The film""s posters displayed two GI ""dog tags"" for the two O""s in the title PLATOON.Both of them referred to Sgt.Elias in the USMC:Grodin, Elias K.3365664125USMC-987654In 1986, the film (budgeted at $6 million) was the # 3 highest-grossing (domestic) film at $138.Dunn and Brandt suddenly appeared as back-up, and while Dunn struggled to bring the station back online to transmit he abort codes, Brandt pursued Wistrom into the electrical power room to restore the power, as Hunt chased after Hendricks for possession of the launch-control device (in the case) within a nearby multi-tiered, fully-mechanized, circular parking garage.]:He and Wally Fay were partners.For a long time, hey made good money.They built a lot of houses.Suddenly, everybody stopped buying.The boom was over...Then one day, they split up.Wally was in and Bert was out.They weren""t partners anymore.That day when Bert came home, he was out of a job...We lived on Corvallis Street where all the houses looked alike.Ours was number 1143.I was always in the kitchen.I felt as though I""d been born in a kitchen and lived there all my life, except for the few hours it took to get married.Think, think of the honeymoon, strictly private.I wouldn""t let another woman in on this.Well, maybe one or two but no men.I may not go myself.Mrs.Rittenhouse: Are you suggesting companionate marriage?Spaulding: Well, it""s got its advantages.You could live with your folks and I could live withyourfolks.(To Mrs.Whitehead) And you, you could sell Fuller Brushes.Spaulding leads into histhird soliloquyby speaking of his future with the wealthy Mrs.Rittenhouse, and a strange solemn speech about ghostly shares of stocks going up and down dusty corridors:Living with your folks.To complete the film""s symmetrical structure, both he opening and closing of the film present confrontations between he Clantons and the Earps.