6. Platoon - Directed by Oliver Stone (1986, Won 4 Oscars)
Following Cimino's The Deer Hunter, newcomer Oliver Stone took a stab at the Vietnam War genre which resulted in a graphic, dehumanizing, destructive, but also fantastic film. Platoon, which is the finest film about the Vietnam War ever made, is not a commentary on the savagery of the Vietcong or the brain melting effects of the un-winable war, but rather a demonstration of how a conflict between the unruly and inhumane, and the moral and good-hearted could occur on the same side. Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe play collaborating Sergeants who possess drastically different outlooks on the Vietnam War which places a rift within their platoon forcing soldiers to chose sides and fight the good fight based on conflicting orders from two American leaders. The film is told from the vantage point of a young man, played by Charlie Sheen, who faces a moral crisis when dropped into the dueling sides of man and the horrors of wartime. This tragic film is impeccably directed by Stone with a fine script (also by Stone) but is grounded by its three lead performances. Platoon outdid competitors like Hannah and Her Sisters and The Mission in 1986 and clearly identified Stone's attention to character development and interactions, an element that would carry on to his much later films, whether good or bad...or horrible.
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