From 5 to 4.2, this masterpiece of the war film could have a completely different chief actor if he had decided otherwise

Today is one of the largest war films in American cinema. He was awarded four Oscars – including the best film and best director – by his director Oliver Stone, according to his own experience as a soldier during the Vietnam War.

This feature film, which tells the young recruitment gaze, provides a realistic portrait of the conflict. The quality of the scenario is one of the reasons that explains the success of the platoon, but its casting is not really related.

In addition to Charlie Sheen, the film features young actors who are still less well known at the time, especially Johnny Depp and Forest Whitaker.

It took almost twenty years Oliver Stone to make this movie. The first version of the script was also written in the early 1970s.

Jim Morrison took the secret to the grave

Unlike many other rockstars, the latter have never played in the slightest movie. Involvement in such a personal work was a real bet, which, however, was ready to note Oliver Stone-even though he had not made any film at the time, as he was still a student at the New York University.

A copy of the script was sent to the door singer in 1971, on July 3, 1971, shortly before his death. The script was also found in the Paris ward, where he was found dead, tells us that the latter read or read. Unfortunately, it is impossible to know whether Jim Morrison would accept the proposal.

20 years later, Oliver Stone’s tribute to Jim Morrison

Finally, fifteen years later, platoon screens, on which Charlie Sheen is in the lead role. Earlier, Oliver Stone made a student short film called Vietnam last year, considered his future feature film “Project”.

Then, as the author of the script, he made herself in Hollywood before the platoon’s success blessed him with a leading director.

In memory of this cooperation, which Oliver Stone could never see, Oliver Stone paid tribute to Jim Morrison at his biographical doors, twenty years after his disappearance. The singer played the role in this feature film by Walmer.

The film’s platoon prime video will leave the catalog on February 28.

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