First Impressions of Rambo

[citrus_java]

Watched Rambo: First Blood for the first time, for class.


It's not my favorite thing, but it does have interesting aspects.

No small amount of John Winchester in there- war veteran, expert fighter, driving through the US, drifter, no place in normative society, tortured, lost so many people. Down to the way he stitches himself up. And other SPN things - the naked vulnerability, crying action hero, trouble with the law, "I'm here to save you from him, not the other way around"... And oh, those seventies (OK, 1982) cars, jackets, heroes in painted-on jeans. Also, it's unbelievable they make kid costumes out of this.

Spent the first 20-30 minutes of the movie waiting for the twist where he somehow becomes a boxer.

Comments

[tabaqui]

I am now and always have been (since i was a wee thing) been fascinated by the Vietnam war and the soldiers and others who served there. I remember buying 'Rambo' in a store in an airport, before it was made into a movie, and reading it on the plane and loving it. In the book, he dies in the end, and it was very solemn and very fitting and i cried.

The movie was actually pretty good, comparatively. One of my other favorite post-war movies about Vietnam vets is 'Heroes', with Sally Field and Henry Winkler and a just-starting Harrision Ford. Excellent stuff.

[citrusjava.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the story, bb {{{}}}
Honestly, I was surprised he didn't end up dying - it was that sort of story, tragic flaw all the way, that police officer wanting to shoot him so much ...Had the movie been made today, I'd have maybe expected him to stay alive in a "and these people are here, the problem is not solved" sort of way. In the late '90's/early 2000's he would have died.