Instead of Joker heading deeper into the Vietnam War after his assignment with Stars and Stripes, he and his buddy Rafterman get caught up in a scheme with the street-smart Vietnamese woman they met (let’s call her Mai). But Mai isn’t just a sex worker—she’s a hustler with connections to the local crime underground.

Mai ropes them into a plan to rob a corrupt ARVN general who’s hoarding stolen U.S. military gold and cash meant for aid. Joker, disillusioned and cynical, sees the absurdity of the war and agrees. Rafterman is hesitant but can’t resist the thrill.

They form an unlikely trio:

Joker: the clever planner with a dark sense of humor.

Mai: the inside woman with local street smarts, charm, and guts.

Rafterman: the awkward tech guy, in charge of gear, escape routes, and surveillance.

The heist is successful—but bittersweet. They get the gold, but are pursued by both Viet Cong and U.S. MPs. Rafterman gets shot during the escape, Joker and Mai go on the run. Final shot: Joker lighting a cigarette in a dark alley in Bangkok, watching Mai disappear into the crowd, gold duffle in hand.

>>936842423 (OP)

It's a shitty movie....

strange that you are so impressed with it, considering the fact that it was garbage

>>936842423 (OP)
If Lias had not died, Barnes would have been court-martialled when he was not shot by Chris.

The whole prospect of Barnes surviving would make the movie less entertaining, yet not to some of us, we would have more data to establish what a soldier willing to break the rules and still be a good soldier would do in more situations.

I want Barnes to live, so I can see him turn to the civilian life as a pure and no-longer threatening unit of absolute purity of will.

Would Barnes go into counterintelligence when he left the corp? Would he make the next enemy squirm without having to raise a weapon?

Platoon 2 - the wake up

Lias gets a sweet job in the BootCamp at Fort Worth and spreads enlightened knowledge to new recruits who ask all the questions you wanna ask about combat. Whilst Barnes develops propaganda techniques to weaken the enemy at a classified location.

The big finish is the argument which lasts 15 minutes that Lias and Barnes have whilst meeting after work in a bar and they get hassled before they come to blows and kick some drunk assess.

>>936845596
Key points.

They have a heated debate but come to reason that the war is a hell which neither of them need and would rather put behind them, Barnes recognises the error of civilian casualties because he sees how a civilian is treated by the military in a new light when his propaganda techniques are effective against an enemy he can relate to somehow, he sees the strength of the new enemy and the similarity to his own system, he sees the result of mass panic and disruption he causes and starts to have doubts about giving chaos to people that are effectively farming and want nothing to do with the war, because there is no VC, it is just a government agenda to weaken communism, even though the new targets are not directly participating in war against the US, they are just associated with the enemy by way of living in that system. His past begins to haunt him, he wakes up at night and sees their faces.

Lias sees the new Barnes and says he might as well have not had him court-martialed because the result would be the same


Their argument is more based on malice on Barnes' part about being court-martialled and losing some years in the brig.

The nature or warfare on a mans psyche is delved into and we see a deer hunter type movie, only without the roulette, just angered voices and an eventual acceptance that once a marine always a marine and that the brotherhood is greater than the hatred because all the hippies just hate them both and the difference between them is relative.

>>936845596
>>936847575
Platoon 2 theme tune I wrote

https://youtu.be/mQ4tzzRUoCg