in the original script, rambo died. stallone fixed this. this is the way. resist.
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On the other hand, we wouldn't have gotten the oversized super hero cartoonish Rambo in the other movies. Not that I disliked them, but I prefer the more "relatable" Rambo in first blood. And had he died it would've made for a more compelling ending to the story.
i hear you. i also agree with stallone, no one wanted to do the movie. it was a 3.5 hour long dumpster fire that as stallone says, everyone else turned down before they asked him to do it.
he cut out rambo's dialogue, to be less neurotic (in the book he was a psychopath and a sociopath that had to be put down. stallone made rambo more stoic...not talking to himself like a madman throughout the movie. example, rambo shoots an owl and pontificates, "take that you mouse munching mother fucker." also, kirk douglas was going to be the colonel troutman.
"I just don’t think it should [have been] done," Stallone continues. "It sends out the wrong message. Every Vietnam vet who sees this [ending] goes, 'The only solution is death. Death is the only thing that awaits us at the end of the tunnel.' I don’t think that’s the right way to do it."
this is a great short video on the subtext of the film.
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https://piped.video/watch?v=elbsS6VDNNc
also, love this scene where rambo breaks down. so powerful
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I'd always understood Rambo's struggle was against ignorance, but that video really broke down some askew perceptions of mine of some of the antagonists (Teasel, Gault, etc). I don't think I realized Teasel was also a vet. For some reason I always thought they had a distaste for the armed forces in that town.
The explanation of the ending really helped reaffirm it for me. The idea of him dying instead of living was just within the context of the movie as it was, maybe with Teasel getting off a final shot or one of the trigger happy idiots across the street trying to be a hero. Not with all that other junk they didn't use in the film. But you/Sly are right, the message that would've sent to vets would have been horrible. Troutman walking him out was the right move.
And thank god Richard Crenna got the part over Douglas. No offense to Douglas, but that part ain't him.
Thank you for linking that vid. 🤙
you get it 🫂💜
watching rambo: first blood
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be like rambo, resist.
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But, Stallone co-wrote the original script...
stallone rewrote the script and:
"tried to buy back the (3.5 hr film) and burn the negative"
https://video.nostr.build/0fa2171eb133e6bd2be37dc24cbe9abf821dc1787365cb5645a6f00191a431e2.mp4
more here:
Very cool.