Platoon
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Barnes: Everybody gotta die sometime, Red.

Chris Taylor: I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy; we fought ourselves. The enemy was in us. The war is over for me now, but it will always be there, the rest of my days. As I'm sure Elias will be, fighting with Barnes for what Rhah called "possession of my soul." There are times since, I've felt like a child, born of those two fathers.

Junior: Free your mind and your ass will follow.

Junior: Only way you get some pussy, man, is the bitch dies, and wills it to you. And then, maybe!

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Barnes: Shut up and take the pain.

Barnes: If the machine breaks down, we breaks down.

Tex: All right, you cheese dicks, welcome to the 'Nam.

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Chris Taylor: Somebody once wrote: "Hell is the impossibility of reason." That's what this place feels like. Hell.

Visible crew/equipment: In the sequence where Sgt Elias is charging the VC with his M16 (near when he dies) there is a shot when the camera rolls through the jungle and you can see a cameraman behind a tree.

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Trivia: During the last night battle scene an NVA "Kamikaze" runs into US command bunker that's full of GIs and blows himself up. One of those GIs is none other than Oliver Stone.

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