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After writing several other screenplays in the early 1970s, Stone worked with Robert Bolt on the screenplay, The Cover-up (it was not produced). Bolt's rigorous approach rubbed off on Stone. The younger man used his characters from the Break screenplay and developed a new screenplay, which he titled Platoon. Producer Martin Bregman attempted to elicit studio interest in the project, but was not successful. Stone claims that during that time, Sidney Lumet was to have helmed the film with Al Pacino slated to star had there been studio interest. [8] But, based on the strength of his writing in Platoon, Stone was hired to write the screenplay for Midnight Express (1978). Platoon". CinemaScore. Archived from the original on September 16, 2017 . Retrieved January 28, 2018. In 1998, the American Film Institute placed Platoon at #83 in their " AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies" poll. In 2019, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". [4] [5] [6] Plot [ edit ]

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Ebert, Roger; Siskel, Gene (2011-05-03). "Siskel and Ebert Top Ten Lists (1969-1998) - Inner Mind". innermind. Archived from the original on 2020-11-08 . Retrieved 2014-11-30. Women Rule 2019 National Film Registry". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 2021-03-22 . Retrieved 2020-05-08. The film has been widely acclaimed," Pauline Kael admitted, "but some may feel that Stone takes too many melodramatic shortcuts, and that there's too much filtered light, too much poetic license, and too damn much romanticized insanity ... The movie crowds you; it doesn't leave you room for an honest emotion." [23] Platoon filming locations". Fast rewind. Archived from the original on 29 March 2015 . Retrieved 21 March 2015.Roger Ebert gave it four out of four stars, calling it the best film of the year, and the ninth best of the 1980s. [32] [33] Gene Siskel also awarded the film four out of four stars, [34] and observed that Vietnam War veterans greatly identified with the film. [35] In his New York Times review, Vincent Canby described Platoon as "possibly the best work of any kind about the Vietnam War since Michael Herr's vigorous and hallucinatory book Dispatches. [36] Depp, Johnny. "Johnny Depp: Platoon interviews". youtube. You Tube. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016 . Retrieved 21 March 2015.

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Doty, Meriah (18 September 2012). "Denzel Washington regrets passing up 'Seven' and 'Michael Clayton' ". Yahoo! Movies. Archived from the original on 4 October 2017 . Retrieved 13 May 2017. Oliver Stone's journey of creating a cinematic piece about his tour of duty in the Vietnam War began almost after it ended in 1968 when he wrote a screenplay called Break, a semi-autobiographical account detailing his experiences with his parents and his time in the Vietnam War. Stone's active duty service resulted in a "big change" in how he viewed life and the war. Although the screenplay Break was never produced, he later used it as the basis for Platoon. [7] His screenplay featured several characters who were the seeds of those he developed in Platoon. The script was set to music from The Doors; Stone sent the script to Jim Morrison in the hope he would play the lead. (Morrison never responded, but his manager returned the script to Stone shortly after Morrison's death; Morrison had the script with him when he died in Paris.) Although Break was never produced, Stone decided to attend film school. [7] Platoon". British Board of Film Classification. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 . Retrieved March 21, 2015. The film was a critical and commercial success, as were some other Stone films at the time, but most studios were still reluctant to finance Platoon, because it was about the unpopular Vietnam War. After the release of The Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now, the studios then cited the perception that these films were considered the pinnacle of the Vietnam War film genre as reasons not to make Platoon. [7] Many Vietnamese refugees living in the Philippines at the time were recruited to act in different Vietnamese roles in the film. [13]

Peers, Benedict Carver,Martin (1998-10-22). "MGM closes in, again". Variety. Archived from the original on 2018-09-03 . Retrieved September 2, 2018. {{ cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) Platoon (2002), also known as Platoon: The 1st Airborne Cavalry Division in Vietnam, a real-time strategy game for Microsoft Windows based on the film, was developed by Digital Reality and published by Monte Cristo and Strategy First. [44] War Is Boring - From drones to AKs, high technology to low politics". War Is Boring. Archived from the original on 2016-11-09 . Retrieved 2017-03-03. The first film in Oliver Stone's unofficial trilogy is arguably the best of the three. The basic story not only shows us what the war was like for those serving but also how the different personalities come out of those involved in it. As we follow Taylor we see him change as he is influenced by those around him and by his situation. It makes for an uncomfortable film but one that's worth watching. It's certainly a better war movie than things like Wild Geese or The Dirty Dozen, simply because it's a little more real to what happens than those ones.

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Upon arrival in the Philippines, the cast was sent on an intensive training course, during which they had to dig foxholes and were subjected to forced marches and nighttime "ambushes," which used special-effects explosions. Led by Vietnam War veteran Dale Dye, training put the principal actors—including Sheen, Dafoe, Depp and Whitaker—through an immersive 30-day military-style training regimen. They limited how much food and water they could drink and eat and when the actors slept, fired blanks to keep the tired actors awake. [17] Dye also had a small role as Captain Harris. Stone said that he was trying to break them down, "to mess with their heads so we could get that dog-tired, don't give a damn attitude, the anger, the irritation ... the casual approach to death". [7] Willem Dafoe said "the training was very important to the making of the film", adding to its authenticity and strengthening the camaraderie developed among the cast: "By the time you got through the training and through the film, you had a relationship to the weapon. It wasn't going to kill people, but you felt comfortable with it." [18]