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First Blood is a 1982 American action film directed by Ted Kotcheff and co-written by Sylvester Stallone, who stars as Vietnam War veteran John Rambo. It also co-stars Richard Crenna as Rambo's mentor Sam Trautman and Brian Dennehy as Sheriff Will Teasle.
The five films are First Blood (1982), Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), Rambo III (1988), Rambo (2008), and Rambo: Last Blood (2019). Its titular protagonist is a United States Army Special Forces veteran played by Sylvester Stallone , whose Vietnam War experience traumatized him but also gave him superior military skills, which he has used ...
First Blood started production with Hollywood icon Kirk Douglas in the Trautman part.And the Spartacus star was a vocal proponent of having Rambo die in the film, which immediately put him at odds ...
First Blood (1982), the first Rambo film, starring Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy, and Richard Crenna, was filmed almost entirely in and around Hope, and set in the fictional town of Hope, Washington. [14] Other films shot there include Shoot to Kill (1988), starring Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger and Kirstie Alley.
According to Rambo: Last Blood, the character's full name is John Rambo and he was born on July 6, 1947, in Bowie, Arizona, to father Reevis Rambo (1920–2000) and mother Helga Rambo (1924–1969), as shown on the graves at Rambo's farm in Rambo: Last Blood. In Rambo: First Blood Part II, he is said to be of Native American and German descent ...
In the 1980s, a popular genre of Vietnam-related films was revenge fantasies that featured a Vietnam veteran or veterans returning to Vietnam to vanquish the Vietnamese, of which the most popular was the 1985 film Rambo: First Blood Part II. [10]
James Cameron wrote the original screenplay, John Travolta played a "Star Wars" obsessed soldier and other things you didn't know about one of the defining action movies of the 1980s.
Sylvester Stallone is known for being the face of several successful franchises, from Rocky to Rambo. The New York native nearly gave up on acting before landing his major breakthrough in 1974’s ...