WAR!

Platoon is a movie that portrays the vietnam war. This movie starring Charlie Sheen made the war seem like the veterans were out of their mines, the war was for a lost cause, and the veterans were fighting themselves. This move got an award winnning Oscar and bringing the actors of he movie to fame especailly Sheen. Another war movie soon came after that called Hamburger Hill and did not get an Oscar and it was just as good and to some better. aAccordign to Peter Katopes, Vise-President of our school in Laguardia Community College, wrote a paper about these films, of the good and the bad. He wrote that it was unfair for Platoon to get an Oscar because Hamburger Hill was just as good, it portrayed the good side and realistic view of how soldiers acted. Peter Katopes himself was a veteran and said, " I'am a veteran, and platoon portrayed veterans as bad soldiers killing each other who takes drugs and killed the vietnam people for no reason..... and I didn't do any of those things along with my fellow soldiers....Did they do it in real life? Hard to say because the army is a big Military Organization that recruits many so they might of did these acts.
Oliver Stone, Director of Platooon, made a fortune by making this film and none of it was giving to the military for eqipment or other accessories it might need. All of that money went to him and the actors. The film portrays a part of history thats why it is not being prosecuted, but the message is kind of telling us that veterans are crazy and cold hearted people. Bill Gates, creator of microsoft, made a game system called the Xbox 360, which made a game called Call of Duty, a war game, that is the most popular game out there today because of it realistic graphics and levels that make one want to keep on playing the whole day ( I should know). This is about the war between U.S (Marines) and Iraq (Opfor) and the battle to freedom (supposely). The game is ranked 4th place out of 10 of the best games out there. This is one way of getting people not to notice what is really going on the world today, the fact is that war is going on in Iraq and once it starts to get noticable people are going to stop playing games.
Media like movies and games gives us the message that everything is ok, when the fact is they just want the public to buy it to get money out of it and distract us from the reall truth.