Patrick responded to me:
"I do agree, but the "Please!" a the end of your comment
seems to imply you think the use of this tradition undermines
the statement of the film."
It's not the tradition that I was being overly snotty about,
I've got no problem with it, even enjoy it, but the
heavyhanded symbolism Stone so often employs. And I'll even
allow that I'm probably responding more to this aspect in his
later films and retroactively applying it to Platoon which,
along with Salvador, is one of his few films I've seen that I
did not actively dislike. I always feel he's hitting me over
the head and trying to manipulate me, two of the worst
artistic crimes in my book, along with pretension.
Mark
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