What did Michael mean by “The soldiers are paid to fight, the rebels aren't. ...They can win.”?
Michael: The soldiers are paid to fight, the rebels aren't.
Hyman: What does that tell you?
Michael: They can win.
In the past I interpreted this as Michael saying the rebels could win because they had a cause they believed in, whereas Batista's soldiers were just mercenaries doing a job — is that anything close to what the filmmakers intended?
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In the past I interpreted this as Michael saying the rebels could win because they had a cause they believed in, where Batista's soldiers were just mercenaries doing a job- is that anything close to what the filmmakers intended?
Exactly
This is precisely the point Michael is making.
People willing to die for a cause (especially freedom as they saw it) are significantly more dangerous than people just getting paid.
Of course, events would unfold that the rebels would get less freedom than they thought under Castro but that does not make them any less committed.
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