#2

Rating: Null/10 (28 May 2009)

2. Before any of them get near any battlefields, the audience can easily tell that Mike is going to be the one that fares the best. He is constantly calm, cool, and collected under any circumstance, and plans out exactly what he has to do beforehand to get things done, and get them done right. I imagine things could have turned out somewhat different if they weren't captured and forced to take part in rounds of Russian roulette, because that can psychologically damage anyone. The audience might also think that Nicky would do reasonably well; he seems like a street-smart and book-smart young man, with plenty of youth in his blood. Steve we are less sure about. He seems somewhat subdued sometimes, and the next moment he could be sad or jumping with joy. A personality so prone to mood swings and so delicate has much less of a chance of doing well in the hellish battlefields of Vietnam. In these ways, yes, their attitudes served as accurate preludes to what was to happen later.
-Cooper Hardee