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Stock Photo | | Item Specifics - DVDs | | | Leading Role: | Charlie Sheen, David Neidorf, Forest Whitaker, Francesco Quinn, John McGinley, Johnny Depp, Keith David, Kevin Dillon, Mark Moses, Richard Edson, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe | | Running Time: | 114 min. | | | Director: | Oliver Stone | | EAN: | 5035822110793 | | | Region: | Region 2: Europe | | Display Format: | Widescreen | | | Rating: | UK:15 | | Condition: | New | | | Genre: | Action/Adventure | | Boxed Set: | Yes | | | Action | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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BRAND NEW, NOT SEALED.
ULTIMATE 2 DISC EDITION, SUPER RARE!!!
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and based on the first-hand experience of Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, Platoon is powerful, intense and starkly brutal.
Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a young, naive American who, upon his arrival in Vietnam, quickly discovers that he must do battle not only with the Viet Cong, but also with the gnawing fear, physical exhaustion and intense anger growing within him. While his two commanding officers (Oscar-nominated Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe) draw a fine line between the war they wage against the enemy and the one they fight with each other, the conflict, chaos and hatred permeate Taylor, suffocating his realities and numbing his feelings to man's highest value... life.
EXTRAS:
- Audio commentary from writer/director Oliver Stone
- Audio commentary from military advisor Capt. Dale Dye
- 'A Tour Of The Inferno': a 'making of' documentary (50 mins)
- 'Bringing It All Back Home' featurette (15 mins)
- 'Lights Out' featurette (10 mins)
- Still galleries
- TV spots
- Original theatrical trailer
- Amazing Artcards
- Superb Booklet
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| Description | In PLATOON, Oliver Stone uses his experience as an infantryman in Vietnam to convey the immediacy of guerrilla warfare: the brutal heat of the jungle, the brushes with such wildlife as snakes and leeches, and, most powerfully, the presence of the unseen enemy. Charlie Sheen stars as Chris, a raw recruit, or new meat, who serves as the film's narrator. At first he wilts under the rigorous conditions of jungle life, freezes up in a firefight, and wonders whether he'll be able to survive. But he gradually adapts and, as time goes by, begins to see that the platoon is divided into two groups. One consists of lifers, juicers, and subintelligent whites, the other of blacks and heads. Sgt. Barnes, a combat-loving burnout (Tom Berenger), is the informal leader of the lifers, and Sgt. Elias, a free spirit (Willem Dafoe), leads the latter group. When the platoon takes some gruesome losses while on an o.p., an enraged Barnes kills some Vietnamese who may or may not have been VC and orders the burning of their village, outraging the temporarily absent Elias. As the conflict between these two reaches its tragic denouncement, Chris must decide what he really values. Widely regarded as one of the finest war films ever made, PLATOON reflects not only the nation's division over Vietnam but it intimately conveys timeless verities of battle: terror, disorientation, exhilaration, and horrible loss.
| | Editorial reviews | Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly - p.83 - Ty Burr
"Nothing that Oliver Stone has done before...is preparation for the singular achievement of his latest film, PLATOON....A major piece of work, as full of pasion as it is of redeeming, scary irony..."
New York Times - p.C12 - Vincent Canby
"...Wrenching..." - Recommended
Premiere - p.136 - Josh Rottenberg
"...Intense....Very effective scenes....An impressive-looking production in all respects..."
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