Platoon

[wendigo100]

We had to watch Platoon twice over the weekend for my daughter's History GCSE work. Good film?

[kramer]

you watched it... what do you think?

[wendigo100]

you watched it... what do you think?

Oops, extraneous question mark. Er, yes, it was quite good.

GCSE O-level study is a bit different to my day.

[wendigo100]

And that's history is it?

My history GCE stopped at 1914...

Well, I suppose it is now. They concentrate on the 20th century at GCSE O-level these days. Well, up to the end of the cold war, anyway.

[ratewhore]

What part of the history curriculum is this? The history of the contemporary work of Willem Defoe? Or the blood soaked history of the warmongering USA?

[wendigo100]

What part of the history curriculum is this? The history of the contemporary work of Willem Defoe? Or the blood soaked history of the warmongering USA?

You are Noam Chomsky and I claim ... etc etc

[sasguru]

If I was a parent I would be bloody annoyed that an "entertainment" was part of my child's curriculum - unless it was extraneous to the real work.

[DaveB]

My son's history lessons were similar, he's not doing GCSE though. They seem concentrate far more on analysing historical situations and interpreation than on hard historical facts.

Most of his last year of history lessons, before he dropped it, was spent on the American West of the 19th century. Cowboys and Indians etc. They did virtually no "conventional" British/European history at all.

I suspect that watching Platoon counts as Modern History and analysing the causes and effects of the Vietnam War.

[OrangeHopper]

I was into reading about Vietham at the time Platoon came out and I place it my top ten movies. I think it far better then Full Metal Jacket that got raver reviews. Watched the latter recently and it reminds me of my visit to Fort Sill, Oklahoma. American GIs are another animal all together.

Did the Cold War as part of my history O'level back in 76.

[rootsnall]

I was into reading about Vietham at the time Platoon came out and I place it my top ten movies. I think it far better then Full Metal Jacket that got raver reviews. Watched the latter recently and it reminds me of my visit to Fort Sill, Oklahoma. American GIs are another animal all together.

Did the Cold War as part of my history O'level back in 76.

Deerhunter has got to be the best of the bunch !?