Every Oliver Stone Movie Ranked Worst To Best
1. Platoon
The very best film Oliver Stone has ever made is Platoon, a 1986 war movie that stands alongside the likes of Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket and The Deer Hunter as the greatest windows into the Vietnam war. Why? Because it came from an individual who experienced the conflict first-hand.
Before he became a movie director, Oliver Stone enlisted in the US Army in 1967 and requested to serve in the far-off Asian country. He would fight from September 1967 through April 1968, earning several commendations and moreover, an intimate experience of how hellish the Vietnam war really was.
From here, he put together ideas for a film, one that would recreate his own experience and pay respect to the comrades he had lost. In order to maintain authenticity, the director put the cast through a gruelling training course to get them into the mindset of touring the inferno. The end result features Charlie Sheen as Chris, a soldier who finds himself struggling with his conscience while the two Sargents Barnes (Tom Berenger) and Elias (Willem Dafoe) watch over him.
Even more than three decades after its release, Platoon is a powerful and harrowing production that perfectly captures the tragic and pointless war that America waged in Vietnam. It's best known for the use of "Adagio for Strings", which stamps a solemn tone on the entire experience.
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