Year: 1986
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Written by: Oliver Stone
Music by: Georges Delerue
Johnny Depp playing: Pvt. Gator Lerner
Runtime: 120 min.
Plot Summary
Platoon is about the Vietnam War 1967. Student Chris Taylor is voluntary for the war in the jungle, but fast he realizes that there’s also war on the American side: between the brutal Seargeant Barnes (Tom Berenger) and Seargeant Elias (Willem Dafoe), who stayed human after all those bloody fights, which makes Barnes kill Elias. Chris Taylor wants to take revenge and stop Barnes from killing innocent people and raping vietnam women. Johnny, playing Private Gator Lerner, who is the Vietnam translator, is on Elias’ side, leading the way through the djungle.
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