プラトーン
[i]The first casualty of war is innocence...-[/i] Main tagline.

[i][b]Platoon[/b][/i] is a 1986 American anti-war film written and directed by Oliver Stone, starring an ensemble of several actors lead by Tom Berenger, [[Willem Dafoe]], and [[Charlie Sheen]]. 

It is the first film of a trilogy of Vietnam War films directed by Stone, followed by [i][b]Born on the Fourth of July[/b][/i] (1989) and [i][b]Heaven & Earth[/b][/i] (1993).

Stone wrote the screenplay based upon his own brutal, terrible and traumatic personal experiences as a [[united states|U.S.]] [[soldier|infantryman]] in the [[Vietnam War]], to counter the falsely heroic and pro-militaristic vision of the war portrayed in John Wayne's [i][b]The Green Berets[/b][/i] (1968). 

Platoon was the first Hollywood film to be written and directed by an actual veteran of the Vietnam War.

Platoon won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1986; it also won Best Director for Oliver Stone, as well as Best Sound Mixing and Best Film Editing. In 1998, the American Film Institute placed Platoon at #83 in their "AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies" poll.

h4. Main characters

* [[Sergeant Gordon Elias]]
* [[Sergeant Robert Barnes]]
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