Question 2

Rating: Null/10 (25 May 2011)

Steve, Mike, and Nick are nothing alike, at all. Mike is more outgoing and outspoken, whereas Steve is more soft spoken. Mike is the leader and the better shot while hunting, he seems much more badass. Nicki is also quiet and seems very much an introvert.
All three men go to the Vietnam war and end up getting split up. When they get reunited at a POW camp, they're being forced to play Russian Roulette.
Steve loses his legs due to an infection from the skanky Vietnamese water, later having to go to a veterans hospital. His personality in the beginning of the movie kind of hints that he will get it pretty bad in the end. He couldn't stand up for himself to his mother, and therefore was a weak soldier who couldn't stand up for himself.
Nicki who is a follower in the beginning changes his ways later in the movie. He goes AWOL and starts manning up and playing Russian Roulette. He later dies.
Mike who is badass in the beginning is also badass in the end. He sacks up and makes Nicki play Russian Roulette with him where he kills all of the Vietnamese. Also, he goes back to Vietnam to save Nicki. Mike is also the only one of his friends who comes out of the war with no injuries and didn't die.
Nothing could have changed because when your drafted you don't have a choice as to go or not.