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Oliver Stone
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- “We didn't have a lot of money to make the movie, less than about $6 million, so it was all struggling. We got this gigantic plane through barter.” [0:38] Platoon (1986)
- “I wanted them to not sleep for two weeks, essentially, and to really feel what it was like to live in the earth next to me, in the jungle, to get the smell of the jungle, no showers, no sleep. By the time they started to work here, this is one of the first scenes we shot. They were really pissed off at these troops. Pissed off at me, pissed off at the world. They were hungry. So it was a great experience. You can't take an actor and just make him into an infantryman like that. You need to have a context.” [4:23] Platoon (1986)
- “In struggling to deal with how do we light this huge battle at night with a limited amount of time and money, we didn't have the money for the lighting, certainly, We decided to go au naturel in the sense that we, in Vietnam, I remember everything was lit by truck flare, by night flares and artillery. So Bob Richardson, my camera, just adventurously decided to light the whole thing with flares.” [1:36:47] Platoon (1986)