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4. while Barber's "Adagio for Strings" has been the background for so much through history...

Tue Aug 3, 2021, 04:47 AM

Aug 2021

it is forever linked to its use in "Platoon" for me. No feigned glory in that movie, for sure. Vietnam was and is our national tragedy.

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Watched Platoon for the first time [View all] vercetti2021 Aug 2021 OP

The writer and director, Oliver Stone, was in Vietnam. He volunteered applegrove Aug 2021 #1

It's A Good One, Sir The Magistrate Aug 2021 #2

You are right about the movie being better than the book. murielm99 Aug 2021 #3