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and the Oscar went to PLATOON (1986)

and the Oscar went to PLATOON (1986)

Released Sunday, 24th May 2015
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and the Oscar went to PLATOON (1986)

and the Oscar went to PLATOON (1986)

and the Oscar went to PLATOON (1986)

and the Oscar went to PLATOON (1986)

Sunday, 24th May 2015
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In the debut of the Best Picture Podcast series, Rich Drezen and Kevin Losani discuss Oliver Stone's Platoon.Logline: A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.Best PictureBest DirectorBest SoundBest Film EditingIt was Francois Truffaut who said that it's not possible to make an anti-war movie, because all war movies, with their energy and sense of adventure, end up making combat look like fun. If Truffaut had lived to see "Platoon," the best film of 1986, he might have wanted to modify his opinion. Here is a movie that regards combat from ground level, from the infantryman's point of view, and it does not make war look like fun.

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