Film Studies Assignment

Rating: Null/10 (15 May 2008)

#3. What's the deal with the French character who introduces Nicky to the Russian Roulette den in Saigon? What is this character suppose to symbolize? The French character reintroduces Nicky to Russian Roulette in Saigon. The French guy keeps taunting Nicky until he agrees to go inside and see whats going on. Nicky sort of freaks out when he sees that people are playing Russian Roulette for fun when he had to play as a form of torture. When Mike comes back to find Nicky, he pretends that he doesn't know him and that he has no idea what he's talking about. Finally the French guy reluctantly helps Mike out and they find Nicky who has been playing Russian Roulette since he went AWOL. The French character represents France's role in the Vietnam war. France want the United States to declare war on Vietnam and finally convinced them to do it. Then when they saw that things weren't going well they denied everything and said that they never wanted a war much like the French character and Nicky with the game of Russian Roulette.
This is Spenser Johnson from your Block 4 Film Studies class.