Hey Joe, thanks for this one… Read the book before I saw the movie and in the book Rambo dies, and the last scene is the shell casing arching across the sky I thought was very moving… I personally didn’t like in the movie that Rambo survived, and that it gave birth to sequels that to me were just typical Hollywood fare… by the way, thanks for mentioning the Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, I believe it was the first film in which I saw Richard Dreyfus, brought a smile to my face as the circle I run with had never heard of the movie, and over the years I started to believe I had just imagined it… So thanks for validating my memory! Love your stuff, thanks again! Peace! CPZ
Thanks, Zeke! I'm finally at a point where I'll read the book before the movie, but when I was a teenager, that wasn't the case. The sequels are terrible, all of them, "Rambo" becoming code for a robot who shoots first and asks questions later, which was not at all what this character was about. I do think Stallone had a point that with a movie, we invest two hours emotionally with a character and seeing him wasted at the end is a bummer.
Hey Joe, thanks for this one… Read the book before I saw the movie and in the book Rambo dies, and the last scene is the shell casing arching across the sky I thought was very moving… I personally didn’t like in the movie that Rambo survived, and that it gave birth to sequels that to me were just typical Hollywood fare… by the way, thanks for mentioning the Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, I believe it was the first film in which I saw Richard Dreyfus, brought a smile to my face as the circle I run with had never heard of the movie, and over the years I started to believe I had just imagined it… So thanks for validating my memory! Love your stuff, thanks again! Peace! CPZ
Thanks, Zeke! I'm finally at a point where I'll read the book before the movie, but when I was a teenager, that wasn't the case. The sequels are terrible, all of them, "Rambo" becoming code for a robot who shoots first and asks questions later, which was not at all what this character was about. I do think Stallone had a point that with a movie, we invest two hours emotionally with a character and seeing him wasted at the end is a bummer.