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John James Rambo (born July 6, 1945) is a fictional character in the Rambo franchise. He first appeared in the 1972 novel First Blood by David Morrell, but later became more famous as the protagonist of the film series, in which he was played by Sylvester Stallone. The portrayal of the character earned Stallone widespread acclaim and recognition.
May 28, 2020 · Chuck Norris was down at No. 6 with “Code of Silence,” a hit in its fourth week and as violent as “Rambo.”. But the scale is smaller, cops-versus-drug-syndicate stuff. Norris is a Chicago ...
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- “At first, I thought it was a disastrous idea,” says Stallone starting the First Blood commentary off right. “I didn’t want to do it at all.” He explains that the screenplay had been bouncing around for years and had a stigma about it as being a “cursed” project.
- It wasn’t until the first day of shooting when Stallone is walking up to the house by the lake that he figured out how to play the character of John Rambo.
- Stallone recalls getting rewrites on the script sometimes all the way up to the day they were to shoot the scene. He points out the first dialogue scene between Stallone’s Rambo and Brian Dennehy’s Sheriff Teasle went off a newly revised script he had been given and then reverted back to the screenplay he had helped work on.
- Stallone points out that in the original novel, Teasle is a veteran of the Korean War, and his attitude towards Rambo stems from the competition of who fought a greater war.
Dec 7, 2018 · The John Rambo we meet in 1982’s First Blood, the first film in the series, is an emotionally wounded, morally conflicted veteran who engages in violence not out of honor or in defense of ...
- Greg Beam
As the Rambo phenomenon celebrates its 35th anniversary, it is almost impossi-ble to pinpoint exactly what transformed the knife, the book—which just so hap-pens is celebrating its 45th anniversary in 2017 as well—and the Rambo character into such a collective smash global hit. And perhaps therein lies the secret: it was
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Sep 14, 2019 · The film tells the story about a traumatised Vietnam veteran neglected by his country and persecuted by the authorities. Made amid the final twitches of American counterculture, First Blood provides a visceral portrait of individual disaffection and national dysfunction. John Rambo may have been a highly trained killing machine but he was also ...
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Sep 24, 2019 · By N.E.G. IN “FIRST BLOOD”, David Morrell’s action-thriller novel from 1972, John Rambo returns to America from Vietnam, where he fought in an elite Special Forces unit.
