Oliver Stone never forgot Vietnam, because he volunteered to participate in the Vietnam War, like the heroes of his films, and like many of them, he soon became aware of the destructive and destructive effects of this war. During this adventure, he was wounded twice and received two bravery medals from the army. But they also did not prevent him from later admitting his mistake of participating in the war and not counting his medals as nothing. However, Stone has made three films about the Vietnam War. Of course, the three films that deal with this war explicitly and openly, otherwise, with a little care in the hidden layers of his other films, we will realize that in the entire intellectual world of Stone, he has always been influenced by the bitter past that made him judge in such a way. Has forced In fact, Stone is one of the few American filmmakers who has dealt with the Vietnam war repeatedly and from different angles, and this repetition, except for a bold analysis in his controversial trilogy (Squad, Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven and Earth) in other films. Because Salvador Salvador, JFK JFK and Nixon can also be traced. Stone's naked look at the ugliness of war and dealing with its countless victims never goes towards moderation in depiction. Because, unlike other concerned filmmakers, while reconstructing past relationships, he does not only pathologize the effects of an incident on the people involved in it, but for the first time, as a social reformer, examines the spirit of the American attack on Vietnam. It challenges. The Vietnam War ends in 1976 and Hollywood does not hesitate to produce films that try to look at the impact of the war on the psyche of Americans, especially the soldiers, from a critical point of view. For example, Scorsese made Taxi Driver in the same year, and after him Michael Chimono, The Deer Hunter in 1978, and Coppola, Apocalypto Now in 1979. Now it can be claimed that these films only deal with the impact of war on people and cautiously never question the legitimacy of America participating in this war. In these films, traces of American patriotism and pointing to the dangerous nature of the enemy and the sadism that forced America to fight this war are still strongly visible. It is also mentioned that the American veterans are still heroes after the end of the war, who have decided to rebel and clean up the country. For example, in Apocalypse Now, Lieutenant Willard, played by Martin Sheen, was assigned to find and kill the arrogant Colonel Kurtz, who rebelled against the high-ranking military leaders, or in Taxi Driver, a veteran of the Vietnam War, played by Robert De Niro. Bar and after the war, he becomes a lonely and urban warrior who tries to make reforms, of course, in his own way. Although these films are masterpieces and memorable in terms of structure, they fail to challenge the nature of this war. However, this experience did not continue in the late 70s, until in the 80s, it was Aston who brought the true horror of war to the screen with The Squad (1986); That too in the decade when we witnessed the presence of fake and false heroes from the terrible reality of the past. Stallone in Rambo and Cruise movies like "Top Gun" were caricatures of a disobedient veteran. In the meantime, with the release of the movie Platoon, which he also wrote in 1976, right after the end of the war, Stone suddenly disrupted the equations of the past. The story was about an educated young man from a wealthy family who joins the army and is sent to Vietnam to fulfill his nationalist ideals due to the extreme propaganda of the government apparatus. But after entering Vietnam, the realities of the war are revealed to him one by one, and he becomes an observer and then gradually gets involved in conflicts that are not against the objective enemy, but among insiders.
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