infantryman in Vietnam, to counter the vision of the war portrayed in John Wayne's The Green Berets. Stone wrote the screenplay based upon his experiences as a U.S. Army volunteer (Sheen) serving in Vietnam while his Platoon Sergeant and his Squad Leader (Berenger and Dafoe) argue over the morality in the platoon and of the war itself. The film, based on Stone's experience from the war, follows a U.S. It is the first film of a trilogy of Vietnam War films directed by Stone, followed by Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Heaven & Earth (1993). McGinley, Forest Whitaker, and Johnny Depp. Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Keith David, Kevin Dillon, John C.
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