Originally posted by: 3RA1N1AC
the funny thing about the series is that rambo isn't a hero at all in first blood. just the opposite, he's a psycho. any normal person would just keep on walkin' to the next town when the sheriff makes a point of personally giving him the bum's rush... but oh no, not this guy, he goes flippin' ballistic and kills half of the local police force. they had originally cast kirk douglas as colonel trautman, but he insisted that trautman must double-cross rambo at the end and kill him (per the ending of the original novel) -- only fitting that he should destroy the frankenstein monster that the army created. apparently the producers were not too keen on that idea.
Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
I love Rambo 3 for exactly that reason - it highlights America's dualism in international matters while at the same time higlighting Hollywood's habit of jumping on the bandwagon and making stupid patriotic films that double as propaganda
I love Rambo 3 for exactly that reason - it highlights America's dualism in international matters while at the same time higlighting Hollywood's habit of jumping on the bandwagon and making stupid patriotic films that double as propaganda
the funny thing about the series is that rambo isn't a hero at all in first blood. just the opposite, he's a psycho. any normal person would just keep on walkin' to the next town when the sheriff makes a point of personally giving him the bum's rush... but oh no, not this guy, he goes flippin' ballistic and kills half of the local police force. they had originally cast kirk douglas as colonel trautman, but he insisted that trautman must double-cross rambo at the end and kill him (per the ending of the original novel) -- only fitting that he should destroy the frankenstein monster that the army created. apparently the producers were not too keen on that idea.
The first movie, First Blood, was actually a really good social comentary movie with pretty much no relation to it's action packed sequels. I wouldn't call Rambo a psycho though, he was an anti hero - a character to sypathise with because of the horrors inflicted on him by his own country and the non-caring society that he fought to protect. It's a really f**cking good film. Damn inferior hollywood sequels, damn them all to hell.
P.S I just had a thought - If you look at how good the first Rocky and Rambo movies actually were compared to their generic hoolywood crap sequels, you could argue that if Stallone had fought the temptation to cash in and had left both those movies as standalone classics, his carrer might have taken a different path and today he might br considered a fine actor who makes serious yet entertaining movies, instead of the poor-man's Arnie that he turned into. Let that be a lesson to anyone considering a sequel.