Script To Screen: “Platoon”
A brutal, but memorable scene from the 1986 movie Platoon, written by Oliver Stone.
A brutal, but memorable scene from the 1986 movie Platoon, written by Oliver Stone.
Logline: A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
A later version of the script portrays even more violence.
Here is the scene from the movie:
It’s such an horrific scene. The insanity of war.
One of the single best things you can do to learn the craft of screenwriting is to read the script while watching the movie. After all a screenplay is a blueprint to make a movie and it’s that magic of what happens between printed page and final print that can inform how you approach writing scenes. That is the purpose of Script to Screen, a Go Into The Story weekly series where we analyze a memorable movie scene and the script pages that inspired it.
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