraderie Platoon still radiates today.
This seems as good a place as any to take note of the subsequent sequence of the “cool” soldiers dancing to Smokey Robinson. Platoon is a ferociously compacted work, but the filmmaking rarely calls attention to itself; it never distracts from the dirty, horrific subject at hand..."Platoon" captures the crazy, adrenaline-rush chaos of battle better than any movie before. Sheen felt very out of place with his character and despite a pretty stacked cast, There was definitely a disconnect to where you didn't truly feel for their plight as it unfolded around them.
It basically shows you what war really is and what it can do with people involved in it.
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Stone is ruthless in his deglamorization of war, but not at the expense of the men who fought there.
He says it was luck that current events and public awareness shifted in 1986, and a more critical spotlight turned towards the actions of the American government in international affairs. And, you know, my mother has no memory of it to this day, and I respect her as the woman who birthed me. I was lost. Some of Coppola's images in Apocalypse Now were among the most beautiful in contemporary film.
[5 Jan 1987, p.57], Oliver Stone's Platoon is the most sobering Vietnam War epic ever made. Notable Video Game Releases: New and Upcoming. Photo: YouTube screenshot. This mercilessly intense movie is definitely not for the faint of heart. Stone, the gutsy writer-director, records in a devastating barrage of images the relentless horror and the senseless carnage experienced by far too many Americans in Vietnam. "[My father] had been to Yale and expected me to go through it, I was bred for high achievement, and it didn't work out because I dropped out a second time. And if Dafoe’s death scene, with its Christ-like symbology and Barber strings, still feels overstated, it’s undeniably moving for all of that.
This is not merely evidence of the power of film generally, but the power of this film specifically. I cut them off. “I have never waded in that water. It's not unlike an Indonesian shadow play in the sense that the evil god, scar-faced Sgt. And somehow I beat the system.
I try to give to each essay I write my full mind and my best efforts, and sometimes that does take time (and a lot of revising,) I’m pleased to hear from you that I may have succeeded.
But as I am in the process of re-evaluating Stone’s work, how could I not revisit this seminal picture? The movie had about 92 speaking parts in it, it was about a civil war, it had massacres in it - there's a massacre in a cathedral, it had death squads, it was quite a show, and trying to make it for $3 million was crazy. Platoon is a powerful war film starring Charlie Sheen and Willem DeFoe.
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When gentrifying its own film properties, Hollywood normally has similar levels of respect for former residents. "I don't know what's right or wrong.". A film that depicts the best and worst of humanity Platoon is also an excellent action film.
Photo: YouTube screenshot. Remarkably, though, Todd is returning in his most celebrated role – though he still seemed unsure of this as late as three months before shooting began in August last year.
So it helped that I came from the theatre and I came from poverty.” The director had seen him in a one-man version of Dalton Trumbo’s antiwar novel Johnny Got His Gun at a Hell’s Kitchen theatre, where Todd was also working the bar. But saw Americans behaving criminally and killing civilians. I have learn several good stuff here.
In typical Oliver Stone fashion, It didn't feel like you were watching one complete movie but more like watching an hour of two different ones. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.
Platoon is merely terrifying.
For all the purported naturalism, the film seems resolutely schematic, and the attitudes shaping the drama are far from open-ended.
And "Platoon," to a large extent, is a replay of his own harrowing, wartime experiences.
If Truffaut had lived to see Platoon, the best film of 1986, he might have wanted to modify his opinion. American film director Oliver Stone in 2016 This is not the Vietnam of op-ed writers, rabble-rousers or esthetic visionaries, not Vietnam-as-metaphor or Vietnam-the-way-it-should-have-been.
Out in the Philippines, where Ferdinand Marcos had been freshly deposed, Dye had the troupe digging their own bivouacs and going out on night raids. This murky, menacing world is more terrifying than anything Dante might have imagined. Photo: Gage Skidmore. Elias (Willem Dafoe makes a strong impression here). ‘I’m an African-American man who wasn’t supposed to make it. The Vietnam War is the central moral and political issue of the last quarter-century, for Americans.
"In those days [a gap year] wasn't much done, but I needed a year off, I was just burned out. Platoon is a triumph for Oliver Stone, a film in which a visceral approach to violence, which has always set him apart, is balanced by classical symmetries and a kind of elegiac distance. Between terror and delight: “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937), Liked more than a bissel: “Gilbert” (2017), Necrology, 2019: Writers, Artists, Musicians, Singers and Composers, Necrology, 2019: Actors and Theatre Personnel, Quarterly Report: October – December 2019, Necrology, 2019: Filmmakers and Movie-Related, Nothing but work: “The Thief and the Cobbler” (1993/2013), What matters more: “Casualties of War” (1989), More wonder’d at: Harold Prince (1928 – 2019). Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. He regards Salvador as the first real film he made, which was somewhat a baptism of fire, with difficult content, logistical nightmares, and finances trickling through unreliably.
The atmosphere remains highly charged from beginning to end.
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