Finally, the Platoon script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the Oliver Stone Vietnam movie.
We're going to lose this war.”. Elias Grodin: I love this place at night. The unwritten rule is a new guys' life isn't worth as much 'cause he hasn't put his time in yet. He's not a gun-toting killer like, say, Bunny, but he's also not one of the guys who can't handle the jungle. Us? Poor Chris Taylor, he's so young and inexperienced for the first quarter of the film, it's a wonder he makes it through at all.
Good luck with that.
– Sgt. He never writes home to mom and dad, and he even says things that suggest he may have a less than stellar relationship with them: "Of course mom and dad didn't want me to come here.
BARNES: Everybody gotta die sometime Red. I can’t believe we’re fighting each other when we should be fighting them. He would set things right again. That day, we loved him. Elias was full of shit. Sure, he gets it that death is a real concern (but he's not worried about it), but for him war is just a big playground—one where "you get to do what you want," like kill innocent people, rape innocent girls, and the like. This short exchange makes it abundantly clear that platoon politics have a lot do with who gets the terrible job of a night ambush patrol. But after he realizes that Barnes has killed Elias and suggests that the guys "frag" him, then we know he's become a hardened veteran, one with his illusions destroyed. But you know what? He is reality—the reality that the Vietnam War featured lots of hardened, violent, unforgiving men just like Barnes, guys who wouldn't hesitate to kill innocent people, or even their fellow soldiers.
"Platoon Quotes." Both Elias and Barnes battle for Taylor's "soul," as Taylor says at the end of the film. It's like he can't die, even though he's been shot 7 times. They don't even want to know your name. Shortly thereafter, he tells Barnes not to worry about Elias because he, Wolfe, will be on Barnes' side if anything happens. – Sgt. Sgt. A civil war in the platoon. Actors : Charlie Sheen ( Private Chris Taylor ), Tom Berenger ( Sgt. The problem is he has no moral compass whatsoever. Y'all know about killing? Maybe from down here I can start up again and be something I can be proud of, without having to fake it, be a fake human being. The village, which had stood for maybe 1,000 years, didn’t know we were coming that day.
Think of Sergeant Elias as the like angel on Taylor's soldier (which makes Barnes the devil). [after the platoon discovers a horribly murdered colleague] Those motherfuckers.Everybody's gotta die sometime, Red. Elias: Hey O'Neill, take a break! That reality is the fact that they're fighting a bloody, terrible war, and there's no place in that war for the naiveté of guys like Taylor and Elias. You think? This is all true.
Half the men with Elias, half with Barnes.
Sgt. One of the consequences of that mistake is that he starts to do things he would never have dreamed of. TAYLOR: She's a f***ing human being man, f*** you… f***ing animal… all of you are f***ing animals. In a lot ways Barnes is a figure of pure instinct—the instinct to survive—and killing is often a part of that will to survive.
7 Oct. 2020. And when the machine breaks down, we break down. "Shot 7 times and… ain't dead," as Rhah describes it. I don’t think I’m gonna make it out of here. If you think we missed any quote from Platoon, please send it to us so we can expand our collection of the best Platoon quotes. Read more Famous Quotes from Hollywood Movies. Then there's the letter he concludes by saying, "Tell mom and dad I… well, just tell them." Now, even though Taylor is in Vietnam because of some crusade he's waging against a corrupt American political-cultural system, he's not totally naïve.
Y’all love Elias. Live up to what Grandpa did in the first war and Dad did in the second. Even though Taylor's reasons are noble, there's a little more to the story. Rhah is another minor character in the film, albeit one who sometimes seems more mythical than real. And near the end, he puts an excess of insect repellant on his feet in order to make them appear so swollen he can leave the field of battle. I’d like to hear about it, potheads. They don't even want to know your name. Barnes was at the eye of our rage. Tom Berenger. – Sgt. Well, here I am, anonymous all right, with guys nobody really cares about. Come on.
A lot of little firefights and ambushes.
Lieutenant Wolfe believes what he wants to believe, and he wants to look the other way with regards to Barnes' murder of an innocent civilian. Platoon Quotes. “I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy, we fought ourselves, and the enemy was in us. Chris.
[last lines] [voiceover] I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy; we fought ourselves.And the enemy was in us. His gestures towards there being some kind of rule about killing—about which enemy to kill and not kill—rings kind of hollow in the lawless world of the film, and we know nobody is going to be court martialed. The Color Purple Quotes; Mask Quotes; Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) Quotes; The Sixth Sense Quotes; Terminator Dark Fate Quotes; We hope you enjoyed reading Platoon quotes. What happened today is just the beginning. This epiphany by Taylor is one that soldiers have after serving their duties in that they realize the psychological toll that the warfare has caused. TAYLOR: We drop a lot of bombs then we walk through the jungle like ghosts in the landscape. He's a close compadre of Barnes, and if it were up to him, he'd be just like him. In some ways, he has a point. After you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. Me I don't need this s***. And when the machine breaks down, we break down. If Platoon makes one thing clear, it's that even the luckiest of fellows, like Barnes, will have to report to the afterlife at some point. There are times since when I have felt like a child born of those two fathers…. Nah! Elias Respectable, hardworking, a little house, a family. After Taylor decides not to kill a boy, Bunny steps in, intimidates him, and then beats him to death by hitting him in the face with the butt of his rifle. By entering your email address you agree to receive emails from Shmoop and verify that you are over the age of 13.
BARNES: You don't tell me how to run my war Elias… Out here you belong to me. – Chris Taylor, [last lines] A civil war in the platoon. Sgt. They wanted me to be just like them. [takes pipe and inhales drag] He would set things right again. If you're lucky, you get to stay in the perimeter at night and then you pull a three-hour guard shift, so maybe you sleep 3, 4 hours a night, but you don't really sleep. Half the men with Elias, half with Barnes. Elias is planning to file a report about Barnes' brutal execution of an innocent Vietnamese woman (one of his more deplorable actions), and Elias takes Barnes down in a fight. [hands pipe back and spits]
Voila! TAYLOR: I think I made a big mistake coming here. That's what this place feels like. This is a strange version of reality, but perhaps he looks at this way so that he can better cope with the very real possibility of his life being tragically cut short. Barnes, being the alpha male that he is, and obeying the laws of the jungle, so to speak, by eliminating the potential threat and rival. The answer is… all of the above.
Another narration by the protagonist Taylor towards the culmination of the film alluding to moral crisis and decay as the actual adversaries rather than the Viet Cong. Why do you smoke this shit? An editor I hate it already and it's only been a week. In many ways, Elias is the voice of reason and morality in the hell of Vietnam. CRAWFORD: How come we always get f***ing ambush? Sgt. TAYLOR: The morale of the men is low… A civil war in the platoon, half the men with Elias, half with Barnes… ... We have 87 movie quotes of Platoon hollywood movie. Subscribe A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man. Elias: Hey O'Neill, take a break! Maybe that's why they call themselves 'grunts', cause a grunt can take it, can take anything. [voiceover] I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy; we fought ourselves.
And if there’s a heaven, and, God, I hope there is, I know he’s sitting up there drunk as a fucking monkey and smoking shit, ’cause he done left his pains down here. Wampum, Pennsylvania. Junior isn't the most individualized of characters, and in a lot of ways he's a type—a representative for something else: the platoon's African American members. In a way, he's just like the American politicians back home, running the war however they want. A civil war in the platoon. Day by day I struggle to maintain not only my strength but also my. I can’t believe we’re fighting each other when we should be fighting them. I don't think I can keep this up for a year, Grandma. King, who's sharing latrine duty with him at that point, jokingly brands him a "crusader," the same word Barnes uses to describe Elias. – Sgt. Elias, Day by day, I struggle to maintain not only my strength but my sanity. ", © 2020 Shmoop University Inc | All Rights Reserved | Privacy | Legal. But when he don't, the machine breaks down. Think about it. Elias Gordon ) 6 more actors , Keith David ( King ), Kevin Dillon ( Bunny ), John C. McGinley (Sgt. I think I've made a big mistake comin' here... Of course, Mom and Dad didn't want me to come here. She know what I mean. “Ya smoke this sh*t so to escape from reality? The first real casualty of war is innocence. The platoon is like a "machine," and if guys don't follow orders and decide to do what they want, well the machine breaks and everybody dies. The guy is pretty much a psycho, and for a lot of reasons. Do my share for my country. This is Barnes's war, and he can conduct however he wants. Damn, you dumb! The jungle itself? The reality that Barnes identifies with is one in which it's okay to kills guys like Elias who kill the de facto leaders, the Barnes, of the platoon. The only worry you got is dying, and if that happens, you won't know about it anyway so what the f*** man? This is nowhere more evident than during the village scene, where he almost loses it and starts firing his gun near the feet of a one-legged villager, yelling at him, "Dance motherf***er dance!" Both of Taylor's "fathers" die, and as much as we hate it admit it, Taylor has a little bit of both of them in him, Elias and Barnes. Elias, Talking about killing? Take the pain! Taylor hits on one of the film's biggest themes: the very real "civil war" within the platoon itself. His exact words to Junior before the final battle (in which he is killed) are: "I told the padre the truth man I like it here.
The morale of the men is low. TAYLOR: The morale of the men is low… A civil war in the platoon, half the men with Elias, half with Barnes… I can't believe we're fighting each other. I am reality. You're automatically family in the platoon because if you're knew, well, "nobody cares" about you. And I ain’t gonna allow that in any of you. Here, Taylor's reality changes almost immediately.
The heart and soul... Maybe I found it way down here in the mud. Taylor illustrates the politics of the platoon.
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