MovieChat Forums > Rambo III (1988) Discussion > How The Rambo Movies Changed

How The Rambo Movies Changed


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwIj49ABiTQ

Rambo as a series of four films changed a great deal over time, and I’m not just talking about the latest instalment, which occurred twenty years after the previous. Rambo: First Blood is vastly different to the second and third films, and well of course to the fourth film, slightly confusingly just called Rambo.

Despite concentrating on just the films, we need to first start on the book, just called First Blood.

David Morrell started First Blood in 1968. That’s the year the Tet offensive happened, so I guess he was pretty on it. The book was published in 1972, and has the same basic premise as the film – Rambo is hitchhiking into a town, the cops don’t want there, so they try to push him out. He keeps coming back so they arrest him and try to cut his hair, because I guess they’ve got nothing better to do.

Then Rambo, played by Sylvester Stallone, goes on a kind of flashback induced non-killing spree, and is saved only by Colonel Trautman's interference, played by Richard Crenna.

Anyhow, what do you guys think of the Rambo series? Stallone has said there probably won't be another one, but would you like one?

reply

Love his videos, you should check out his insightful vids on the Terminator, Predator, Robocop and Alien franchises if you havent already.

reply

I like the book more than the movies. Though the movies are still entertaining. Also Teasle cuts his hair on the off chance he has bugs in it. Says he does that to other criminals he arrests. Teasle is more sympathetic in the novel. Even lets Rambo get a bite to eat when he comes back into town a second time. Unlike the movie where Teasle tells him to walk 30 miles away to get food. Teasle also listens to Trautman in the novel unlike the movie.

reply