... gone psycho, do you think most of the men would have survived, or would the outcome pretty much have been the same?
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I don't know.
But the thing about Maggot that always made me wonder...why did they take him with them? I mean, most of them had a specific task that could be carried out by them only. They needed Bronson to pose as a German and get them in, the lightest guy had to climb up the roof and so on. Maggot served no special function. He was just one more guy. Sending him back to prison and carrying out the mission with 11 people would have arguably been easier.
Yeah Maj. Reisman should've listened to Capt. Kinder and left Maggot behind.
The choice for the prisoners was either joining the group for the mission or returning for immediate execution of sentence. Although, at least in the book, there was a moratorium on executions at least until the end of this mission. And Major Reisman was adamant about going the distance with all 12 prisoners.
As to not knowing Maggot's particular role, the same can be said for others in the group. In the book, it is a different prisoner that goes crazy, and the book suggests that that was a significant event in the outcome. Actually, more of the group survived in the movie than in the book. Still in a very dangerous mission lie this, in my view, it is likely that a similar outcome would have occured even if Maggott hadn't gone crazy.
Such is always the case in last minute team building. Who're we going to exclude?
"Only a fool would say that." --STEELY DAN
Most of the other characters too, the ones that they got specific about anyway, had some sort of mitigating circumstances, either for their crime or as to why they would take them along. Jefferson had defended himself against some racist, Wladislaw was an officer who killed a deserter. Franco had experience as criminal. But Maggot was just some nutso who flat out tells the major that he hears voices from god telling him to kill people.
Unless Alpert's covered in bacon grease, I don't think Hugo can track anything.
Taking Maggott along was as lunatic as Maggott himself.
"Chicken soup - with a *beep* straw."
It was a mistake, both by Major Reitman and the screenwriters, to include a hopelessly insane psychopath like Maggott in the mission.
Well, I say "mistake" but it probably scores points, entertainment-wise.
But those southern boys gotta stick together!
The gentleman from the South did have a question about the seating arrangements.
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