Oliver Stone on the 40th Anniversary of ‘Platoon’ and the Iran War
There has by no means been a battle movie fairly like “Platoon.” Hollywood delivered highly effective fight tales about the brutality of battle, however nothing got here near matching Oliver Stone’s depiction of America’s tragic Vietnam chapter. This drama about an idealistic recruit (Charlie Sheen) confronting the savagery, the chaos, the true horror of battle, was a searing corrective to jingoistic motion motion pictures like “Rambo.” In “Platoon,” the…