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Like the ubiquitous Rocky films, Rambo represents another triumph for Stallone's distinctive brand of macho Americana. Stallone, who conceived of the film and co-wrote the script, is reveling in the popularity of his latest patriotic fable. "People have been waiting for a chance to express their patriotism," he says. "Rambo triggered long-suppressed emotions that had been out of vogue. Suddenly, apple pie is an important thing on the menu...
There is more. "I want this country to love us as much as we loved it," pleads Rambo on behalf of Viet Nam vets at the end of the film, and Stallone wants the nation to take heed. "The vets were fed by a sense of duty," he says. "They wanted to come home and be heroes on their blocks. They're saying, 'We showed you we were worthy. We just want to be appreciated...
...First Blood, the unappreciated Rambo was goaded into waging a one-man war against National Guardsmen in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. In the sequel, after a stretch in prison, he moves from a surrogate Viet Nam to the real thing. At the request of his former commander (Richard Crenna), Rambo takes on a dangerous reconnaissance mission to search out MIAs in Viet Nam. Sure enough, he finds some in a supposedly deserted prison camp, guarded by sinister Vietnamese and their evil Soviet overlords. But his mission is sabotaged by the top military brass, who want to close...
...Rambo seems to have perfectly articulated the nation's mood with regard to Viet Nam. "In general, the public feels that Viet Nam was a tragedy, an experience they don't want to repeat," says Stanley Karnow, author of Vietnam: A History. "But at the same time, there's an attempt to find some redeeming aspects in it. Movies can turn a defeat into victory; you can achieve in fantasy what you didn't achieve in reality." Says Arthur Egendorf, a clinical psychologist and author of Healing from the War: Trauma and Transformation After Vietnam: "Rambo is an effort...
...portrayed as troubled loners, are now the sympathetic crime fighters of such hit shows as The A-Team and Magnum, P.I. First Blood scored unusually high ratings in a telecast on NBC last month, and orders for video cassettes of the film have jumped 25% since the release of Rambo...