Platoon is the first film written and directed by Stone that can be used to examine and explain his thesis and perception towards the Vietnam War. In this film, Stone gives a generalized few of the Vietnam War but uses a lot of symbolism. In the “Platoon” Stone depicts the Vietnam War as having been quite gruesome and deadly (Richman, p. 45). This description, contrary to what the world was made to believe, is in fact, the truth about the war, according to Stone. However, some Vietnam veterans, after viewing the film, felt that Stone’s depiction of the war was not entirely valid (Richman, p. 46). As a matter of fact, these veterans felt that Stone did not reveal the real extremity to which the war was waged. In other terms, although Stone depicts the war as having been quite ruthless, some veterans feel that it was worse than portrayed in the film “the Platoon.”
The film does not indeed depict the hard-to-fathom cruelty of the war. In the film the Platoon, Stone agrees with the veterans that the Vietnam War was horrible in its entirety (Richman, p. 45). The film depicts soldiers as having hated the war, thus were constantly frustrated during its course. Also, in the film, it is observed that Stone believed the war was characterized by confusion and wanton waste of human lives and other resources (Riordan, p. 24).
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This assertion is evidenced by the presence of black liberation talk by the black troops in the film. Stone thus criticizes the American imperialism through conversations among black marines who were reading Malcolm X and other minority ad vulnerable groups in the war such as Hispanics. The war was thus characterized by racial tension between black and white, which was a direct function of the extent of danger the soldiers felt. There were racial brawls in the rear and hostility at battalion headquarters (Richman, p.
The film does not indeed depict the hard-to-fathom cruelty of the war. In the film the Platoon, Stone agrees with the veterans that the Vietnam War was horrible in its entirety (Richman, p. 45). The film depicts soldiers as having hated the war, thus were constantly frustrated during its course. Also, in the film, it is observed that Stone believed the war was characterized by confusion and wanton waste of human lives and other resources (Riordan, p. 24).
Stone asserts that Vietnam …show more content…
This assertion is evidenced by the presence of black liberation talk by the black troops in the film. Stone thus criticizes the American imperialism through conversations among black marines who were reading Malcolm X and other minority ad vulnerable groups in the war such as Hispanics. The war was thus characterized by racial tension between black and white, which was a direct function of the extent of danger the soldiers felt. There were racial brawls in the rear and hostility at battalion headquarters (Richman, p.