who wrote the music for the movie platoon
''Platoon'' is a Vietnam film that honors its uneasy, complex, still haunted subject. BATTLEGROUND-PLATOON, written and directed by Oliver. Stone; director of photography, Robert Richardson; film editor, Claire Simpson; music by Georges Delerue; produced by Arnold Kopelson; released by Orion Pictures Corporation.At Loews Astor Plaza, Broadway and 44th Street; New York Twin, Second Avenue at 66th Street.r. Stone's control over his own screenplay is such that ''Platoon'' seems to slide into and out of crucial scenes without ever losing its distant cool. He doesn't telegraph emotions, nor does he stomp on them. The movie is a succession of found moments.