Platoon Movie Ranks. Each squad is led by a sergeant who is usually a staff sergeant SSG E-6. No war movie is truly an anti-war movie but PLATOON comes close and its still as powerful as it was decades ago.
Platoon won the Academy Award for best picture and the Golden Globe Award for best drama. He is stoic cold and brutal. Writerdirector Oliver Stone based his movie on his own experiences and attempted to make a more realistic Vietnam movie simpler and more grounded than things like Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter and more ambitious than the Rambo movies -- and he.
Sergeant Eliass popularity ranking on CharacTour is 2961 out of 5600 characters.
Winning in Ranked Battles grants Battle Points based on the players current rank and what their odds of winning were. He was already the first Vietnam veteran to win an Oscar for Midnight Express 1978 and became with this film the first Vietnam vet to win an Oscar for Best Director. No war movie is truly an anti-war movie but PLATOON comes close and its still as powerful as it was decades ago. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.
