Berenger gave me the creeps as Barnes. Like, the guy was stone cold and was all business. Defoe gave me the much needed compassion and thoughtfulness that I'm sure dudes in that kind of brutal environment appreciated.
Should have included the "BARNES!!!" yell at the start of the clip. That was a pivotal part of the full scene when suddenly sanity has returned and snapped everyone out of the insanity that was taking place beforehand.
@@DimitriTheBarbarianSo did Barnes not too long after, but at least Elias died with his principals and honor intact as a good man. That’s strength. Barnes died after allowing the darkness of existence to corrupt him, and which was what also inevitably killed him. That’s weakness. Like anyone else, Elias wasn’t so prescient as to know what walking the line as good man in a morally comprised and confusing time and place would bring him, any more than Barnes could’ve foreseen his own actions leading to also being shot by a member of his own team. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
@@dropkickirish4449 Barnes died with his principles as well. There is no difference how they died. The difference between good guy and bad guy is - bad guy is always asking for it and lives just enough until he finally runs into a wall. Smart men don’t just challenge deadly force, gotta be smart and political, that’s how you stay alive to see your kids and grandkids grow up
Oliver Stone based Elias and Barnes on two different sergeants he had in Vietnam. They never met but Stone wondered what happen if they were in the same platoon.
Best thing about this movie is how accurately portrayed the officers are vs the NCOs, which you don't see in a lot of military movies. You quickly notice the stark contrast in aura here between the Lieutenant vs Barnes and Elias.
The musical score "Addagio For Strings" by Samuel Barber was the most hauntingly beautiful background for the scene wherein Elias is abandoned & left to die as the helicopter pulls away & Barnes sees his (da)foe die...
Crazy to think at the age of 15, watching this movie, I myself would be serving in the 25th Infantry a few years later, and call the jungle my home away from home... I would end up in this battalion the movie was based off of.
Elias is wrong. They just had one of their soldiers tortured and mutilated. Emotions are high. De-escalate and deal with whatever happened later. Can't bring the civilian back to life. Still in a highly dangerous location and isolated with unknown number of enemy in immediate vicinity. unit cohesion and discipline are more important than beating your chest about how superior you are morally. You can do that later. Back at base. Barnes is the leader of the unit at that moment. Is your ego or your unit more important?
