Any source to that?

Nice source

Brilliant!

Wow

lol You win the internet.

How right he is!

Nice 👍🏾

He smoked pot since he was a teen.

Ryan Taylor I guess you forgot Johnny Depp was also in this film.

Not lying brother

Thankyou for posting the greatest comment I’ve ever read on this site. What a fantastic anecdote

YES! Love King. Would have been a huge bummer if he didn't make it. I'm curious what analysis is out there about his character. I think he represents hope. "Remember, there ain't such thing as a coward out here..."

Absolutely. Easily the best performance behind Tom Berenger.

Sniff that craw smelly pussy down by the river woohoo!!!

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@@chilltown11 heh it's "cross-mounted pussy"

And he'd go on to say "Ramirez" 50 odd times

King was a legendary mentor to Chris especially after Elias got fragged

@@johnnyklebitzrevenge4793 MW 2 right?

@@generalpenguin6373 yes sir

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LMFAO

Hahaha, good one

Eric Ferguson He had a great teacher, after all his father got high as a kite filming the hotel scene in apocalipse now.

He was playing the role of a nice square college kid that’s lived on the straight and narrow

Eric Ferguson Charlie doesn't smoke pot he smokes crack..he even admitted it because he doesn't give a shit lol

GOODBYE MOTHERFU*KERS!!!!!!!

I watched that scene fully expecting him to die. A gregarious, well intentioned, decent fella like him, I really wanted him to get home. So it stood to reason, to my cynical mind, that he'd die.

So true

love David Keith !

yeah...one of the few characters i really cared for

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@@tlbombsquad7883 pussy down by the river

Me too.

Actually I wasn't too crazy about that scene. I think Rhah adds too much exposition when the audience can already make the inference that Barnes and Elias are almost polar opposites.

@@jdfields711 If they cut out some of the more obvious exposition from the scene, it would have been good.

They cut it because test audiences liked Johnny Depp more than Charlie sheen

Thats because too much backstory can hurt the movie as well. In original, Barnes and Elias have no background. They're less like normal humans and more like symbols (case in example - joker from dark knight). And symbols have a posibiliy of becoming supernatural.

I agree that the Love & Hate scene should have stayed in. It showed how Barnes and Elias actually had a lot in common. Rhah was just showing the insanity of it all. The flap dialogue should have stayed in too, that was just too freaking funny!!

which is why in the movie the final assault by the Vietnamese literally starts within 15 seconds.

@@rufuspipemos between those is the scene where Junior sprays his feet with poison, and Barnes tells the Super Lifer "We all gotta die some time"

there are no search and destroy missions stateside.

Sounds like The Hurt Locker in a nutshell.

@Norbero Fontanez me too

@Norbero Fontanez yeah life goes on , but its a shame how they threat soldiers around the world. best wishes from a ex german soldier.

I worked at superfresh .one of the cashers was a doorgunner.

and he was part of one of the greatest onscreen fistfights (vs Roddy Piper in They Live) and he voices one of the most beloved characters in the HALO video game series (the Arbiter)

Futureman tv series on hulu starring Keith David!!! Funny AF

Alan Young the platoon depleting... Fuck that

Alan Young methhead elias is worse though

best part of the movie

I was watching this alone in my dark basement on a projector so to say that was unsettling only begins to describe what just happened man

Yeah man, they should've totally kept it in

Agreed. Actually my favorite character despite the lack of screen time. RIP Francesco Quinn 🤍

​@@katteresa6174when did he pass this is the only movie I know him in

@@josefmengele1812011. The only other movie I’ve seen him in is the third transformers movie released the same year.

I love how he corrected Learner with the correct way to do the “Rhaaaah!”

@@Aussieduderivs1oh damn I didn’t know he died until I read the comments. Such a good actor gone too soon.

The fight scene in "They Live" made that movie.

I agree. Berenger as "Sgt. Barnes" is the best performance by an actor in any war film, that I have seen at least. However that is just my opinion. There are several other performances in this genre that come to mind; One of which happens to be Charlie Sheen's father. Martin Sheen as 'Captain Benjamin Willard' in "Apocalypse Now" was spectacular. Tom Hanks as 'Captain John Miller' in "Saving Private Ryan" is a good one too. I also liked Mel Gibson as 'William Wallace' in Braveheart. Those are all starring roles by world class actors. There are some overlooked performances in supporting roles too. One that comes to mind is Tom Sizemore as 'Sergeant Horvath' in "Saving Private Ryan". He seems so natural, playing a mentally tough, experienced veteran of the Second World War. Anyway.. What really struck me in Tom Berenger's part as Sgt. Barnes was one scene in particular; The part where 'Manny' goes missing from the patrol shortly after the platoon stop at the dugout/bunker and tunnel system. When the platoon moves on to look for him (Manny) they find him strung up on a tree by his neck, with a note left on his body from the Viet-Cong. In that brief scene, the camera pans across the platoon formation, showing each soldier's facial expression as they looked at Manny's hanging corpse. On all of the faces of the men, you kind of get a sense of hopelessness and despair, then the camera moves on to Sgt. Barnes' face. The look in his eyes is unforgettable. If there was a perfect example of what pure hatred looks like in a facial expression, Tom Berenger nailed it.. "Those motherfuckers!" Short but powerful. You can just feel Sergeant Barnes' wrath, and this was the scene right before the platoon moves into the village where Barnes ends up murdering that Vietnamese woman in cold blood.

NowKillYourself King, Bunny and Ra were also exceptionally played roles by their actors. It's too bad Barnes and Elias couldn't get along, they were both excellent soldiers. Despite Barnes' criminal acts, you couldn't help but feel for the guy (at least for me); he just wanted to fight the war without constraints and win decisively.

Its a good anti-war film, but there is also a lot of stuff in there that wasn't true, the biggest one being the patrols. It wasn't like in platoon where they would spend the night in a base somewhere, they would actually go out for 40 days or so just patrolling and sleeping anywhere they could find. The only way the go back to the base is by either surviving the 40 days to get 3 days off in some foreign area, or by getting flown away in a medivac. (Source: Vietnam in hd)

I don't know about anybody else but I kinda warmed to Barnes when he corners the potheads and laughs "So you smoke this shit to get away from reality?...I am reality." The question is left there to linger, is he right to see reality 'in' himself?

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I was in the Nam--69-70--Platoon is astoundingly real. Apocalypse Now is junk.

@@samuelfreeman3768 Apocalypse Now was not trying for realism, but surrealism. It's a movie, not a documentary -- Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" set in Vietnam instead of colonial Congo. The idea is to probe the larger 'Truths' of human nature in the bizarre setting that is a war-torn jungle...

@@AndrewAMartin I understand the difference between a movie and a documentary. I also understand the difference between surrealism and realism. Apocalypse Now has some meritorious features. One of the best was its use and treatment of African American soldiers. That probably is the best part of the movie. Unfortunately, that is offset by the Asian racism of the film. Okay, we had invaded an Asian nation, and it is difficult to show the "enemy" as being good, decent human beings. If they were, why be fighting them? And how can that be depicted in a war movie. Still, I would argue the racism could have been minimized. There was one immensely realistic combat scene. The details of it are escaping me now, and I apologize for that. But my body tensed and tightened up because it was so similar to some of my experiences in Viet Nam (2 words, not 1). That scene clearly demonstrates a movie can be surrealistic and also true to events at the same time. That was/is my complaint. Also, the movie was hyped as showing viewers what the war really was like. Yes, in part, it did that. The previously referred to combat scene, and the USO show in the middle of a combat zone. That kind of surrealistic presentation does give viewers and understanding of what Viet Nam was like In many, many ways, the war was a surreal experience. The movie could and should have done both. It didn't; and it that respect it failed.

@@samuelfreeman3768 Platoon is more of a Vietnam DocuDrama with some movie theatrics thrown in. Apocalypse Now is a movie with aspects of the war thrown in. Apocalypse Now is based off a book about the Congolese occupation. As dark as the Vietnam war was, it is just not dark and undeveloped enough to portray the story. Congo had some dozen high school graduates out of a population of millions, and tribal villages thought white people were ghosts or demons. And while the Vietnam war was fought by kids who didn't know what they were there for, the Congolese occupation was the bloodiest genocide to ever exist fought by fully grown adults who understood why they were there and what they were doing. AN was more focused on theatrics than actual events. The same director made the godfather where he basically threw a dozen crime stories together and threw in over the top scenarios. Even then, Coppala was born to Italian parents and definitely cared more about the accuracy of his Italian stories than he did about a war he never fought. Of course a story about Belgium-Congo conflict in the 1800's won't carry over well to a story about America-Vietnam conflict In the 1960s. The fact that he thought the Vietnam War was fitting for the original story shows his cognitive dissonance. To date, Congo has less roads built than Vietnam had in the '60s.

Sounds like a great idea for 2026, the movie's 4oth anniversary. "Platoon: Director's Cut." I always love these!

+Rom 3636 It was as much Francesco Quinn's scene as it was his. Quinn really gave a deeply underrated performance as Rhah. A drug addict who was also a devoted spiritualist. A man who refused to stick his neck out, but when push came to shove, he looked after his people as best he could. Not to mention he had one of the most memorable scenes in the film when he said his final goodbye to Taylor.

+Lamporre when he was running around in the final battle was live

Well said brother

Johnny Depp, "Learner", was in the scene where they execute those people at the village. He's the interpreter.

But Johnny Depp's character is all over the place in the film still. He's lerner, the translator

bradlbe like 3% of them. Are u kidding man? The majority of these scenes suck man. Platoon would be a friggin B movie if these were left. Like too childish scenes bro

If you look closely you'll see that each of these scenes is damaged. I presume that's why they were left out. ☺️

Occasionally, deleted scenes can make a movie better. You have to have slightly different tastes to get the point. Alternate versions of the same movie should "be a thing". lol.

Most deleted scenes are left out due to time constraints, at the request of the studio heads.

The scenes with Johnny Depp were cut because Stone thought he was too pretty and would take away from Sheen's character.

It's cheesy as fuck...

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The whole movie has cheesy acting it's still one of the best films of all time.

Really only sheen may have been cheesy but overall it felt realistic

scarface yeah the only one man

It's on KZfaq with Sound effects, creepy as fuck but it needed to stay in

This ain't Apocalypse Now

Saw the film in the theater and it’s been in my top five ever since. Your comment is 11 years old and I just now saw these scenes for the first time. Crazy

What they meant was after being gone for awhile, they told Tom/the casts what actually happened in the real thing and see if there is anything they could improvise in the next take, is that what they meant?

Atrocities they saw. I've also heard from a shrink that it's sometimes memories of WHAT YOU DONE that cone back as well.

They were probably just going to smoke a doobie.

+MultiMrMiles so as a fellow hard-core Platoon fan, I am curious as to your opinion about these deleted scenes.

some are interesting imo, some less, nice to see them though but in the end i think they edited it well. Good looking out.

Matthew Rosemier: I'm a hardcore Platoon fan also, and I reenacted Vietnam for 8 years. This movie should've been set in about the 1970-71 time period, the hair, the beads, helmet grafitti, fragging, etc...was more indicative of the later years. Back in late 67-and 68 there was still a remnant of the "good" Army, they were still "Strac" to a degreee, something that you don't see as much by 70-71, when you study LOTS of photos, etc...also I think the unit portrayed should've been the Americal Division, not the 25th. The 25th had a pretty good record over there, the Americal had the dark clouds hanging over it that you see portryaed here in the movie, i.e. My Lai in 1968 and Firebase MaryAnn in 1971... So if I could re-do this film I would set it in 1970-71 and the unit would be the Americal Division. Dale Dye was wearing LC-1 LBE suspenders in that scene during the last battle-technically wrong-those didn't come out till about 1974, but all in all this is the best Nam film ever made, to me!!

Interesting. I hear the difference between the early and the later troops was that they started giving convicts the option to serve instead of doing jail time

My uncle had to walk out of the theater, still wears his buddy's MIA bracelet

what does charlie smell like?

Speak on tunnel brother, tell of what you saw...?

I cry when I hear CCR, love them.. love music. But limited. Stay away from 60/70,s sound too deep. I freeze up. Puts me back as though it was , 3 weeks ago. The smell, sounds, taste of the food we ate. The smell of their sweat from the food they ate, piss shit liimbs . Took me years before I went into a forest preserve. Alone. like a little boy my wife would take me. And all for what. I remember approaching wounded much lose of blood but I still had to stuff a rag in his mouth, became too excited I knived his throat. then sounds of voices, I pulled my lead rope to retrieve. I would have been lost without that line The boys flipped me up like opening a can of sofa. Am I safe now? Guilty.

@@sammiedog4 You did what you had to do man, there's no way mercy could be shown by either side, especially underground like that I think. Thanks for sharing brother. You have some cool video listings too btw.

Fuckin KZfaq Walters. Cant believe people fall for this shit

This story was based loosely on Oliver Stone's own experience in Vietnam. Oliver Stone was in LRRP ... Deep Long Range Patrols behind enemy lines for weeks. LRRP later merged with Rangers !!! They were very hard core guys !!! That first ambush scene where Junior falls asleep and the platoon almost gets zapped by the NVA ...Oliver says that it was actually happened to him and it was him who fell asleep while on sentry and they also got all killed by NVA !!!

David Clayton 100 percent the best Vietnam film ever in fact it’s so good I might go watch it now.

Oliver stone did another movie tied to the Vietnam war. Born on the 4th of July. True story about Vietnam vet Ron kovic.

@@larrywheeler9917 Tom cruise

@@larrywheeler9917 I prefer born on the 4th of July it shows not just the war but the aftermath and the struggle of home life

Stone was denied by the studios.

I am pretty sure the Director knew what he was doing

If you get a chance you should read the documentary on how these actors got chosen for the parts. It was sure interesting. This movie gives me chills every time,

juantenoriojr69 Um, Quinn died in 2011.

juantenoriojr69 It's funny that you should mention Quinn and Dafoe. They had an infamous fight while filming Platoon over the use of a monkey in one scene.

RHA DIED?!?!!?……. Nooooo…. Bless his soul amen.

:-( Yeah it's on Wikipedia, dead at 48 (!), heart attack. A real 'man's man' who loved adventure and sport. Anthony Quinn's son, I did not know that. Every single actor in this film made it what it was. There was no 'star'. Can you see here what an astounding actor Forrest Whitaker is? I said then, "he's gonna get an oscar one day" and everyone was like "what? That was a nothing part". LOLOL As it is written, there are no small parts, just small actors. Quinn et al = giants.

wildh0rse1 indeed, you were correct. Forrest is one of the best actors. Ever!!!

The sound of rain & the figures only visible with the flashes of lightening; brilliant! One moving closer with their head down would of been the perfect time to wake just as they pass Taylor & spot a VC patrol in the direction the "dream solider" walked off. I should of been a director guys. Damn, I should be a director.

degree7 Hacksaw Ridge did a pretty good job

Same with Jacobs ladder movie.

@@cooldude2245 Another excellent Nam movie. But Platoon is in a class by itself.

Samuel Freeman I also saw Platoon in the movie theater. It was an experience

Same here. Opening week of Apocalypse Now, August 1979 Cinerama Dome, Hollywoodland USA. 6 Track Dolby sound. Unbelievable. The helicopters sounded like they were in the room as they "flew" from channel to channel.

and never learns ..

mco zpda you comment on a comment from 6 years ago

@@WithoutHesitation ; And the answer will always be the same for centuries , we will never learn ... saludos ..

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Yeah, like make sure the shotgun is unloaded before you use it for a weed bong.

It was a bit scary. DaFoe was playing Christ when this film hit theaters for Scorsese and the character looked, well, you can see it.

Very few actors can pull off creepy as fuck like DaFoe.

Stone didnt want DaFoe portrayed as an evil spirit after his death.

They cut this scene out but if you remember the next transition is Chris looks up and it's Barnes smiling at him. Now go back to the possession of the soul clip that was cut out, the two men who kept Chris sane was Elias and King who are both gone. Chris is all alone now with Barnes

@@keithharper1470 when did Barnes smiled at Taylor? But if rly that later Willem is so called as the devil portrayal, it would be creepy, he could also be interpreted as like the angel of death... Taking the deaths of the soldiers day by day... But that would be a sudden scene, out for nowhere to have an actor portraying another character in the same movie.. What's more, Elias was a good character and then having to portray another character but a bad one would be mindblown idk😝

ussr chris I wish it was left in, it's very good. Those who leave and those who are left. Something that should have stayed in.

I wish they would have left it. Nice foreshadowing. With the right sound editing it could have been a really well done scene.

The tone wouldn't have matched the finished film

I wish the camera quality was better, too. That was pretty much the entire platoon in one huge shot and would've been interesting to recognize everyone.

Who was the last one standing? After Elias dissapears?

That just freaked me out! Elias coming back from the dead.

babsi787 I'd say they took it out because when it comes down to it, everyone would be confused and it would put focus on an Elias resurrection theory which clearly isnt a target of attention

***** Yeah that would have been powerful.

In reality it's just Taylor was smoking too much pot

If you cut that into the movie, isn't that moment right before the ambush kicks off in the distance? Very fitting foreshadowing that all Hell is about to break loose. Though I can totally see why it would be cut. It's a little too on-the-nose supernatural.

That's so sad. I love Tom Berenger/ Sergeant Barnes. 😔 🙁

He was good in “Gettysburg.” But you could tell they were trying to recreate some of the Barnes magic, and it just didn’t quite happen. He wasn’t evil enough.

But, Eddie & the Cruisers!

Thats funny, cause I loved the movie and it took me years to forgive him for killing alias. felling a little better now

I'm so curious about this now!

wrong timeline bro

@@Kanovskiy what do you mean wrong timeline?

It was a different cut. May have to find Platoon on VHS.

False memories are a bitch. I've planted scenes from one movie into another and been utterly convinced.

Not worth it says the producer's 😢

I think its too in your face. You get the same message just by watching the movie

the best part

Bullets arent racist

Those caucasoids were still racist out in nam

Yall negroids act like y'all ain't racist please lol

You tend to stop caring about the guy's skin when it was what saved yours.

Two words to you my dude: Water Fast.

You can't reverse age, but you can reverse crunch.

@@grahamjackmacpherson6501 What is this reverse crunch?

@@LandersWorkshop it's an abdominal exercise.

And I've got two words for you, too lazy.

Keith David has been in a ton of movies. One of my favorite character actors.

That was good acting. lol

I agree

Sure are!

That's some funny shit right there.

Of course it is. You had two survivors of Vietnam, Dale Dye and Ollie Stone on scene. Shit doesnt get any realer than that. He and stone mention in a docu that sometimes they were overwhelmed at the reality of what they were re-creating, had to step back and say "whoa..... that's fucked up..."

@timetowaste Plt Sgt burns the shit?!?...yeah right mate What army did you service in then?

Burned my share. Was so glad when we got Vietnamese to do the job.

Black smoke rising up meant close to the base. I could see them from the chopper. JP4 doing the dirty work.

USMC in Gulf ‘91 burning the shit cans was the worst. The kero smelled like Chanel #5 compared to the shit. And everyone had some kind of stomach issues (in every war since the beginning of time) so it added to the fragrance. And of course it was 110 degrees in that fckn desert. Fond memories semper Fi.

Nah, probably not. He was just starting out back then. Oliver Stone talked about how this film was a first for a lot of the guys just getting into acting: Depp, McGinley, Quinn, Moses etc. etc. He told Depp that he had a great look and was going to be a star. At that time, Depp was probably extremely grateful to be in a Stone movie. Besides, Sheen was the main guy, along with Defoe, Berenger, and David. Before Platoon, Depp was in A Nightmare on Elm Street. Going from an 80's slasher flick to a Oliver Stone film was HUGE for him back then.

Green Beech Depp was an unknown actor then he didn’t become big until 1990s.

Scott Knode Depp was in a lot of scenes tho

One scene?! What movie did you see, lol?

Don't forget 21 Jump street. Depp was the one the girls fell over for in that.

But since they were wounded the war was finished for them. Both would have been sent back to the States. I prefer this deleted ending. Being so close to Elias meant that Chris belonged to the “Team Good”. There’s a substantial difference between him and people like Barnes. He should have spared his life, would have been more coherent.