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...created his consultancy, Warriors Inc., in 1985 out of distaste for what he considered the metaphorical rambling of such films as Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter and for the revenge fantasies of the Rambo genre. Not only was the drama phony (soldiers surfing through an artillery attack in Apocalypse Now) and the detail wrong (Sylvester Stallone launching rockets with the radio button on a helicopter control stick) but an essential point of view was missing. "The story that needs to come out," Dye says, "is the human one: what happened to the people who fought...
...cold-war baby. I knew that Viet Nam was going to be the war of my generation, and I didn't want to miss it. I must say, my timing was impeccable." If the young man had failed as Rimbaud, he might make it as Rambo...
...barriers against such U.S. products as corn-gluten feed, soy cakes, rice and almonds. Yeutter spoke darkly of possible "major disruptions in international trade." In Paris, a French trade minister warned that Europe would respond "eye for eye, tooth for tooth." He also accused the U.S. of "choosing the Rambo method" for resolving the issue...
...collective reawakening of memory has had its perverse offshoots. One way of rationalizing a war we lost is to assume we should have won it, but the damned bureaucrats/politicians/military brass kept us from finishing it off. John Rambo, unhindered American fighting man, could have won it. If the bad guys...
...packing the large theater on a weeknight, still could not quite cope with what they saw. Some cried, some did not. "Nice shooting," laughed one man behind me as Barnes picked off a fleeing civilian. In another scene, Elias runs through the brush, singlehandedly ambushing an enemy squad. "Go, Rambo!" said someone. Eventually, everyone became very quiet...