choice # 2 alex Chel. block 3 day2

Rating: 7/10 (19 December 2007)

In the Deer Hunter the 3 main characters have very different personalities. And all of the personalities change by the end of the movie. The Main character is mike, who is played by Robert Di Niro has by far the strongest personality of the other character. He is very proper so to speak and mature compared to the other characters. He is a perfectonist, saying that you should kill a deer with one shot when all the other guys don't think that way. He seems to be kind of the leader of the group. This kind of personality would work well for anyone going into the army and it did for mike. While in battle Mike was ruthless and concentrated and he was calm and did not panic like the others. He thought clearly throughout the Russian roulette seen and he was the one who allowed them to escape and had to help the others along through Russian roulette. In war you need to have psychologically strong to be able to take in the horrors you see and Mike was one of them. After the war when mike came home he seemed a lot more quiet. When he went hunting again he wasn't able to shoot the deer. Mike also seemed more serious when it came to everything like when stosh was pointing the pistol after hunter mike came over and shot it and then threw it into the woods.
Another character from the deer hunter was steve who was played by john savage, and out of the three of them who went to war he was the most psychologically unstable. Before he went off to war he was kind of a push over and seemed kind of shy sometimes. This personality was not a very good one to go off and fight a war with because when things started to get bad he couldn't handle it. When they were captured and forced to play Russian roulette he just broke down and couldn't handle it. I wasn't surprised that he was the one to get seriously hurt in the war because he had a weak mind. Even if they didn't get captured I think he still wouldn't have been able to handle the images from war.
The other main character who went to war was Nick who was played by Christopher Walken. Nick was between Mike and steve in his personality. He was wasn't as stiff as mike and he wasn't as soft as steven. This made him an O.K soldier. When in battle he seem fine, but when they ended up in the prisoner of war camp he seemed a little on edge. When he was forced to play mike in Russian roulette was when Nick lost it. He started crying and had a hard time doing it and mike had to walk him through it. After the war he went AWOL. He was in a hospital and was going to be sent home. He ended up being talk into going into the Russian roulette den in Saigon where he kind of lost it took the gun and put it to his head. Nick then just left with the french guy. He completely forgot who he was by the end of the film. His mind wsn't ready for Vietnam. Mike found him but couldn't get through to him and just as you thought he was he dies. Nick was very psychologically unstable at the end of this film. I thought his life did serve as an accurate prelude to the end of the film. He could have come home but I think that he didn't want to.