Title/Year: Platoon, 1986
Director/Birth Country/Year Born: Oliver Stone, USA, 1946
Budget: $6,000,000 (estimated)
Gross: $137,963,328
Synopsis: Chris is a fresh infantry recruit thrown into the Vietnam jungle with a platoon. When one of the sergeants murders an innocent civilian, the platoon becomes divided into two sides. Through the stress of combat, Chris becomes a hard soldier.
Narrative/Visual keywords: War, combat, battle-stress, murder, death, companionship, camaraderie, chain of command.
Main Character Arc: Chris volunteers for military service out of ignorance and pride during a time of major dissent in the public. He goes to Vietnam expecting to fight for freedom and defend democracy. Instead, he finds himself awash in utter hell. As his service continues, he goes through stages of fear, frustration, anger, hatred, and finds within himself the ability to take human life. He becomes a killer. Through this transformation we see the destruction of the boy he once was, and the birth of a soldier.
Political/Social Commentary: Platoon questions authority on all levels, from the chain of command to the mission of the Vietnam war itself. Watching a platoon fight it's own internal civil war, while fighting the Vietnam war shows the connections in the cycle of violence that becomes everyday life in war time.
Camera/Lighting Techniques: Many pyrotechniques, dark jungle scenes with steady camera movement.
Main Character Arc: Chris volunteers for military service out of ignorance and pride during a time of major dissent in the public. He goes to Vietnam expecting to fight for freedom and defend democracy. Instead, he finds himself awash in utter hell. As his service continues, he goes through stages of fear, frustration, anger, hatred, and finds within himself the ability to take human life. He becomes a killer. Through this transformation we see the destruction of the boy he once was, and the birth of a soldier.
Political/Social Commentary: Platoon questions authority on all levels, from the chain of command to the mission of the Vietnam war itself. Watching a platoon fight it's own internal civil war, while fighting the Vietnam war shows the connections in the cycle of violence that becomes everyday life in war time.
Camera/Lighting Techniques: Many pyrotechniques, dark jungle scenes with steady camera movement.
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