Steven Spielberg once said that [Field Platoon] is beyond the scope of movies. It makes people feel like they have been to Vietnam and never want to go again in this life. The director who produced such a masterpiece is Oliver Stone. The story of [Field Platoon] is derived from his personal experience in participating in the Vietnam War. Chris Taylor in the film is the incarnation of Oliver Stone himself. Because it is a recurrence of personal experience, Stone is very accurate in every detail of the film, from the set to the props, and the make-up. As large as the UH-1 Huey helicopter, as small as the cigarette box in the hands of soldiers, they all conform to the truth of history.
In order to show the scene in Vietnam as realistically as possible, Stone chose the Philippines, which belongs to Southeast Asia, as the filming location. Under the budgetary situation at the time, Stone insisted on doing this. Although it was expensive, it also ensured that the film was in the general environment. On the truth. Compared with the grand scenes of [Apocalypse Now], the complicated relationship between the characters, and the alternate presentation of the American and Vietnamese scenes of [Deer Hunter], the multi-angle narrative of the characters, [Field Platoon] is very concentrated in American Vietnam War movies. Heterogeneous. It restricts the roles of all characters to the specific time and space environment of the Vietnam battlefield, and even their backgrounds are just a little explanation as a postscript. This treatment may simplify the image of the character and make it face-to-face. But from another perspective, it also makes the character's character more typical.
The most prominent style of [Field Platoon] is its original ecology. The film is presented in front of the audience with a rough texture that is not refined. This texture mainly comes from the reality of the details. Stone did not forcibly put in any moral preaching content, and rarely used fancy lens language, but used a large number of head-up lenses. For example, Taylor, who walked out of the C-14 transport plane at the beginning of the film, saw thick body bags piled up in the airport, helicopters landed in a group, and the airflow brought by the rotors lifted the plastic sheet on the body bags, and died at that moment. , The breath of war rushes to the face. [Field Platoon] As an independent film, there is no big production company to do the backstage, but it has become the most profitable independent film in Hollywood history. Even today, more than 20 years after the film was released, we are still sighing its greatness. , Because every time I watched it, I felt like I had experienced the horrible nightmare of the Vietnam War.
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