They come from the end of the line, most of them, small towns you've never heard of Pulaski, Tenessee Brandon, Missippi Pork Bend, Utah Wampum, Pennsylvania. Live up to what Grandpa did in the first world war, and Dad did in the second. I guess I've always been sheltered and special I just wanna be anonymous like everybody else - do my share for my country. They drove me crazy with their God damned world, Grandma you know Mom. They wanted me to be just like them - respectable, hard-working, a little house, a family. 'Course Mom and Dad didn't want me coming here. I think I've made a big mistake coming here. The logic being: you don't suffer that much.I don't think I can keep this up for a year, Grandma. And they say, if you're gonna get killed in the Nam, it's better to get it in the first few weeks. The unwritten rule is a new guy's life isn't worth as much 'cause he hasn't put his time in, yet. #FUNNIEST FOXHOLE COURT QUOTES HOW TO#It's scary 'cause nobody tells me how to do anything 'cause I'm new, and nobody cares about the new guys. We get up at 5 a.m., hump all day, camp around 4 or 5, dig a foxhole, eat, and put out an all-night ambush or a three-man listening post in the jungle. A gook could be standing three feet in front of me, and I wouldn't know it. The hardest thing I think I've ever done is go on point three times this week. I hate it already, and it's only been a week. Somebody once wrote, "Hell is the impossibility of reason." That's what this place feels like - Hell. Platoon won Oscars for best picture and director. His violent and disorienting images have a terrifying immediacy, a you-are-there quality that gives you a sense of how things may have felt to an infantryman in the jungles of Vietnam. Stone has become known for his sledgehammer visual style, but in this film it seems perfectly appropriate. The personalities of the two sergeants correspond to their combat drugs of choice-pot for Elias and booze for Barnes. Chris (Charlie Sheen) is an infantryman whose loyalty is tested by two superior officers: Sergeant Elias (Willem Dafoe), a former hippie humanist who really cares about his men (this was a few years before he played Jesus in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ), and Sergeant Barnes (Tom Berenger), a moody, macho soldier who may have gone over to the dark side. Platoon put writer-turned-director Oliver Stone on the Hollywood map it is still his most acclaimed and effective film, probably because it is based on Stone's firsthand experience as an American soldier in Vietnam.
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