Barnes, Elias didn’t ask you to fight his battles for him. BUNNY: I told the padre the truth, man. Y'all experts? Taylor is very much the child of Barnes and Elias, his two "fathers." After all, he doesn't feel like, as he says to Junior in the same speech, they've done anything wrong. https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Platoon_(film)&oldid=2634625, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. Okay so Taylor doesn't kill a good, innocent soldier like Elias (that's what Barnes does), he doesn't commit rape (the other soldiers do that), or kill any innocent civilians (again, Barnes). Barnes was at the eye of our rage, and through him, our captain Ahab, he would set things right again, that day we loved him. The beast refers to the entire spectrum of destructive things the men of the platoon face throughout the film. Taylor arrives in Vietnam at the beginning of the film, and he's about as green as they come: fresh, clean, and completely unaware of the horrors that await him. I don't know what's right and what's wrong anymore.
The only thing that can kill Barnes, is Barnes. When he's narrating, he's usually writing letters to her. Half the men with Elias, half with Barnes. – Sgt. In his reality, nothing wrong happened. Despite the fact that he has no more illusions, Elias still insists on holding himself and his men to a high moral standard. His exact words to Junior before the final battle (in which he is killed) are: "I told the padre the truth man I like it here. Respectable, hardworking, a little house, a family. Barnes is in charge. TAYLOR: The war is over for me now, but it will always be there, the rest of my days, as I'm sure Elias will be, fighting with Barnes for what Rhah called possession of my soul. Here are some memorable quotes by "Sgt. A civil war in the platoon. It's kind of a good thing that he doesn't make it, so to speak. I don’t know what’s right and what’s wrong anymore.
CAPTAIN HARRIS: I can promise you something, if I find out there was an illegal killing, there will be a court martial. It's all a blur.
Rhah summarizes the reality of Barnes to which many of the platoon's soldiers subscribe: Barnes is a guy straight out of a myth. I guess I've always been sheltered and special. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. Maybe from down here I can start up again and be something I can be proud of, without having to fake it, be a fake human being. There's the way it oughta be, and there's the way it is. A civil war in the platoon.
You really think so?
Actors : Charlie Sheen ( Private Chris Taylor ), Tom Berenger ( Sgt. You get to do what you want, nobody f***s with you. TAYLOR: She's a f***ing human being man, f*** you… f***ing animal… all of you are f***ing animals.
Try as he might, however, O'Neill really isn't all that tough. "Ghosts in the landscape" eh? Barnes is a very mythological figure, a guy of nearly supernatural strength and endurance. BARNES: You don't tell me how to run my war Elias… Out here you belong to me.
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What do you all know about death? Gator Lerner, King is writing a letter to his girlfriend. In a way, he's just like the American politicians back home, running the war however they want. And through him, our Captain Ahab.
Now, I got no fight... with any man who does what he's told. Somebody once wrote: 'Hell is the impossibility of reason.'
In war, there's always a winner and a loser. Elias is planning to file a report about Barnes' brutal execution of an innocent Vietnamese woman (one of his more deplorable actions), and Elias takes Barnes down in a fight. In this case, it's all the guys in Elias' squad, who have to go out because of the large number of new guys. Whadda you want me to do? Harris reference to a court martial rings hollow in the lawless world of Vietnam. I have no energy to write. Y’all love Elias. He admits as much in the film's final narration, describing himself as the child of two fathers, Barnes and Elias. They would rather try to fight "with one hand tied around their balls.". Chris.
Well, for one thing, the fact that he likes Vietnam. This is ultimately why, dramatically speaking, he has to go.
Elias was full of shit. Another narration by the protagonist Taylor towards the culmination of the film alluding to moral crisis and decay as the actual adversaries rather than the Viet Cong. Barnes ain't meant to die. Elias was a crusader. Barnes makes it clear that he runs the show, even though Wolfe outranks him. When Elias reprimands him for not doing anything about Barnes' execution of the village chief's wife, Wolfe pretends he has no idea what he's talking about. What is the beast? Half the men with Elias, half with Barnes. For Barnes, both Elias and "them politicians in Washington" have no clear concept of the reality of Vietnam. But that's to anticipate matters. Willem Dafoe.
– Sgt. Free Daily Quotes.
The morale of the men is low. The war is over for me now, but it will always be there, the rest of my days.
I can't believe we're fighting each other when we should be fighting them.” You don't have to be a prick every day of you life, you know. – Chris Taylor, [to Rhah] You’re weird, man. I don't know what's right and what's wrong anymore.". The village, which had stood for maybe 1,000 years, didn’t know we were coming that day.
And through him, our Captain Ahab. Yeah. I don’t think I’m gonna make it out of here. I know, I know, I still need to get the cast names in there and I'll be eternally tweaking it, so if you have any corrections, feel free to drop me a line.
Nah!
– Sgt. She don’t read too good nohow. As if didn't already have the impression that the guys in the platoon were as good as dead, Taylor gives us a handy simile to help us out: the guys are like ghosts because they're basically dead, the living dead. Taylor hits on one of the film's biggest themes: the very real "civil war" within the platoon itself.
I just wanna be anonymous like everybody else. RHAH: Whatcha doing in the underworld Taylor? STANDS4 LLC, 2020. Poor Chris Taylor, he's so young and inexperienced for the first quarter of the film, it's a wonder he makes it through at all. We're not talking about a brother who won't talk to his sister, but guys that are actually at war—"fighting with"—with each other instead of the enemy. JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Cast The younger soldiers still harbor a strong morality however the realities of the war gradually disenchant them, therefore, seek escapism through drugs and music. resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel. Some family we've got here. This short exchange makes it abundantly clear that platoon politics have a lot do with who gets the terrible job of a night ambush patrol. Sgt. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. But most of 'em got nothin'. The "enemy… in us" is the civil war Taylor talks about earlier in the film. He memorably tells Taylor that not only is it not Taylor's responsibility to fight Elias' battles for him, but that trying to kill Barnes is ridiculous: "Barnes been shot 7 times and he ain't dead, does that mean anything to you, huh? Barnes Elias The Question and Answer section for Platoon is a great Elias: Hey O'Neill, take a break! In some ways, this is the real war in Vietnam. Good luck with that. In his reality, there's no reason to file a report against a guy like Barnes, the platoon's natural leader. [last lines] [voiceover] I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy; we fought ourselves.And the enemy was in us. Later, when Elias is talking about the report he plans to file, Wolfe claims he saw nothing. Platoon Quotes with Sound Clips All the audio clips can be downloaded in .mp3 format. Finally, the Platoon script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the Oliver Stone Vietnam movie. He doesn't spend his time in the Underworld smoking pot, but rather above ground, drinking and playing poker with Barnes. In some ways, Chris Taylor wants to live a life that is the exact opposite of what his parents want for him, and what they have. TAYLOR: Barnes was at the eye of our rage, and through him, our captain Ahab, he would set things right again, that day we loved him. The mention of Captain Ahab here (legendary captain from Herman Melville's Moby Dick) suggests that the platoon is kind of family, a group of guys that, just like the sailors in Melville's novel, spend their lives together with their patriarch, Barnes-Ahab. The platoon is like a "machine," and if guys don't follow orders and decide to do what they want, well the machine breaks and everybody dies. They drove me crazy with their goddamn world, Grandma. There's a lot of suspicion and hate.
TAYLOR: The village, which had stood for maybe a thousand years, didn't know we were coming that day. And that's putting it lightly.
Elias was a crusader. In a lot of ways, though, Barnes' remark is perfectly apt for Elias is sort of a prophet, a guy who knows the ugly truth and predicts the eventual outcome of the war (a loss for the United States). Us? He never writes home to mom and dad, and he even says things that suggest he may have a less than stellar relationship with them: "Of course mom and dad didn't want me to come here. So just how is Elias a "crusader," and a bastion of morality? And when the machine breaks down, we break down. We first catch a glimpse of this when he observes Bunny inside one of the village huts.
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