Rambo was my favorite movie character as a kid, more than Terminator Schwarzenegger. When I was a child, I liked to watch gunfights. Rambo pulled his face and showed off his muscles. He held the m60 in one hand and the drag chain in the other, and the enemy was smashed. What could be more powerful than this!
But the first Rambos I watched were Rambo 2 and Rambo 3. Super soldier Rambo fought cunning guerrillas and brutal Soviets in Vietnam and Afghanistan by himself, like a live-action Contra. After watching Rambo 1, I thought that the back story should be the beginning of Rambo's explosion, but I felt disappointed at the time. That's it? In the end, the police station didn't fight. How could Rambo be taken away in handcuffs?
Years later, the Rambo 4 came out in college, and Rambo once again turned into a meat grinder, the messenger of justice, and the machine guns swept the flesh and blood. At that time, I was a little lost after reading it. I always felt that the Rambo series should not be a plasma tablet, and something was missing. I have learned about the American culture after the Vietnam War since I was a child, and I have gradually understood what the image of Rambo represents. First of all, the image of Rambo 1 is that of the soldiers who were abandoned after the Vietnam War. They made huge sacrifices for the country's heroic battle, but they were distrusted and cast aside by the mainstream anti-war people after returning home. "First blood" is Rambo's words, "they drew me first blood, not me!" They (the police) picked it up first, not me! Rambo at this time is a rebel who gave everything but was deprived of everything. This should be the time when Rambo's artistic image has the highest status.
Later, in Rambo 2, Rambo was reactivated to save his comrades and betrayed, and Rambo took revenge on the corrupt bureaucracy. 3 Li and the colonel's camaraderie, this is the transformation of Rambo 1's plot image. Until Rambo 4, Rambo's military career was over and joined the rest of the story as the savior. I don't think there is much contact with the previous Rambo at this time.
This Lambo 5 feels first and foremost to me is very correct. The Rambo series is probably correct in the eyes of Americans: the earliest is the scars of the times, then the Soviets who save captives and anti-bureaucrats, the Soviets who save their comrades and the evil, the warlords who save missionaries from evil, and the old Mexican drug lords who save adopted daughters from evil Traffickers, really get it right every time. The second is the setting of protecting the family, which is also in line with the plot needs of the elderly Rambo to care for the elderly at home, except for the sudden appearance of an adopted daughter, which is very abrupt. Of course, there are even more strange things, such as how Rambo, who was able to sneak into the military base perfectly, almost capsized in the sewer of the drug dealer, and then perfectly sneaked into the head of the drug dealer... Don't care about these details. The last is the degree of overlap with the previous Rambo role, probably in addition to being proficient in using traps and using bows and arrows, there is less contact with the previous Rambo, and it seems to be someone else. It seems that Rambo really left his soul and emotions in the past and left the battlefield, and now it's just an empty shell.
But looking back, Stallone is getting older and Rambo is getting farther and farther from the battlefield. It took so many years from the Rambo 3 to the Rambo 4, and then to the Rambo 5 for so many years. Rambo can no longer go into battle and go to Afghanistan and Iraq to fight security wars. From the blood at the end of the title to the sagging skin on Stallone's face to the last scene where Rambo drags his heavily injured body and sits in a chair gasping for breath, this time may be the end of Rambo's story, and I'll remember the classic "pull a The face shows half of the body muscles, holding the m60 in one hand and the drag chain in the other hand makes the enemy chug." Rambo.
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