Platoon, Full Metal Jacket Or Apoc. Now
Smoke_Nova
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<div class="IPBDescription">What do you think is better, and why?</div> I'm personally more of a fan of Platoon. Sure, it's got Charlie Sheen but it also has one of the most though-evoking scenes I've seen in a Vietnam War based movie.
The scene i'm specifically referring to is when they are ordered to burn the VC village and they have to herd the civilians away. They light the fires and you can hear Barber's Adagio for strings playing in the background, reaching a crescendo as the camera pans out and shows the entire village burning. Reminds me of the Adagio for Voices playing during Homeworld when the mothership has to leave Kharak.
The scene i'm specifically referring to is when they are ordered to burn the VC village and they have to herd the civilians away. They light the fires and you can hear Barber's Adagio for strings playing in the background, reaching a crescendo as the camera pans out and shows the entire village burning. Reminds me of the Adagio for Voices playing during Homeworld when the mothership has to leave Kharak.
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Also there is this film out about chineese kids who are thrown onto an island and are forced to kill each other. its supposably a very sick and gruesome movie but i havent seen it yet. cant remember the name.
The scene i'm specifically referring to is when they are ordered to burn the VC village and they have to herd the civilians away. They light the fires and you can hear Barber's Adagio for strings playing in the background, reaching a crescendo as the camera pans out and shows the entire village burning. Reminds me of the Adagio for Voices playing during Homeworld when the mothership has to leave Kharak. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Do some reading on Vietnam.
I used to like Platoon too, until I found out it was all a load of <i>CRAP</i>.
It is NOT a good representation of the Vietnam War at all.
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Top Reason why most Americans <i>cannot</i> differenciate between <b>History</b> and <b>American Revisionist History</b>?
I know they were bad Nova... but do you know exactly how bad they were? Once you do some reading on Vietnam you'll discover what was represented in Platoon was a holiday compared to real thing.
Like I said, once you read about the real thing you'd more the likely look back at Platoon as see that it's crap. Movies are rarely the best place to go for a good history lesson.
He was at a Air Force Base and every night the VC would open fire on their planes as they took off from this little village near the base. They would send out patrols to the village during the day but the VC would just run into the jungle and come back at night when they left. They asked the Vietnamese government to move these people (there were about 75-100 men, woman, and children) but the government took forever to respond and the VC were damaging the night bombers which was very bad. So my dads sarge call for a volunteer. The (un)mission is that they load a small bomber up with bombs and crash it into the village. The reason this was an unmission is because if they were questioned about it, it was going to be described as an accident. So this young pilot flies this loaded bomber into the village and runs off right as the bombs detonate. Unmission successful. My dad participated in a few of these unmissions.
I just think Platoon does a much better job representing what (on average) happend every day.
It still has R. Lee Ermey as a GunnySgt. but the movie adds comedy in with the violence.