... was too grim and realistic." Platoon became one of the first successful films to look at the war as history. David Ansen writes in his Newsweek article, "Watching Oliver Stone's shattering Platoon, it dawns on you that the most previous Hollywood movies about Vietnam weren't really about Vietnam." Stone was determined to make Platoon the first real Vietnam film. Pursuing authenticity ... ...

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