PLATOON Clip - "Jungle Trek" (1986) Oliver Stone 

Probably so. Both Berenger and Dafoe got Best Supporting Actor noms for Platoon so they cancelled each other out.

As we all know, winning an Academy Award isn't a measure of a great performance on screen.

“Everybody gotta die sometime, Red.” Best line in the movie.

@@live4powderhound834I love the part where he rips Lt. Wolfe a new one for calling arty on his own people.

We’re you at Balboa Highschool by chance?

I did it in 1977 and '79 with the 101St.Airborne(AASLT) as a 11b...""GreenHell"" almost had me lose my marbles on the Night compass course...hats off to all the "Nam"vets...training was diffucult enough...but actual time in the field under combat conditions for periods of time is...Unimaginable!!!...And great movie....when i came in the service..a lot of Nam vets still in service.....all our equipment was from that era....

I did JOTC back in the 80's. that heat is brutal. everything soaking wet at 0600 in the morning.

And deadly traps making it even worse.

The early nineties lmfao 😂😂

Originally it was going Willem Dafoe but he choose to play Sergeant Elias while Berenger decided to play against type as Sergeant Barnes as Berenger was known before Platoon to play good guy roles.

Absolutely!

Berenger's look. Those sharks eyes...hollow eyes. He looked like the killer he played.

"Yup...they got two Lieutenants and a Captain"...Bad vibe orders group in the field

@@scottknode898 One of the best War Movie roles ever played

Same here.

Me too

I have seen it maybe around 100 times.

I thought it was just me 😂

This movie will never get old, but we are movie came out in 86 that's the year I graduated HS. 55 now where does the time go😮 movie is timeless....peace

Knew some real Grunts, In Country.....Smoking Dope with a squad ...or Ambush was bullshit. ....... Clean your weapon before you eat, smoke. or get washed.........In case you get attacked or need to go back out...........Most of this Movie was BS.

@@briangoldy8784 I don't know it was written and directed by a Grunt .

@@briangoldy8784 Oh absolutely there was some liberties taken granted. But the foundation is there and solid. Squad integrity, platoon sergeant being in charge, getting put on bullshit details, infighting, the politics. Its all there.

@@briangoldy8784 Stone rolled every problem into one platoon under artistic license, but if you look into it, Army discipline and motivation had slipped like this by 1970 in many units. I read accounts that platoons refused to patrol. They'd just sit outside camp in the bush. Discipline got so bad near the end that NCOs got gang beaten if they offended certain groups and non compliant soldiers were put in sweat boxes to force obedience. The US Army was falling apart.

@@dougtheviking6503 Grunt is a Soldier or Marine who lays down on his back to lift a (90lb)Ruck off the Ground an Lets Out a GRUNT........

I had a coworker who said very similar things about a friend of his. They knew he'd been a paratrooper, and they knew he'd gone to Vietnam and that was it. When he passed away, the survivors of his unit came to the funeral service and basically described a real-life Rambo: "we're alive today because he had no concern for his personal safety in combat. He worried about everybody else." His adult children found a footlocker in the attic filled with Army memorabilia, including a folded up dress green jacket with five rows of ribbons on it, including a Distinguished Service Cross. My coworker said that whenever he was asked what he did in Vietnam, his answer ran along the lines of, "A little of this, a little of that and a little of a few other things," then he always changed the subject.

@@tonyjones1560 I don’t even have RU-vid notifications on but the fact that your comment made my phone buzz is pretty weird. Yea it seems like the dudes that were in the most shit never talked about it. Then the guys that were stationed in a safe area and did paperwork share stories non stop. I’ve never seen a more stone cold look in my life but it wasn’t like he was forcing it. This guy really did walk the walk and see the shit. We thought we were so bad in high school always getting in fights. Once night we came home from a brawl all amped up and he came out in his underwear and told us all we need to shut the fuck up and pray nobody died because “you little faggets wouldn’t last a day in prison”. Then went back to bed

Sorry, but he sounds like a dick. Todays generation are just as good(or bad) soldiers as they were back then. Fear on the battlefield has always existed and few can conquer that fear, but those who can are labeled "rambos"

No one cares dummy😂

Was your friend actually dumb enough to say that to a veteran or did you make all of this up? Your friend sounds like a stupid asshole.

Yes .

​@@Jeff-is1whzx❤

Seriously! So many of them are just unknown random actors too that are never really heard from again. And yet they all were so convincing. Everyone did such a good part, especially the minor characters.

​@@andrewnewman8907William dafoe, forest witaker, jhony Depp, charly Sheen, tom berenger.

​@@andrewnewman8907They appear unknown because they were young at the time, like the draftees were in real life, but if you watch the credits you will see many names that went on to become better known and famous. Even the Captain of the Platoon, Dale Dye. You will recognise him as the Colonel in Band of Brothers. He was a Vietnam Vet and there is a scene towards the end of the film where he's staring at nothing, and the Director, Oliver Stone, (also a Vet) kept the camera running because it was clear he was having a flashback. Stone himself often had to take a 'time out' and go for a wander to clear his mind due to hiz own flashbacks and trauma during production.

Plus bugs and heatstrokes can’t forget that, while carrying a bunch of crap to top it all off

Why is it painful? Who cares.

citation needed

"The only one who can kill Barnes is Barnes"

Portrayed an East Tennessean, did a pretty good job of it.

As teenagers me and my cousins would smoke weed and watch this movie. I never thought I would join the ARMY, my brother and I did. We even went to basic training togather it was awsome.

The movie Major League came out a few years after this, really puts in perspective how great Berenger and Sheen were in this movie.

It is best war movie i ever seen so realistic. It is because made by war veteran 😇

Barnes cared about his troops as well as long as the followed him into the heart of darkness

That’s how it was on my HVAC job lol

ha ha just like taking a job at Walmart

That job at Wal Mart would be just as dangerous especially if it was in Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, Los Angeles or New Orleans.

​@@gallestelol. Why? Im brazilian so I couldn't tell. A friend girl from the past work at a walmart, shes kinda of manager of a section idk.. shes originally from Texas. Nice funny girl Natalie, I miss the time I used to take the same bus she took, her friend was my woman for some time, we really liked each other. Anyway, let's go.

@@gallestebruh Chicago ain’t that bad you just spewing bs

Tbh, they all absolutely nailed their roles with stellar performances. John McGinley as Red, Keith David as King, Dillon as Bunny etc.

I agree but at that time the audience didn’t understand the character of the “bad guy” but his character had paid his dues!

I had a SSGT like him when I was in the Marines. I wanted to friendly fire the cock sucker a couple of times on deployment. I hate to say it but you need bastards like Barnes during war. He even rubbed off on me a little...

John C. McGinlay is great too - 'Yep, right Bob.'

And Corey Glover as Francis.. he is the only friend Chris (Charlie Sheen) ever had.. other than Rah, King, and Elias as his mentor

Das Boot?

@@markdammes1947 Yes a very good film...but the realism of Platoon was second to none...IMHO. Remember, Oliver Stone was a Vietnam vet and all the actors went through 'Boot camp" and had been given actual military training prior to filming.

@@themessenger5868 Didn't know they all went through boot camp, that's awesome.

@@magetaaaaaa It was a really abbreviated bootcamp "experience" type thing, but Captain Dye ran it, and they did it in the jungle, so for a bunch of actors not bad.

I'll second that.

Of all time too.

@@judas2891 Yes You Are So Right about This

My three favourite films are Apocalypse now platoon and fmj ❤

@@Roscoe.P.Coldchain now you’re talking my language😎💯

Damn lol.

He tried some powder too I'd say 😅

HE GOT TIGER BLOOD

The Academy probably looked at his character being the antagonist and didn't want to give it to him since he didn't play the hero role. Hollywood is that petty, unfortunately.

@@scott4499 * Antagonist. Gene Hackman got an Oscar for being the antagonist in Unforgiven. Tom Barrenger was fantastic in this role. I also really liked him in Gettysburg.

@Max Richter Thanks for the clarification. I wasn't aware of Gene Hackman's Academy award for Unforgiven. They are both great actors. I never saw Gettysburg, but I heard it was very good.

Many actors have won academy award for playing a villain.

Reminded me of every lifer I knew.

My Dad was in the Korean war in artillery. There were incoming rounds and he said, ''That's something a guy never forgets: The sound of an incoming round.'' You and I will never know the actual feeling. Or the fear, noise, blood, the insanity. We can't feel that in a movie. Only the depiction of it. If you have ever been truly scared that this might be all she wrote, you will know what I mean.

My dad has a friend who was in the Nam, and he said the same thing about Forrest Gump. Especially the part describing the rain.

@@MegaMkmiller interesting that both your dad and mine were both in the artillery and had the same last name of Miller.

@@TheBeagleHasLanded75 Cool. Thanks for letting me know bro!

@@MegaMkmiller you’re welcome. Unfortunately my dad passed a number of years ago. But I know he made it Heaven because he already marched through Hell.

I would most def agree with that. I think most people would.

Check him out in The Loveless with rockabilly singer Robert Gordon.

Underrated? Mmmokay

​@@starwarsroo2448Ikr. Stupid kids with their stupid underrated comments. Next they gonna say tom hanks is underrated.

I was about the same age when I saw it. I couldn't sleep for 3 days after watching this movie. Rarely does a movie impact me like this.

@@timwarneka5681 I love listening to the insects and sounds in that jungle

@@MarcDufresneosorusrex One of my favorite noises. I wonder if it's kind of baked into humans to like that since we all came from the woods before industrialization. Sometimes I just put on long clips of jungle noise, you can find them all over RU-vid. Great to sleep to as well.

@@magetaaaaaa I agree

Thanks for the usage of the term 'discomfort', sir. Spot on.

Yes, and what the Vietnamese guerrillas and North Vietnamese soldiers dealt with for years on end fighting on their home ground. No 12-month or 13-month tour of duty for them. "Charlie only had two ways home: death, or victory." That was what it was like for them.

@@asmodeus0454 Sure but most vc weren’t humping a ruck..flak vests… radios.. full combat loads and a bucket on their head.. after growing up in the fields of Nebraska. That climate and terrain with that load… throw on top the ever present danger of an unseen enemy who is in his element… yeah thats a long 12 months. Taking no credit away from the Vietnamese. Tough mfs they were. This was a different experience for both sides.

Glad I’m not the only one who saw this parallelism. Both characters were badly traumatized and hurt by the wars they lived, and filled with anger and lust for vengeance. Two captains Achab. Quint - in the movie - was a funnier guy, though.

Two fathers, like it's said in the movie.

Barnes acted foolishly much of the time. He should have been discharged earlier, he had forgotten who he was supposed to protect and saw all Vietmanese people as the enemy. He even had a translator, ignored him, yet still wanted to murder a village full of innocent civilians.@@mitrooper

@@Bradgilliswhammyman Especially when he saw one of his men strung up and disemboweled, "those Motherfuckers", great scene.

I’ll haul it for ya

@George Thomas that's why Vietnam is a place where many vets return to this day they are our friends as a nation too, there are cases where Americans did kill woman and children yet not many, thanks bud.

To be fair, he’s his squad leader and should’ve helped him pack lighter from the get go…

He is more like crusader/tragic hero type of person. A very capable fighter and yet he still hold his moral compass firmly, care about his men well-beings.

@@charliep5139@charliep5139 absolutely Elias might have made a mistake thinking he could hack it initially; many people miss that detail.

Platoon is an American film.

True, he gets killed in all the movies he's in...

@@alsmith7382 "True, he gets killed in all the movies he's in..." Onion bagel...cream cheese.

@@alsmith7382 he didn't get killed in Mississippi Burning.

@@SighNaps nice symbolism😉

@@darthvader3233 What can I say? I'm an expert in nameology.

You can measure experience of every man in this scene by watching him just going through bushes.

Well that and the fact that taylor was there cutting a path through the bush, swinging that machete and being on point as the new meat probably sucked way worse than walking behind him.

@@kwiklot5114Being on point is the most dangerous and shit job. Especially in Afghanistan where mines and IED’s were largely triggered by point men/vehicles.

I was in same time Canadian Infantry...Cold War......trained with some of you...10th Mountain...and 101 ABN...Air Assault...Fort Drum was close to Southern Ontario

@@greasyflight6609 Awesome, I got to train with the PPCLI while in exercise in Alberta

@@georgeseipel7087 Great Regiment

He is a leftist hack

@George Thomas Yes, that is documented and it particularly happened toward the end of the war as it was winding down. Discipline broke down severely as people knew it was all for nothing by that point.

"Ain't nothin but a thing".

Great supporting cast.

He seemed too stereotypical. The typical country bumpkin nice guy who gets killed in all those 1950s WW 2 films. I also think that the TV show, Tour of Duty had some very realistic scenarios and acting from what I've read. I spoke to some Vietnam vets and read autobiographies. Movies can't convey the utter suffering it was just day to day. Hiking all day in 100 degree heat and humidity with 80-90lbs on your back and a few hours sleep. You were a zombie, yet you tried to stay alert. 30 days doing this, then back in camp doing hard labor. Cutting trees, digging holes, laying barbed wire. No rest except during the pitch black night where the VC operated at will. So tired even your ankles hurt from the load. Rinse repeat for a year. Some did not even get a weeks R & R as they were supposed. And you usually had NO idea where you were and what the objective was. You just humped 90lbs from dawn to dusk, day after day. Abushes came quick and violent, then over. 1 or 2 dead. A few wounded. Endless mountains in the Central Highlands and up to your ass in water all day in the Delta. Mines, booby traps, deadly snakes constant worries. It's a wonder more of those men didn't lose their sanity. You'd have to lose some sanity to withstand that. They didn't put soldiers on the line that long usually even in WW2. Then they came back home to see "The crazy Vietnam Vet criminal" on every TV cop show and to be despised or ignored. Even the US govt. didn't take care of them. Underfunding VA hospitals and such. Vietnam was hardly spoken about for 15 yrs until Platoon came out. So it was a seminal film in that sense too. It started a bunch of other films about the war.

I sometimes quote Gardiner when I get killed a lot in rising storm 2

great foreshadowing too. Lt Wolfe having map trouble will come back to haunt them all later.

Also Oliver Stone.

@@judyhopps9380 A lot of Lt's were like that.

Add the fact that rich kids never went because they got a note from their doctor.....SMH

Apocalypse Now es mejor

Damn, crotch rot city!

Plus mosquitoes eating you alive.

In the sun. Sure I bet it was muggy but that triple layer canopy helps

They filmed in Philippines as Director Oliver Stone and technical advisor Dale Dye who were both Vietnam veterans wanted to be closer to what was like when serving in Vietnam and not to be filmed on a soundstage or film set. They filmed around the jungle in the direct heat and humidity, actors had said they had either lost weight or got sick during filming including Dafoe from drinking water.

He loved Nam. LoL

Just the same way a bunch of yankees, ghetto rats, hill jacks rednecks, chinos, can all tell if something is " off"" in our country...and why ..for now...the CCP is hesitating on invading us. A soldier..a citizen. knows his home nations scents...ways....off puttings...

One thing I never understood is why 'national pride' is so strong with you people that you have to tear others down to make you feel better about yourselves.

Ya the point man is usually literal bait

True. He wanted them tired and irritable. There's a behind the scenes documentary of Platoon called Brothers in Arms - The Making of Platoon. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PQplEjobxFU.html. It's 90 minutes well spent.

That's a great documentary. You find out all kinds of interesting facts about the filming of Platoon and about the real soldiers they based the Barnes and Elias characters on. Really fascinating and well worth watching.

Haha!!