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First Blood was released in the US on October 22, 1982. Despite mixed reviews on release, the movie enjoyed tremendous success at the box office, with a total of $156 million domestically and the seventh biggest worldwide. This made it one of the 13th highest-grossing films in North America and an international blockbuster. Back in 1985, this Hollywood movie made history by being the first to be released in China and sold more tickets than any other American picture until 2018. Over time, critics have come around to appreciate the performances of Stallone, Dennehy, and Crenna, as well as recognizing its impact on action movies.
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CIA operator Lifer (Andy Wood) pulls out a SIG-Sauer P226 pistol and holds it to Colonel Trautman (Richard Crenna) when he tries to stop the chopper from leaving Rambo. It is noted as a P226 by its double stack creases on the frame. The P226 was a brand-new pistol on the US firearms market in 1984-85, when the film was made, so it is likely that Rambo: First Blood Part II is the very first movie to feature this gun (it was previously stated on IMFDb's RoboCop page that RoboCop was likely the first movie to feature a P226). It should also be noted that the P226 was competing for the spot as the official handgun of the US military (the whole reason it was designed). Although it lost the spot, it caught on with many government agencies and is still used by some some units in the army today, making this a relatively accurate appearance.
The weapon issued to John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) by his CIA controllers is a "faux" Heckler & Koch MP5A3, actually a 'chopped-and-converted' Heckler & Koch HK94A3 standing in for the MP5A3. He loses the weapon when he is forced to cut away his equipment when his parachute rigging gets caught up during insertion. When he is first seen loading it up, it is fitted with a 3x scope, but when he prepares for the drop, it appears to have been removed. Note that the HK94 in the film features the "slimline" handguard, rather than the more commonly seen "tropical" handguard.
The M60E3 is the main weapon wielded by John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) in the film. It is first seen being fired by a Soviet door gunner after their UH-1 dropped napalm on the waterfall where Rambo was fleeing. When using the machine gun, Rambo wraps the ammo belt around his left forearm in order to ensure a proper feed. When Rambo lands the chopper at the CIA base, he picks up the M60E3 machine gun from the chopper door and empties it in the command center to destroy all the high tech equipment and scare Marshall Murdock (Charles Napier). The use of the E3 model is peculiar because it was not introduced until the 1980s, making it unlikely that this machine gun was a holdover from the Vietnam War. A notable continuity goof is that the gun has a full-length barrel when first seen, but has a cut-down barrel when Rambo wields it.
When Rambo and the POWs escape the camp in their captured UH-1, Lt. Col. Podovsky (Steven Berkoff) chases them down in his Mil Mi-24 Hind-D (which in reality was the modified French Aerospatiale Puma first seen in Red Dawn). The door gunners on his Hind begin firing at Rambo with their M60D machine guns mocked up with semi-similar muzzle brakes and spade grips to resemble the aircraft model DShK heavy machine gun
It spawned a mini-wave of Rambo-related merchandise, including action figures and a kid-targeted animated series where Rambo saved the day without shedding a drop of blood. That an R-rated franchise spawned kid-friendly merchandise isn't too odd, this was the 1980's after all. I dressed up as Fred Krueger for at least a couple Halloweens. But the film remains a fascinating example of reception versus intention. Viewed outside of its pop culture impact, the story of John Rambo doesn't fit into easily designated political boxes. He is a Vietnam vet sent to fight and die by Lyndon Johnson (a Democrat) and Richard Nixon (a Republican) only to be bullied into aggression by American authority figures who don't like his hippie long hair and the fact that he fought in a "lesser" war (as opposed to Brian Dennehy's sheriff, who fought in the allegedly superior Korean War). He then gets set up and sent to his likely death by a federal government (during a time when Republican Ronald Reagan was in office) who didn't want the can-do spirit of post-Carter America soiled by pesky details like forgotten POWs from last decade's scarring war.
I'm not saying that Rambo: First Blood is some kind of secret liberal manifesto, and if that's the case the film is an utter failure considering its pop culture legacy. But like American Sniper thirty years later, it is a somewhat apolitical "US = good, Foreign baddies = bad" action adventure drama that arguably only became a political pinata due to its box office glory and critical reception as well to the current sensitivities associated with such simplistic entertainments. Viewed in a vacuum, the film is a compelling and entertaining action drama, one where John Rambo doesn't kill anyone for the entire first act and where the vast majority of the action doesn't kick in into the final reel during the film's iconic escape sequence. If anything, Stallone's Cobra (in which he tried to make his own hyper-violent Dirty Harry cop thriller) is far more the movie that critics accused Rambo: First Blood part II of being.
I had never seen "First Blood." I've seen several subsequent installments, but never the original film. Somehow, I thought I had. But while reading a series retrospective, I realized I didn't recognize any of the scenes from the first movie.
So, I picked up a copy and gave it a watch.
The latter Rambos, from "First Blood: Part II" to the most recent film are unambiguous action movies, with all the explosive excess you'd expect from a 1980s blockbuster. First Blood has action. The high point of the first act, for example, is Rambo's jailbreak, where he tosses cops through glass and runs through the station like a feral animal.
I was first introduced to John Rambo when I was nine years old. My dad somehow thought that First Blood was suitable material for his kids, and so we watched, in varying levels of distress, as Rambo fashioned makeshift weapons and methodically eliminated soldier after soldier in increasingly brutal ways. And when we got to the part where he dug a bullet out of his own arm, we were just about ready to puke.
In 2015, Gauntlet Press released a signed, numbered, collector's hardback with numerous extras including the never-used original first chapter, an essay by bestselling novelist Steve Berry, and an informative background article, "Rambo at Penn State." For information, please go to www.gauntletpress.com.
Based loosely on David Morrell's 1972 novel of the same name, it was the first of the four-film and ongoing Rambo series. Unlike the following sequels which were war adventure films set in foreign countries, First Blood was a post-Vietnam War psychological thriller set in the United States. First Blood particularly lacks the gore and violence that would later become a trademark of the series.
After reaching the police station, Teasle tells Deputy Sergeant Art Galt (Jack Starrett), his cruel head deputy and closest friend, to book Rambo. Galt uses Rambo's knife to slice through a sheet of paper with ease and escorts him to the cells, where he attempts to get Rambo's name. Rambo knows he is innocent, and refuses, so Deputy Mitch, one of Teasle's deputies, sees Rambo's dog tags and tries to read them, but Rambo instinctively grabs Rusty's wrist. Galt pulls his nightstick and threatens to break Rambo's face. Rambo lets go and Galt notes that "Hairy" is a soldier, but this does not change his opinion of Rambo and he proceeds to brutalize and assault him, beating him repeatedly. Galt then has Rambo bathe for his court date by spraying him with a high-pressure fire hose. When Galt and two other reluctant officers, Deputy Ward and Mitch, attempt to dry-shave him with a straight razor, Rambo has a flashback to being tortured in a North Vietnamese P.O.W. Camp in 1965 and loses control, escaping on instinct using his military training. He fights his way out of the station beating up most of the officers, breaking one's nose and throwing another out of a window. Rambo retrieves his knife and runs into the streets, throwing a civilian off a motorcycle and stealing it, and is pursued by Teasle off-road into the nearby mountains. The deputies are eventually forced to search for Rambo on foot, and he climbs down onto a steep cliff to elude capture. After spotting Rambo from a helicopter, Galt blatantly disregards protocol and attempts to shoot him dead in cold blood with a Winchester Model 88 lever action rifle. Rambo drops into a mass of trees, and cornered, throws a large rock at the helicopter's windshield in self-defense to buy him some time. However, the helicopter pitches and Galt, who had unbuckled his safety belt in order to get a better shot, falls out of the aircraft to his death at the bottom of the rocky gorge. Teasle, who did not see Galt's attempt to kill Rambo, vows to avenge his friend's death.
Prior to Stallone taking the lead role, Steve McQueen expressed interest in it. When David Morrell wrote the novel in 1972 the producers first considered McQueen, but then rejected him because they considered him too old to play a Vietnam veteran from 1975.
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