There are many similarities between the novel Fallen Angels and the movie Platoon. Platoon and Fallen Angels took place during the Vietnam War. Fallen Angels and Platoon are similar in protagonists, settings and climax. The protagonists of Fallen Angels and Platoon are very similar. In Fallen Angel, the protagonists are named Richie Perry and in Platoon, the main character is called Chris Taylor. They both fought in the Vietnam War. Perry's and Taylor's reactions to aspects of the war were also very similar. One of the things they both had to face was death. Both react very scared and sad seeing all the dead bodies and injuries everywhere, Rick and Taylor deal with this fear and grief with violence. When Perry got scared after almost being killed by a Cong, he takes all that anger and grief and turns it into violence, shooting 2 clips at the Cong's face. In the platoon, Taylor has to climb over hundreds of corpses and he finds Sergeant Barnes, who had already killed Sergeant Elias. Taylor takes her anger out on both the recent ba...