The 1983 action film Rambo First Blood is one of Stallone's screen masterpieces.
The remake, based on the 1972 American action thriller David Morrell, is intended to be a film that indicts society's injustice to Vietnam Veterans.
But what everyone did not expect was that the image of "John Rambo" almost became the superhero of that era, synonymous with tough guys and special soldiers, and the influence has flowed to this day. Here are 8 things related to Rambo.
1. Initially, Rambo was not a killer
In the first episode of 1983, First Blood, Rambo didn't kill anyone. Only one person dies in the entire film, and the accident happened by accident, when an avid policeman shoots Rambo in a helicopter, and Rambo fights back with a stone causing the helicopter to shake, and the police fall off the helicopter and die.
In subsequent sequel films, Rambo's kills continued to increase, with Rambo tackling 76 enemy troops in Rambo: First Blood Part II and 132 in Rambo III. As for John Rambo, episode FOUR of First Blood, he seems to have spent only 0.5 calories to solve the entire brigade of Burmese troops.
2. There is no "Blue Bo Knife" in the original story
In David Morrell's original novel, First Blood, there is no description of Rambo carrying a survival knife of any kind, let alone a knife that uses it against the bad sheriff Hope. However, the screenwriter of the film believes that Hope always has to find a reason to detain Rambo, "with a knife" is an ambiguous reason for detention in the regulations, and the knife has become the foreshadowing of subsequent plots. However, after the release of the movie, the survival knife became a popular trend item, and even similar knives were called "Blue Bo Knives", and this development surprised everyone.
3. "Rambo" is almost the god of Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea is not a wealthy country, and locals have limited access to movies and television, but the image of John Rambo has been integrated into the folklore of the island nation.
In the folklore of the local Kamula, Rambo was a great machine gunner who fought in the bougainville war for 10 years, and then quietly left the battlefield after the war. But he didn't go far, and if World War III did break out, the Blue Expo would come back and defend Papua New Guinea. In Camula culture, Rambo became the patron saint of legends, a representative of manhood. The local guerrillas are called "Lambs".
4. Stallone hates the first cut of First Blood
The first cut of First Blood was three and a half hours long, and Stallone felt that the content was lengthy and unfocused, and the dialogue was terrible. He decided to buy the film and re-edit it to his own terms, deleting most of the lengthy dialogue from the film, and the end result was a 93-minute version, which is what we see now.
5. Without Rambo there would be no Ultimate Warrior
The Ultimate Warrior (Predator) is a 1987 war, thriller, science fiction film starring Arnold, carrying a variety of alien weapons, and will be invisible Ultimate Warrior, and later became an important classic screen role, but the origin of this movie is also related to Rambo, or related to Loki.
In 1985, rocky iv was released, with American boxing champion Rocky Balboa confronting Soviet boxer Ivan Drago (played by Dufranglin), and no one in Hollywood could be sure who Loki's next opponent would be. Several screenwriters joked about the topic, and some people said that "Loki's next opponent may only find aliens." As a result, the screenwriter brothers Jim thomas & John Thomas began to think about the idea and wrote a film that mixed Loki and Rambo's image, and Stallone felt that the idea was too chaotic to take over. So the Thomas brothers found another macho man of the same period, That is, Arnold Schwarzenegger, to take over, and later the script was revised several times, becoming the ultimate warrior we now know.
6. Originally, Rambo was to be played by John Khuvta
Imagine how different today's action movies would be if Stallone hadn't joined the screenwriting and acting? During the casting phase, First Blood considered performing by John Cuvolta, but the idea was cancelled after Stallone's name was proposed.
It is said that Kovota may also play the role of a defender warrior, playing the role of a lone ranger .
7. During the Vietnam War, the real John Rambo:
During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military did have a Rambo named Arthur John Rambo, an artilleryman of the U.S. Army's 11th Armored Cavalry. On November 26, 1969, his armored vehicle was killed by multiple rocket-propelled grenades (RPG) multiple times.
Rambo's final battle showed a spirit of fearlessness, his armored vehicle first opened the way for the other companions, then was hit by an RPG, the vehicle was still burning, he chose to let the other vehicles go first, he successfully completed the task, but the car was hit by 2 RPG again.
The Rambo was posthumously awarded the Silver Star.
8. In the original novel, Rambo died
Most viewers and critics agree that at the end of "First Blood", Rambo veterans' accusations against American society sublimate the theme of the whole film, which is entirely Stallone's contribution.
In David Morrell's original novel, Rambo tries to attack the police station, he kills several policemen, but is also shot and killed, and it is said that the end of the original movie is also the same. Remember when you said that Stallone bought the movie and re-edited it? Stallone decided to remake the end of the film, he did not use the original ending of the novel and the script, instead Stallone asked several Vietnamese military doctors what trouble they encountered after returning to China, which became a classic speech at the end of the film, so that the world knew the voice of the veterans.