Post by Jay Rambo on Sept 21, 2008 11:01:47 GMT -5
McBAIN's ESSENTIAL TIMELINE
Disclaimer: The movie is clearly set in an alternative universe of some sort; a timeline where events, situations and many details appear as being slightly (or heavily) different from ours.
1951: Robert "Bobby" McBain is born in New York City, New York State, U.S.A.
September 1956: McBain begins grade school.
August 1969: McBain attendes the Woodstock event along with his hippie friends.
Late 1969: McBain turns 18 and joins the U.S. Army.
1970: McBain operates in Vietnam as a simple soldier. Later, he's commissioned as member of a special force unit and receives appropriate training.
1971-1973: McBain quickly earns promotion: first to Sergeant, then to Lieutenant.
Late 1974: McBain and his soldiers are captured by the Vietcongs and are imprisoned in a P.O.W. Camp.
Early 1975: Santos and the 143rd RANGER BATTALION (Eastman, Bruce, Gill) rescues McBain and remaining soldiers.
1976-1990: McBain comes back to New York, America; he quits the Army and gets employed as welder.
Late 1993: Events of McBAIN (the movie) occur.
As he himself revealed, McBain was ABOUT 17 when attended the infamous Woodstock event gig (August 1969) as an anti-militarist hippie. I guess that he joined Army when he turned 18, and it could have occurred right after a month or two that he completed his high school degree.
Then, our hero became a Lieutanant, a very notable military rank: for him to do so indicates either the necessity of wartime or that he distinguished himself for some merits.
In the beginning of the movie, the enemies at the P.O.W. camp looked just unable to understand that the large-scale conflict has ended and America's active involvement had vanished some time before.
Anyway, it has been stated that we're "in the last official days of the war" and that "America has won the war".
Lately in the story, it's revealed that Christina meets McBain 18 years since her brother Santos rescued him. McBain tells her of his Woodstock experience and that "25 years after or so" he has realized it was lame. Thus, every bit of information legitimates us to suppose the 'present time' is actually a parallel 1993. We can also figure out how many years McBain is old: 41, on his way to turn 42.
Detail: McBain’s favourite weapon is a modified 9mm handgun.