As the men leave, a group of four soldiers, Bunny, Junior,Tony Hoyt (Ivan Kane) and Morehouse (Kevin Eshelman), drag two young Vietnamese girls into the bushes with the intention of raping them. Lieutenant Wolfe, passive during the shooting of the wife, eventually ends the fight, and relays orders from his own superior officer to burn the village. Barnes is about to murder the man's young daughter to force him to tell them where the enemy is, when Sergeant Elias arrives at the scene and starts a fistfight with Barnes.
While questioning the village chief, Barnes loses his patience and senselessly kills the man's wife despite his denials that they are aiding the Viet Cong. However, Bunny (Kevin Dillon) then takes over and beats the boy to death with his gun, even though Sgt. Taylor harasses and taunts the retarded boy by shooting his rilfe at his one foot (causing him to hop), but goes no further. In one house, Taylor discovers a mute and mentally & physically disabled boy and his mother hiding in a hole beneath the floor. The platoon reaches the village, where a food and weapons cache is discovered. The platoon is infuriated by the senseless death of their comrade and are ordered to report to a nearby village of South Vietnamese citizens. His mutilated body is found tied to a post close by. Shortly after, a soldier named Manny Washington (Corkey Ford) goes missing. Adam Glover) and Sal (Richard Edson) find an abandoned bunker and are killed when they stumble upon a booby trap attached to a box of documents. He then becomes friends with Gator Lerner (Johnny Depp), Francis (Corey Glover), Big Harold (Forest Whitaker), Rhah (Francesco Quinn), Crawford (Chris Pedersen) and Doc Gomez (Paul Sanchez).ĭuring one patrol on New Years Day, January 1, 1968, two members of the platoon, Sandy (J. Taylor becomes a more seasoned soldier as the patrols continue and soon no longer stands out amongst the others. Next door, Barnes leads the more traditional members of the unit whom drink beer and play cards.
Immediately after the fighting Taylor discovers a light wound to his neck, and he is sent to the field hospital for treatment.Ī few days later, Taylor returns to his unit from the hospital and, through a soldier named King (Keith David), gains acceptance from the "heads", a tight-knit group led by Elias that socializes, dances, and takes drugs in a private bunker. Despite having passed the watch duty to Junior (Reggie Johnson), a more experienced but consistently irresponsible soldier who fell asleep, Taylor is blamed for the casualties (O'Neil is also to blame, having thrown the grenade that maimed Tex). Gardner (Bob Orwig), another soldier new to the platoon, is killed, and another soldier, Tex (David Neidorf), has his hand blown off. That night, North Vietnamese soldiers set upon Taylor's sleeping unit. Barnes agrees, only on the condition that O'Neil goes out as well. O'Neil insists that the new troops go out instead of several men under him who are nearly finished with their tours of duty. Barnes and Elias argue over whether to send the new men out on a patrol that is likely to be ambushed. McGinley), and heroin addict Sergeant Warren (Tony Todd). One day, another new arrival, platoon commander Lieutenant Wolfe (Mark Moses) discusses the plans for a patrol later that night with the platoon's sergeants: the compassionate Sergeant Elias Grodin (Willem Dafoe), harsh but suicidal Staff Sergeant Barnes (Tom Berenger), cowardly lifer Sergeant Red O'Neil (John C.
Upon arrival in Da Nang, South Vietnam, he sees dead soldiers in body bags being loaded into his plane, but more distressing to him is the shellshocked state of a departing soldier with the "thousand-yard stare." Taylor and several other replacements have been assigned to Bravo Company, 25th Infantry division, "somewhere near the Cambodian border." Worn down by the exhausting work and living conditions, his enthusiasm for the war wanes quickly and he develops an admiration for the more experienced soldiers, despite their reluctance to extend their friendship. Plot Ĭhris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a young American who has abandoned a privileged life at a university to enlist in the infantry, volunteering for combat duty in Vietnam. The film was released to the cinemas in the USA on 19 December 1986. Platoon is a war film set during the Vietnam War, directed by Oliver Stone.
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