“Platoon” was released in 1986 and follows the incident that took place in Vietnam through the eyes of Bravo Company. This movie is directed and written by Oliver Stone. This was the first ever film of Hollywood which was directed and written by a veteran named Oliver Stone of the Vietnam War. This film is based on the memory that Oliver Stone has in his mind of the Vietnam War. He wanted to make a film that shows the reality of the Vietnam War to people through the eyes of camera and also show people what the War is in reality. This movie is narrated by a young actor Charlie Sheen who is based on Oliver Stone. Charlie Sheen known as Chris Taylor in this film is a young college boy who drops out of college and volunteers for the war. Chris …show more content…
The new member of the team Gardner got killed while another soldier Tex got injured through the friendly fire from sergeant O’ Neill with Chris Taylor being mistakenly criticized by sergeant Barnes who is ruthless guy. During the first few days of the combat zone no one was accepting Taylor but slowly a group in his unit accepted him who socializes and drinks is bunker house called the “Underworld”. When Taylor saw Sergeant Elias he found a mentor in him. During the patrol day a soldier named Manny is found dead with two other soldiers Sal and Sandy. As the troop saw these soldiers dead they got into more tension. Chris Taylor found a young man and an old lady from the whole in the ground. Taylor took the man out and starts to scream at him but the guy did not responded to Taylor. Barnes uses soldier Lerner as a translator to ask the chief of the village to find out that they are giving aid to North Vietnamese Soldiers or not but none of the villagers agreed that they are giving aid to North Vietnamese Soldiers but Barnes did not believe them. Barnes kills the chief’s wife due to her persistent arguing and then Barnes points the gun at chief’s daughter and asking him to reveal the truth but suddenly Sergeant Elias arrives and started to argue with Barnes what he has seen. Both Barnes and Elias got into a fight with each other on the incident. Platoon commander lieutenant …show more content…
King was sent home and Taylor was given a position with Francis t share. On the other hand junior tries to escape by putting a mosquito repellent on his feet under the shape of trench foot but his attempt got failed because Barnes recognized juniors trick to escape from the fight zone. That night the North Vietnamese Army appeared fully armed and started to fire at them. Soldier Junior, Bunny and Wolfe died on the spot while soldier O’Neil escapes from the scene. One of the men of North Vietnamese Army started to run towards the battalion headquarters and exploded himself and killed all the people in the headquarter. The next morning when Taylor gained consciousness after the last night scenarios he picked a riffle and finds out that Barnes is injured and then shots Barnes and sat down until the reinforcement arrives and take them away with