I agree. Definitely brilliant casting.

Don't even know the actor but he nailed it

@@craigwilson3532 Vyto Ruginis

Chills?

He should of never been called " sir " EVER again, he should of rot too.

I would of told him to "go fuck himself" instead of "go to hell" lol

For your hell!

I would have told him to F off,and then push HIM off the bridge.

Captain hill is a Jerk

Torn between being a deserter or being a traitor.

He also carried his Army Field Compass

I think the casting for this film was brilliant. Bravo to all of the actors.

He should've capped the whole squad in their sleep after they tried to kill him.

Then he switched over to the Air Force, became a pilot, and invaded Canada.

Seriously, I never knew he smoked. He was brilliant in this film. Lucky you to have met him!

I salute you all

You're lying...

@@MeeMee-gz5vp Everyone smoked in the 80s.

I was on set also. I saw he kept a pack of cigarettes in the stenographers desk draw along with a small battery driven hand held fan. It was so hot on that set! Fresh cool air ventilation was terrible! You can see the two guards ( they were a couple of German guys on holiday in Phuket) sweating in their uniforms ! The stenographer was a cool dude too!

From a movie

Dude I remember my mom let me watch this movie when I was 6 years old 🤣😂🤣😂. Parents were alot cooler back then lol.

Were u a robot

Asia became my life after this movie, same age

@@a4f4e4 I saw "Demolition Man" when I was around eight years old.

I guess it's because both films are comedy. Or in the case of Back to the Future, his most famous work. But I'd put the role that he had on Back to the future part 2 along side with this one. The film was really dark and I felt Michael showed some of his skills just like in this film.

Micheal J Fox is just a phenomenal actor period 👌

He really did sound like Chance from Homeward Bound in this Film

@@carlosfernandez1502 Everyone talks about Fox, but Sean Penn stole every scene he was in.

Agree

It is called death by friendly fire, research the number of unexplained and cover up deaths of soldiers at bases like Fort Hood in recent years. Someone at your base has a problem with you, easy for them to shoot you in the field. Female soldiers getting raped by their own comrades and threatened or killed when they speak up. Lavena Johnson and many more are murders covered up by the army. I believe that it's time for soldiers who commit these types of crime to have a trial in a court that is not under the jurisdiction of the military. The few bad eggs are making the army look bad.

@@mariahibbert10 popular term used in the vietnam war was "fragging", because they can't really match shrapnel from a grenade, to a specific grenade, unlike a bullet for example, which is why frag grenades where a popular way for troops to kill those they didn't like, usually Officers or NCOs

@@thedevilsadvocate3135 I've heard that term used alot too. I'm just disgusted this is going on and no one is being held accountable.

Those others were monsters, at the end when leader was smiling that they killed the poor woman, pure evil beyond words....should of been shot there instead of the poor woman.

@@Ithinkiwill66 war is evil. War turns normal men into monsters and gives psychopaths the freedom to commit extreme horrors.

I have no idea if and how many times "these things" have happened. If even once, it is sad to say the least. Sad movie but also important. I have not seen Michael in movies other than in kinda funny guy. Okay maybe not right word but still, here...I have no idea how he feels nowadays, but to others of course but to him and to others of course making this film happen, touching performances from all. I have said this before but not for many movies = I hope I never forget this,. PS. Music is very nice also. Cheers...

​@madfeldor the reason the United States military were reluctant to prosecute these men was it was standard operating procedure for grounds troops to commit regular gang rape. Susan Brockmiller's outstanding book Against our will, men and rape, explores gang rape during war and the unofficial attitude the US military commanders had to gang rape in Korea and Vietnam.

Same here man When they killed the girl it made me get nightmares for days

I watch this film and I think of my father. Draftee. Sent to Vietnam. I cry every time.

Where do you watch it?

@@kavyasoni887 go to a garage sale and hope someone has the DVD

I still can't stop thinking about the poor girl, and her family. Such a well made movie, of just a horrible real life situation. This is one victim, yet Vietnamese people, and many other places around the world, suffered the same. The bastards, except the one tried to save the girl, should of fried!

I must disagree. Don't blame the soldier for his actions, blame the system that made him. If we don't want war crimes then we shouldn't accept the concept of war. The most grievous war crime is war itself. Don't blame soldiers who fight wars, blame the authorities that put them there.

Soldiers aren't automatically noble; actions define nobility, not labels.

@@davidvarley1812 You do know some people who become soldiers should never have been allowed in the armed forces in the first place, yes?

@@PR--un4ub those young men weren't volunteers, they part of the draft. They were dragged away from their normal lives to fight in a war they never understood the purpose of and where the enemy could be any native they encountered. Many young men involved in the draft came home in body bags and those boys knew how likely death was.

@@PR--un4ub soldiers are always brave, noble men whose country should be proud of them. Without soldiers our countries would be far from safe and to be a volunteer soldier you either need to be insane or enjoy the prospect of killing. What other profession offers 18year old men the chance to get mentally or physically damaged for life, if not killed. If it was not for the stupidity of youth your country and mine might not be ran by whom they are and it might be your sister, wife/mother or daughter being gang raped by soldiers.

I don't know why it's not as well known or popular as Platoon, Full Metal Jacket and Windtalkers, but it should be.

The thought of watching it again makes me nervous because of how hardcore the scenes are.

yes great actor.

The whole platoon are true American soldiers and Vietnam hero's. What they did might be disgusting but they fought for their country and they should be recognised for their service in Vietnam.

@@davidvarley1812 Sorry, not those who Raped & Murderd innocent lives!!!!!!!

@@davidvarley1812 Si puedes tener razón pero eso no justifica y no es excusa para que hagan cosas horribles como asesinar y violar

@@aridcasas2198 Cuando sacas a los jóvenes de sus vidas ordinarias y los envías a luchar y posiblemente morir en una guerra, automáticamente se convierten en héroes y soldados.Ese pelotón estaba dispuesto a morir por Estados Unidos y eso nunca debe olvidarse.

@@aridcasas2198 When you take young people out of their ordinary lives and send them to fight and possibly die in a war, they automatically become heroes and soldiers. That platoon was willing to die for America and that should never be forgotten.

A lot of officers also went down for covering it up.

what about justice for the soldiers killed by the NVA?

@@1223steffen and why would there be justice for them soilders when sent to fight know the consquences she was a civilian with nothing to do with the war other than living in that country

@@1223steffen How stupid are you?

They did no time in real life.

I agree.

He’s in the scene at the beginning he’s the captain

Making something a crime/illegal doesn't prevent it from happening. The United States of America as fought in Iraq twice and Afghanistan, since 1993 and how many Iraqi/ Afghanistan teenage girls and woman have given American GI's pleasure involuntarily. I suspect as many US soldiers were convicted of rape in Vietnam as in Iraq or Afghanistan. The United Nations criminalising war rape as changed nothing and never will.

You mean private Ericsson whom after being prevented from going out of barracks and visiting the local town and participating in the gang rape of a Vietnamese sex slave in a brothel, got up an hour earlier than needed because is sergeant had told him, they were going to abducted and gang rape a civilian girl. You mean Private Ericsson whom while carrying a loaded riffle, entered a village and helped abduct a innocent girl whom he knew would be raped. You salute him for turning them in but ignore how complicit he was in their crime and guilty he was of conspiracy to abduction and gang rape. If he'd reported his sergeants plan to his colonel the night before, it might never have occurred.

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True

In real life, they didn't get life. They only did a couple of years and were released.

@@Bassmaster_Ice318 I know that... I WISH they did. The justice system is a p.o.s.

@@Bassmaster_Ice318 not totally true. They did some years for it. The life sentence was commuted to 20 years and eligible for paraole in 10. Garcia got off on a technicality of his fifth amendment rights.

In real life ( in a interview video) There is a soldier who has a wife and 2 kids killed and raped women and children and he did not get trialed, I'm not sure if he still with his family, but may God with the wife and kids there's also one who actually SCALPED elders, women and children and he did not get trialed either, but he lost his family and was killed by police shootout And I almost got into a heated argument with a veteran who told me " that I never fought a war and that do not know what it's like being there" sure I'm not a veteran and I don't know what it's like, but I do know what's right and what's wrong.

I would have given them ucmj punishment not court martial. Revoke their weekend liberty passes and move on

A court martials is a federal criminal record that will follow you around for the rest of your life. Try getting a decent job or loan or apartment with something like that coming up on a Google search. Believe me, they're doing a life sentence.

Aimee Ward except if your dad is the vice president of the United States and gets you a sweet job in a Ukrainian energy company making $50,000 a month with no qualifications

@@matts6551 lol can't argue with that.

@@eadecamp This was 1967 there was no google/internet till the mid 90"s....

@@eadecamp the Vietnam War was almost 40yearss before the Google search engine was lunched and back in the seventies and early eighties computers data wasn't impressive. They will have got decent blue collar work, loans and bought homes. They will be married, have children and grandchildren. There lives won't have been impacted much by their time in Vietnam or that girl. They served their country and did their duty on the field of combat and inside that girl. Wars a brutal place and everyone is a victim, as the film title denotes.

The scary part, is that you're probably right. This was probably just one of the few times where such actions were brought to light and actual consequences were handed to the perpetrators.

American troops routinely raped Vietnamese girls and women. GI were expected to rape, it was standard operational procedure. That's why the officers were reluctant to listen to Ericsson. Sadly the officers thought it was a soldier duty rather than a crime. That's what makes this case exceptional.

They all knew it was wrong but still done it anyway because they're low - life scumbags ...pos they are .

Don't ever let peer pressure get to you, especially when someone is on your side and begging for your support, and ESPECIALLY when you told him you had his back

He’s such a coward

They did no time in real life.

The united states military is what has kept Americans free and continues to.

@@emilystark3271 The United States Military hasn’t fought a war on American land in over a century. You naive fools who trust the government really are something special. The military is a tool of the government, and the government is a tool of special interests, lobbyists, corporations, and oligarchs. The military doesn’t give a shit about you, and they never will. 4,400 Americans didn’t die in Iraq to keep you free, they died in Iraq because George Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz lied about there being Al Qaeda and WMD’s there. Who funded and trained al Qaeda in the 80’s starting global terror networks? The CIA did through Operation Cyclone which was passed by the United States Congress which had CIA officers train Al Qaeda operatives to fight the Soviets. You “patriots” complain about Iran, and yet the government sold munitions to Iran in the 80’s during the Iran Contra Scandal. You complain about dictators in the Middle East and yet the government helped put Saddam in power twice, the first time failed but the second time in 1983 was successful. Then you sell weapons to Iraq to kill Iranians during the Iran-Iraq War. And then act surprised when Iraq under a dictator invades Kuwait leading to the Gulf War. Vietnam was launched not for your freedom, it was started after Lyndon Johnson and his SECDEF Robert McNamara lied about the Gulf of Tonkin incident, they totally fabricated the second and most important attack which they then used to get congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which started the war and got 58,000 Americans killed and they didn’t even win the damn war in the end. The military hasn’t fought for freedom in a very very very long time, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff are not honorable men either I can tell you that much buttercup. Use the brain in your skull, it’s there for a reason. America is not a free country anymore, the elections are rigged, the stock market isn’t free, the media is biased, the internet is censored, and now you have to wear 2-3 masks and socially distance whilst taking 3 experimental mRNA gene therapy vaccines a year for the rest of your life or else you’ll get fired from your job or expelled from school. Blm and antifa attacked half the country for an entire summer and the brave military didn’t do shit to stop them, in fact that PUSSY General Mark Milley apologized after the area between the White House and the nearby church was cleared of anarchists. And your brave law enforcement KNEELED for the rioters. So much for law and order. Nice freedom the brave soldiers have preserved. Thank goodness for them. If the military was fighting for our freedom they would storm congress and not some West Asian villages.

@@emilystark3271 hard to tell if this is a real person or a bot.

@@definitelyantifa7817 Huh, I had two combat deployments during OIF with the US Army 2nd ID. I wish I could tell you that you're wrong but I really can't. Most of our civilian and military leadership is a total disgrace. They're in business for themselves and think of us as disposable peasantry. But the mettle and the heart of the guys I served alongside still humbles me to this day. They were the very best and being with them was truly an honor. I'm not ashamed to say I love them. But that is where the tragedy lies for me. We deserved a better war; one that would do our suffering justice. We did our best and making you all at home proud of us was something we really took seriously. But I, like many of my brothers, had absolutely no idea how fucked up and corrupt our government had become. It was only in the last few years that we've had our eyes so thoroughly opened. Our own government, rotten to the core, is basically at war with its own citizens. Many who didn't get it before now finally understand. But recognizing a problem is the first step to solving it. If I ever draw my proverbial sword again it will be in defense of freedom here in America, not some third world shit hole.

@@BULL.173 very interesting good thoughts. then ruined it with the last clause. if you consider Vietnam a "third world shit hole" just also consider that this "shit hole* has had 60 odd deaths & about 12000 cases in country of 90 million+. compared to the US s *600,000* deaths & about *34* *million* cases to date. even making up for the difference in population Vietnam would only have had approx 36000 cases & 180 deaths, under its current response to covid 19. impressive for a "third world shit hole".

None, these guys are a disgrace to the uniform. The horrors of war are no excuse to committing rape and murder. True soldiers may experience the horrors of war, but they pull through either way. These guys definitely got they deserved.

@@coletrain583 while I agree they are disgrace to the uniform, in reality they weren't really punished, so I half disagree.

Thats is America

KentAllard - big mistake not taking that Thumper to those animals while they slept

Sickening they did....JAG should of thrown them into the death row....never seen daylight again, except for the one that told exactly what those bastards did.

The government is fucked

@@blackpanther3283yes, no other country have their soldiers ever committed acts of atrocities towards civilians. None.

in real life it was even more unfair, most of them were out within 4 years

@Flying Hellfish i could get into a lot of details . I try to make comments short. Bringing the girl along was a potential liability. I can think of a few things that could have gone deadly wrong with her along. People who are buying guns because they want a civil war in the USA have to be ready for situations like this and more

Thats politics for you

I guess it too. I guess is more "I'll get you"

I always wondered that. Have you ever asked Sean Penn and Michael j.fox that question?

@James Cory he really said that while rolling that would be a surprise kind of like mystery solved their imagine Sean Bean saying something like before his head gets chopped off in Game of Thrones he whispered something like thank God it's over such a tense scene

Brian De Palma mentioned in his documentary on Netflix that Penn whispered “TV actor” to Fox.

But at least justice was served. She was just an innocent girl.

She was a human being she didn't deserve to die

None of them had been convicted at the time of their trial. His statement was a defence and a argument against convicting him. If he couldn't give a defence then what would be the point in a trial.

No

But she was dubbed by an American actress when she spoke at the end.

Thuy Thu Le spoke English and Vietnamese. @@charlesderosas5577

Uttering a threat towards a witness just after receiving a conviction would have invited more trouble. I'm guessing that Erickson wasn't worried about whatever Meserve said since he was never going to set eyes on him or the other three ever again.

Also in the shadow of full metal jacket and platoon with in the same time frame of release

Watch Winter Soldiers. That will open your eyes up

Exactly that's why when a lot of soldiers returned they were spit on

Liam Keane, a large majority of United States soldier who served in Korea, Vietnam and recently in both Iraq wars and Afghanistan forced sex onto a native either during combat duties or in a brothel where that girl was a sex slave that raped her into submission. Volunteering soldiers should be warned that they will be participating in gang raped either knowing they or by accident before being deployed.

Nobody's kidding themselves, we All know this happens in war...shit it happens in everyday life

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where does it say that

@@oliviafucku9960 in history books.

Shame Ericsson didn't do as you would have done.

According to Brian De Palma “fucking tv actor”

He said "Ill see you back to the future!"

What's that?

@@confusedcube8176 US Army Disciplinary Barracks, the prison in Ft Leavenworth

Sweet Berry Wine!!!

Going to war? Don't forget to wear a casual tie, ya dingus. Fer yer health.

It was a flashback VO from Capt. Hill (he's the guy that Erikkson tells to go to hell at the beginning as the soldiers are searching for and finding her body).

Check out "Kill Anything that Moves : the Real American War in Vietnam".

Not even close

Yeah it was literally his idea

Because they were all guilty but on different levels.

He had no remorse on what he has done. I bet the group commander was the same. However, he was more vocal and tried to justify his behaviour. That was the difference.

I presume you mean the character he played, no he returned to the United States and resumed his old life. While he's called Ericsson in the movie, that wasn't his real name. Michael J Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's in the 1980s and while it end his acting career, he went on to do voice overs and animation work. Today he's still alive and still a narrator, writer and campaigns on behalf of at least one parkinson's charity.