There are many similarities between the novel Fallen Angels and the movie Platoon. Both Platoon and Fallen Angels are set 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 called Richie Perry and in Platoon the main character is called Chris Taylor. Both are fighting in the Vietnam War. Perry and Taylor's reaction to aspects of the war were also very similar. One aspect they both had to deal with was death. They both react very scared and saddened to see all the dead and injured bodies everywhere, both Rick and Taylor face this fear and pain with violence. When Perry got scared after almost being killed by a Cong, he takes all that anger and pain and turns it into violence, shooting 2 clips in the Cong's face. In Platoon, Taylor has to step over hundreds of corpses and finds Sergeant Barnes, who had previously killed Sergeant Elias, Taylor gets his anger from both the recent ba...