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“He thinks he’s Jesus fucking Christ or something.” He says about Willem Dafoe, who literally is Jesus Christ.
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Beyond setting a great deal of the template for how movies would look at this conflict going forward or being a reportedly excruciatingly faithful recreation of “what it was really like”, this manages to touch on so many slivers of context. Race and socioeconomic pressures on the grunts back home and in military heirarchy, intelligence and administrative failures, nuts-and-bolts technical stuff, on and on. Often further evidence of Stone’s widely humanist intentions, too. What tends to be dismissed as a lack of subtlety is often an attempt to articulate the broadest possible experience. This time it even kind of reminded me of Sade’s “Justine”*, aka “The Misfortunes of Virtue”. Not taking pleasure in the torture but understanding it on the…
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“I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy; we fought ourselves. And the enemy was in us.” If all war films were as good and sincere as Platoon it would probably be one of my favorite genres, but there are very few exceptions where the material is treated right as most directors tend to either be incredibly biased debating either in favor or against the war. It’s strange I make this claim since Platoon is obviously an anti-war film, but it treats the material with an honesty you don’t find in other films of the genre. It is much easier to make a statement like this in a war that everyone considers was a terrible mistake to…
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i relate to charlie sheen in that i too, would do anything shirtless young willem dafoe asked of me, including but not limited to putting my mouth on the muzzle of a gun that he‘s pointing directly at my face
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95 Incident to incident. Snake slithering around foot. Lizard crawling on head of stone. Smoke against foliage against blood against the deepest cries of anguish. Screams in the dark. Flares and claymores. An environment and a moment in history which will not and cannot be explained to us. One of the few narrative war films that not only doesn’t apologize for its slaughter (the Vietcong aren’t simply Otherized, in addition abstracted among nature’s wrath – humans retaliating because they need to), but doesn’t offer the tools to comprehend the images laid out in silent, foreboding succession. Why should it? Vietnam happened. America let it happen. We’re lucky Oliver Stone could display such a coherent political framework within the infantry depiction…
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Penso uno dei film di guerra piu belli che abbia ma visto, quasi ci scappa la lacrima. Cast molto giovane e stupendo dai protagonisti a quelli secondari. Dafoe personaggio con uno stile pazzesco, vorrei essere lui per quanto carismatico e fico. Un pò meno per la recitazione ma forse anche per il doppiaggio Sheen che fa la parte del pivello alle prime armi e volontario alla guerra. Bravissimo e molto bravo il personaggio del sergente maggiore che è quasi alla…
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As Adagio for Strings reaches its orchestral conclusion and Chris monologues, searching for some sign of life beyond the rear window of an army helicopter, he can’t help but reckon with the fact that this is bound to go on for all eternity and that this violence is destined to consume the rest of his days. Oliver Stone’s operatic opus.
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O monólogo do final estraga um pouco a cena deixa lá ser eu a chegar a essa conclusão n me digas literalmente “ we weren’t fighting the enemy we were fighting ourselves”
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The most whimsical Vietnam film
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A lot more romantic about the American War in Vietnam than I remembered. It’s a tad long but as a film it’s well shot, well paced and well directed. What I really loved was the historiography that comes with a movie like this. Certain shots and scenes meant as snapshot representations of America’s greatest failure, burning villages, extra judicial killings, asymmetrical warfare. You hardly ever get a glimpse of the NVA until you’re dead. It communicates why America failed, and…
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L’idée de représenter différentes visions de la guerre du Vietnam à travers des personnages clés comme Elias et Barnes, avec au milieu un soldat lambda qui s’engage dans le conflit, est vraiment excellente. Chaque personnage incarne un visage ou une philosophie de la guerre. Barnes représente plutôt la brutalité tandis que Elias représente l’humanité et la conscience et le jeune engagé montre une personne lambda ( comme par exemple nous) qui découvre la guerre ,ce qu’il se passe vraiment et…
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Who’s the hero ?
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Sykt at Normann osborne aldri har vunnet en Oscar
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Good movie to watch if you ever feel bad about staying inside all day. Maybe our life isn’t so bad after all
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se ponen todos re locos
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this feels like if a USC film student enlisted a frat to act in his student film and the majority of the budget was spent on mousse
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Honestly couldn’t tell which direction this movie was headed in. Was it a comedy, or a more realistic approach. After watching the entire thing, obviously I have more clarity. However I didn’t feel it aligned with more of a serious approach, largely due to the production. I have to take 1980s movies with a grain of salt because they are not going to be produced as well as modern movies, but still. It was great to see the character development from someone who was fresh to nam, from the beginning to when he left.
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Feel good is good enough, je crois avec des soldats défoncés. Mais ptn c’est bien, la musique on a envie de se casser de cette enfer. Tout est bien bababa. Le méchant avec la big cicatrice de batard, qui est terrifiant. Moralité du film Fuck Babylone.
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I’m glad that this film was made, however I wasn’t that interested in it. But it was really well-written on how they portrayed Barnes and Elias. The fact that you can see the both of them in Taylor is a fantastic element.
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Films like these are often so comical to me because when you end the film with a dedication to Vietnam veterans, but then show the atrocities committed by them with no respect for the perspective of the colonized, shows a lack of critical thinking and nuance from not only the director, but the producer as well as the average viewer. At the end of the day, this fact largely relegates this film to the level of American military propaganda, unfortunately. The film was executed well though; it had nice pacing and particularly the performance of Barnes stood out to me.
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vai se foder eua, eu t amo willem dafoe
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Are there any drugs in this house? If there are u better find them and give them to me immediately
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Came for stark commentary on war and morality, stayed for the score and Willem Defoe’s weirdly homoerotic screen presence
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25 Day Movie Challenge – Day 5: Movie with your favourite actor Needs more Willem Dafoe
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Too many Tropic Thunder references
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Aunque es propaganda gringa de guerra y de cómo los “pobres estadounidenses sufrieron tanto tanto wawawa” Creo que es una película muy valiosa, que quiebra al ser humano y lo fácil que es perder la cordura cuando tú, hijo de los pobres, carne de cañón, tienes que ir a una guerra perdida que no quieres para defender intereses externos, William Dafoe tiene una actuación increíble, de las mejores de su carrera, y el villano está muy bien construido Además de vaya final Disfruté mucho esta pinche película 🗣️
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depressing but good
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Vietnam films are usually so fucking good and this is not a exception just found out this one best film in 87 well deserved. I loved Willem Dafoe so charismatic in everything he’s ever done. Dude genuinely had swag running around the jungle another W score. A lot of acting juggernauts that we’re just making a name for their self, I think Charlie Sheen does a pretty great job. Slowly unwinding emotionally from all the things going on around him not as good as his old man but still a hell of a job
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Continuing the Vietnam war movie streak. No shortage of iconic imagery in Platoon — but it remains a very bleak and gloomy story.
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nobody best captures the most controversial war in american history than oliver stone
- Synopsis
- As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
- Director
- Oliver Stone
- Writer
- Oliver Stone
- Studio
- Hemdale Film Corporation, Arnold Kopelson Productions
- Country
- UK, USA
- Language
- English, Vietnamese
- Year
- 1986
- Runtime
- 120 mins
- USA19 Dec 1986
- USA06 Feb 1987
- Argentina19 Feb 1987
- Brazil27 Feb 1987
- Australia05 Mar 1987
- Portugal06 Mar 1987
- Taiwan07 Mar 1987
- Italy13 Mar 1987
- Philippines18 Mar 1987
- Colombia19 Mar 1987
- Sweden20 Mar 1987
- France25 Mar 1987
- El Salvador26 Mar 1987
- Finland27 Mar 1987
- Peru02 Apr 1987
- Hong Kong09 Apr 1987
- UK24 Apr 1987
- Netherlands29 Apr 1987
- Germany30 Apr 1987
- Denmark08 May 1987
- South Korea04 Jul 1987
- Hungary01 Sep 1988
- Poland02 Jun 1989
- Czechia01 Jan 1990
- Norway01 Dec 1987
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