Alright, i got the Platoon DVD yesterday. I watched it then i watched the movie with the Oliver Stone commentary on.
It seems most of the stuff Oliver says in the commentary contradicts what most civilians think about the Vietnam War and the United States after they see the movie. Hell, he called some of the American soldiers he meet there "Natural Born Warriors". He never says anything bad about the real Ssgt Barnes. The real Barnes seemed like a nice guy. Got shot in the head and survived, married a japanese women and came back to Vietnam. He never says anything bad about the real Tex while the Tex in the movie looked like someone that would side with movie Barnes in the Village scene. Stone said the real Lt. Wolfe was a nice guy. Something i found funny was how he said the "good ole boys" were good soldiers. Which i found weird because all the rednecks in the movie are assholes with confederate flags in their barracks and commited war crimes. I found all that confusing. His movie shows the platoon being full of war criminals even though Stone seems to talk more about how you can't really blame the soldiers for acting like dicks to the new guys and shooting civilians because they are tired and they felt like shit in the jungle. It's almost like he is apologizing for what the soldiers are doing in the movie.
Also, Stone didn't talk about Ace. The only thing he said is that Ace is or was a Radio writer from Texas. I don't know if he was referring to Ace in that particular scene though.
Now i'm off to watch the Dale Dye commentary.
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