so he starts by blowing up the gas station for no reason, and ends up destroying half the city - not caring who gets hurt. Why?
Growing up, I thought Rambo was the good guy. Watching this crappy movie today I realize he is the villain. Funny.
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Fair enough, but that doesn't explain why he did it.
Besides, I think the announcement over the PA was during the time he ran amok.
I think it was luck more than anything that he didn't kill anyone.
Besides, I think the announcement over the PA was during the time he ran amok
It's definitely a bit of a cop out, both First Blood and Rambo would have us believe that in the heat of the moment Rambo knew the people had evacuated the town and, in part II, the army base. You can decide which one requires more suspension of disbelief. I'd say part I does, b/c I have never seen a town where the police have a PA intercom system to communicate with everyone. In part II, the simple nod from Trautman tipped him off that everyone was out. Little things like that give these movies a fairytale like quality. Rambo III and IV do not contain these moments.
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Little things like that give these movies a fairytale like quality. Rambo III and IV do not contain these moments
Yea, I am not implying Rambo III does not feel like a fairy tale, it is most certainly the most childish of them all, no doubt. In looking how First Blood and Rambo and Rambo III mirror each other, the end rampage with a no killing of civilians awareness is left out of the 3rd movie.
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It was a good war strategy. If they can't refuel the cars and trucks they can't mobilize them. It was also a good distraction as he went for the next objective of destroying their armory (the Outpost gun store)
Then he takes out the electricity to hinder visibility and outside communications.
I think Rambo was acting methodically and strategically.
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Interesting!
shareso he starts by blowing up the gas station for no reason, and ends up destroying half the city - not caring who gets hurt. Why?
Growing up, I thought Rambo was the good guy. Watching this crappy movie today I realize he is the villain. Funny.
Now that I grew up to be Rambo, I still say they drew first blood :(
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I always saw the "rampage" as him turning the town-environment into his own element.
He understand chaos, noise and darkness, Teasle doesn't (or at least functions less well in those circumstances).
So my take on it is that it is a combination of strategy (hindering communication and lowering visibility for his enemy) and making his surrounding more comfortable for him while making it less comfortable for his adversary.
It's hard to get angry at Rambo given that he's suffering a PTSD episode and more than a little crazy. In many ways, it's to his credit that he didn't kill any of the cops.
I think at this point in the film, things have escalated that he's in full blown delusion mode and thinking of the town as an enemy base he has to lay siege to. He buts power and he cuts the fuel supply as one might in an assault. Perhaps he knew the place had been evacuated or, maybe more likely, at this point he's just extra nuts and thinks he's still fighting a war. We could assume that the reason he doesn't kill the cops is actually seeing them reminds him that they aren't enemy soldiers which is why he just disables them rather than killing them. By the same token, I don't think he's blow the gas station if he saw anyone in there. Granted that's just easy movie logic (since there totally could have been someone in there), but I'm willing to give him a pass in this film (not the ultra-violent sequels), because he's obviously crazy and has had a really bad last few days.
Or, to put it another way, I'm against deadly force in theory but, if I'd just found out my last friend was dead, been brutally beaten by corrupt cops, and spent the last two days with the cops trying to murder me; I'd probably blow up the damn gas station too. I'd also probably have killed that damn cop with the sniper rifle on purpose instead of on accident (cuz seriously, while I respect a lot of police officers, when you try several times to shoot an un-armed man, you deserve whatever retaliation you get).
Rambo hated the town's police department at this point ESPECIALLY the Sheriff and he knew ruining the town would be a blow against them it was revenge.
shareMy take on why he did that was because
A) It cripples their capacity to persue him
B) It served as a distraction to get closer to Teasle
C) He had been warning them not to push him, they pushed too far and he showed them what kind of war he coud bring to them.
Like he said before, he gave them a war they wouldn't believe. In town (peaceful areas) Teasle was in charge, in the wild (in combat, war) Rambo was the superior fighter.
He's a good guy in the sense that the police department antagonized him & coerced him into attack mode. He's a bad guy in the sense he's a violent person with a high degree of rage and insanity against those who mess with him. Fought this town like he did Vietnam. Make sure the innocent are out of the way and trick the enemy into making a mistake which they did. The villains is Bryan Dennehy & Jack Starrett (Teasle & Gault). Neither should ever been officers of the law.
shareI don't think he cared about the town or the people in it. He lost his last friend to cancer and was hopeless after that. His grudge was against Teasle. He gave him the chance to let it go but Teasle just kept pushing.
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