Oliver StoneOliver, Oliver, Oliver—what hasn't this guy directed? While Stone first made his name as a screen writer (he won the 1979 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on Midnight Ex...

You are about to hear a long, strange tale, full of myths, men, and… rewrites. The Weird OriginalThe origins of the Platoon screenplay go back to 1969, when a young Oliver Stone first started to...

Orion Pictures and Hemdale Consider this the little flick that could. For a movie that won so many awards, it's amazing Platoon was ever produced in the first place. The film's journey from Oliver...

FilmNothin' to see here, folks. Platoon was filmed and produced in 1986. There was no digital yet, so this bad boy was shot entirely on film in the jungles of the Philippines (the Philippine govern...

You can summarize the score of this one in three words: "Adagio for Strings." This piece, written by Samuel Barber in 1936, is arguably one of the saddest, most depressing, and yet most hauntingly...

Platoon isn't like Harry Potter, with a huge, ginormous, massive fan club apparatus. It's a very sobering and bloody war film, and those kinds of things don't usually make people want to don costum...