Oliver Stone is known for his ability to make films on controversial issues and films that are like no other. ... Many of his films are about major concepts from his generation, for example, JFK, Nixon, and Platoon. Platoon is a film that fits into a special category of film genre. It is not only a war film, but it is a post-Vietnam War film. The post-Vietnam War film genre is defined by including the struggles that soldiers had among themselves along with the war they are fighting. Platoon acts as a metaphor for the struggle between the American public and the government. We will see how Oliver Stone uses formalist qualities in the film to help define this genre as a post-Vietnam War film to compliment Robin Wood’s theories on film genre.
The classical war film genre has a set of conventions that make it part of this genre. ... First off, one thing that always occurs in classical war movies is that the enemy is dehumanized. ... They start to change once the Vietnam War is gone and looked back upon.
Vietnam has changed what war films are about forever. Almost all films after the Vietnam War do not follow the classical conventions stated before. ... War films within the last year few years are finally starting to use the classical conventions of before. Even early into the fifteen year war, films were being made that went along with the classical conventions of war film, for example The Green Berets (1968). When the media started to relay the information on what was happening in Vietnam back to the States the entire nation was up in arms.
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