One thing that helped Restrepo bring Fallen Angels to life is the setting they were in, it was pretty similar other than the rice paddies in Veitnam. The firefights between the Americans and enemies also helped me visualize alot better of what the fighting was like. In Restrepo they showed the men's reactions to one of the friends death which really gave me a great example of how they would of reacted in Fallen Angels. When they went to villages to talk with the locals it helped bring out what talking to vietnamese in the book would have been like. When all of the soldiers had to go to rock avalanche to patrol it totally reminded me of all the night patrols Perry and the rest of there sqaud did. The sergeant dies in Fallen Angels and Restrepo died in the movie which were big losses to both of them, So the important death portrayed very similar of what happened in the book. The helicopters were used in Fallen Angels to fight which killed much of the enemies and the helicopters/planes bombed and fired at the enemy in Restrepo. The movie showed how no position in the valley was safe just like even at camp in Vietnam wasnt to safe. It never said how much or really when people smoked or did tabacco but Restrepo illustrated it well since you could see friends passing tins to each other. At the end they were all excited to go back home and get out of the valley like Perry and Peewee got to get out of Nam for there injuries.
What i learned about war from Fallen Angels and the movie Restrepo is that mainly not everyone will survive no matter how much someone thinks they will. I also learned many tearms, like who the Cong's are and what the hooch is. The book gave me a good descriptive story of what war is like while the movie gave me the illustrative version of the book, other than the settings of the two they seem to be very similar kind of stories. I'd recomend to read first before watching, since the text gives you so many more details.
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