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'''''Platoon''''' is an acclaimed war-time movie written and directed by [[Oliver Stone]] based on his experiences as an American soldier in the [[Vietnam War]]. It was released in 1986 and won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
The film follows a new recruit as he gets thrown into the humid, alien and deadly jungles of war and gives a frank look at the toll the war took on the men that fought, lived and died in the jungle. The main conflict is the murder of innocent civilians causing a rift in the platoon while our young recruit tries to find the correct thing to do in a war with ambiguous morals.
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It is generally considered a milestone in war films in that the battles are far from glamorized and it is not afraid of showing just how hellish it can be; this makes it come closer to defeating [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]] than many other films.
''Platoon'' was named to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2019.
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* [[All Asians Wear Conical Straw Hats]]: Many of the Vietnamese
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: And at any moment, just [[War Is Hell|like in war]].
* [[Asshole Victim]]: In the final battle,
** In general,
* [[Big No]]: Chris shouts this just as Barnes is about to kill him during the final battle by the end of the movie.
* [[Blood Knight]]: Barnes.
* [[Booby Trap]]: Be careful opening that
** The odd thing is, {{spoiler|just before lifting the box, he was telling his comrade to be careful about where he stepped and what he touched because of... well, y'know. Why didn't he just grab the papers from within the box?}} The [[Idiot Ball]], that's why.
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Elias when he finds out what Barnes did at the village. So bad that even career soldiers thought it was over-the-top.
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* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Barnes has a nasty scar that zig-zags all up and down the right side of his face.
* [[Jerkass]]: Any of the soldiers (excluding Chris and Elias, who look like absolute saints compared to the others, [[Cluster F-Bomb|although hey]], [[Your Mileage May Vary|YMMV]] on them) that you might see in this movie were assholes from start to finish, especially Barnes, Bunny and Wolfe. And don't even start about the village scene where they interrogate the civilians in there.
* [[Karmic Death]]:
* [[Licensed Game]]: A couple of them. Probably some of the least necessary film-to-game adaptations ever, given that the movie was ''demonizing'' the war. They at least tried to replicate the film's message in the NES game by giving you a [[Karma Meter|"Morale" gauge]] which goes down when you kill innocents.
* [[Mentor Occupational Hazard]]:
* [[The Messiah]]: Sgt. Elias Grodin.
* [[My Girl Back Home]]: Complete with [[Fatal Family Photo|wallet picture]] and all.
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{{Golden Globe Award Best Motion Picture Drama}}
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