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Sunday, February 15, 2009

PLATOON -Vietnam War

The Vietnam War wasn't about two sides facing each other on a battle-zone; it was a war situated in complete disorientation, with a soldier having to watch his back from three hundred and sixty degrees of danger as the location of each opposing force was always in question. Oliver Stone's Platoon is a frenetic explosion of a war movie. Not only does it turn you off war for good; it grabs the viewer by the throat and deposits them headfirst into the hellhole. The Vietnam War has often been the most contentious point in later twentieth century American history, and Platoon refuses to enter into the discussion other than to show the War from it's protagonist narrator. Released in 1986, amongst a second wave of Vietnam films (that followed the first wave of The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now and Coming Home), Platoon received four Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Sound, and helped put Oliver Stone on the A-list of directors after the impressive Salvador. More...

Academy Awards 1986
Best Picture
Best Director - Oliver Stone
Best Film Editing - Claire Simpson
Best Sound - Charles Grenzbach, Simon Kaye, Richard D. Rogers, John Wilkinson

Academy Award Nominations 1986
Best Supporting Actor - Willem Dafoe
Best Supporting Actor - Tom Berenger
Best Original Screenplay - Oliver Stone
Best Cinematography - Robert Richardson

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PLATOON (Vietnam War) Part 1