unfortunately that would make liberals (the ones that called guys like this a baby killer) the villains. And Hollywood doesn't like calling liberals, villains.
He did everything he was told to do, did everything he was raised to believe was right, lost everything and for it he was hated, abused, and discarded by the people he sacrificed it all for.
Sylvester Stallone’s performance is so incredible it’s easy to overlook Richard Crenna’s amazing performance as a man who wants to also break down in tears but tries to maintain his military bearing
Richard Crenna's performance conveys a lot of things. Over the course of the film he's been bragging about how Rambo is a deadly machine he created. In this scene, you can see the guilt on his face as he realises what he's done to a human being
Stallone at his absolute best.I saw this when it came out in 1982,and loved Stallones performance.It’s just so sad that he turned it into a franchise like Rocky and The Expendables.
Richard Crenna was good in "The Rape of Richard Beck" which was released around the same time as the Rambo trilogy. It's about an arrogant show off detective that got raped by a motorcycle gang and suffered a nervous breakdown.
Still say he should have earned an Oscar on this alone. Young heads always think it’s just a shoot em up action flick. Then you watch it from beginning to end and it was so much more than that. The rest were indeed money grabs (it is Hollywood after all). But this scene is powerful art.
I agree.It’s a powerful scene,how he couldn’t get over the death of his buddy who was blown up by that rigged shoeshine box in Saigon.As I said in a previous post,it’s a shame he turned Rambos story into a franchise.First Blood is the best of the lot.First Blood 2 wasn’t bad,but the rest…no!
The second one tried to recapture that ending with another monologue. It wasn’t awful, but it clearly was a one-time thing for First Blood. You can’t recapture the impact of that scene, and it’s the reason why this Rambo will always be remembered the most.
Yeah, while not completely lacking depth, the rest of the franchise, pales in comparison to the first and are the cause of everyone's misperceptions, about what this film is going to be and how good it is. It's pretty much the same with the Rocky franchise, except he had gems with both 1 and 2, with the rest of the series lacking the same heart.
As the Son of a Vietnam veteran I would often ask my Father about his time there. While he wasn't in the same situation as the Rambo character he did of course lose friends and face his own mortality on a few occasions. While at a Base known as Hill 55 about 10 miles Southwest of Da Nang he was asked to grab a sheet of Plywood from a nearby pile to use as a makeshift table. Lugging the wood up the hill across his back he heard a series of thwip sounds followed by a "pinging" noise. Turns out he was being snipped from the Jungle nearby and that ping he heard was a shot hitting a nearby metal fencing, the thwips were rounds hitting the ground. A guy wearing camouflage and a hat with a feather stuck in the brim shouted at him to get for cover before grabbing his own rifle to return fire. That guy as it turned out was famed Vietnam war sniper Carlos Hathcock known as White Feather.
Unfortunately my father was in that same position as Rambo, and years later I was in that same position, My brother John was in that same position, my brother Brandon was in that same position (He's a Command Sergeant Major now, and my cousin Rondelle was in that same position (he was killed in combat). I retired a Master Chief (Seabee) with 24 years of service, but unfortunately today I'm suffering from a brain tumor that developed from being around burn pits.
My dad was a medic over there. He never would tell me anything about it. I can imagine the stuff he saw. Spent the rest of his life as a surgical assistant.
17 years, here (11 active. six as a contractor). I still instantly drop into a defensive stance, fist cocked, if someone surprises me; you're right, you don't just turn it off
PTSD is a real thing, my uncle served in Vietnam and was never the same. In his time there was no real help for a lot of those guys. I watched him struggle until the end and the last time I saw him smile, we were putting him in the ground. I hold a huge amount of respect for war vets.
@@damone70those poor chefs have a hard time forgiving themselves. They did what they had to do and with what was given. Mostly a joke but my bro told me modern MREs aren’t great.
Man... It really hits hard watching the women cry at the end of Rambo, because THIS monologue is the whole point of the movie. PTSD was in its baby steps when they movie came out.
Nah. We've known the symptoms for decades before that. It just had other names. "Battle fatigue", "shell shock", etc. But what it's always been is real truama. Not the "truama" people claim when mean things are Saud about them online. Or being disciplined by their parents and calling it truama.
@@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamerfuck you its trauma you fucking asshole i can hear fucking voices in my fucking head whenever i do something my piece of shit family wouldent approve of. Just because no one shot at me doesnt mean a fucking abusive curcomstance cant do the same thing.
@@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamer yhe disciplined by parents part hits hard, because some clearly haven't gone through that properly, then act as if the world should change to suit them.
Stallone's soliloquy still resonates - heartbreaking, profound and necessary - totally humanizes John Rambo and also showed a world that Vietnam vets who suffered PTSD needed to be taken seriously. Such a cinematic moment.
I love he called out the vile protesters. Boys come back to their fellow countrymen spitting on them for doing a job many didn't even want to do. The same is true today with protesters. Most don't know much of anything about what they are even protesting.
I am Japanese, and when I saw this movie 40 years ago, I was 20 years old and did not think that deeply about war. After seeing this last scene, I began to think deeply about what war does to soldiers. Now, it is very valuable for young people to see this film and have the same thoughts as I did.
@@the98themperoroftheholybri33”War….war never changes. We start to forget the things we should remember…and we start to remember the things we should forget.”
The way those military trumpets somberly play as he's hugging Trautman feels like they're quietly serenading a casualty of war. And he may not be dead, but he's still very much a casualty, and not just of the war, but of unjust societal judgement.
When I was a kid I used to see Rambo as an action icon. They made cartoons, action figures, comic books about the character. Growing up, I realized "First Blood" was a drama, it was really about PTSD, loneliness and being rejected by society. Stallone did a very good job here. Then they decided to turn the character into the immortal action hero in the sequels. I'll be honest, it would have worked much better if they'd never made any sequels.
In the original Script Rambo was supposed to die, not have a soliloquy. When the Officer comes in je original shoots Rambo. And they even shot it. But during testing it didn't sit right with the audience so they took it out.
Completely agree... First Blood had not only the message, but also the atmosphere to match. The cold, gloom and feeling of isolation in the fictional town of Hope, WA and its surrounding areas really reflects Rambo's state of mind.
I agree, with one caveat- the 2008 movie absolutely captured what it was like for the GWOT vets coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan. I was one of them... I practically did exactly what Rambo was doing in the beginning of the movie... living in Thailand, working the border of Burma, fighting a war that wasn't mine. It took meeting and losing my wife in country, along with my leg, to pull me away from war. Till this day, I still miss it. I close my eyes, and I'm still there. Iraq, Afghanistan, Burma... these places are more home to me than the place I grew up in, or the place I'm living. I hate that, but at the same time, I can't give it up.
I grew up watching all but the first one. I watched in my 20s and really opened my eyes to some of my coworkers experience. They are not even the same movie!
This single performance is one of thee greatest performances of all time. I grew up in the 60's, my brother was drafted before he graduated - and this is graduating high school. He returned with PTSD that wasn't diagnosed till after 1977 because the US Gov didn't 'recognize it' as a 'real affliction' until then! What this movie did not tell you was that those within the ranks that had PTSD were at times bullied/brutalized while with the affliction and serving!
I remember watching Ken Burns PBS series about the Vietnam War and one episode showed Vietnam Veterans throwing their medals away outside the White House.Vietnam veterans were treated like shit by both the public and the government at that time and Stallone talking about the treatment he got,especially at the airport and being called a baby killer is true.Thank God the treatment of veterans is so much better and people go up to veterans today and thank them for their service.
My father was a green beret viet war vet, he really hated having to talk about the war, in fact, every time he tried to, he would start smoking heavily, he showed on occasion PTSD, by zoning out but he was also later on showing signs of Parkinson's, it was getting so bad I, with my mother, had to quickly move out, without him getting too possessive, not out of fear of his PTSD, but he was showing the signs that he couldn't recognize me as his son. Now, the question is do I hate him? Not entirely, more like I pity him, do I miss him? No, I don't. Am I proud that he tried fighting for his country? Yes, but I wished that one day, he would understand that he did everything he could but he was never home with me growing up in the 90s, he was either working with computers or out flying, this was before he retired and started chain smoking.
Newer audiences to this film, having heard about the character and/or the franchise for years, are in for a shock when they get to this part of the first film, the best of the series. It's in a class all by itself because of this scene. It sets itself apart from every other "action" film of it's time.
My best friend hates the macho action man movies, so he never watched any Rambo movies. I was asking him why he hated those types of movies and what he would do with the genre. He unknowingly described first blood, so i forced him to watch it. It was incredibly satisfying to see him start the movie completely disinterested and dismissive, and eve completely enraptured by the end. He told me it’s the greatest action movie ever… he wrong of course. Die Hard exists.
An hour after Jim Minarik was discharged from the army, two persons spat on his olive, drab uniform as he walked along a street in Oakland California. Just returned from Vietnam and having no civilian clothes, Minarik wore his uniform again that night when he chose a good San Francisco restaurant to celebrate his: safe return stateside. He was denied entrance to the restaurant, and told that he was a war criminal. That was on Dec. 10, 1968, and Minarik solved the problem bý purchasing a civilian suit. "It was not a very good welcome back to America." the former paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division said yesterday. Washington Post 6-2-71
Its a myth. It was a meme of the time, everyone heard someone who's friend's cousin got spit on. Reporters looked for exact specific instances and couldn't track any down.
As someone raised by a Vietnam vet who had 5 kids and I’m one of the 6 he adopted; stories of disrespect being shown towards returning veterans are all true actually as it happened on multiple occasions to my father yet he kept his cool and simply responded to hate with kindness.
As someone who used to really struggle with PTSD, I'd say this is pretty accurate. You're always tense, on guard, startled easily. Those memories...they cling to you like a parasite. Haunt you every day, all the time, in your sleep. A certain smell, sound or touch can instantly pull you back into *that* place; wherever it was, whatever happened. People look at you differently, they don't understand why you are this way. It is hell. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Exactly my wife can't understand sometimes why I am so paranoid..why I never sit with my back facing a door...why I have to be able to see my surroundings at all times..Why I am always observing everything everyone does around me...why I am paranoid about making sure everything is secured and locked constantly...it isn't pleasant in the slightest. Like you said you get the "why are you like this??" Response to these behaviors and you can't even begin to say why....
Becuase it's not a "Rambo film". Yes, it introduced the character to the screen. But the sequels started off as a knock off of a Chuck Norris movie (now there is a man who is a "man of action" not a an actor), then Stallone turned into the right price alternative to Arnold. Those are "Rambo films", mindless action with a plot written on kleenex. This... Not a "Rambo film".
I had a good friend, force recon, scout. He's a great guy, but self-destructive. Smokes a lot of weed. Says it helps, because while he's high, he can't smell his friends burning. This wasn't Vietnam, it was Enduring Freedom and Afghanistan. Nothing ever changes.
One of those rare occasions when the movie gets it better than the book. This was a powerful message for how wrong the Vietnam era veterans were treated. In the war, by the government, by their own countrymen, when most of them were draftees, not voluntary forces. They get home, trying to do the best they could, turned away most everywhere they went... and even still, to this day, held up and used as a prop for political clout.
My father was in the 4th marine division in WW2 and was in the battle at Iwo Jima. He was there 10 days before he was hit with shrapnel from a mortar and almost lost his left leg. I can't imagine the horrors he witnessed In those ten days which probably felt like ten years. He, and the other men and women who made it home from that war, were at least treated as heroes. The way the returning vets from Vietnam were treated was absolutely disgusting and an insult. You may not agree with a war some vets have to serve in, but they're human beings just like you and should be treated with respect. You may think you know but you will NEVER know what they've been through and experienced. Thank you to all veterans.🇺🇸
I operated and repaired the most advanced surface radar on the planet. Was qualified as a master helman to drive during underway replenishments, anchoring, mooring, straight transits. I spent 6 months looking for work before getting hired at home depot to push carts and load cars. Of any movie, this scene is the hardest for me to watch.
Stallone is definitely not just about muscles, gun shots and punches. He's a great actor. Rocky 6 has 3 great emotional scenes, one of him teaching his son a lesson, another of him talking to the boxing committee, and another of him venting to Paulie about the "stuff in the basement", this last one made me cry. Great actor!
Every rocky are master piece because every rocky have very different point of view and the rocky story by himself are super clean become nothing to ultra stars to nothing at the end
I was recently waiting at a bank to speak with loan an officer, there was a Vietnam vet sitting across from me. We got talking and he told me he had, had 13 operations that he had caught some shrapnel, and they could not get all of it out he still had some in him and spoke of how painful it was sometimes, he walked with a cane. He explained how he still had nightmares and had to moved out of his home because he was afraid, he might hurt his wife, he said they trained me to kill and kill quick.
"Congratulations!", they said, "You've got what it takes!" They sent him back into the rat race without any brakes They took a clean-cut kid A d they made a killer out of him is what they did. - Bob Dylan
I would never hate a soldier for fighting in an unpopular war. They sacrificed their time in the military to get better just so they can protect our country, but they are honor-bound to follow orders of their superiors. It is not their fault they fought people they were told were our enemy because that is what they are trained for. Of course, there are situations that they should question the legality of, but an entire war? They can't fight against the call.
This movie is so misunderstood by so many boomers as a big, manly movie without "all that modern bullshit". But conveniently forget the movie ends with Rambo breaking down, crying, and saying the war was the worst thing that ever happened to him and he can't adjust to civilian life.
for those wondering what punishment he got, see First Blood part 2, it wasn't good. sentenced to 30 years hard labor. He gives an equally moving soliloquy at the end of it too (I've heard that veterans in the theaters were giving standing ovations).
Stallones finest acting performance. Highlights the plight of veterans who came home from Vietnam and were treated terribly by the nation and all the PTSD that most soldiers suffered from, where nothing is over and the memories and things they experienced continued to haunt them all.
Honest to god Sly should have gotten an Oscar nomination for this movie. Which the exception of Creed and Rocky 1 this is his best performance of all time. The final scene when he talks about how horrifying the Vietnam War was still makes me cry to this day. Also he very wisely had the ending changed as well as him killing no one directly. In the original book First Blood Rambo actually completely snaps and goes on a killing spree and the book ends with Colonel Trautman shooting and killing Rambo like he was putting down a rabid animal. But Stallone in his amazing foresight knew this character needed sequels so he encouraged the director and the studio to have him kill no cops or guardsmen and have him arrested instead of killed off.
Basically, this was the scene that was the message to everyone of what every soldier from Vietnam was going through. Sure, there were some bad apples in the military, but the sheer lack of empathy from the public... something in short supply, even today. But you know, all John Rambo wanted was just something to eat. And a puffed-up sheriff was playing gatekeeper.
I saw Rambo 2 before First Blood. I was shocked by this scene because Rambo 2 was a straight up action flick with bits and pieces of the originals heart. And his breakdown at the end reaching for Trautman was my first glimpse at PTSD and what it can do to a person. Years later it’s still a powerful scene in a powerful movie.
The tragic thing about subsequent movies, he's always seen trying to get away, but all he has is war and loss, and while it seems cool on the surface, dude only ever wanted to live a peaceful life, but it always eluded him.
Some veterans suffer in silence. I'm a USMC vet myself, but I never saw true combat. My dad DID see combat........two tours of duty in Vietnam, also as a Marine. Growing up, I was aware of Vietnam vets suffering from PTSD (Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, documentaries about vets, seminars about PTSD while I was on active duty, etc). But I always had the impression that my dad wasn't affected. In the last year, I've found out that for the last 54 years, my dad has slept with a gun under his pillow. He's startled easily by loud noises. He still has nightmares about jungle warfare. Most of the typical problems. I always felt "lucky" that my dad didn't suffer like others did. To know that he has been suffering all of these years while telling no one is very painful for me.
Vietnam veterans have always and always will be my heros. I remember being at LAX. I seen a soldier pushing another soldier in a wheelchair. He had no legs. When they got outside there were protesters, calling them baby killers and spitting on them. I was 9 yrs old and that was the first time I remember being so angry at the world.
At the time, there was no diagnosis for PTSD. Vers were considered crazy and locked them up. There were no programs, no groups, no one to do anything for anyone. Vets also had a hard time getting and keeping jobs because of the PTSD. Just wasn't a good time for vets.
As an Afghanistan veteran I personally cried when we pulled out. I knew all those people would be slaughtered. They knew while the Americans were there they’d all be fine. As soon as we left all hell broke loose.
Afghanistan veteran here as well, 2400 American kia compared to the 59,000+ Taliban KIA, yet we pull out like we did? What a joke. Semper Fi Marine- Army vet.
Sadly this was true for a lot of Vietnam Vets. It wasn't just the protestors making them feel despair coming back home, it was often times family too. Society at large turned their backs on the soldiers. The self deletion rate and homelessness is the highest amongst veterans from that war. Even the VFW wouldn't even recognize them, as they called it the Vietnam "conflict" instead of war. Our country and culture did those men dirty. Add to that the PTSD (real PTSD, not the ones tiktok 304s claim to suffer from), trauma, drug addiction, mental illness, etc. It's horrifying to think about. God have mercy on us for how we treated them. Stallone delivers this message in his epic and heart breaking performance here.
Watching the Colonels confusion always gets me. He has only ever seen Rambo as a bad ass tough soldier he trained, he honestly looks like he doesn't know what to do when he sees him break down. Old story though, they only train you for the war, they don't train you for after.
People think Rambo is an action movie when it's really about PTSD and the horrors of what war can do to the mind of a person on the field. It should have gotten far more awards for what it tried to get the world to know about
The movie that proves Stallone can act. Of course there are others, but for people that thinks he is only an action star, this is the movie to show there is more
Stallone gets a bad rep because as a major action star of the 80s, most of his movies don't give him an opportunity to flex his acting chops. First Blood and Rocky allowed him to deliver intense and powerful dramatic performances. It's a shame Rambo: First Blood II and Rambo III became more action driven because Rambo isn't supposed to be a modern day berserker badass. He's a man broken by his experiences who can only call the battlefield his home. That isn't badass, that's tragic.
In the original screenplay Col. Trautman kills Rambo after this monologue rather than comfort him. Because he knows Rambo is a dangerous weapon that he can't control anymore.
@@SadScientist1 It's also the only form of protection he can really offer Rambo. A quick merciful death versus the long slow paranoid crawl to death the civilian prisons would have offered Rambo. The second movie pictures Rambo being taken to military prison, which wouldn't have happened as Rambo's crimes are all within the civilian world which would have meant Rambo would been thrown into one of the worst max security prisons in the country, probably killing quite a few people but ultimately probably going ever more insane from the extreme PTSD and constant paranoia before finally getting murdered sometime in the long years he'd have gotten for all the killing. If I remember correctly Trautman is supposed to sort of wipe his face after shooting Rambo before telling the cops outside it's over. Meaning he's broken up about killing Rambo, but can't do anything else because of the two issues, Rambo's uncontrollable now and Rambo will only end up going to a place that will just be torture for him until he dies.
In a few clips, when Rambo says “parking cars”, the word “parking” was silenced. Did the censors think that he said “fuc-king”? If they did, that means that they thought that he said “I can’t even hold a job fuc-king cars!”
This is a reality for most military veterans in the US . We are the highest homeless and suicidal rates and it’s a situation I’m going through now . Lots of civilians don’t understand what we go through and it’s hard to hold down employment and most don’t care or are disrespectful especially this younger generation .
This ending wasn't the original ending where Rambo gets arrested. It was the second ending they shot and was the ending that made in theaters the real ending, which was from the book as well, yeah this movie is based on a book where Rambo tells Colonel Trautman that he can't live a normal life since society would never accept him and gives him a gun saying you created me you kill me then he begs him to shoot him but the colonel until Rambo forces him to pull the trigger killing him but the producers, as well as the test audience, hated that ending so they changed it where Rambo gets arrested you can see this ending on the DVD as an alternate ending, but that ending was the original ending in the book and movie.
That monologue is what made Stallone a superstar: he identified with every combat veteran before or since. The really sad part, is the number of people that say "He needs therapy": a nice thought, but therapy doesn't make the ghosts go away. The ghosts stay with you as long as you live.
I remember being in the theater in the 80s watching this movie, and I gotta say, the whole theater was giggling at this performance, because while it's supposed to be a serious moment, his performance was so over the top no one believed it. and the more he cried, the more the audience laughed.
For anyone who never saw the sequel. Rambo ended up in prison, with a very long sentence. A particular prison that Trautman did his best to keep him out of. No extensive therapy of any kind. Just left to mostly deal with things on his own. In the sequel, Rambo gets chosen for a propaganda mission that he believes is an early rescue mission for POWs. If he agrees to go on the mission, he gets a full pardon. Trautman returns. But Rambo soon suspects something is wrong. But he goes on the mission anyway. Also, in the original ending to the first Rambo film, Trautman is holding a pistol as Rambo has his breakdown. At the end, instead of going in for the hug, Rambo rushes in, grabs the weapon and shots himself. Ending his own existence.
@ would have sworn there was at least a few feet between them rambo was by the filing cabinet rambo gets up kinda fast or rushes him. the only part they reuse in the 2008 movie is rambo taking a 45 to the guts so i may have retroactively reframed it.
@@bloodlinefilms Likely that. Rambo rushing in close and grabbing Trautman's hand with the gunshot going off was so incredibly sudden and unexpected. Unfortunately, a more realistic ending. But Hollywood loves leaving things open for sequels.
@ i think they showed it to the test audience and people sympathized with him so much they rejected the bummer ending. same thing happened with clerks to compare apples and oranges.
For me the line that gets me the most is..."I don't talk to anybody, sometimes a day, sometimes a week!" To me is just shows how alone and isolated he is, trapped in his own head with those memories.
Up to WW2. After that they did nothing for the country, just spent billions of tax payers invading other areas of the world to keep your gasoline cheap. The only veterans I salute are WW2 vets, though not many are still alive today
Everyone says "thank you for your service" to vets of any war, my old man said if you ever see a vietnam vet, do not thank him for his service (you can if you want but) tell them "welcome home", because no one did when they came back, the few i said it to were so greatful and happy, they shook my hand, i continue that gesture to this day...welcome home vietnam vets, thank you!!!
Gary Sinise did an interview on how he landed the role of Lt Dan in Forrest Gump. He spoke of three brothers-in-law, combat vets who fought in Vietnam. Sinise got tips on how to act like an officer there in the field, and it changed his life. He also learned about the abuse they received returning at the airport returning from Vietnam in uniform. The abuse was so bad, each had to change out of uniform at the bathroom. Today, Sinise still does volunteer work with Veterans.
The first reaction video of JustTrustAsh’s channel I ever watched was Rambo-and it was Hannah’s sweetness and empathy for Rambo at the end that made me subscribe. 💜
This was one of the first movies to really address PTSD. Rambo speaks more in this scene than the whole rest of the movie because Trautman is the only person there that can relate and knows exactly how Rambo feels. The moment Trautman almost breaks gets me everytime, but he pulls himself together because he’s the only person in the world right now that can talk Rambo off the ledge and he has to remain strong to be the father figure for Rambo.
Honestly one of the most important scenes in any action movie and the best part is that we weren’t expecting it. It gave this whole movie a new purpose for its existence and it screamed into our faces the horrible reality for those who came back from Vietnam. Did it make up for all the mistreatment and silence those Vietnam vets got when they did what they had to do to get home? No, but at least we now listen.
One of the most important films ever made! How many veterans are homeless? Hurting? They gave you their service, so we wouldn't have to do it. So many of them are like this. Always talk to a veteran. It's all they want. I love rocky, but in my opinion this was his best film. He gave his all to this character.....for veterans.
PTSD is no joke. My grandfather was among the first in WW2 to stumble upon the concentration camps like Buchenwald. He drank to forget, but that was all he talked about.
The fact that a lot of these reactions seem to censor the word 'parking,' when Rambo says he can't even hold a job parking cars, really makes me wonder what they thought he was doing to those poor cars for money. "I can't even hold a job #@$&ing cars!!!' 😆
As I see in the comments, I am also the son of a Vietnam veteran. Though he never went this far, my father was never the same after. This is hard to watch.
I grew up in the 80s and of course we knew about Vietnam. But still it was seen in bits and pieces, in photos and maybe a few movies. We saw homeless Vietnam vets on the roadside with cardboard signs and we still somewhat subconsciously disregarded them as "crazy" I think. So the societal abuse and dismissal of their service continued long after the war was over. This was before we knew the term PTSD or the psychological toll that wars take on our veterans. It continues today with our recent war vets obviously. History continues to paint the picture of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. If we focus and learn about how these countries have changed in the succeeding years of wars we seemingly "lost", there are positives shown thought the passage of time. Vietnam suffered greatly in the hands of the communists after we left. Look at Afghanistan now, the Taliban is now restricting the rights of all men, now that we have left. Iraq is a fairly stable country now. Incidentally, William Calley who was convicted for My Lai massacre died earlier this year. This one incident did the most to tarnish the service of others.
Everyone here is like, "He needs help... therapy... support"... Us fans are like, "Nope. 5 years hard time is coming smashing bolders with a sledge hammer in the blazing heat!"
Because as far as the government was concerned he was a former soldier turned criminal. They washed their hands of him till they needed the soldier again.
Stallion should’ve won an Oscar just for this scene.
its Stallone 😂
@@Life_Is_AdventureeIt is, but he is also Stallion. The Italian Stallion.
Isn't that right, Apollo? (RIP Carl Weathers)
unfortunately that would make liberals (the ones that called guys like this a baby killer) the villains. And Hollywood doesn't like calling liberals, villains.
OK boomer @@Kissfan96dr
@@orion351us lol it was the boomers that were doing that.
Remember
All Rambo wanted was something to eat
He just wanted to eat and his own country's people discriminate him
He did everything he was told to do, did everything he was raised to believe was right, lost everything and for it he was hated, abused, and discarded by the people he sacrificed it all for.
They drew first blood not him
all he wanted to do was pass thru
All he wanted was to visit his comrade Delmar.
I was called a "baby killer" when I first came home from deployment. I was a Medic. I saved kids. Lol. It hurt so bad.
That’s close minded, brainless people for you. The opinion of a fool holds no weight no more than the weight of termite.
Still hurts somedays brother
Thank you for your service.
Remember, the same type of people who called you a baby killer would proudly declare themselves to be pro-abortion.
Meanwhile the people calling you that aborted 60 million kids.
Sylvester Stallone’s performance is so incredible it’s easy to overlook Richard Crenna’s amazing performance as a man who wants to also break down in tears but tries to maintain his military bearing
Richard Crenna's performance conveys a lot of things. Over the course of the film he's been bragging about how Rambo is a deadly machine he created. In this scene, you can see the guilt on his face as he realises what he's done to a human being
Stallone at his absolute best.I saw this when it came out in 1982,and loved Stallones performance.It’s just so sad that he turned it into a franchise like Rocky and The Expendables.
Richard Crenna was good in "The Rape of Richard Beck" which was released around the same time as the Rambo trilogy. It's about an arrogant show off detective that got raped by a motorcycle gang and suffered a nervous breakdown.
Still say he should have earned an Oscar on this alone. Young heads always think it’s just a shoot em up action flick. Then you watch it from beginning to end and it was so much more than that. The rest were indeed money grabs (it is Hollywood after all). But this scene is powerful art.
I agree.It’s a powerful scene,how he couldn’t get over the death of his buddy who was blown up by that rigged shoeshine box in Saigon.As I said in a previous post,it’s a shame he turned Rambos story into a franchise.First Blood is the best of the lot.First Blood 2 wasn’t bad,but the rest…no!
The second one tried to recapture that ending with another monologue. It wasn’t awful, but it clearly was a one-time thing for First Blood. You can’t recapture the impact of that scene, and it’s the reason why this Rambo will always be remembered the most.
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Agreed
Yeah, while not completely lacking depth, the rest of the franchise, pales in comparison to the first and are the cause of everyone's misperceptions, about what this film is going to be and how good it is. It's pretty much the same with the Rocky franchise, except he had gems with both 1 and 2, with the rest of the series lacking the same heart.
If I remember correctly, Rambo dies at the end of the book this is based on.
As the Son of a Vietnam veteran I would often ask my Father about his time there. While he wasn't in the same situation as the Rambo character he did of course lose friends and face his own mortality on a few occasions. While at a Base known as Hill 55 about 10 miles Southwest of Da Nang he was asked to grab a sheet of Plywood from a nearby pile to use as a makeshift table. Lugging the wood up the hill across his back he heard a series of thwip sounds followed by a "pinging" noise. Turns out he was being snipped from the Jungle nearby and that ping he heard was a shot hitting a nearby metal fencing, the thwips were rounds hitting the ground. A guy wearing camouflage and a hat with a feather stuck in the brim shouted at him to get for cover before grabbing his own rifle to return fire. That guy as it turned out was famed Vietnam war sniper Carlos Hathcock known as White Feather.
AND EVERYBODY CLAPPED 👏 👏 👏
Unfortunately my father was in that same position as Rambo, and years later I was in that same position, My brother John was in that same position, my brother Brandon was in that same position (He's a Command Sergeant Major now, and my cousin Rondelle was in that same position (he was killed in combat).
I retired a Master Chief (Seabee) with 24 years of service, but unfortunately today I'm suffering from a brain tumor that developed from being around burn pits.
I was in rehab with white feathers grandson. I met him once. He was amazing.
Im also the son of a Vietnam Veteran. I salute all I encounter. My father told us his stories NIONSTOP for first 20 years of my life.
My dad was a medic over there. He never would tell me anything about it. I can imagine the stuff he saw. Spent the rest of his life as a surgical assistant.
I served for 22 years. This is so true. You just don't turn it off.
17 years, here (11 active. six as a contractor). I still instantly drop into a defensive stance, fist cocked, if someone surprises me; you're right, you don't just turn it off
What time period and branch did you serve breakfast in?
PTSD is a real thing, my uncle served in Vietnam and was never the same. In his time there was no real help for a lot of those guys. I watched him struggle until the end and the last time I saw him smile, we were putting him in the ground. I hold a huge amount of respect for war vets.
@@damone70those poor chefs have a hard time forgiving themselves.
They did what they had to do and with what was given.
Mostly a joke but my bro told me modern MREs aren’t great.
Thank you for your service 🙏
Man... It really hits hard watching the women cry at the end of Rambo, because THIS monologue is the whole point of the movie.
PTSD was in its baby steps when they movie came out.
Nah. We've known the symptoms for decades before that. It just had other names. "Battle fatigue", "shell shock", etc.
But what it's always been is real truama. Not the "truama" people claim when mean things are Saud about them online. Or being disciplined by their parents and calling it truama.
@@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamerthank you
@@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamerfuck you its trauma you fucking asshole
i can hear fucking voices in my fucking head whenever i do something my piece of shit family wouldent approve of.
Just because no one shot at me doesnt mean a fucking abusive curcomstance cant do the same thing.
@@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamer Love the user name my man
@@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamer yhe disciplined by parents part hits hard, because some clearly haven't gone through that properly, then act as if the world should change to suit them.
Stallone's soliloquy still resonates - heartbreaking, profound and necessary - totally humanizes John Rambo and also showed a world that Vietnam vets who suffered PTSD needed to be taken seriously. Such a cinematic moment.
I love he called out the vile protesters. Boys come back to their fellow countrymen spitting on them for doing a job many didn't even want to do.
The same is true today with protesters. Most don't know much of anything about what they are even protesting.
Amen brother. Amen.
We turned them into weapons and then turned our back on them. We failed as a country
Nearly all Vietnam vets got a lot of hatred they didn't deserve.
at that time PTSD wasn't even a thing. I think this movie and this scene brought a lot of attention to it.
I am Japanese, and when I saw this movie 40 years ago, I was 20 years old and did not think that deeply about war.
After seeing this last scene, I began to think deeply about what war does to soldiers.
Now, it is very valuable for young people to see this film and have the same thoughts as I did.
Here's some sayings about war you might find interesting:
"Battle is an orgy of chaos"
"War never changes, but always changes people"
@@the98themperoroftheholybri33”War….war never changes. We start to forget the things we should remember…and we start to remember the things we should forget.”
The way those military trumpets somberly play as he's hugging Trautman feels like they're quietly serenading a casualty of war. And he may not be dead, but he's still very much a casualty, and not just of the war, but of unjust societal judgement.
Well said. Another amazing work by one of the GOATs for movie scores, Jerry Goldsmith.
By far, the best acting Stallone ever did. ❤
Rocky and Copland say hi...
@Jaydogg222 Both great movies. But they don't even come close. The last 5 minutes of this movie blows them all away.
@@toxicrevenuegaming Nope
Stallone is a GREAT actor
We often regard him as just an action hero and a muscle head.
But the man is an amazing actor and an amazing writter
@@Mugthrakaikr? An amazing actor, always will be one of my favourites personally.
The last line in the movie:
“I can’t get *it* out of my mind”
Summed up *everything*
Sly is an underrated writer.
Stallone at the least should have been nominated for an Oscar for this.
When I was a kid I used to see Rambo as an action icon. They made cartoons, action figures, comic books about the character. Growing up, I realized "First Blood" was a drama, it was really about PTSD, loneliness and being rejected by society. Stallone did a very good job here. Then they decided to turn the character into the immortal action hero in the sequels. I'll be honest, it would have worked much better if they'd never made any sequels.
In the original Script Rambo was supposed to die, not have a soliloquy. When the Officer comes in je original shoots Rambo. And they even shot it. But during testing it didn't sit right with the audience so they took it out.
Completely agree... First Blood had not only the message, but also the atmosphere to match. The cold, gloom and feeling of isolation in the fictional town of Hope, WA and its surrounding areas really reflects Rambo's state of mind.
Same as Rocky, he has always said it was a love story about a boxer, the original, and then it morphed into a series I still re-watch to this day.
I agree, with one caveat- the 2008 movie absolutely captured what it was like for the GWOT vets coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan. I was one of them... I practically did exactly what Rambo was doing in the beginning of the movie... living in Thailand, working the border of Burma, fighting a war that wasn't mine. It took meeting and losing my wife in country, along with my leg, to pull me away from war.
Till this day, I still miss it. I close my eyes, and I'm still there. Iraq, Afghanistan, Burma... these places are more home to me than the place I grew up in, or the place I'm living.
I hate that, but at the same time, I can't give it up.
I grew up watching all but the first one. I watched in my 20s and really opened my eyes to some of my coworkers experience. They are not even the same movie!
This single performance is one of thee greatest performances of all time. I grew up in the 60's, my brother was drafted before he graduated - and this is graduating high school. He returned with PTSD that wasn't diagnosed till after 1977 because the US Gov didn't 'recognize it' as a 'real affliction' until then! What this movie did not tell you was that those within the ranks that had PTSD were at times bullied/brutalized while with the affliction and serving!
I remember watching Ken Burns PBS series about the Vietnam War and one episode showed Vietnam Veterans throwing their medals away outside the White House.Vietnam veterans were treated like shit by both the public and the government at that time and Stallone talking about the treatment he got,especially at the airport and being called a baby killer is true.Thank God the treatment of veterans is so much better and people go up to veterans today and thank them for their service.
I read that surviving vets from Vietnam War stated that Sly stated the truth of what they are going thru back then and still going thru today!
My dad is a 77 y/o Marine Corps Vietnam vet & he still suffers from PTSD to this day, as well as the effects of Agent Orange exposure.
I am a viet vet usmc . this is absolutely true.
@@tmorris53 Thank you for your service and God Bless!
My father was a green beret viet war vet, he really hated having to talk about the war, in fact, every time he tried to, he would start smoking heavily, he showed on occasion PTSD, by zoning out but he was also later on showing signs of Parkinson's, it was getting so bad I, with my mother, had to quickly move out, without him getting too possessive, not out of fear of his PTSD, but he was showing the signs that he couldn't recognize me as his son. Now, the question is do I hate him? Not entirely, more like I pity him, do I miss him? No, I don't. Am I proud that he tried fighting for his country? Yes, but I wished that one day, he would understand that he did everything he could but he was never home with me growing up in the 90s, he was either working with computers or out flying, this was before he retired and started chain smoking.
Newer audiences to this film, having heard about the character and/or the franchise for years, are in for a shock when they get to this part of the first film, the best of the series. It's in a class all by itself because of this scene. It sets itself apart from every other "action" film of it's time.
The sequels miss the entire point of the movie.
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My best friend hates the macho action man movies, so he never watched any Rambo movies. I was asking him why he hated those types of movies and what he would do with the genre. He unknowingly described first blood, so i forced him to watch it. It was incredibly satisfying to see him start the movie completely disinterested and dismissive, and eve completely enraptured by the end. He told me it’s the greatest action movie ever… he wrong of course. Die Hard exists.
This scene always gets me.
One of Stallone's stellar acting performances.
An hour after Jim Minarik was discharged from the army, two persons spat on his olive, drab uniform as he walked along a street in Oakland California. Just returned from Vietnam and having no civilian clothes, Minarik wore his uniform again that night when he chose a good San Francisco restaurant to celebrate his: safe return stateside. He was denied entrance to the restaurant, and told that he was a war criminal. That was on Dec. 10, 1968, and Minarik solved the problem bý purchasing a civilian suit. "It was not a very good welcome back to America." the former paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division said yesterday.
Washington Post 6-2-71
Its a myth. It was a meme of the time, everyone heard someone who's friend's cousin got spit on. Reporters looked for exact specific instances and couldn't track any down.
@@vorpalrobot Can you read? Jim Minarik is an example of an exact specific instance.
It was in the Washington Post 6-2-71.
@@cyclone8974 yeah they look into those sources and it's still all hearsay.
@@vorpalrobotYou’re a pot stirring kid-fucker.
As someone raised by a Vietnam vet who had 5 kids and I’m one of the 6 he adopted; stories of disrespect being shown towards returning veterans are all true actually as it happened on multiple occasions to my father yet he kept his cool and simply responded to hate with kindness.
To all of those reactors who said "he just needs somebody". Youre somebody.
As long as we keep the important stories alive, we are all somebody.
It hits so hard when he says,”And nobody would help!”
As someone who used to really struggle with PTSD, I'd say this is pretty accurate. You're always tense, on guard, startled easily. Those memories...they cling to you like a parasite. Haunt you every day, all the time, in your sleep. A certain smell, sound or touch can instantly pull you back into *that* place; wherever it was, whatever happened. People look at you differently, they don't understand why you are this way. It is hell. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Exactly my wife can't understand sometimes why I am so paranoid..why I never sit with my back facing a door...why I have to be able to see my surroundings at all times..Why I am always observing everything everyone does around me...why I am paranoid about making sure everything is secured and locked constantly...it isn't pleasant in the slightest. Like you said you get the "why are you like this??" Response to these behaviors and you can't even begin to say why....
I’m grateful and thankful for who you veterans are. I’m thankful you are still here with us, alive. Stay alive Sirs. God bless you all.
This was & still is the best of the Rambo films.
In Top 10 action films of all time
Easily
Becuase it's not a "Rambo film". Yes, it introduced the character to the screen. But the sequels started off as a knock off of a Chuck Norris movie (now there is a man who is a "man of action" not a an actor), then Stallone turned into the right price alternative to Arnold. Those are "Rambo films", mindless action with a plot written on kleenex. This... Not a "Rambo film".
I had a good friend, force recon, scout. He's a great guy, but self-destructive. Smokes a lot of weed. Says it helps, because while he's high, he can't smell his friends burning. This wasn't Vietnam, it was Enduring Freedom and Afghanistan. Nothing ever changes.
Stallone should have won at least one award for this monologue.
One of those rare occasions when the movie gets it better than the book. This was a powerful message for how wrong the Vietnam era veterans were treated. In the war, by the government, by their own countrymen, when most of them were draftees, not voluntary forces. They get home, trying to do the best they could, turned away most everywhere they went... and even still, to this day, held up and used as a prop for political clout.
Actually, most Vietnam veterans were volunteers, not conscripts. Most WW2 vets were conscripted though.
Sometimes it's easy to forget that Stallone is capable of some damn good acting if the script is good enough.
He wrote this part of the script.
The "life" monologue from Rocky Balboa is another good example.
My father was in the 4th marine division in WW2 and was in the battle at Iwo Jima. He was there 10 days before he was hit with shrapnel from a mortar and almost lost his left leg. I can't imagine the horrors he witnessed In those ten days which probably felt like ten years. He, and the other men and women who made it home from that war, were at least treated as heroes. The way the returning vets from Vietnam were treated was absolutely disgusting and an insult. You may not agree with a war some vets have to serve in, but they're human beings just like you and should be treated with respect. You may think you know but you will NEVER know what they've been through and experienced. Thank you to all veterans.🇺🇸
I operated and repaired the most advanced surface radar on the planet. Was qualified as a master helman to drive during underway replenishments, anchoring, mooring, straight transits. I spent 6 months looking for work before getting hired at home depot to push carts and load cars.
Of any movie, this scene is the hardest for me to watch.
My dad served 2 tours in Iraq and 1 tour in Afghanistan. He said that this was the most accurate ptsd breakdown he has seen in any movie.
Stallone is definitely not just about muscles, gun shots and punches. He's a great actor. Rocky 6 has 3 great emotional scenes, one of him teaching his son a lesson, another of him talking to the boxing committee, and another of him venting to Paulie about the "stuff in the basement", this last one made me cry. Great actor!
Every rocky are master piece because every rocky have very different point of view and the rocky story by himself are super clean become nothing to ultra stars to nothing at the end
I was recently waiting at a bank to speak with loan an officer, there was a Vietnam vet sitting across from me. We got talking and he told me he had, had 13 operations that he had caught some shrapnel, and they could not get all of it out he still had some in him and spoke of how painful it was sometimes, he walked with a cane.
He explained how he still had nightmares and had to moved out of his home because he was afraid, he might hurt his wife, he said they trained me to kill and kill quick.
I love how this movie went from major badass action to very depressingly real
When I was a child I hated that part.
Maybe that's why.
This is one hell of a great scene. Makes me tear up because of what Vietnam veterans actually came back home to.
"Congratulations!", they said, "You've got what it takes!"
They sent him back into the rat race without any brakes
They took a clean-cut kid
A d they made a killer out of him is what they did.
- Bob Dylan
That was a great scene, hands down. The impact of it, the emotions conveyed by Stallone was Oscar worthy imo.
Stallones best performance of his entire career was this scene, you cant convince me otherwise.
I would never hate a soldier for fighting in an unpopular war. They sacrificed their time in the military to get better just so they can protect our country, but they are honor-bound to follow orders of their superiors. It is not their fault they fought people they were told were our enemy because that is what they are trained for. Of course, there are situations that they should question the legality of, but an entire war? They can't fight against the call.
This is why you don't mess with a broken soldier.
Exactly you will never know what they would do next
Everyone censored him when he threw the gun. He said word for word, " I cant even hold a job parking cars!!" Lol why is it censored?
Maybe they thought he said 'fucking' cars?
Because many people think he's saying "f***ing" instead. What kind of job do they think involves someone f***ing cars?! 🤣
@@OnTheWall81 Ask an OF girl. I'm sure they could answer that.
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He says I can't even hold a job parkin' fuckin' cars!
This movie is so misunderstood by so many boomers as a big, manly movie without "all that modern bullshit". But conveniently forget the movie ends with Rambo breaking down, crying, and saying the war was the worst thing that ever happened to him and he can't adjust to civilian life.
I think you misunderstood what those boomers meant. Manly films don't have to glorify war
for those wondering what punishment he got, see First Blood part 2, it wasn't good. sentenced to 30 years hard labor. He gives an equally moving soliloquy at the end of it too (I've heard that veterans in the theaters were giving standing ovations).
He got offered the medal of honor and rambo said he didn't want it, he wanted his country to love him as much as he loved his country.
@@NicholasSarsby Before that Trautman said "don't hate your country" and Rambo replied, "hate it? I'd die for it" Besides he already had a CMH.
Stallones finest acting performance. Highlights the plight of veterans who came home from Vietnam and were treated terribly by the nation and all the PTSD that most soldiers suffered from, where nothing is over and the memories and things they experienced continued to haunt them all.
Honest to god Sly should have gotten an Oscar nomination for this movie. Which the exception of Creed and Rocky 1 this is his best performance of all time. The final scene when he talks about how horrifying the Vietnam War was still makes me cry to this day.
Also he very wisely had the ending changed as well as him killing no one directly. In the original book First Blood Rambo actually completely snaps and goes on a killing spree and the book ends with Colonel Trautman shooting and killing Rambo like he was putting down a rabid animal. But Stallone in his amazing foresight knew this character needed sequels so he encouraged the director and the studio to have him kill no cops or guardsmen and have him arrested instead of killed off.
The second viewers…the dude observing and then tying adjust his emotions along with his wife. He throws out “Phewww!” 😂
They keep bleeping out that line when he says, "I can't even get a job PARKING cars!"
I think this guy who did the mashup did it, and I think it's just he mis-heard it is all. Eh.
Basically, this was the scene that was the message to everyone of what every soldier from Vietnam was going through.
Sure, there were some bad apples in the military, but the sheer lack of empathy from the public... something in short supply, even today.
But you know, all John Rambo wanted was just something to eat. And a puffed-up sheriff was playing gatekeeper.
Stallone had an amazing one-two punch to the start of his career with Rocky and First Blood.
if something happened and he died after that he would be remembered as one of our greatest actors.
The more amazing this is that he made Rocky III and this back-to-back.
My grandfather was in WWII and was captured and held in Germany for almost 2 years as a POW. He NEVER talked about it, very rare if he did.
Wow, he would've experienced some nasty shit. Not as bad a being a prisoner of the Vietcong, but still..
@aaronbarlow4376 that had to be horrible to.
I saw Rambo 2 before First Blood. I was shocked by this scene because Rambo 2 was a straight up action flick with bits and pieces of the originals heart. And his breakdown at the end reaching for Trautman was my first glimpse at PTSD and what it can do to a person. Years later it’s still a powerful scene in a powerful movie.
The tragic thing about subsequent movies, he's always seen trying to get away, but all he has is war and loss, and while it seems cool on the surface, dude only ever wanted to live a peaceful life, but it always eluded him.
Some veterans suffer in silence.
I'm a USMC vet myself, but I never saw true combat. My dad DID see combat........two tours of duty in Vietnam, also as a Marine. Growing up, I was aware of Vietnam vets suffering from PTSD (Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, documentaries about vets, seminars about PTSD while I was on active duty, etc). But I always had the impression that my dad wasn't affected. In the last year, I've found out that for the last 54 years, my dad has slept with a gun under his pillow. He's startled easily by loud noises. He still has nightmares about jungle warfare. Most of the typical problems.
I always felt "lucky" that my dad didn't suffer like others did. To know that he has been suffering all of these years while telling no one is very painful for me.
Vietnam veterans have always and always will be my heros. I remember being at LAX. I seen a soldier pushing another soldier in a wheelchair. He had no legs. When they got outside there were protesters, calling them baby killers and spitting on them. I was 9 yrs old and that was the first time I remember being so angry at the world.
At the time, there was no diagnosis for PTSD. Vers were considered crazy and locked them up. There were no programs, no groups, no one to do anything for anyone. Vets also had a hard time getting and keeping jobs because of the PTSD. Just wasn't a good time for vets.
As an Afghanistan veteran I personally cried when we pulled out. I knew all those people would be slaughtered. They knew while the Americans were there they’d all be fine. As soon as we left all hell broke loose.
Afghanistan veteran here as well, 2400 American kia compared to the 59,000+ Taliban KIA, yet we pull out like we did? What a joke. Semper Fi Marine- Army vet.
@ I worked with army over there men and women I would follow into the fires of hell for.
As much as Stallone is known for being an action hero, at heart he's really drama actor underneath all those muscles.
Sadly this was true for a lot of Vietnam Vets. It wasn't just the protestors making them feel despair coming back home, it was often times family too. Society at large turned their backs on the soldiers. The self deletion rate and homelessness is the highest amongst veterans from that war. Even the VFW wouldn't even recognize them, as they called it the Vietnam "conflict" instead of war. Our country and culture did those men dirty. Add to that the PTSD (real PTSD, not the ones tiktok 304s claim to suffer from), trauma, drug addiction, mental illness, etc. It's horrifying to think about. God have mercy on us for how we treated them. Stallone delivers this message in his epic and heart breaking performance here.
Watching the Colonels confusion always gets me. He has only ever seen Rambo as a bad ass tough soldier he trained, he honestly looks like he doesn't know what to do when he sees him break down. Old story though, they only train you for the war, they don't train you for after.
I think this was Sylvester Stallone's best role, if only for the last ten minutes; he did a phenomenal job.
People think Rambo is an action movie when it's really about PTSD and the horrors of what war can do to the mind of a person on the field.
It should have gotten far more awards for what it tried to get the world to know about
The movie that proves Stallone can act. Of course there are others, but for people that thinks he is only an action star, this is the movie to show there is more
There's also Cop Land.
Nah, Rocky proved it 6 years earlier.
Stallone gets a bad rep because as a major action star of the 80s, most of his movies don't give him an opportunity to flex his acting chops. First Blood and Rocky allowed him to deliver intense and powerful dramatic performances. It's a shame Rambo: First Blood II and Rambo III became more action driven because Rambo isn't supposed to be a modern day berserker badass. He's a man broken by his experiences who can only call the battlefield his home. That isn't badass, that's tragic.
This is what War actually does to people who served and it truly is sad.
In the original screenplay Col. Trautman kills Rambo after this monologue rather than comfort him.
Because he knows Rambo is a dangerous weapon that he can't control anymore.
Wow, as sad as it is, this ending would've been more profound and realistic. Thanks for telling us.
@@SadScientist1 It's also the only form of protection he can really offer Rambo. A quick merciful death versus the long slow paranoid crawl to death the civilian prisons would have offered Rambo. The second movie pictures Rambo being taken to military prison, which wouldn't have happened as Rambo's crimes are all within the civilian world which would have meant Rambo would been thrown into one of the worst max security prisons in the country, probably killing quite a few people but ultimately probably going ever more insane from the extreme PTSD and constant paranoia before finally getting murdered sometime in the long years he'd have gotten for all the killing. If I remember correctly Trautman is supposed to sort of wipe his face after shooting Rambo before telling the cops outside it's over. Meaning he's broken up about killing Rambo, but can't do anything else because of the two issues, Rambo's uncontrollable now and Rambo will only end up going to a place that will just be torture for him until he dies.
In the book he does kill him.
@@412meatwad Thought so but it's been decades.
In a few clips, when Rambo says “parking cars”, the word “parking” was silenced. Did the censors think that he said “fuc-king”? If they did, that means that they thought that he said “I can’t even hold a job fuc-king cars!”
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prolly cus it souds like hes saying cant get a job at a fuking garage
This is a reality for most military veterans in the US . We are the highest homeless and suicidal rates and it’s a situation I’m going through now . Lots of civilians don’t understand what we go through and it’s hard to hold down employment and most don’t care or are disrespectful especially this younger generation .
This ending wasn't the original ending where Rambo gets arrested. It was the second ending they shot and was the ending that made in theaters the real ending, which was from the book as well, yeah this movie is based on a book where Rambo tells Colonel Trautman that he can't live a normal life since society would never accept him and gives him a gun saying you created me you kill me then he begs him to shoot him but the colonel until Rambo forces him to pull the trigger killing him but the producers, as well as the test audience, hated that ending so they changed it where Rambo gets arrested you can see this ending on the DVD as an alternate ending, but that ending was the original ending in the book and movie.
Punctuation. PLEASE.
@@todderickson2435 No one asked you.
@@todderickson2435👀🤣😂☠️☠️
Stallone was the reason they changed the ending. He wrote that entire part of the movie himself.
You can see part of the deleted ending in a flashback scene in Rambo 4..
That monologue is what made Stallone a superstar: he identified with every combat veteran before or since.
The really sad part, is the number of people that say "He needs therapy": a nice thought, but therapy doesn't make the ghosts go away. The ghosts stay with you as long as you live.
I remember being in the theater in the 80s watching this movie, and I gotta say, the whole theater was giggling at this performance, because while it's supposed to be a serious moment, his performance was so over the top no one believed it. and the more he cried, the more the audience laughed.
The performance from Stallone at the last few minutes of this movie was awesome!
I see that line getting censored. "Back here I can't get a job [CENSORED] cars!" The actual line is "Back here I can't get a job, parking cars!"
Doesn't he say parkin fuckin cars? It's just all kind of jumbled up understandably...
For anyone who never saw the sequel. Rambo ended up in prison, with a very long sentence. A particular prison that Trautman did his best to keep him out of. No extensive therapy of any kind. Just left to mostly deal with things on his own.
In the sequel, Rambo gets chosen for a propaganda mission that he believes is an early rescue mission for POWs. If he agrees to go on the mission, he gets a full pardon. Trautman returns. But Rambo soon suspects something is wrong. But he goes on the mission anyway.
Also, in the original ending to the first Rambo film, Trautman is holding a pistol as Rambo has his breakdown. At the end, instead of going in for the hug, Rambo rushes in, grabs the weapon and shots himself. Ending his own existence.
trautman shoots rambo in the alternate ending
@@bloodlinefilms
No, Rambo grabs the weapon Trautman is holding and shoots himself while Trautman still has the weapon in his hand.
@ would have sworn there was at least a few feet between them rambo was by the filing cabinet rambo gets up kinda fast or rushes him. the only part they reuse in the 2008 movie is rambo taking a 45 to the guts so i may have retroactively reframed it.
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Likely that. Rambo rushing in close and grabbing Trautman's hand with the gunshot going off was so incredibly sudden and unexpected. Unfortunately, a more realistic ending. But Hollywood loves leaving things open for sequels.
@ i think they showed it to the test audience and people sympathized with him so much they rejected the bummer ending. same thing happened with clerks to compare apples and oranges.
For me the line that gets me the most is..."I don't talk to anybody, sometimes a day, sometimes a week!" To me is just shows how alone and isolated he is, trapped in his own head with those memories.
Please never forget what our Soldiers and Veterans have done for this country. They will always be heroes to me!
Up to WW2. After that they did nothing for the country, just spent billions of tax payers invading other areas of the world to keep your gasoline cheap. The only veterans I salute are WW2 vets, though not many are still alive today
This film is probably more relevant now today than its ever been ...amazing movie
My grand father was in WW2 we all found out when it showed up on his obit. Never talked about it and never told a soul.
Everyone says "thank you for your service" to vets of any war, my old man said if you ever see a vietnam vet, do not thank him for his service (you can if you want but) tell them "welcome home", because no one did when they came back, the few i said it to were so greatful and happy, they shook my hand, i continue that gesture to this day...welcome home vietnam vets, thank you!!!
I thank Vietnam vets, because as a different era vet, I know people overcompensate us, for their guilt over them.
Gary Sinise did an interview on how he landed the role of Lt Dan in Forrest Gump. He spoke of three brothers-in-law, combat vets who fought in Vietnam. Sinise got tips on how to act like an officer there in the field, and it changed his life. He also learned about the abuse they received returning at the airport returning from Vietnam in uniform. The abuse was so bad, each had to change out of uniform at the bathroom. Today, Sinise still does volunteer work with Veterans.
They don't make movies like this anymore. Greatest!
The first reaction video of JustTrustAsh’s channel I ever watched was Rambo-and it was Hannah’s sweetness and empathy for Rambo at the end that made me subscribe. 💜
It wasn't my dad's war, or my uncle's. They came back, but a part of them never left.
Rambo's breakdown reminds me of how my grandpa when he'd be really sick. Recalling the the things he'd witnessed and experienced in wwii
It grinds my mgear when people say Stallone isn't a good actor. he's amazing
This was one of the first movies to really address PTSD. Rambo speaks more in this scene than the whole rest of the movie because Trautman is the only person there that can relate and knows exactly how Rambo feels. The moment Trautman almost breaks gets me everytime, but he pulls himself together because he’s the only person in the world right now that can talk Rambo off the ledge and he has to remain strong to be the father figure for Rambo.
Rambo First Blood is fantastic Movie Forever ❤
Honestly one of the most important scenes in any action movie and the best part is that we weren’t expecting it. It gave this whole movie a new purpose for its existence and it screamed into our faces the horrible reality for those who came back from Vietnam. Did it make up for all the mistreatment and silence those Vietnam vets got when they did what they had to do to get home? No, but at least we now listen.
He just needed a hug
One of the most important films ever made! How many veterans are homeless? Hurting? They gave you their service, so we wouldn't have to do it. So many of them are like this. Always talk to a veteran. It's all they want. I love rocky, but in my opinion this was his best film. He gave his all to this character.....for veterans.
PTSD is no joke. My grandfather was among the first in WW2 to stumble upon the concentration camps like Buchenwald. He drank to forget, but that was all he talked about.
The fact that a lot of these reactions seem to censor the word 'parking,' when Rambo says he can't even hold a job parking cars, really makes me wonder what they thought he was doing to those poor cars for money. "I can't even hold a job #@$&ing cars!!!' 😆
As I see in the comments, I am also the son of a Vietnam veteran. Though he never went this far, my father was never the same after. This is hard to watch.
Our father struggled for years with his nightmares and trauma! 😔
It took decades to get the help he needed to confront those memories 😢
The fact that this all started over a sandwich. Rambo 1 was such a excellent piece of cinema before they turned it into an 80s action franchise.
I grew up in the 80s and of course we knew about Vietnam. But still it was seen in bits and pieces, in photos and maybe a few movies. We saw homeless Vietnam vets on the roadside with cardboard signs and we still somewhat subconsciously disregarded them as "crazy" I think. So the societal abuse and dismissal of their service continued long after the war was over. This was before we knew the term PTSD or the psychological toll that wars take on our veterans. It continues today with our recent war vets obviously. History continues to paint the picture of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. If we focus and learn about how these countries have changed in the succeeding years of wars we seemingly "lost", there are positives shown thought the passage of time. Vietnam suffered greatly in the hands of the communists after we left. Look at Afghanistan now, the Taliban is now restricting the rights of all men, now that we have left. Iraq is a fairly stable country now. Incidentally, William Calley who was convicted for My Lai massacre died earlier this year. This one incident did the most to tarnish the service of others.
Honestly one of the greatest movies ever and this scene is one of the greatest in movie history, Stallone showed his range here.
Everyone here is like, "He needs help... therapy... support"...
Us fans are like, "Nope. 5 years hard time is coming smashing bolders with a sledge hammer in the blazing heat!"
Because as far as the government was concerned he was a former soldier turned criminal. They washed their hands of him till they needed the soldier again.
As a kid when I 1st watched this movie with my brothers & my cousins. not one of us cried.All we wanted was that knife he had
Trauma described as scars and bruises. PTSD is literal anatomical dismemberment. No comfort or outside love can heal that, only self love.
In the army there is a code of honor, in the civilian world there is NOTHING. Rambo is 100 percent spot on.
His best movie, period.