Platoon (film) Dye, who played Bravo company's commander Captain Harris, is a U.S. Marine Corps Vietnam War veteran who also served as the film's technical advisor. The movie is "Dedicated to the men who fought and died in the Vietnam War." The film score was by Georges Delerue. Music used in the film includes "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber, "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane, and "Okie From Muskogee" by Merle Haggard (which is an anachronism, as the film is set in 1967 but Haggard's song was not released until 1969). During a scene in the "Underworld," the soldiers sing along to
Fantasia for Strings (Henze) Fantasia for Strings (Henze) Fantasia for Strings () is a composition by German composer Hans Werner Henze. It was finished in 1966, as part of the soundtrack for Volker Schlöndorff's film adaptation of Robert Musil's novel "The Confusions of Young Törless". This composition has been published by Schott Music. "Fantasia for Strings" is an abridged concert version of the full score for "Der junge Törless", which has never been published and has only been performed for the film. Henze finished both the film score and the "Fantasia" in 1966, and he chose specifically Renaissance instruments for the film score recording,