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The 25th Infantry Division patch of the U.S. Army, in which Taylor's platoon serves in the film. Director Oliver Stone served in the 25th Infantry in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968. In 1967, U.S. Army volunteer Chris Taylor arrives in South Vietnam and is assigned to an infantry platoon of the 25th Infantry Division near the Cambodian border.
Platoon won many rave reviews (Roger Ebert later called it the ninth best film of the 1980s), large audiences, and Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director. In 2007, a film industry vote ranked it at number 83 in an American Film Institute " AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies " poll of the previous century's best American movies.
Stone has received numerous accolades including three Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay for Midnight Express (1978), for Platoon (1986) and the Best Director twice for Platoon (1986), and Born on the Fourth of July (1989), He has also received a BAFTA Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, five Golden Globe Awards, and two Directors Guild of ...
Midway through the movie, Elias is betrayed and fatally wounded by Barnes, who tells the rest of the platoon — including its newest member, Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) — that he's been killed ...
The film depicts the life of Kovic (Cruise) over a 20-year period, detailing his childhood, his military service and paralysis during the Vietnam War, and his transition to anti-war activism. It is the second installment in Stone's trilogy of films about the Vietnam War, following Platoon (1986) and preceding Heaven & Earth (1993).
Peter Berg (born March 11, 1964) [1] is an American director, producer, writer, and actor. His directorial film works include the black comedy Very Bad Things (1998), the action comedy The Rundown (2003), the sports drama Friday Night Lights (2004), the action thriller The Kingdom (2007), the superhero comedy-drama Hancock (2008), the military science fiction war film Battleship (2012), the ...
Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C" on an A+ to F scale. [26] Gene Siskel described The Thin Red Line as the "finest contemporary war film I've seen, supplanting Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan from earlier this year, or even Oliver Stone's Platoon from 1986."
Oliver Stone's major motion picture debut was also Richardson's first film as director of photography. Salvador was also filmed in the same year as Stone's Platoon. Platoon would earn Richardson his first Oscar nomination for Best Cinematography. In 1987, Richardson reteamed with Stone on Wall Street. In 1988, he filmed Eight Men Out for John ...