Platoon Movie Scenes. With Charlie Sheen Tom Berenger Willem Dafoe Keith David. Many scenes resembled a number of taut 50s black and white platoon-unit films some with tension between commanders such as Samuel Fullers two Korean War films The Steel Helmet 1951 and Fixed Bayonets.
Although the story is based in Vietnam filmmakers actually captured the gritty war scenes in the Philippines. During the filming of the scene where Elias is finally gunned down by the Viet Cong while the rest of the platoon watches from the choppers not a single one of the special effects gunshotblood packs on Willem Dafoe went off. While his platoon pillages a small village Chris rescues a young village girl from being raped by some of the men in his platoon.
A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.
When he finds Chris Charlie Sheen trying to make sense of things King Keith David shares his thoughts on life and on. Platoon Filming Locations. 1951 Robert Aldrichs Attack. The original idea for Platoon came to Oliver Stone when he was a.
