Hollywood's shrinking population of veterans include filmmakers like Oliver Stone (Platoon) and Clint Eastwood (American Sniper).
He grabbed an M1 rifle and several hand grenades and left his platoon behind a stone wall.
The unruly intellectual ambitions that animate both Mr. Stone's most vigorous work — "Platoon," "Wall Street," "J.F.K".
This subtext could be described as the concept of the two fathers battling for control over the morals of the son, a concept Stone had also used in Platoon.
Stone, director of films including "Platoon," "Born on the Fourth of July" and "Snowden," and Scheer begin the conversation by discussing Stone's 1987 film "Wall Street," which takes a bold look at the rampant corporate greed on Wall Street in the 1980s.
Oliver Stone's Salvador and Platoon showed far more anti-war sentiment than The Hurt Locker or Zero Dark Thirty, but if Stone ever begged credit for being a "lifelong pacifist" in the privacy of his mind, people would rightly laugh.
Stone won Academy Awards for directing for both Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July.
After winning the Academy Award with "Platoon," his Vietnam War drama, Mr. Stone, whose father was a New York stockbroker, chose the battlefield of American business, saying that he wanted to see the war at home.
In Platoon, the movie that had made Stone's name the previous year, Charlie Sheen as a GI in Vietnam had two role models: the dull, Christ-like good sergeant (Willem Dafoe) and the charismatic bad sergeant (Tom Berenger).
"From Hanoi to Hollywood: The Vietnam War on Film," presented by the BAMcinématek, includes works by Francis Ford Coppola ("Gardens of Stone," "Apocalypse Now Redux"), Oliver Stone ("Platoon and Stanley Kubrickck ("Full Metal Jacket").
German photographers with platoons of stone-faced models would arrive once or twice a week to use Granny's windows as backdrops for their spreads.
