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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I don't know if I agree with your example. I'll admit that I've never watched Platoon from start to finish, but it's because of the rape scene. I was like 16 or 17 when I saw that and I had to turn it off. Maybe the tone changes, but I didn't get any sense of heroism from what I saw.
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Yeah, I thought Platoon was a weird example there, because it had definite American soldier bad guys.
But it's also pretty literal in its Sgt. Elias-as-Jesus imagery, albeit right a the end:
Weird, I don't specifically recall the rape scene though.
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